Origins and publishing historyįacey had been making notes on his life since an early age, and had been entertaining family and friends for decades with his stories which, over the years, became more and more polished (at times at the cost of historical accuracy). The couple had seven children - the eldest, Barney, was killed during the Second World War - and twenty-eight grandchildren. The Faceys lived in East Perth before returning to Wickepin six years later with their children, where they lived until 1934. While recuperating he met his future wife Evelyn Mary Gibson and they were married in Bunbury in August 1916.
In August 1915 during the First World War, in which two of his brothers, Joseph and Roy, were killed. Badly injured at Gallipoli, he suffered severe problems which later were the cause of his death. By the age of 14 he was an experienced bushman, and at 18 a professional boxer. As a child he taught himself to read and write. He started working on farms at the age of eight and had little education and therefore could not read or write. Most of his childhood was spent in the Wickepin area.
Jane Carr (born 1832 - died 1932), and three of his six older siblings: Roy, Eric and Myra. In 1899 he moved from Victoria to Western Australia in the care of his grandmother, Mrs. His father died on the Goldfields of Western Australia in 1896 of typhoid fever and Albert's mother left her children to the care of their grandmother shortly afterwards.
Albert Barnett Facey was born in Maidstone, Victoria, Australia, in 1894.
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