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(1) Il est marié avec Amelia Ethel Cicelia McDonald.
Ils se sont mariés le 20 août 1913, il avait 23 ans.
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(2) Il est marié avec Violet Adeline May McDonald.
Ils se sont mariés le 2 février 1938, il avait 48 ans.
Born in Bullarto Wilfred Ernest owned a farm before he married Amelia McDonald in 1913. Their land was perched right on top of the Great Dividing Range with one of their paddocks feeding both the water sheds of the Werribee and Loddon Rivers. Here they grew potatos, bagged them up and loaded the bags onto the train at Bullarto Station for the Melbourne market.
1914 Census has WE listed as a Labourer living at Bullarto
In the early 1920s the family sold up and moved to Dandenong to a property named Netherfields. After a couple of years the family moved Poowong. This property was a mixed enterprise, 29 cows were milked and potaoes were grown. In 1928 the Poowong farm and all the trappings were sold at a clearing sale and the family moved to Langhorne Street in Dandenong where Wilfred worked as a Stock and Station agent for a local firm. Further they owned a small farm at at Lyndhurst between Dandenong and Cranbourne.
1929 saw the arrival of Wilfred and Amelia's last child, Shirley, and the following year they moved to Carlisle Crescent in Oakleigh where they opperated a Fuel Merchant and Stock Feed business.
In 1938 with the out break of law looming, the family swapped the business for a farm on Soldiers Road, Bass. Here four of the children were married and Wilfred contracted TB. In 1947 the Bass property was sold and a larger 385 acre
Wilfred Ernest Koetsveld | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Amelia Ethel Cicelia McDonald | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Violet Adeline May McDonald |