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Select Settler Map 1 to find the location of George Brooks' Estate
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St. James Church, Sydney
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Marriage of Atwill Kenrick to Hannah Euphemia, eldest daughter of the late George Brooks of Newcastle on 2nd September. Officiating minister Archdeacon Cowper
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Newcastle Bench Books
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Assigned servant Elizabeth Jones sentenced to 14 days solitary confinement for riotus conduct. Jones lived with the Brooks family at the parsonage after the Brooks house burned down. Found fighting in the kitchen with Rev. Wilton's servant Ann Fox who was bleeding from the head
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Archives Office of NSW. Colonial Secretary: Misc records (4/4570D)pp1-88
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Jeremiah Hunter per Shipley assigned servant
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John Thornton per 'Mary Ann' assigned servant
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Newcastle Bench Books. AONSW Reel 2722
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John Harrison per 'Lady Nugent' assigned servant
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County of Northumberland, Parish of Hexham
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Index to map of the country bordering upon the River Hunter... by Henry Dangar (London : Joseph Cross, 1828). p1
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Granted 320 acres. Annual quit rent 6s 41/2d.
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County of Northumberland, Parish of Stockrington
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Index to map of the country bordering upon the River Hunter... by Henry Dangar (London : Joseph Cross, 1828). p2
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Granted 300 acres of land. Annual Quit rent £ 2 5s
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St. Phillips, Sydney
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Marriage of George Brooks Esq., of Newcastle to Mary Stephena, only daughter of the Rev. William Cowper on 2 September 1828
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Ancestry.com. New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters. Class: HO 10; Piece: 20
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Daniel Page per 'Grenada' assigned servant
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Ancestry.com. New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters. Class: HO 10; Piece: 20
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James Tucker per General Hewitt assigned servant
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Newcastle district
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The official estimate of the land under crops in the Newcastle district and the quantity of produce to be taken therefrom was made by the police in November 1838 at the request of the Colonial Secretary. - George Brooks, Four acres wheat, 1 1/2 acres maize, two acres potatoes; yield - 15 bushels wheat, 30 bushels maize, four tone potatoes
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Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book. State Archives NSW; Roll: 136
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Elizabeth Holley per Mary assigned to George Brooks
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Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book. State Archives NSW. Roll 137
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Grace Draper per Mary assigned to Dr. George Brooks on her release from Newcastle gaol
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Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book. State Archives NSW. Roll 136
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Mary Keane per Sir Charles Forbes assigned servant
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NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
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George Brooks resigned from the Office of Justice of the Peace, not because of fear of censure nor of having failed in his duty as Magistrate but because a variety of circumstances combined to render the Office anything but conducive to his comfort
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NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
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Catherine Marum charged with suspicion of having concealed the birth of a child of which it was said she was pregnant. Mary Beattie states - In November last being in want of a female in my house during the absence of my husband, and hearing that Catherine Marum had just been discharged from the General Hospital, I invited her to remain with me. She lay in the same bed with me. The first night I began to suspect that she was in a state of pregnancy - on the second I was convinced of it. I asked her if such was not the case, at first she denied it, but on my persisting in saying that I was certain being myself a mother, she admitted that I was right, and told me that the father of the child was a servant at Alexander McLeods. I am convicted she must have been four months gone, instead she told me so. Catherine Marum was one week residing at Ann Fawlkner before she came to my house. She did not remain with me long. Esther Wells states - about three weeks since Catherine Marum was very ill. I was in the habit of frequently going to see her; for some time I thought she was with child, she thought so too, and I believe made as much preparations for her confinement as her circumstances would admit, but I have good reason to think since that we were mistaken, indeed I am convicted she was not pregnant, although there were appearances of it. George Brooks, assistant Surgeon, states - I saw and examined Catherine Marum within eighteen hours after her late illness. Nothing appeared to lead me to think that she had been delivered of a child which she had carried six months. I saw her several times afterwards. She came to me voluntarily with the last witness and submitted herself to a minute examination for which and other attendant circumstances, I am persuaded that no living child has been produced. The Bench are of the opinion that no attempt was ever made by Catherine Marum to conceal her supposed pregnancy and that she has not been delivered of a living child.
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NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
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Charles Hughes, in government service, ordered to one week solitary confinement for being drunk last night and disrespectfully replying to the Magistrate George Brooks when challenged by him
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NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
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William Barton per ship Mangles, in government service, charged with disobedience of orders and insolence. Henry Kenny, overseer at the general hospital, states - Prisoner was a patient in the General Hospital yesterday morning. I was directed by Mr. Surgeon George Brooks, to apply poultice to him, which he refused to submit to saying he did not want any. On my asking him if he pretended to know better than Mr. Brooks, he replied he did not care for Mr. Brooks, he would not have the poultice on; I then told him it should be put on by force when he said he would be damned if it should be applied tho even Mr. Brooks had directed it. On my leaving the ward, he wasted the greater part of the poultice. The prisoner denies the accusation. Sentenced to 7 days solitary confinement. Magistrates Francis Allman and George Brooks
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NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
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James Collins per ship Guildford, in government service, charged with theft....Henry Winchester, government servant to Surgeon George Brooks, states - On Thursday after noon last between the hours of three and four o clock I missed my watch; I had deposited it in my box which stood in the room where I slept at my masters house. The box was not locked but the lid merely shut down. I immediately reported my loss to my master. Some person must have got in at the kitchen window as I ascertained the back door had not been opened. I was confirmed in my opinion of an entry having been made at the window from finding that a bottle which had stood in the window had been knocked down. I also found dirt on the window from shoes and the print of a strange foot under the window; I also noticed the same impression of a foot at my sleeping room window which from its position seemed as if the person was peeping in at the window to see if anyone was within. From these circumstances, I thought the theft could not have been done by a stranger and having employed Collins to write a letter for me about a week since, my suspicion fell on him. The more so as on my going out on Thursday afternoon on an errand, I had called at his quarters to ask for a book I had lent him a short time previously. I was told he was not at home and I said I would call for it as I returned. I did not however call but returned home direct after having performed my errand. I had not been absent from my masters house more than a quarter of an hour and almost immediately on my return I missed my watch from the box. I then went back to Collins quarters and enquired again for him. I was told he had not been at home but I saw him at a distance going as it were from the house towards the beach. My watch was in the box at the time I went on the errand. Constable Thomas Dwyer states - On Thursday afternoon last, about four o clock I saw Collins going from Doctor Brooks back door along the yard and down the ledge of rocks to the beach. There is no thoroughfare through the yard to the beach. Constable William Turvey, states - When I took Collins in custody I also took the shoes which he had on his feet from him. I compared the shoes with the marks under the windows; they corresponded exactly; there are two peculiar nails in the sole of one of the shoes, the marks of which I could distinctly trace and which confirms me most decidedly in my opinion that the person who committed the robbery wore at the time the shoes I took from Collins. He denied having been in Doctor Brooks yard on the Thursday the theft was committed. The prisoner denies knowing anything of the robbery. Admits having been in Doctor Brooks yard at the time he was seen there by Dwyer. States that he went there to return the book which Winchester had been enquiring for. James Collins sentenced to 2 years in a penal settlement
