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| When Frank was about eight and Margaret about six, their parents separated and they moved with their mother from Lake Boga to Mooroopna.2
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| Life at the Cricketer's Arms Hotel
Beatrice's niece Bub Williams had the Cricketer's Arms Hotel in Mooroopna and lived there with her son Graeme and mother Alice. Beatrice, Frank and Margaret also lived at the hotel.3,4,2
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| Bub had Alice help run the hotel, and Beatrice became one of two cooks, the other being Ma Hawking.
Beatrice enjoyed the peacefulness of a room with her two children.
Frank, Margaret and Graeme started school in Mooroopna. Graeme attended the Mooroopna State school.5,6,7,2
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| Beatrice saved enough through her work at the hotel to buy a house in Elizabeth St in Mooroopna, and later moved there with Frank and Margaret.7
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