Interview with Charlotte Beatrice Elliott [transcript] Interviewer: Beth M. Robertson

Beatrice Elliott, nee Bevan, was one of twelve children. Beatie's father took whatever labouring work he could find, first in the Port Adelaide area and for the first eight or nine years of Beatie's life in the Stansbury-Yorketown area of Yorke Peninsula. The family returned to Port Adelaide but within twelve months Beatie went back to Stansbury to be a companion to her widowed maternal grandmother. She began domestic work while still at school and after moving back to Port Adelaide went into domestic service from the age of fourteen for ten years. She married in 1917 and worked hard on their rented block for five and a half years to earn most of the money needed to buy the house and block next door. She paid off the rest in a further twelve months. Mrs Elliott had three children but the second, a boy, died of meningitis aged two and a half years, and the eldest girl died after being burnt by a kerosene lamp accident aged six and a half.

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