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129377
Surname: Brooks
First Name: George
Ship: -
Date: 1824 3 June
Place: Newcastle
Source: Archives Office of NSW. Colonial Secretary: Misc records (4/4570D)pp1-88
Details: Jeremiah Hunter per Shipley assigned servant
135655
Surname: Brooks
First Name: George
Ship: -
Date: 1837
Place: Newcastle
Source: GRC
Details: John Thornton per 'Mary Ann' assigned servant
139484
Surname: Brooks
First Name: George
Ship: -
Date: 1838 20 November
Place: Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Bench Books. AONSW Reel 2722
Details: John Harrison per 'Lady Nugent' assigned servant
147567
Surname: Brooks
First Name: George
Ship: -
Date: 1825 27 May
Place: County of Northumberland, Parish of Hexham
Source: Index to map of the country bordering upon the River Hunter... by Henry Dangar (London : Joseph Cross, 1828). p1
Details: Granted 320 acres. Annual quit rent 6s 41/2d.
147597
Surname: Brooks
First Name: George
Ship: -
Date: 1824 17 February
Place: County of Northumberland, Parish of Stockrington
Source: Index to map of the country bordering upon the River Hunter... by Henry Dangar (London : Joseph Cross, 1828). p2
Details: Granted 300 acres of land. Annual Quit rent £ 2 5s
159819
Surname: Brooks
First Name: George
Ship: -
Date: 1828 8 September
Place: St. Phillips, Sydney
Source: Sydney Monitor
Details: Marriage of George Brooks Esq., of Newcastle to Mary Stephena, only daughter of the Rev. William Cowper on 2 September 1828
170116
Surname: Brooks
First Name: George
Ship: -
Date: 1825
Place: Newcastle
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters. Class: HO 10; Piece: 20
Details: Daniel Page per 'Grenada' assigned servant
170419
Surname: Brooks
First Name: George
Ship: -
Date: 1825
Place: Newcastle
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters. Class: HO 10; Piece: 20
Details: James Tucker per General Hewitt assigned servant
174131
Surname: Brooks
First Name: George
Ship: -
Date: 2 November 1910
Place: Newcastle district
Source: NMH
Details: 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
175821
Surname: Brooks
First Name: George
Ship: -
Date: 9 November 1835
Place: Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book. State Archives NSW; Roll: 136
Details: Elizabeth Holley per Mary assigned to George Brooks
178757
Surname: Brooks
First Name: George
Ship: -
Date: 31 October 1837
Place: Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book. State Archives NSW. Roll 137
Details: Grace Draper per Mary assigned to Dr. George Brooks on her release from Newcastle gaol
178914
Surname: Brooks
First Name: George
Ship: -
Date: 10 January 1838
Place: Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book. State Archives NSW. Roll 136
Details: Mary Keane per Sir Charles Forbes assigned servant
181687
Surname: Brooks
First Name: George
Ship: -
Date: 15 February 1826
Place: Newcastle
Source: NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details: 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
181805
Surname: Brooks
First Name: George
Ship: -
Date: 18 April 1826
Place: Newcastle
Source: NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details: 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.
181875
Surname: Brooks
First Name: George
Ship: -
Date: 27 May 1826
Place: Newcastle
Source: NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details: 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
182260
Surname: Brooks
First Name: George
Ship: -
Date: 24 November 1826
Place: Newcastle
Source: NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details: 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
182263
Surname: Brooks
First Name: George
Ship: -
Date: 28 November 1826
Place: Newcastle
Source: NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details: 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
182327
Surname: Brooks
First Name: George
Ship: -
Date: 6 January 1827
Place: Newcastle
Source: NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details: Henry Smith per ship Almorah, in service to George Brooks, charged with stealing part of the produce of his master s farm particularly a bag of potatoes...George Wood, Hospital Gardener, being duly sworn, states - on the Saturday morning before Christmas Day I assisted Smith to take a bag of potatoes from the hut on Mr. Brooks farm to the boat for the purpose of its being conveyed to Mr. Brooks house at Newcastle. There was a small bag which held about thirty pounds put into the large bag, the contents of which might then in the whole be about 100lb. That is to say 30lb in the smaller bag and 70lb in the large one; they were not weighed but I estimate them at above that quantity. When I returned to Newcastle between twelve and one o clock of the same Saturday night, Mr. Brooks, servant Henry Winchester told me that only a small bag of potatoes had been delivered by Smith at his Masters. I am certain there were potatoes in both bags. I assisted to fill them. Edward Hostead, stockman in the service of E.C. Close states - I recollect coming to Newcastle in a boat in company with Smith on the Saturday before Christmas. Smith had a large bag of potatoes with hi, within which was also a smaller bag contaiing potatoes. I think that both the bags might have held about a hundred weight. I saw a person of the name of Riley take the small bag to convey to Mr. Brooks house, but I dont know what became of the large bag and its contents . Bernard Riley states - I remember on the Saturday before Christmas having brought from the wharf a small bag of potatoes for Smith. I only carried the bag as far as Serjeant Greys quarters when Smith took it from me and proceeded with it towards Mr. Brooks house. The bag contained to the best of my opinion between thirty and forty pounds weight. I also observed a bag of potatoes in the boat but did not see it taken out. I cannot say if the bag carried as far as Serjeant Greys was that which I saw in the boat. I was not present when it was taken out. Henry Winchester in the service of George Brooks, states - On the Saturday before Christmas Henry Smith brought a small bag of potatoes from my master s farm to the house, it contained about twenty or thirty pounds - the bag was not full. Serjeant Grey of the 3rd regt of Buffs states - I have bought from the prisoner two dozen eggs at one time and some butter at another, I never bought anything else from him. I understood from him that the eggs and butter were the property of John Thomas. I was certain the butter belonged to Thomas as it was in a keg which I had sold to him. and having bargained with Thomas for his eggs at certain sum and the prisoner having told me that the eggs and butter were sold by him on account of Thomas, I did not doubt but that such was the case. John Thomas (free) states - I once entrusted the prisoner to dispose of some butter for me. I was ill at the time and I thought I might do so with safety as he appeared to be acting as Mr. Brooks overseer and had on former occasions behaved towards me with much civility, but I never gave him any eggs to dispose of. He did not bring me the money for which he sold the butter, he told me he had been robbed of it. In answer to a question from the prisoner - I never gave him an egg to sell in my life. I might have given him some to eat when he came to my house. John Mayo states - A day or two before Christmas, Smith sold me about 30lb potatoes; they were not weighed. I gave him 3 shillings for them. He had told me some moths previous that his master allowed him one fourth to dispose of and that he had a piece of garden ground the produce of which he was allowed for himself, the potatoes were in a bag that would hold about one hundred weight. George Brooks states - Within two months after maize harvest last year, the prisoner admitted that he had sold a bag of Corn off the farm, but said it was for my benefit. I told him and repeated it that he was not to bring anything from the farm to the town without my knowledge.. I recollect his reply was - Very well Sir - If he has sold any part of the produce since it is in contradiction to my injunctions. It is only this morning that I found out that the prisoner had sold potatoes to John Mayo. I have fowls on the farm and expect to be occasionally supplied with eggs. The prisoner states in his defence I did not understand from my Master that I was not to dispose of the produce of the farm, or bring it into town, or I should not have done so. I admit having sold the potatoes to Mayo, but never sold any eggs belonging to Mr. Brooks. Those I sold to Serjeant Grey were given to me by John Thomas to dispose of. I have also sold to John Thomas a half hundred weight of potatoes and thirty pounds of flour. I considered the flour to have been my own property. Sentenced to Hard labour in an iron gang for 12 months
182433
Surname: Brooks
First Name: George
Ship: -
Date: 3 March 1827
Place: Newcastle
Source: NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details: Catherine Riley, free by servitude, committed to gaol for contempt of court, having made use of disrespectful language to George Brooks, one of the members of the Bench.......Released on the 5th March having expressed contrition in court for her conduct and also addressed a letter to George Brooks to the same effect
196800
Surname: Brooks
First Name: George
Ship: -
Date: 1828
Place: Newcastle
Source: Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4013]; Microfiche: 669
Details: Robert Swan per ship Countess of Harcourt 1828 assigned to George Brooks on arrival