~Edward George BROWN & Amelia Matilda SHELLEY ~

An extarodinary man.

"Blowering Run No. 176"

25,000 Acres

E G Brown purchased Blowering Station from Captain John Charles & Edith Whitty, JP. Then sold it to Joseph & Jane Lambert.

Edward George BROWN

Edward George BROWN, was born in Denmark to english parents John BROWN & Charlotte DOWLING

On 23 January 1838, John and Charlotte Brown, their children, a nanny and three servants arrived in Sydney from England on the Marquis of Hastings.

Although the voyage had lasted four months, number of passengers, including John Brown, were so satisfied with the journey that they published an open

letter in The Sydney Herald to the captain of the ship. The letter stated that "after a very agreeable passage we cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of

expressing to you our high sense of the obligations we owe you for your unremitting attention to our comfort during the voyage, and we request you will

accept our sincere thanks."

Harriet,

Louisa,

John,

William, was born in India.

Eliza,

Edward,

Charles,

Edith,

Gustava and

Sigismunda.

Herbert,

Nugent and

Walterus were born in Australia.

John Brown was 51 years old when he and his family arrived in Australia. When the family found a property which suited their purposes at "Upper Paterson" (now Gresford) in the Hunter Valley, Brown named it Colstoun after his ancestral home in Haddington, Scotland.

John and Charlotte Brown and their children were pioneers in New South Wales. They unleashed a great deal of energy, talent, courage and tenacity upon the colony.

Some of the large family settled in the Upper Paterson area, while others moved to other parts of Australia.

A few, once married, returned to the United Kingdom and

William, who had been born in India, went to China where, in 1847, he was killed whilst in the Huangpu District, Guangdong province.

John Brown referred to his son as being "barbarously murdered by the Chinese at Canton together with five of his companions."

Mr. Edward George Brown, ex-M.L.A., first Mayor of Tumut, and one of the oldest residents, died to-day from the effects of an apoplectic seizure. The deceased was 66 years of age. He was intimately identified with this town and district.

Original publication - Sydney Morning Herald, 5 August 1895, p 5 (view original)

Additional Resources

- profile, Australian Town and Country Journal, 13 August 1887, p 27

- contests an action for slander, Australian Town and Country Journal, 1 October 1892, p 13

-funeral, Sydney Morning Herald, 6 August 1895, p 5

- a meeting of Tumut residents proposes to erect a memorial in his honour, Sydney Morning Herald, 15 August 1895, p 5

Related Entries in NCB Sites

view family tree

Brown, John (father) go to Obituaries Australia entry

Walsh, Elizabeth (sister)go to Obituaries Australia entry

Brown, Sigismunda (sister)go to Obituaries Australia entry

Brown, John Dowling (brother)go to Obituaries Australia entry

Brown, Herbert Harrington (brother)go to Obituaries Australia entry

Brown, Nugent Wade (brother)go to Obituaries Australia entry

Brown, Walterus Le Brun (brother)go to Obituaries Australia entry

Whitty, John Charles (brother-in-law) go to Obituaries Australia entry

Brown, Walter (brother-in-law)go to Obituaries Australia entry

Walsh, William Henry (brother-in-law)go to Obituaries Australia entry go to ADB entry

Whitty, Charles Dowling (nephew)go to Obituaries Australia entry

Whitty, Henry Tarlton (nephew)go to Obituaries Australia entry

Walsh, William Henry (nephew)go to Obituaries Australia entry

Brown, Percy (nephew)go to Obituaries Australia entry

Brown, John Dowling (nephew)go to Obituaries Australia entry

Brown, Edward John (nephew)go to Obituaries Australia entry

Brown, Walter Sigismund (nephew)go to Obituaries Australia entry

Brown, William Le Brun (nephew)go to Obituaries Australia entry

Walsh, Western (nephew)go to Obituaries Australia entry

Brown, Herbert Lindeman (nephew)go to Obituaries Australia entry

Harris, Hamlyn Lavicourt (business partner) go to Obituaries Australia entry

Taylor, John (employee)go to Obituaries Australia entry

Citation details

Brown, Edward George (1829–1895)', Obituaries Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/brown-edward-george-14341/text25412, accessed 15 July 2013. - (Ref- http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/brown-edward-george-14341).

Edward became the first mayor of Tumut and a was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. He was one of the earliest residents of Tumut and had gone to the area in 1846 to work for his brother-in-law, John Charles Whitty. When Witty returned to England, Edward purchased Witty's property. Edward later went into partnership with Hamlyn Lavicourt Harris whose sister had married J. C. Witty's son, Henry. There was a close relationship between the Witty, Brown and Harris families.

1867 - Appointments.-His Excellency the Govornor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been please to appoint the undermentioned gentlemen to be Magistrates of the colony, viz. Edward Georg Brown, Blowering, Tumut. - (Ref- Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1875)(about) Previous issue Friday 19 April 1867).

1867 - NEW NOTICES. - Mr Hums to ask the Secretary for Lands,- The date of Mr E G Brown's application for the 60 acres of land at East Blowering, near Tumut, conditionally purchased by Mr Henry Napthali on the 22nd Auguet, I860 2 Why Mr Nopthali's purchase has been declared cancelled by Mr Brown's application, as per notice from the Department of Lands of the 13th August, 1867, the former party having resided upon and improved the land, and complied with the other provisions of the law. - (REf- The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954)(about) Previous issue Wednesday 11 September 1867).

1870 RENTS NOT PAID. - Rent, or portion of rent, of Runs of Crown Lands, in the Second Class Settled and Unsettled Districts, have not been paid for year 1870; Fine of 10% on overdue Rent

MURRUMBIDGEE DISTRICT.

Charlotte BROWN - West Blowering; £20. - 1868, GOVERNMENT GAZETTE - The Government Gazette of last night contains the following; notiflcations - APPLICATIONS TO PURCHASE.- Charlotte Brown, of West Blowering; Charles Darby Bardwell, of Oborne. - (Ref- Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1875)(about) Previous issue Saturday 4 July 1868).

L. F. De SALIS - Upper Goberagandera; £10.- (Ref-http://www.dcstechnical.com.au/Rusheen/1.0_People.htm)

Also in 1854 not long after the marriage Mr John Charles Whitty, George's brother-in-law sold the "Blowering Run" to Edward G and Whitty then returned home to England.

George and Amelia Brown then followed a successful life as "squatters" for many years in the Blowering Valley.

Their next venture after their sale of Blowering to Joseph & Jane Lambert, was to acquire the "Tumut PLains Station"

SYDNEY WOOL SALE - 45 bails of AA o\ur West Blowering, from the Tumut district. - (Ref- The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954)(about) Previous issue Friday 21 December 1894).

Blowering Station

BROWN MARRIAGES

4531/1877 JONES, JOSEPH married BROWN, MARY in TUMUT

7228/1884 COX, PATRICK J married BROWN, EMILY J B in TUMUT

7117/1889 MANN, ALLAN G F married BROWN, AMELIA S in TUMUT

4473/1899 DIBBS, ROBERT C married BROWN, EMILY H in TUMUT

5173/1902 SMITH, JAMES W married BROWN, HESTER F in TUMUT

9089/1908 DEAN, HENRY A married BROWN, ADA C in TUMUT

12236/1908 DICKSON, WALTER T married BROWN, JESSIE in TUMUT

7565/1912 CROUCH, HAROLD H married BROWN, MIRIAM N in TUMUT

6189/1909 REED, GWYNNE MC D married BROWN, TERESA M in TUMUT

3479/1868 KUNSTLER, LOUIS married BROWN, MARGARET N in TUMUT

12456/1954 MANSON,RONALD FREDERICK W BROWN, BESSIE VERA in TUMUT

4310/1919 JOHNSON, HERBERT L married BROWN, ANNA P A in TUMUT

19789/1920 WHATMAN, HAROLD J married BROWN, EVA A in TUMUT

17256/1924 CRAIN, FRANK G married BROWN, VIOLET in TUMUT

12644/1930 CRAIN, JOHN T married BROWN, DORIS in TUMUT

17980/1933 HOFFLICK, ARTHUR married BROWN, IDA M in TUMUT

10892/1939 CRAMPTON, HAROLD married BROWN, JEAN MARY in TUMUT

16687/1949 LITTLE, ALEXANDER married BROWN, ETHEL MARGARET ANN in TUMUT

6776/1951 FORD,GEORGE KEVIN married BROWN, AMELIS MARION in TUMUT

News paper article 9.9.1930 in Tumut Advocate.

The presentation and send off tendered to Mr & Mrs E G Brown at their residence. West Blowering, on Friday night, was attended by an enormous crowd of friends from all parts of the Tumut district.....

This report is submitted in good faith. All endeavours have been made to make all entries authentic and correct. For any corrections and additional valuable information, maps and photos you may have please contact John

To Blowering Station

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Brown, Edward George (1829–1895)

Mr. Edward George Brown, ex-M.L.A., first Mayor of Tumut, and one of the oldest residents, died to-day from the effects of an apoplectic seizure. The deceased was 66 years of age. He was intimately identified with this town and district.

Original publication

Sydney Morning Herald, 5 August 1895, p 5 (view original)

Additional Resources

profile, Australian Town and Country Journal, 13 August 1887, p 27

contests an action for slander, Australian Town and Country Journal, 1 October 1892, p 13

funeral, Sydney Morning Herald, 6 August 1895, p 5

a meeting of Tumut residents proposes to erect a memorial in his honour, Sydney Morning Herald, 15 August 1895, p 5

Related Entries in NCB Sites - view family tree

Brown, Amelia Matilda (wife)

Brown, Fanny Louisa (daughter)

Brown, Effie Matilda (daughter)

Brown, Edward Charles (son)

Brown, Arthur William (son)

Brown, Arthur Henry (son)

Brown, Clara (daughter-in-law)

Brown, John (father)

Shelley, George (father-in-law)

Walsh, Elizabeth (sister)

Brown, Sigismunda

Brown, John Dowling (brother)

Brown, Herbert Harrington (brother)

Brown, Nugent Wade (brother)

Brown, Walterus Le Brun (brother)

Harris, Emily Lucy (sister-in-law)

Whitty, John Charles (brother-in-law)

Brown, Walter (brother-in-law)

Walsh, William Henry (brother-in-law)

Harris, Hamlyn Lavicount (brother-in-law)

Shelley, Rowland Mansfield (brother-in-law)

Whitty, Charles Dowling (nephew)

Whitty, Henry Tarlton (nephew)

Walsh, William Henry (nephew)

Brown, John Dowling (nephew)

Brown, Percy (nephew)

Brown, Edward John (nephew)

Brown, Walter Sigismund (nephew)

Brown, William Le Brun (nephew)

Walsh, Western (nephew)

Brown, Herbert Lindeman (nephew)

Stacy, Emily Florence (niece by marriage)

Mecham, Eva Hamlyn (niece by marriage)

Hamlyn-Harris, Bertha (niece by marriage)

Harris, Noel Henry (nephew by marriage)

Harris, Geoffrey Hamlyn (nephew by marriage)

Harris, George Thomas (nephew by marriage)

Harris, Hamlyn Lavicount (nephew by marriage)

Harris, Hamlyn Lavicount (friend)

Harris, Hamlyn Lavicount (business partner)

Taylor, John (employee)

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Through Scandinavian Eyes - a History of Colonial Queensland

I have been collecting material for a number of years now for the purpose of yet another book 'Through Scandinavian Eyes', dealing with the experience of Scandinavian migrants in early pre 1850s Australia and thereafter in Queensland.

For the purpose of this book I have systematically gathered a database (the largest of its kind in existence) containing more than 27 500 entries on Scandinavians (chiefly Swedes, Danes and Norwegians) living in Australasia prior to 1914, with emphasis on those came to live in Queensland. I do, however, collect details of pre-1914 Scandinavian immigrants and mariners also from the other Australian colonies, New Zealand and other sections of the Western Pacific.

Yet the colony of Queensland was the main port of entry for Scandinavian immigration (Danes in particular) to Australasia onwards from 1870 and hardly any Scandinavian mariners in the Western Pacific and New Guinea did not at one time or the other pay prolonged visits to or live somewhere in Queensland.

People are welcome to contact me with questions and I am particularly interested and helpful if they have and are willing to supply me with material (pictures, diaries, letters and files) that might be useful for this book.

Robert Ørsted-Jensen

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Nobody know the name of the first European or non-Aboriginal person visiting the Australian continent. However, we certainly do know the name of the first academically educated scientist on Australian soil.

His name was Daniel Carlsson Solander (1733-1782), alias Carolus Solander, and he was a Swede and formerly a student with the world famous natural scientist Carl Linneaus (1707-1778) at University of Uppsala. He and his assistant and draughtsman Herman Spöring (1733-1771), a Swedish Finn, are also the first Scandinavian-born on record to set foot on Queensland soil.

The painting below depicts from left: Carl Solander, Joseph Banks, Captain James Cook, Dr John Hawkesworth and the Earl of Sandwich.

photo

Above photography of the Kvæsthusbroen in Copenhagen harbour was taken by the photographer Jens Hansen Lundager just days and weeks prior to his own migration to Queensland in 1878. The vast majority of the Scandinavians migrating to Australia in the nineteenth century migrated to Australia via Queensland during the 1870s. Probably some 60 percent of these migrants, Swedes and Danes in particular, commenced this journey from this very spot. They typically boarded the steamers seen in the right side of the picture which would take them to Lübeck in Germany. At Lübeck they had tickets issued for the train to Hamburg where they were quartered in the Hamburg emigration depots until such time their ship was ready to be boarded.

Hamburg harbour in 1875. On the far right side one sees Baumwall, the head office of Robert Miles Sloman & Co, a German-British owned shipping company whose agent Louis Knorr had a contract with the Queensland government from 1870. This was where the journey to Queensland began, and some of the ships seen in this picture will be the Sloman owned iron hulled clippers that sailed on to Queensland and New Zealand. The ships were Reichstag (below), Lammershagen, Shakespeare, Herschel, Humboldt, Eugenie, Charles Dickens, Gutenberg, Friedeburg, John Bertram and Fritz Reuter, most of them three-mast barque-rigged ships carrying some 350 passengers. The exception was the four masted Fritz Reuter and Charles Dickens who carried some 450 passengers. Alardus was the only non-Sloman ship sailing on this destination in the 1870s, she was hired by the Queensland agent from another German shipping company and the result was very awful indeed. Below is a picture of the Reichstag, a sister ship to Freideburg. They were very fast ships and would often make this journey in less than three months.

The first voyage and arrival to Maryborough of the Reichstag (above) on 4 March 1871, also marks the first arrival to Australia of a substantial number of what might be termed 'genuine' immigrants from Scandinavian countries. Many Scandinavians had certainly come to Australia prior to that period, but they arrived in small groups and they were often businessmen and similar who saw investment opportunites on this new continet, or they were mariners that jumped ship or other individuals and adventures often people driven by gold fever. The arrival of Reichstag, however, was the result of the first ever Australian Government funded migration scheme targeting Scandinavian countries. She departed Hamburg on this voyage with 329 passengers, 165 Scandinavians (125 Danes and 40 Swedes), 138 Germans, 40 Swiss and one Austrian.

The picture above was taken by the Danish photographer Jens Hansen Lundager (alias Jens Larsen Hansen from Bogense) in Gladstone in September 1887. Although it was never meant to be a depiction of Scandinavians, there are nonetheless several Danes in this picture. Notably a well known local, the then Port Curtis pilot Laurens Janson (alias Lars Jensen from the village Neble near Stege, Møn), he is the man with the hat on the top balcony, and Hansine Christie (nee Hansen) and her Carpenter husband Charles Christie (alias Carl Ulrich Christensen) both from Langeland (they are the people standing on the ground to the right).

John Olsen, better known as the man who discovered in 1882 on his land north of Rockhampton what was to be known as Olsen's Caves. Olsen migrated from Norway but he was in fact born in Vårvik in Sweden in 1824, where he was given the name Johannes Olsson. However he moved to Norway with his wife and children in 1856 and from here to Queensland via Hamburg and Oslo (Christiania) in 1873. He may have been of Norwegian extraction, he certainly insisted that he was a Norwegian national at his naturalisation at the Court House in Rockhampton in 1876.

Julius og Carl Christensen from the town of Rudkøbing on the island Langeland in Denmark. They migrated to Queensland in 1872 and 1874. This photo was taken in the Queensland township of Rockhampton in about 1880.

Copenhagen born Mogens Frederik Kehlet, alias 'Fritz' Kehlet', was one of the earliest Danish Settlers in Queensland. He arrived in about 1860 and worked as a watchmaker, he was later a publican, proprietor of the Royal Hotel in Maryborough, and he later established the first holiday or tourist venue in Hervey Bay, the 'Valhalla Bording House' seen in this photograph from about 1880.

Gracemere station near Rockhampton was founded by the Scottish-Norwegian Charles Archer and later run by his eight brothers and their families. Charles Archer and five of his brothers were born in Scotland from where they migrated to Norway at a very early age, settling eventually at Tolderodden near Larvik. The eldest brother Charles Archer was 12 at the time of their migration and the youngest was the 2 year old Thomas Archer, another three brothers were afterwards born in Norway. Consequently most of them received their primary school education in Norway and this certainly made a serious impact noticeable in the naming of places and properties they had in Queensland. Most of these names originated in Norway and in Norse mythology. Eidsvold was named in honour of the first Norwegian constitution and the town in which it was negotiated and signed, the Berseker Range near Rockhampton was named after the famous Berserkers, a particular section of old Viking or Norse warriors who were said to fight in uncontrollable trance-like fury (this indeed is where the phrase ‘go Berserk’ originates). Charles Archer’s horse was similarly named 'Sleipner', the name in Norse mythology of the horse of the supreme God 'Odin'. The lagoon near Gracemere was named after a lake near their home in Tolderodden Norway, Kroombit station and the nearby Mountain of that same name was equally of Norwegian origin and so it goes. The latter was named by Norwegian-born Colin Archer who later went on to make a name for himself as a naval architect of considerable fame. The success of the Archers attracted other Norwegians to Queensland, among the more notable was the scientist Carl Lumholtz.

One of the most notable Norwegians in colonial Queensland history was Peter Abelsen (alias Peter Brown), a ships carpenter turned gold prospector in Queensland during the late 1860s. Abelson was James Venture Mulligan's right hand when they discovered the famed Palmer River goldfield in October 1873, triggering one of the last of the really big alluvial gold-rushes in Australian history and certainly one of the most important events in Queensland history. Abelsen built the very first gold washing cradles on that field.

The Dane, Bertel Johannes Bertelsen, belonged to the aristocracy amongst Scandinavian migrants in early Queensland. He was certainly not only one of the most successful but also the very earliest Scandinavian-born to settle in what was then Northern News South Wales. He commenced his career as a book keeper, and moved on to be the station manager and subsequently the proprietor or´Squatter' of Boonara station near present day Kingaroy in the South Burnett from 1847 to 1852. He became a very wealthy man on this account and this is how he looked a decade or so later. CREATE A FREE WEBSITE POWERED BY