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'BIDE-a-WEE' Bryde Family Story
Scotland and Australia
by Bruce Flood
This Bryde family history begins with Vans Bryde born in 1761 and his wife Mary McCulloch born 1765 in Wigtownshire, near Port William, Scotland. Vans Bryde was a farmer as were three sons, Vans Bryde Jr., John and Archibald, whilst Thomas was a commission agent and Alexander a mariner.
Vans Bryde Jr’s son, Alexander Bryde born 1845, sailed as Second Mate to Port Adelaide, Australia from Liverpool England in the 1870s. He married Mary Campbell McEachern from Argyllshire Scotland in 1879.
This is a story of the Bryde, James and Fookes families in Australia. In the 1920s Aimee Bryde purchased a bush block at Hilltop 100km south of Sydney, where they built “Bide-a-Wee”, a bush cottage, which became a refuge for all.
The Brydes were mostly of the Salvation Army faith. Grace Bryde was a Missionary in the Belgian Congo for 44 years and her nephew Geoffrey Bryde, a teacher in an Aboriginal community, before enlisting and training as a Lancaster bomber pilot during WW2, fatally crashing in Yorkshire.
- ISBN: 978-0-9944428-2-6.
- Published in 2021. 210 pages, with family charts and descendant lists, photographs and appendices.
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