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William Choyce, Farmer of Sibson
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The
Western Australia Choyce Family
Photograph forwarded by Marge (Choyce)
Honey and taken on the fiftieth
wedding anniversary of Julia Mary (Spencer)
and William Cappe Choyce.
Included from the left:
Roma (Reddrop) Choyce; Phyllis (Burgess)
Choyce;
Marge (Choyce) and Bob Honey; William Spencer
Cappe
and Marge (McGlade) Choyce; Nancy (Packer)
Choyce;
Charles William Coley Choyce; Isabel (Honey)
Vincent and Geoffrey Vincent
Kneeling
Left: Ian Edwin Choyce - Right: Philip
Cappe Choyce. 1973
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Bernice Mary Choyce, a Sister of Charity,
was not able to attend.
Marge (Choyce) Honey died suddenly, 11 May
1983.
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JULIA MARY (SPENCER) AND WILLIAM CAPPE CHOYCE,
BANKER, OF HARRIS BRIDGE AND PERTH
William Cappe Choyce, son of Eleanor Jane (Moxon)
and Benjamin Coley Choyce, was born 20 May 1884,
at Harris Bridge. His daughter Margaret (Choyce)
Honey, of Forrestville and later Wattlegrove,
Western Australia, sent his birth certificate,
reduced here, to fit the pages.
William Cappe Choyce was baptized 15 Jun 1884,
at St. James’ Church, Twycross. Perhaps Cappe
comes from the Moxon family.
William Cappe Choyce apparently had no intention
of spending his life as a farmer. Before his 21st
birthday, he emigrated to Western Australia and
zeroed in on the city of Perth, in Western Australia.
Marge (Choyce) Honey gives a short sketch of her
father’s early days in a letter dated 15
Aug 1979:
Dad told me about the boat trip from England.
It wasn’t the best. Intense fever broke out,and
many of the passengers died during the voyage.
Dad smoked a pipe, and although he did get the
fever, he credits the fact that he smoked with
reducing the impact of the fever. He recovered
completely.
The ship traveled all the way around South Africa
before eventually arriving at Perth, Australia.
As soon as Dad arrived here, at the age of 19,
he went to the center of town and sat on the steps
of the National Bank until they opened, and then
he insisted that they give him a job.
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