Beryl arrived in Darwin during the First World War with her parents, Mr and Mrs James Parer who leased the Terminus Hotel and club from the Government. Mr Claude Cashman was appointed manager of the Club Hotel. Beryl and Claude Cashman married in 1927 at the St Mary's Star of the Sea Catholic Church in Darwin.
In 1932 Beryl and her husband ran the Darwin newsagency, Adams and Foster. They opened a newsagency in Smith Street in 1937. It is currently known as 'Darwin Newsagency'.
Their first born, David John was born in 1938. Beryl and her family evacuated from Darwin in 1942. They continued their business in Alice Springs and their daughter Margaret was born in 1943. Returning to Darwin after the war, they re-opened the original newsagency in Smith Street. In 1962, they opened a general store and newsagency in Nightcliff.
Claude died 7 December 1965, Darwin. Beryl left Darwin in 1981 and died in Nerang, Gold Coast in 1991.,
Notes
Date:1910,
Language
English,
Subject
Women,
Northern Territory,
Related links
http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/3382434["The Darwin Follies", NT Times and Gazette, 2 April 1926],
http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/placenames/view.jsp?id=5577 [Place names register : Cashman Street],