Joseph is the son of Thomas BECKLEY * Flaunden, Hertfordshire, England x Bovingdon, Hertford, England 04.06.1805 Elizabeth ELEMENT *Flaunden. Hertfordshire, England 1790

Joseph BECKLEY * Inglaterra 12.10.1821 + Colonia Alexandra, Santa Fe, Argentina x Parish of Pinner. Middlesex, England 13.01.1849 Elizabeth NORTON * Pinner, Middlesex, England 1824. He lived in Port Elizabeth and had children there. Some stayed and some went back to Argentina.

b1. Joseph James *Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England 28.08.1849 = Flaunden, Hertford, England 21.10.1949 + Port Elizabeth 08.02.1912 x Mary Ann WASPE * Ludlow, Shropshire, England 20.12.1847 + Port Elizabeth 30.12.1931 (d/o Robert Waspe * Bredfield, Suffolk, England 15.09.1809 + Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa 26.06.1889 x Bruisyard, Suffolk, England 28.01.1833 Anna Howard * Bruisyard Suffolk, England June 1810 + De Staades River, South Africa 18.10.1893 )
(11 Children born of this marriage - 1-5 overseas & 6-11 in Port Elizabeth)

b2. Edward Ignatius * Flaunden, Hertfordshire, England 1852. Commercial Traveller + 31 Cavendish Square, Woodstock Cape Town 31.07.1904 Chronic Nephritises Intestinal Haemorrhage as oper Dr. R. Sharp. (52 years and 4 months old) (Estate 2143/04) x Ellen Elizabeth WHIFLER * Port Elizabeth 1867 + Huising Street, Somerset West 28.03.1939 (d/o August & Wilhelmina Whifler) (Estate 63704/39) They had no children (she remarried Albert Wheeler HYLAND + 13.06.1915 )

b3. William * Port Elizabeth 10.01.1856 + Alejandra, San Javier, Santa Fe. Argentina 01.07.1925 x Maria Rosina MEISTER ( Suiza 1866 + Alejandra, San Javier, Santa Fe, Argentina 05.05.1947. They had 10 children but all born and lived in Argentina

b4. Thomas * Port Elizabeth 1858 + Alejandra, Santa Fe, Argentina 04.10.1902 x Helvecia. Santa Fe, Argentina 07.06.1884 Eliza FROIDEVEAUX. They had 3 children all born and died in Argentina

b5. Elizabeth Anne * Port Elizabeth 1861 x Alejandra, Santa Fe, Argentina 02.12.1877 Robert Perniston SEARSON *England 1834. They had 6 children all born in Argentina

b6. Julia Roseta * Port Elizabeth, 28.12.1863 + Canada x Alejandra, San Javier, Santa Fe, Argentina 18.12.1880 Joseph Francis O’Gorman * Youghal, Cork, Ireland 04.03.1849 + Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 22.12.1923. They had 8 children

b7. Rachel * Port Elizabeth 19.12.1865 + x Richard Thomas Davies *St. Giles', Northampton, Northampton, England 09.04.1856 + Argentina. They had 8 children and lived in Argentina

b8. Jane Alice *Pinner, Middlesex England 1868 + Canada x Canada 1890 Joseph Hiran MOORE *Clear Lake., Lake, California. USA 1858

b9. Ebenezer * Alejandra, San Javier, Santa Fe. Argentina 1871 + Alejandra, San Javier, Santa Fe. Argentina 1949

Contributed by:

Lee McGovern.