sketcher, drew View from Delatite Station, Delatite Co. Victoria in December 1849 and sent it to England as a gift for his mother. It was subsequently acquired by the Mitchell Library with a collection of Brocklesby’s personal papers. They include a bill for lodgings in Adelaide dated 1849 and an 1852 Melbourne gold-broker’s card.
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As the Dutch mother (Anna Chaplin Opstelten) of two male descendants of him through his daughter Ellen E. Brocklesby (born 1854 in London after their re-immigration to England) I can add the following from ancestry research: he was born in Middlesex, London, on 17 April 1823 and married Ellen Chenery (her father is Charles James Fox Chenery, coffee dealer in Mincing Lane, London, later wine merchant) there at the end of 1848 before emigrating to Australia in 1849 (no goldrush over there yet!). In the Morning Chronicle (London) of 2 May 1849 under Births one finds their first-born:`on the 12th of December,1849,at Delatite,Port Philip, Australia, Mrs.Philip Noah Brocklesby, of a daughter.` So his drawing of Delatite Station must have been made around the time of her birth. Their 2nd daughter was born in Australia too. Their 3d and 4th daughter were born in England. After their mother died in 1864 he remarried with Agnes Seggie, June 1865, with whom he got 10 more children (a lot of boys this time too) He was a corn and flour broker in Liverpool and later also a farmer near Paul in Cornwall where he went to live till his death on 4 Jan 1892. In Cornwall they lived on the Estate of Halwyn which his grandfather Noah Brocklesby (1743-1827), gentleman of Saint Marylebone, London, and married to Jane Woodley on 29 May 1774 in London, had bequeathed to his eldest son William Brocklesby, Esq. of Stoke Newington, London, landowner, fundholder and proprietor of houses, born Nov 1776 in London and married there in 1817 to Mary Holdsworth, daughter of Philip Holdsworth, Upper Marshall of the city of London. These two are the parents of Philip Noah Brocklesby. His father died on 15 July 1859, his mother in March 1861, both in the district of Hackney, London.
I haven`t found any mention in the historical British newspapers database, on BMD certificates, in Census-information or on the internet of any other artistic creation by him but this one drawing.
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- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2014
