BROOKS, Harry & Catherine
1863 – 19 January 1935
1863 – 12 July 1943
Origin Enysford, United Kingdom
Accompanying Family Beatrice, Dorothea, Ellen, William, Grace, John, Eunice & Nelson
First settled in Bayswater, Western Australia
Original Occupation Thatcher
Occupation in Australia Market Gardener
ARMADALE
Arrival Year 1913
Fremantle
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Harry dug 7 acres of land & grew strawberries & violets. The first house of 2 rooms was made from flattened 4 gallon tins. They had no electricity & worked the garden by themselves. Their son William died of typhoid fever at the end of 1913.
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William Brooks' Karrakatta record shows he died on 7th November 1914 aged 17 years old.
Tue 22 Jan 2019
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