Bill Bateman

William Augustus Bill Bateman was a businessman, an Australian sportsman who played firstclass cricket for Western Australia and Australian rules football in the Western Australian Football Association . He was the captain of the Swans Football Club the first Australian Rules Football team in Western Australia. He came from one of the founding families of Western Australia and his grandson Alan Bateman created the TV soap Home and Away.

Bateman was born in Fremantle in 1866. He worked for J amp W Bateman which was a general supply company created by his father John Bateman and his uncle, Walter Bateman, six years before this Bateman was born. Bateman was descended from John Bateman who had been here in 1830 only a year after the colony was founded.

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