BROCKMAN, Robert James

(12/04/1812 - 10/12/1898)

Robert died in Bunbury. Robert was the youngest son of Reverend Julius Brockman of England. Robert arrived on 28/12/1831 on the Egyptian. He married on 12/04/1837 to Elizabeth Elliot Walcott (1811-) in Guildford. Elizabeth was the daughter of James and Johannah. She arrived on 20/01/1830 on the Wanstead. Their children were Edward William (1838-), Joanna Elizabeth (1839-1871), Robert Thomas (1841-1887), John (1843-1930), Charles Samuel (1845-1923), James Joseph (1848-1868), George Julius (1850-1912), William Moore Drake (1851-), Bertha Elizabeth Lennard (1854-1874), Marion Frances Locke (1856-1865) and Elliot Burges (1859-1935). Robert worked as a pastoralist farmer in the 1840's at "Seabrook Estate" in Northam. In the 1850s, he left Bamban, Gingin, to go to "Minndigara", which was' north of Moore River, then to "Gnumbung", which was 30 miles north again. In 1863 he leased land at Greenough. He employed eleven ticket of leave men between 1868 and 1871, one of them for five years. In 1875 he was a Justice of the Peace in Bunbury and Australind where he lived. This family may have travelled to England in 1833 and returned on the Adams on 27/11/1834. They also departed in 1835 on the Hero for Timor. They often voyaged to England, arriving 07/05/1851 on the John Panter. The Mrs, Miss and Master left for England on 16/02/1858.

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