Biography

Isaac Bedwell was born 21 May 1871 at Lethbridge, Victoria, Australia. Margaret Ellen Miller was born 1870 at Sandhurst, Greater Bendigo Region, Victoria. The couple married in 1897 at Kalgoorlie (Marriage Registration 195/1897, Kalgoorlie). Their family consisted of Isaac, born and died 1898 at Bulong (Death Registration 389/1898); a male infant stillborn 27 April 1899 at Bulong (Death Registration 699/1899); Annie Adelaide born 1900, died 28 August 1901 at Mount Morgans; Robert James born February 1904, who was 7 weeks of age when Isaac died on 4 March 1904 at Bulong by his own hand.

Margaret Bedwell subsequently returned to her home state where she remarried in 1908 and died at Newport, Victoria, in 1960 at the age of 90 years. Annie Bedwell also features in this website.