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Surname: Brunker
First Name: James N
Ship: -
Date: 1853 4 June
Place: East Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Partnership known as Brunker and Biddulph dissolved by mutual consent. Witness Stephen Scholey
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Surname: Brunker
First Name: James N
Ship: -
Date: 1854 28 October
Place: East Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Henry John, eldest son of James N. Brunker died on 24th October aged 2 years and 7 mnths
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Surname: Brunker
First Name: James N
Ship: -
Date: 1854 28 October
Place: East Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Death of Henry John, eldest son of James N. Brunker on 24th October. Aged 2 years and 7 months
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Surname: Brunker
First Name: James N
Ship: -
Date: 6 July 1872
Place: -
Source: Newcastle Chronicle
Details: Death on 23 day of June at Sydney, of congestion of the lungs, William Philips, of Chester, England aged 43 years, brother in law of James N. Brunker, East Maitland
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Surname: Brunker
First Name: James Nixon
Ship: -
Date: 1844 29 June
Place: Newcastle
Source: MM
Details: Examination result from Classical and Commercial Academy - First Class in Classics, Themes, drawing and philosophy
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Surname: Brunker
First Name: James Nixon
Ship: -
Date: -
Place: -
Source: Maitland Family History Circle's Pre 1900 Pioneer Register
Details: Born 1832 at Port Macquarie, son of John Brunker and Mary Ann McGreavy. Spouse Elizabeth Hewlett Weiss. For more information see Pioneer Register Entry No. 150
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Surname: Brunker
First Name: James Nixon
Ship: -
Date: 1910 5 June
Place: East Maitland Burial Ground
Source: Maitland Burial Records
Details: Husband of Elizabeth Hewlett Brunker. Died age 78
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Surname: Brunker
First Name: James Nixon
Ship: -
Date: 1857 10 January
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Title Deeds ready for delivery on payment of authorised fee. 2 roods
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Surname: Brunker
First Name: James Nixon
Ship: -
Date: 1877 3 July
Place: West Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Mary Anne Whyte, widow of the late William Henry Whyte and mother of James Nixon Brunker of West Maitland. Died at her residence, Watt St. Newcastle on Friday 29th June 1877 aged 62 years
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Surname: Brunker
First Name: James Nixon
Ship: -
Date: 1861 17 September
Place: East Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Character witness for 'Gentleman' John Smith of Newcastle who was accused of arson. Had known Smith all his life
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Surname: Brunker
First Name: James Nixon
Ship: -
Date: 1 April 1902
Place: Christ Church Burial Ground, Newcastle
Source: NMH
Details: Not far from the grave of surgeon Brooks there is a vault which contains several members of Mr. J.N. Brunkers family. The inscriptions read - Sacred to the memory of James Nixon Brunker died February MDCCCXXXVII Aged XLII. The inscription refers to the father of Mr. J.N. Brunker, M.P who was drowned while attempting to swim the Cockfighters Creek, both horse and rider falling victims to the flood waters. On another panel of the tomb there appears - Sacred to the memory of Mary Annie, wife of Captain E. Bond, daughter of James Nixon Brunker and granddaughter of James McGreavy, who died after a short illness off Port Phillip on board the barque Elizabeth Thomson February 10 MDCCCLVIII and was buried here on the XXVIII of the same month. Mrs. Bond was a daughter of the ex Colonial Secretary who as the tablet shows sailed with her husband and died at sea. On top of the stone is a memorial to her husband Captain Edward Bond who commanded the brig Ensign in 1861 and was lost on September 30 of that year when the brig, during a heavy gale struck the rocks at Morna and all hands were lost. Another daughter Mrs. Phillips and her husband and two sons of Mr. J.N. Brunker, are buried in the same vault
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Surname: Brunker
First Name: James Nixon
Ship: -
Date: 1832 - 1910
Place: -
Source: Biographical Register of the New South Wales Parliament 1856-1901 C.N. Connolly (Online)
Details: James Nixon Brunker - Stock and stn agent and auctioneer. B. 22 April 1832 Newcastle, NSW, s. John Nixon, wine and spirit merchant, and Mary Ann, nee McGreavy; m. 1851 Elizabeth Hewlett Weiss; 10 children. D. 5 June 1910 W. Maitland, NSW. C. of E. Father died early; mother opened store and supported family. Educated Christ Church School, Newcastle, and Syd. Coll. At 14 became asst clerk, petty sessions, Newcastle. Articled to Carr, Rogers and Owen, Syd. solicitors, but left, apparently through ill health. Clerk to W.H. Whyte, Newcastle. Opened butchery in E. Maitland 1851; then theological student with Bishop of Newcastle but abandoned studies. Joined stock and stn agency, W. Maitland, 1856; later founded Brunker, Wolfe & Badgery, with branch offices in Newcastle and Syd.; partnership dissolved 1893 and Brunker became sole owner of Maitland business; acquired interests in produce marketing, pastoral and coal mining industries; successful speculator in urban subdivision on Maitland coalfields; took son into business; partnership dissolved 1907. Dir Mutual Life Assn of Australasia 1890-1908. Bankrupt 1908. JP 1865. A founder Maitland Mechanics Institute 1859 and of Hunter R Farmers Assn 1882. Comr International Exhibition, Calcutta 1884, Colonial and Indian Exhibition, Lond. 1886, Centennial exhibition Melb. 1888. Member Federal Convention 1897-8. Teetotaller, active in temperance, church and charitable organisations. Author of Temperance Work amongst the Young, 1898. Associated with Henry Parkes (q.v.) from c. 1861, becoming his principal electoral agent in Hunter dist. They remained friendly even when Brunker joined Reids govt 1894. MLA for E. Maitland 22 Nov. 1880-16 July 1904. MLC 12 June 1905-26 June 1909. Sec. for Lands 29 Aug. 1888-16 Jan. 1889, 8 March 1889-22 Oct. 1891; Col Sec. 3 Aug. 1894-13 Sept. 1899; Acting Premier May-Aug. 1897; Min. without Portfolio and Member Exec. Cncl 12 June 1905-1 Oct. 1907.
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Surname: Brunker
First Name: James Nixon
Ship: -
Date: 1888
Place: West Maitland
Source: Morrison, W. Frederic (1888). The Aldine centennial history of New South Wales illustrated / W. Frederic Morrison. Sydney: The Aldine Publishing Company.
Details: JAMES NIXON BRUNKER, M.L.A., was born in Newcastle, N.S.W , in 1832, and educated partly by the Rev. C. P. N. Wilton, at Newcastle, and partly at the Sydney College. For three years he studied for the legal profession in the office of Messrs. Carr, Rogers and Owen, of Sydney; but through failing health, was compelled to seek a more active and congenial occupation. To this object he commenced business in 1837 as a stock and station agent in West Maitland, and has caused, during the last half century, his connection to become one of the largest in the colony. In 1880 he was elected to Parliament as the representative of the East Maitland constituency, which has since reposed confidence in him through all elections. Mr. Brunker is a thorough free trader in principle, though an independent member. He is a great supporter of all temperance measures, and an upholder of " local option." He does not agree in the disposing of Crown lands by auction sale, and in 1887 introduced a measure to Parliament to amend the Land Act and to grant extension of time to purchasers of town and suburban lands. He is strongly opposed to the payment of members and is in favour of light railway extension into the interior Mr. Brunker was for some time a member of the district council, and was elected an alderman on the incorporation of the East Maitland municipality. For six years he filled the position of returning officer for East Maitland. Mr. Brunker established in 1882 the Hunter River Farmers Association, which now boasts a members roll of 1000. This institution has been a great boon to the local farmers, as may be gathered from the fact that land which in 1882 was worth £35 per acre would now fetch £80 to £120. Recently Mr. Brunker, at the solicitation of Sir Henry Parkes, accepted a portfolio as Minister for Lands in the present Free trade Government. Our subject is very popular in the northern districts, and on assuming office was publicly banquetted at Maitland
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Surname: Brunker
First Name: James Nixon
Ship: -
Date: 30 June 1862
Place: East Maitland
Source: NSW Government Gazette
Details: James Nixon Brunker elected Alderman at East Maitland
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Surname: Brunker
First Name: James Nixon and Elizabeth
Ship: -
Date: 1857 14 June
Place: East Maitland
Source: Register Book of Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle. Baptisms. p.66
Details: Butcher. Baptism of daughter Mary Ann Elizabeth
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Surname: Brunker
First Name: James Nixon and Elizabeth
Ship: -
Date: 1855 8 July
Place: -
Source: Register Book of Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle. Baptisms p. 55
Details: Butcher from East Maitland. Baptism of son James Henry Brunker
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Surname: Brunker
First Name: James Nixon and Elizabeth Hewlett
Ship: -
Date: 17 June 1869
Place: East Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Died at East Maitland, on 14th June 1869, John Gustaff, fourth beloved son of James Nixon and Elizabeth Hewlett Brunker, aged 8 years
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Surname: Brunker
First Name: John
Ship: -
Date: 1836 8 January
Place: Newcastle
Source: BB
Details: Witness in court case involving A.W. Scott's assigned servants Gee, Kendle and Cassidy
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Surname: Brunker
First Name: John
Ship: -
Date: 1837 January
Place: Newcastle
Source: Register Book of Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle. Burials p.23
Details: Shopkeeper. Died aged 45. Burial
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Surname: Brunker
First Name: John
Ship: -
Date: 14 July 1835
Place: Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Court of Petty Sessions, Bench Books, 1833-1836 (Ancestry)
Details: William Eastwood assigned to Alexander Walker Scott, charged with neglect of duty and absenting himself. Also with possessing and making away with a letter. Mr. John Brunker testified......About a fortnight since I sent the prisoner to relieve John Carter who was in charge of a quantity of sawed timber at the opposite side of the water. On Saturday week last the timber having been removed, I ordered the prisoner to return to the Island and bring the things that were in his charge with him. On his landing at the Island I Observed that he had not brought the iron pot. I enquired what he had done with it. He replied that it had been stolen and last Friday I started him from the Island giving him a pass to remain in force until ten oclock that morning and no longer. Also a letter directed to A.W. Scott Esq., at Newcastle, the letter was never delivered. He did not arrive in Newcastle until brought in by James Rendell, assigned servant to A.W. Scott on the following morning....John Carter assigned to A.W. Scott testified...Says when the prisoner came to take charge of the timber in my place I delivered over to him all the things I had belonging to my master amongst which was an iron pot and a keg with the timber. I have never seen the pot since.....A.W. Scott testified....I have heard my overseer s evidence in which he states he delivered to the prisoner a sealed letter which letter I never received which letter he states was addressed to me. Nor do I remember Mr. Brunker mentioning to me that he had delivered such a letter to the prisoner for me until this morning I have examined the pass now produced with which he was to have proceeded to my residence with the letter in question and consider that it has been defaced for the purpose of misleading constables and others. William Eastwood found Guilty of pilfering and making away with a letter. Sentenced to twelve months in irons