Peter & Blanche Whittaker

Whittaker Street, Mortlake

Peter Whittaker was born in 1868 in Altrincham, Wilmslow, England.  He arrived in Brisbane in March 1891, where he joined the Royal Australian Artillery the following year.  In 1904 he resigned with the rank of Corporal. He married Blanche Bushell in 1898.  They had four children – two sons, Eugene and Norman,  and two daughters,…