Identity area
Type of entity
Family
Authorized form of name
Bentley Family
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Description area
Dates of existence
1867-
History
The Bentley family arrived in Fiji in 1867 when Henry Bentley left Australia to join the cotton boom. At the time of his death he left a widow, Elizabeth Crawford Bentley (nee Miller) and ten children. Successive generations of the Bentley family have remained in Fiji.
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Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Allen, P. S. (1907). Cyclopedia of Fiji, 1907. Cyclopedia Co. of Fiji. Sydney. Reprinted 1984.