Christiana (Passmore) Brooks
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Christiana Eliza (Passmore) Brooks (abt. 1776 - 1835)

Christiana Eliza Brooks formerly Passmore
Born about in Englandmap
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of — married 17 Oct 1796 in Bermondsey, Surrey, Englandmap
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 59 [location unknown]
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Biography

Christiana Passmore (1776–1835), was the daughter of an East India captain, Abraham Passmore and his wife Maria (nee Keadie).

She married another captain, Richard Brooks, in 1796 in Bermondsey, England.

In 1813 they emigrated to New South Wales, Australia, and arrived in March 1814 with their children in the Spring.

Brooks 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.

In January 1817 Governor Macquarie granted Brooks 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 the Brooks family moved from Sydney to Denham Court, a property near Liverpool which had been acquired from Richard Atkins more than ten years before in settlement of debts. For the rest of their lives Richard and Christiana lived there. Brooks was 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.

Richard died on 16 October 1833, after being gored by a bull. Christiana died on 12 April 1835, and both were buried in a vault at Denham Court. The church of St Mary the Virgin was built to enclose their remains.

Of their seven children, their two sons Richard and Henry became prominent settlers in the Monaro. Of their 5 daughters, Christiana married Thomas Valentine Blomfield; another daughter, Honoria, married William Edward Riley of Raby; their sixth child, Charlotte, married Nathaniel Powell.

Marriage: Southwark St Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey 1796 No p. 32 72

Text: Richard Brooks of this parish a bachelor and Christiana Eliza Passmore of St Mary Rotherhithe spinster were married in this church by licence this 17th day of October 1796 by me H.C. Mason Minister Richard and Christiana signed the register in the presence of Abraham Passmore and Jane Passmore

Death: Text: Deaths. At her residence, Denham Court, on Sunday the 12th Instant, Mrs. Brooks, sincerely regretted by a numerous family, aged 59 years,

Sources

  • Marriage: Southwark St Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey 1796 No p. 32 72
  • Death Registration; New South Wales, Births, Deaths & Marriages, Registration No:, 1949/1835 V18351949 19. Recorded as Christina
  • Death Notice: Sydney Herald Thu 23 Apr 1835 p. 3
  • Maher, C. (Christine), 2016, Richard Brooks : from convict ship captain to pillar of early colonial Australia, Rosenburg Publishing, Dural, New South Wales.




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