Raymond Percy Bean

  General Notes:

BEAN RAYMOND P 18637/1913 PERCY LILLIAN R WOOLLAHRA
NSW BDM

Birth- 29th April 1913. Baptism 6th July 1913. Raymond Percy. Parents, Percy and Lilian Rose Bean. 61 Grafton Street. Occupation: French Polisher
Sydney, Australia, Anglican Parish Registers, 1814-2011 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2017.

Occupation, at time of marriage- commercial photographer.
Bachelor, noted as Woollahra as birth place.
Age at time of marriage: 28 years

Address at time of marriage- Sans Souci New South Wales

Exploring Colo River Valley After many exciting experiences, a party of three women and four men, some of whom are members of the Sydney Bush-walkers' Club, returned last week from an exploratory walk along the Colo River, from Newnes to Upper Colo. The Colo River joins the Hawkesbury River at Portland Ferry, just below Sackville Reach. The journey on foot was about 100 miles, of which approximately 70 miles was rough walking. It occupied 12 days. The members of the party were Miss Rene Brown, Miss Iris Rockstro, Miss Winifred Duncombe, and Messrs. N. Melville (guide), Ray Bean, F. Fuller, and W. Melville. The party travelled from Sydney to Lithgow by train, and then by lorry for Newnes. Six miles from Newnes, the lorry was stuck in sand on the bank of the Wolgan River, a tributary of the Colo. The party camped for the night, and walked to Newnes the next morning. During that day they inspected the Capartee Valley, and left Shale valley, near Newnes, at 6 p.m. The walk began in earnest next morning. The going was rough, and suitable camp sites were hard to find. To avoid a flooded gorge, the party crossed over cliffs 3100 feet above sea level. On the way down to the river again, Miss Duncombe's head was cut by a falling rock, but she continued the journey. For the last three days the party rationed its food, which had become short. They travelled from Upper Colo to Richmond by lorry and then by train to Sydney. When the foundations for the Narrabri silo were being put down sub-artesian water with a
strong flow was found.
1934 'Exploring Colo River Valley.', Manilla Express (NSW : 1899 - 1954), 23 February, p. 4, viewed 9 February, 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article192360518

1934
"The Colo Gorge"
(Tune: It Ain't Gonner Rain No Mo'.)
1. This is the yarn of Dunc and her friends who thought they were all very tough,
When they left one day in spirit so gay to tackle the Colo rough.
They were loaded with food and cameras galore, which filled their old packs to the brim,
But their hearts were light though they looked such a sight, and they all were in very good trim.

2. They went for two weeks with the object in view of ambling along at their leisure,
With never a though in the time so short, of anything else but their pleasure.
But the vines lay thick in the vally bed, with their armour of bramble and thorn,
And so in dismay they made their way, all bloody and scratched and torn.

3. There was Ninian in front and he hacked a path from dawn to the close of each day,
With Dunc at the back to flatten the track and form the permanent way.
While Auntie and Roxy and the rest of the gang came trundling along behind,
All doing their best to survive the test and Ray to preserve his mind.

4. The days flew past and the miles cralwed by, the party getting thinner and thinner,
And the day came at when they hat to fast and go without any dinner.
They were down to some aspros, some tea and some rice, & it was hours since they'd last fed,
When Dunc caught an eel and they made a good meal off the bones & the skin and the head.

5. At last quite exhausted they broke from the scrub like seven grey ghosts from the west,
After ninety miles odd, and they thanked their God that at last they'd be able to rest.
Their boots were worn from right off their feet and their clothes were hanging in tatters,
But they've all stood it well, and they're back now from hell, which really is all that matters.

6. Now Dunc she has made ten new holes in her belt & Roxy's just fading away,
While Auntie doesn't care how hard you may swear, so long as she can eat all day.
The others are most of them pale & thin, and their health won't allow them to laugh
But poor Ray Bean can hardly be seen- he's minus two stone and a half.
Barney
http://sbw.ozultimate.com/1934/193402.pdf
Sydney Bush Walkers Magazine No. 17 Feb 1934
(Accessed 13th Feb 2016)



Electoral Rolls
1935, Bean, Raymond Percy. 503 Rocky Point Road, Sans Souci, salesman. M
1936, Bean, Raymond Percy. 503 Rocky Point Road, Sans Souci, salesman. M
1937, Bean, Raymond Percy. 503 Rocky Point Road, Sans Souci, salesman. M
1949, Bean. Raymond Percy. 11/29 Hampden Road, S. E. 3. Photographer M
1954, Bean Raymond Percy. 93 Grosvenor Road, Wahroonga, Photographer. M
1958, Bean Raymond Percy. 93 Grosvenor Road, Wahroonga, Photographer. M
1963, Bean Raymond Percy. 39 Seville St, Lane Cove, Photographer. M
1968, Bean Raymond Percy. 39 Seville St, Lane Cove, Photographer. M
1972, Bean Raymond Percy. 39 Seville St, Lane Cove, 2066. Photographer. M
1977, Bean Raymond Percy. 39 Seville St, Lane Cove, 2066. Photographer. M
1980, Bean Raymond Percy. 39 Seville St, Lane Cove, 2066. Photographer. M

Name:
RAY BEAN PTY LTD
ACN:
001 622 153
Previous state number:
21440630
Previous state of registration:
New South Wales
Registration date:
7/04/1978
Next review date:
Former name(s):
SARAFANA PTY LTD
Status:
Deregistered
Date deregistered:
5/01/1989
https://connectonline.asic.gov.au/RegistrySearch/faces/landing/SearchRegisters.jspx?_ga=1.6026227.1395755283.1455368047&_adf.ctrl-state=19bpuwk1fy_4 (Accessed 13th Feb 2016)

1936 an advertisement, placed by Ray Bean in 'The Sydney Bushwalker'
Bushwalkers! Leave your films for developing printing and enlarging with ___ RAY BEAN
As a skilled photographer and an experienced bush-walker I can get the very best possible results from your negatives.
Many of your favourite "snaps" if enlarged and coloured by my special Oil Colouring pricess will make admirable pictures for your home, or Xmas gifts for friends.
I also specialise in copying, colouring and enlarging from old photographs.
My cameraman will gladly attend your next social function- private or public- it costs nothing to have him there, and you can have a permanent record of your fun.
9a THE PROMENADE, HER MAJESTY'S ARCADE
(Pitt Street Level)
SYDNEY
http://www.bushwalkermagazine.org/the-annuals/1936-SBW-bushwalkers-s.pdf (accessed 9th Feb 2016)

PHOTOGRAPHY -Man experienced outdoor LeicaFix this text
Camera. Ray Bean 307a Hardy's Chambers
off 5 Hunter st.
1937 'Advertising.', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), 7 May, p. 20, viewed 13 February, 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17365729

GIRL 14, photographic work Ray Bean 307a
Hardy's Chambers, 5 Hunter Stree, city.
1937 'Advertising.', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), 29 October, p. 19, viewed 13 February, 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17402580

LEICA OUTFIT, series 11. r3.5 filters, 6.3 Fix this text
Telephoto Projector. Ring Ring Ray Bean BW4789
1940 'Advertising.', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), 29 June, p. 11, viewed 13 February, 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17693602


Sydney Bushwalkers
1941; Christmas cards, being black and white photograph Christmas card designed and made by photographer Ray Bean, member of the club, for distribution to members on active service (Locn No.: MLMSS 7074/7)
NSW State Library

Ray Bean had a tin plate hinged in the middle for easy packing. Mouldy Harrison visited from campfire to campfire while meals were being prepared, always with a spoon in his hand. He was a hungry-gutted lad but oh so-polite!
Who could refuse him a sample of what was in their billy? This ploy no doubt lessened the amount of food he had to carry, but in the interests of further lightness he cut the handle off his toothbrush and unnecessary dangling inches off his belt and bootlaces. We really watched the ounces in those days!

In 1934 another trip of seven, with leader Nin
Melville, covered 65 map miles of the Colo. The going was so rough they averaged only about 3.5 miles per day. The total cost of the trip was 36 shillings including food. This was the first time girls were recorded doing such a rough trip. They were Rene Brown, Win Duncombe and Iris Roxtro. The other S.B.W. member was Ray Bean. Their food was exhausted before the trip was over, but the girls caught a couple of eels which they ate.
The Sydney Buswalkers- the first sixty years
First published 1987 by The Sydney Bush Walkers Inc., GPO Box 4476, Sydney 2001
Printed and collated in Australia by The Sydney Bush Walkers Inc.
Folding and binding by Stewart Printing, Hornsby, N.S.W.
Typeset by PageBoy Publications, Dee Why, N.S.W.
© The Sydney Bush Walkers Inc. 1987
http://www.sbw.org.au/images/Documents/First%2060%20years-1.pdf (accessed 9th Feb 2016)


-WALKABOUT'
Representing the geographical magazine ''Walkabout,'' a party of six men arrived early this week. The group which travelled overland from Kalgoorlie com prised Arthur Upfiield (author of the famous "Sands of Windee"), John K. Ewers (author), R. Bean, (photographer), M Sharland (naturalist), H. Tate (mechanic) and George Keen (cook).
Thet party will, travel north as far as Wyndham, visit Ivanhoe station and return via the inland route.
1948 'MARBLE BAR NOTES.', Northern Times (Carnarvon, WA : 1905 - 1952), 8 July, p. 4, viewed 19 February, 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article75553161

Authors See
Kimberleys
BROOME, Wed: Australian geographical magazine Walkabout's touring party left Broome for Derby early yesterday morning. The party includes authors Arthur Upfield and John K. Ewers,, naturalist M. Sharland, photographer R. Bean, mechanic H. Tate and cook G. King.
The party travelled over land from Kalgoorlie and arrived in Broome early this week. After visiting
Derby it will travel north through the Kimberleys to Wyndham via Hall's Creek and Ivanhoe Station.
1948 'Authors See Kimberleys.', The Daily News (Perth, WA : 1882 - 1950), 14 July, p. 5 Edition: FINAL, viewed 19 February, 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article83751128

The "Walkabout" party, comprising novelists Jolm K. Ewers and Arthur Upfield, photographer Ray Bean, naturalist Michael Sharland, a mechanic and cook, passed, through Derby en- route to Wyndham last week. Mr. Ewers spent some days on Cockatoo Island and travelled by Plane to Wyndham to join the rest of the party which had gone over-land via Halls Creek. They are due to return South this week.
1948 'Darwin Treasare-Trove.', Northern Times (Carnarvon, WA : 1905 - 1952), 29 July, p. 4, viewed 13 February, 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article75553500

The Walkabout magazine party comprising' novelists John K. Ewers and Arthur Upfield, photo
grapher Ray Bean, Tasmanian naturalist Michael Sharland, a mechanic and cook, passed through Derby on Friday on the return trip to Perth via coastal towns after completing a tour through the Kimberleys by truck, then Halls Creek, Fitzroy Cross ing, Wyndham and a number of stations were visited.
1948 'Derby Notes.', Northern Times (Carnarvon, WA : 1905 - 1952), 19 August, p. 4, viewed 9 February, 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article75553903


Few people had a car, and there were fewer roads and fire tails than today. Bushwalks were planned around the trains, and remote places like Kanangra Walls (to which there was no road) were the province only for dedicated walkers on extended trips. For instance, Tom and Sissy
Godfrey were dropped near Jenolan Caves to walk to Burragorang via Kanangra-but after walking several days in the rain they were unable to cross the Kowmung, and had to walk all the way back-still in the rain.
The bedraggled pair were greeted with astonishment and disdain by tourists at the Caves! In another epic described as 'sheer bloody hell', Ray Bean, Nin Melville (founder of the Coast and Mountain Walkers) and Win Duncombe took fourteen days to walk the Colo, which was in flood:
they survived by eating eels caught with pegs and guy ropes.
The Bushwalker- 60th Anniversary Issue
http://www.bushwalkermagazine.org/the%20quartelys/bushwalker231.pdf (Accessed 9th Feb 2016)

Does anyone know much about the Dungalla Club they would be
willing to share ?

Question on a Forum about Bushwalking https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/aus.bushwalking/Dungallas/aus.bushwalking/QAQI5-Uz3Tc/1Qih6X54sd8J (accessed 9th Feb 2016)
I am currently reading Dot Butlers "The Barefoot Bushwalker", in
which she relates a journey through the MacDonnel Ranges of SA
with Henry Gold and Frank Rigby, among others. This reminded mne
that I own a copy of the book which was a product of this set of
walks.

In the frontpiece of this book ($3.50 at the Tempe Tip second
hand shop) is an inscription saying the book was presented to
Paddy and May Pallin by the Dungalla Club on 26.11.75, and there
is a list of some 76 names (Dot being one).

Here's a list of the names, no promises that all are correct as
they are signatures not printed:
Ozzie Brownlee, Hec G-------, E Kupatma---, Barry Wallace, Jess
Martin, Illegible, Tom Moppet, Jack Santt, illegible, David
Ingram, Dorothy Lawry, Edna Gentle (wonderful name), Joan Fitzie
Savage, Mary Braithwaite, Joyce Marchant, Arthur and Val Gilroy,
Brian Manney, -rede Ashley, Onawio (?) Berry, Dave Roots (may be
Val), Bill B---le, Stuart W. Brooks, Dot Butler, Fred H.K-----,
Betty Farquar, Jean Harvey, Bill Gillam, ---an Roots, Jenny
Madden, Gil. Well, Jean Webb, R. Savage, Grace Noble, Dorothy
Hasluck, Dorothy Mackiewiecz, Gwen Lawnil, Syd Robinson,
Gwen -. --owne, Phyl Sorenson, Ina-- Saull, Worid K---ha, Arthur
Saill, Harry Savage, Jim M----, Laurie Wood, Jim Coffey, Ray
Bean, Gordon Ballard, Faye Ballard, Hilma Colley, Vera Coffey,
Helen Bean, Jean Moppet, Gwen Hopkins, Doreen Berry, Jean
Ashdown, E--- Fanah, Dorothy Svenson, Jean Kirkely, Beth malcolm,
Scott Maclean, Keith Breen, Brenda White, Eva Stewart, Judith
Barnard, Olive -----coe, Neville Raymond, Lin Sorenson (little ~
over the first 'o'), Erm Farquhar (?), Denise Raymond, Gladys
Hall, Len Fall, John Wood.

DUNGALLA CLUB NEWS

The Dungalla Club has held its First Annual General Meeting, at which new 'OfficeBearers were elected-to carry on the good work of the Foundation Committee. President is Mr. Ray Bean, Vice Presidents are Rene Browne and Harry Savage, Secretary Treasurer once again is Brian Harvey, The Club has continued its policy of easy camping, sightseeing and relaxing trips, and in recent months they have had excursions to Coal and Candle Creek, Eureka Clearing, North Head and Swan Lake. December, 1970. THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKERPage 17.


Memorial Service conducted at the Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium.
Service conducted on the 10th August 2001

TWT August 15 2001, Obituaries- BEAN, Raymond Percy- August 1, 2001. Formerly of Terrigal and Lane Cove.

Raymond married Linda Dorothy Pratt, daughter of William Herbert Pratt and Emily Jane Lockwood, on 4 Apr 1942 in St Philips Church, Church Hill, Sydney, Australia.³⁶ (Linda Dorothy Pratt was born on 28 Dec 1918 in Ariah Park, New South Wales, Australia,^36,38 died on 28 Oct 2010 in Ashfield New South Wales, Australia ⁴² and was buried on 17 Nov 2010 in Norther Suburbs Crematorium, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia ⁴².)

  Marriage Notes:

Church of England

Divorced 12 Feb 1959

Raymond next married Hellen Park on 21 May 1960 in Scots Church Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.³⁷ (Hellen Park died in Sep 1988 and was buried on 9 Sep 1988 in Ashes taken by family ⁴¹.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage Contract.

  Marriage Notes:

Marriage database registration has Bean spelled Beau instead of Bean

Groom- status Divorced
Place of birth Woollahra New South Wales
Occupation- contracting caretaker
Age- 47
Usual Residence- 358 Pacific Highway, Lindfield, New South Wales, Australia
Father- Percy Bean (altered from Beau) (deceased)
Occupation of Father- French Polisher
Mother- Lilian Freshwater (deceased)

Bride- Helen Park
Status- Spinster
Place of Birth- Drummoyne, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation- Dressmaker
Usual Residence- 119 Victoria Avenue, Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia
Father- George Alexander Park (deceased)
Occupation- Dentist
Mother- Clara Perdriau (altered from Ova Perdriau)

Witnesses- L C Bean (Altered from Beau), Ruth Cook
Minister- Kinniburgh John Turnbull
All alterations wiere made on 16-09-1960