Richard BROOKS (1765

Richard BROOKS (1765 - 1833)

Captain, mariner East India Company, agent for Lloyds of London, settler, pioneer

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
Henry BROOKS (1798 - 1841) Richard Henry BROOKS (1800 - ) Christina Jane BROOKS (1802 - 1852) Jane Maria BROOKS (1806 - 1888) Honoria Rose BROOKS (1809 - 1839) Charlotte Sophia BROOKS (1810 - 1885) Richard BROOKS (1813 - 1855) Maria BROOKS (1814 - 1892)	Richard BROOKS (1765 - 1833) + Christina Jane Eliza PASSMORE (1776 - 1835) Ann JAMIESON (1797 - 1818)	Henry BROOKS



		Honoria BURCHINSHAW

b. abt 1765 at Topsham, Exeter, Devon, England

m. (1) 1796 Christina Jane Eliza PASSMORE (1776 - 1835) at Bermondsey, Surrey, England

+. (2) Ann JAMIESON (1797 - 1818)

d. 16 Oct 1833 at Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia aged 68

Cause of Death:

gored by a bull

Near Relatives of Richard BROOKS (1765 - 1833)
Relationship	Person	Born	Birth Place	Died	Death Place	Age
Father	Henry BROOKS
Mother	Honoria BURCHINSHAW

Self	Richard BROOKS	abt 1765	Topsham, Exeter, Devon, England	16 Oct 1833	Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia	68

Wife	Christina Jane Eliza PASSMORE	1776		12 Apr 1835	Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia	59
Spouse/Partner	Ann JAMIESON	Jun 1797		27 Apr 1818	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	20

Son	Henry BROOKS	14 Sep 1798	London, Middlesex, England	20 Dec 1841	Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia	43
Son	Richard Henry BROOKS	abt 1800	England
Daughter	Christina Jane BROOKS	13 Jan 1802	Bermondsey, Surrey, England	31 Oct 1852	Cumberland, New South Wales, Australia	50
Daughter	Jane Maria BROOKS	29 May 1806	Bermondsey, Surrey, England	18 Apr 1888	Mulgoa, New South Wales, Australia	81
Daughter	Honoria Rose BROOKS	abt 1809	Bermondsey, Surrey, England	17 Mar 1839	Ingleburn, New South Wales, Australia	30
Daughter	Charlotte Sophia BROOKS	abt 1810	England	11 Sep 1885	Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia	75
Son	Richard BROOKS	06 Jun 1813	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	10 Jul 1855	Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia	42
Daughter	Maria BROOKS	abt 1814		1892		78

Daughter in Law	Margaret MCKENZIE
Son in Law	Thomas Valentine BLOMFIELD	14 Feb 1793	Dagworth, Suffolk, England	19 May 1857	Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia	64
Son in Law	Edward COX	1805		18 May 1868	Mulgoa, New South Wales, Australia	63
Son in Law	William Edward RILEY	1807	Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia	04 Dec 1836	Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia	29
Son in Law	Nathaniel Stephen POWELL	1812		23 Apr 1874	Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia	62
Daughter in Law	Augusta Sydney WESTON	31 Jan 1818	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	31 Oct 1894	Berridale, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia	76
Son in Law	Henry ZOUCH	1811	Quebec, Canada	28 Oct 1883	Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia	72

Grandson	Henry BROOKS	29 Jan 1831	Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia	04 Mar 1904	Berridale, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia	73
Grandson	Thomas Edwin BLOMFIELD	26 May 1821	Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia	05 Apr 1903	Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia	81
Grandson	Richard Henry BLOMFIELD	12 Feb 1823	Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia	11 Nov 1896	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	73
Grandson	John Roe BLOMFIELD	27 Oct 1824	Maitland, New South Wales, Australia	01 May 1889	Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia	64
Granddaughter	Christina Eliza Passmore BLOMFIELD	30 Jun 1826	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	20 Oct 1904	Penrith, New South Wales, Australia	78
Granddaughter	Louisa Matilda BLOMFIELD	18 Sep 1828	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	19 May 1858	Maitland, New South Wales, Australia	29
Granddaughter	Barrington Wingfield BLOMFIELD	29 Jan 1830	Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia	17 Jul 1835	Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia	5
Grandson	Arthur James BLOMFIELD	06 Oct 1831	Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia	02 Feb 1887	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	55
Grandson	Henry Wilson BLOMFIELD	04 Dec 1833	Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia	13 Jul 1924	North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	90
Grandson	Edwin Cordeaux BLOMFIELD	25 Nov 1835	Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia	25 Feb 1913	Uralla, New South Wales, Australia	77
Grandson	Euston Barrington BLOMFIELD	03 Dec 1837	Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia	1900	Queensland, Australia	63
Grandson	Frank Allman BLOMFIELD	07 Jan 1840	Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia	31 Dec 1870	Queensland, Australia	30
Grandson	Alfred BLOMFIELD	11 Jan 1842	Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia	18 Aug 1901	Walcha, New South Wales, Australia	59
Grandson	Richard William COX	abt 1832		12 Dec 1914	Mudgee, New South Wales, Australia	82
Granddaughter	Harriett C POWELL	1838	Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson	Frank Alexander POWELL	1840	Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia	01 Jun 1929	Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia	89
Granddaughter	Louisa POWELL	1841	Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson	Henry C POWELL	1843	Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter	Natheniel POWELL	1846	Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter	Augusta Maria Lavinia POWELL	abt 1848	Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter	Ada Charlotte POWELL	1851	Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter	Cherie Amy POWELL	1855	Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson	William Henry BROOKS	05 Oct 1838	Berridale, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia	29 Oct 1911	Berridale, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia	73
Granddaughter	Augusta Maria BROOKS	Aug 1840	Gegedzerick, Berridale, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia	01 Feb 1926	Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia	85
Grandson	Richard Charles BROOKS	26 Jul 1842	Berridale, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia	19 Jul 1867	Berridale, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia	24
Grandson	Arthur Weston BROOKS	26 Jun 1844	Berridale, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia	30 Oct 1891	Cooma, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia	47
Grandson	Henry Herbert BROOKS	29 May 1846	Berridale, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia	10 May 1900	Berridale, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia	53
Granddaughter	Louisa Matilda BROOKS	08 Aug 1852	Berridale, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia	01 Jun 1918	Randwick, New South Wales, Australia	65
Granddaughter	Ann Honoria ZOUCH	1837	Kelso, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter	Mary Theresa ZOUCH	1840	Kelso, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson	Henry Lowther ZOUCH	1841	Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson	Reginald ZOUCH	1844	Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter	Marcia Charlotte ZOUCH	1846	Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson	Richard Essington ZOUCH	1848	Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter	Christina Jane ZOUCH	1850	Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson	Edward Maynard ZOUCH	1851	Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia

Events in Richard BROOKS (1765 - 1833)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
abt 1765		Richard BROOKS was born	Topsham, Exeter, Devon, England		6
1796	31	Married Christina Jane Eliza PASSMORE (aged 20)	Bermondsey, Surrey, England		6
14 Sep 1798	33	Birth of son Henry BROOKS	London, Middlesex, England		6
abt 1800	35	Birth of son Richard Henry BROOKS	England		6
13 Jan 1802	37	Birth of daughter Christina Jane BROOKS	Bermondsey, Surrey, England		30
06 Jul 1802	37	Immigration	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	Note 1	6
29 May 1806	41	Birth of daughter Jane Maria BROOKS	Bermondsey, Surrey, England
abt 1809	44	Birth of daughter Honoria Rose BROOKS	Bermondsey, Surrey, England
abt 1810	45	Birth of daughter Charlotte Sophia BROOKS	England		6
06 Jun 1813	48	Birth of son Richard BROOKS	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia		76
abt 1814	49	Birth of daughter Maria BROOKS			6
05 Mar 1814	49	Immigration	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	per 'Spring' to settle	6
27 Apr 1818	53	Death of wife Ann JAMIESON (aged 20)	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia		76
16 Oct 1833	68	Richard BROOKS died	Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia		6

Note 1: per 'Atlas' as master of convict ship

Personal Notes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Brooks_(captain)

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/brooks-richard-1830

Richard Brooks (1765?-1833), mariner, merchant and settler was born at Withycombe Raleigh (later Exmouth), Devon, England, second surviving son of Henry Brooks, mariner, and his wife Honoria, both English-born. Richard sailed on his father’s ship, Henry and Honoria (later Honoria), from an early age, and others, rising to become captain. During the first French revolutionary war he traded to Oporto, the Mediterranean, and the Baltic. He began his association with New South Wales in 1801-02 when he captained the convict transport Atlas. After this voyage he earned the censure of Governor Philip Gidley King for the high death rate among the convicts in his charge, which was largely due to his negligence and to the overcrowding on board caused by his large personal cargo. The surgeon, Thomas Jamison, brought a civil action for assault against Brooks, and the transport commissioners threatened him with prosecution, but he escaped punishment. In 1806 he was captain of another transport, the Alexander; thereafter he made a number of trading trips to the colony, in the Rose in 1808, the Simon Cock in 1810, and the Argo in 1811, and built up large interests in the colony.

As a partner of Robert Campbell, who was part-owner of the Rose, he was opposed to the rebel government after the deposition of Governor William Bligh and refused to give a passage to Captain Symons R.N., the bearer of Joseph Foveaux's dispatches to England. Foveaux then ordered the Rose to be seized for trading in violation of the East India Co.'s monopoly, but this was a subterfuge, and he allowed her to proceed when Brooks agreed to take Symons on board. He entered into a bond for £4000 to account for any irregularity in their trading, but as Brooks was easily able to show that he had been duly licensed by the company, it is perhaps not surprising that he was heard using 'some highly disrespectful expressions towards the present government of the colony'. Brooks also carried letters on behalf of Bligh and, after the Rose sailed, he had Symons confined as a deserter, and the rebel supporter, John Blaxland, who was also on board, arrested at the Cape of Good Hope.

In February 1813 Brooks was on his way to England in the Isabella when she was wrecked near the Falkland Islands, and he sailed to Buenos Aires in a long-boat for help. In July he asked for permission to go to New South Wales as a free settler; he said he had already established a large herd of cattle there, and could increase it if he were granted land. Allowed to go, he arrived in March 1814 with his wife Christiana, nee Passmore, and children in the Spring. He exchanged his brig for a house at the corner of Pitt and Hunter Streets, and set up business with her cargo. Lachlan Macquarie granted him land at Cockle Bay (Darling Harbour) in compensation for a grant promised at Farm Cove which had been incorporated in the government Domain, and he began a profitable business supplying meat and provisions to ships, to the public and to the government store. He was also an agent for Lloyds of London and for shipping which called at Port Jackson.

He suffered during the depression which followed, but this was only a temporary setback. Although in 1816 Governor Macquarie upheld Commissary David Allan in his charge that Brooks was among the most prominent of those settlers who withheld stock during the drought and thus profited by the rise in prices, in January 1817 he granted him 300 acres (121 ha) in the Illawarra district, and in August appointed him a justice of the peace. Meanwhile he had strongly supported the establishment of the Bank of New South Wales, and in January 1819 he was on the committee of landowners and merchants who petitioned the British government for the repeal of commercial restrictions. In 1823 he moved from Sydney to Denham Court, a property near Liverpool which he had acquired from Richard Atkins more than ten years before in settlement of debts.

For the rest of his life he lived there, a prominent settler, a member of the New South Wales Agricultural Society, a vice-president of the Benevolent Society, member of the committee of the Bible Society, and a strong supporter of religious charities of all denominations. He owned properties in Sydney at Cockle Bay and Surry Hills and had extensive holdings in the Illawarra, Williams River and Lake George districts. He died on 16 October 1833, after being gored by a bull; with his wife, who died on 12 April 1835, he was buried in a vault at Denham Court and the church of St Mary the Virgin was built to enclose their remains.

Of their seven children, his sons Richard and Henry became prominent settlers in the Monaro; his daughter Christiana married Thomas Valentine Blomfield; another daughter, Honoria, married William Edward Riley of Raby.

Source References:

6. Type: Book, Abbr: Queanbeyan Register, Title: Biographical register of Canberra and Queanbeyan: from the district to the Australian Capital Territory 1820-1930, Auth: Peter Proctor, Publ: The Heraldry & Genealogical Society of Canberra, Date: 2001

- Reference = 28 (Death)

- Reference = 28 (Immigration)

- Reference = 28 (Marriage)

- Reference = 28 (Immigration)

- Reference = 28 (Birth)

30. Type: Web Page, Abbr: Monaro Pioneers, Title: Monaro pioneers, Locn: http://www.monaropioneers.com/

- Reference = http://www.monaropioneers.com/blomfieldtv.htm (Name, Notes)

76. Type: Web Page, Abbr: Find a Grave, Title: Find A Grave, Locn: https://www.findagrave.com/

- Reference = https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/152748765/richard-brooks (Name, Notes)

- Notes: Gravesite Details son/Henry & Honiara (Hall)

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