Violet Brodribb (1875 - 1948)

Born 11 Nov 1875 in Bay-street, Brighton, Victoria, Australia

Ancestors

Died 14 May 1948 at age 72 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England

Biography

VIOLET BRODRIBB (Brodribb-37)

PARENTS. Kenric Edward Brodribb & Theresa Alice (Casey) Brodribb

BIRTH. 11 Nov 1875, Bay-street, Brighton, Victoria, Australia

BIRTH. BRODRIBB .-On the 11th inst., at Brighton, the wife of Kenric Brodribb, Jun., of a daughter.

MARRIAGE. Never married

(1900). SKATING IN MELBOURNE. Violet Brodribb commenced as an amateur, but finished in the front rank. Her sister-Marjory-was one of the most graceful rinkers. Table Talk (Melbourne, Vic. : 1885 - 1939) Thursday 10 May 1900, p18 http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/145935780

(1933). New Zealand, Archives New Zealand, Passenger Lists

Name Violet Brodribb

Event Type Immigration

Event Date 14 Mar 1933

Event Place San Francisco, New Zealand

Age 57

Birth Year (Estimated) 1876

Ship Name Mariposa

Departure Port Melbourne

Arrival Port San Francisco (other ports also listed)

Arrival Place Melbourne

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New Zealand, Archives New Zealand, Passenger Lists

Name V Brodribb

Event Type Immigration

Event Date 1933

Event Place London (other ports also listed), New Zealand

Age 57

Birth Year (Estimated) 1876

Ship Name Rangitiki

Departure Port Wellington

Arrival Port London (other ports also listed)

Arrival Place London (other ports also listed)

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(1938). Tea Party at Alexandra Club. After having spent three months revisiting relatives and friends In Victoria, Miss Violet Brodribb and her sister, Miss Olive Brodribb, will leave on Friday to go overland to Perth where they will Join the Orford to return to London. Yesterday afternoon they gave a delightful tea party at the Alexandra Club to say au revoir before leaving Melbourne. The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Thursday 21 April 1938, p6 http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/11170062

(1942). OWEN ADAMS KENNEDY BRODRIBB, Deceased. Pursuant to the Trustee Act, 1925. NOTICE is hereby given that all persons having claims against the estate of Owen Adams Kennedy Brodribb, late of Cranbourne Hall Grouville Jersey in the Channel Islands who died at Royal Earlswood Institution Redhill in the county of Surrey intestate and to whose estate letters of administration were granted to Violet Brodribb on the 1st day of July 1942 by the Principal Probate Registry at Llandudno must send particulars of such claims to us the undersigned Solicitors to the said Violet Brodribb on or before 31st day of December 1942 after which date the administratrix will proceed to distribute the assets having regard only to the claims of which notice shall then have been received.—Dated this 7th day of August 1942. WHITE and LEONARD and NICHOLLS and CO., 4, St. Bride' Street, Ludgate Circus, London, E.C-4, Solicitors for the said Administratrix. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35669/page/3579/data.pdf

DEATH. 14 May 1948, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England

DEATH. BRODRIBB -On May 14 at Tunbridge Wells, Kent (Eng ), Violet, eldest daughter of the late Kenric Edward Brodribb. The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Tuesday 25 May 1948, p2 http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/22546580

DEATH. 1948

Name Violet Brodribb

Event Type Death

Registration Quarter Apr-May-Jun

Registration Year 1948

Registration District Tonbridge

County Kent

Event Place Tonbridge, Kent, England

Age (available after 1866) 72

Birth Year (Estimated) 1876

Volume 5B, Page 760, Line Number 95

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WILL OF VIOLET BRODRIBB: Violet Brodribb, Spinster, d. 14 May 1948, File: 402/390 VPRS 28/P3, unit 4716; VPRS 7591/P2, unit 1407: http://prov.vic.gov.au/

PROBATE. VIOLET BRODRIBB, of Melbourne, in Victoria, But Late Temporarily Residing at The Lonsdale Hotel, Tunbridge Wells, In the County of Kent, in England, Spinster, Deceased.-After 14 clear days Francis George Fosbery and James Burt Aitken, of 120 William street, Melbourne aforesaid, solicitors, two of the executors named in and appointed by deceased's will, dated the 31st day of October, 1945. will APPLY to the Supreme Court of Victoria for a grant of PROBATE of the said WILL, leave being reserved to Olive Brodribb, the executrix named therein, to come in and prove the same. John Turnbull, the other executor named therein, having predeceased the said deceased. Dated this 19th day of June, 1948. BLAKE _ RIGGALL. 120 William street. Melbourne, solicitors for the appllcants. The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Monday 21 June 1948, p9 http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/22542335

Australia, Victoria, Index to Probate Registers

Name Violet Brodribb

Occupation Spinster

Death Date 14 May 1948

Event Place Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Event Date 25 Aug 1948

Series Number 402

Record Number 390

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Sources

• Birth Notice: The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Friday 12 November 1875, p1 http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/7424670