Her mother's sister was Lady Mary Windeyer who was a suffragette and charity worker.

[1] Phoebe was brought up in the large house of Riversdale which had been built as an inn which her family bought in 1875 after leasing it for several years.

[3] For instance, Mrs Aubrey Withers was the founder of the Bush Book Club in 1909[4] and her good friend Lady Ida Poore became its first President[5] and Wesche served as its vice-president.

Two years later, the New South Wales Bush Nursing Association was founded in 1911 and it received state support in 1912.

When the youngest sister Alice Joan died in 1967 the property was sold to the National Trust of Australia.