THE BROOKING FAMILIES OF NEW ZEALAND

John Whiddon Brooking (23 Feb 1842)

Chart LCA Reference LCA3/LCAA1

John emigrated in 1841 arriving in New Plymouth on 23 February 1842 on the ‘Timandra’ with wife Elizabeth and children Annie, Kate and William and settled in New Plymouth. John had married Elizabeth Bishop in 1836. Elizabeth parents and siblings also came to New Zealand on the ‘Timandra’. John and family settled in New Plymouth area and John took an active part in the progress of the province of Taranaki.  As a builder he constructed a wide range of projects including many of the buildings in the developing town of New Plymouth and the bridge at Waitara a small village north of New Plymouth.  He was also involved in making boats and with son William constructed most of the boats used in tendering ships at the New Plymouth roadstead before the  port at Moturoa was constructed.  He died at his daughter’s (Mrs Newbegin) residence in Waitara on 3 January 1889.

1st generation descendants are:-

LCAA - Annie (1837-1920)

LCAA - Kate (1839-1893)

LCB - William (1841-1923)

LCAA - Harriett (1845-1926)

LCAA - Elizabeth (1845-1937)

LCAA - Whiddon (1851-1860)

LCAA - Susan (1845-1915)

Brooking Descendants

63 people listed in Brooking Society charts.

Related Descendants.

120 people listed in Brooking Society Charts

Brown (3), Holford (17), Campbell (2),  Crossan (6), Cubbon (2), Dench (4), Eyre (10),  George (12), Gray (5), Howden (2), Lang (2), Lees (1), Olsen (3), Oxley (6), Parkinson (3), Tatton (32), Townley (2), Wallach (3), Weale (1) and Whittaker (2)

William Brooking (23 Feb 1842)

Chart LCA Reference LCA5/LCB1

William Brooking (1818 - ?) emigrated in 1841 arriving in New Plymouth on 23 February 1842 on the ‘Timandra’ with wife Sarah Susannah Rickman and daughter Mary Ann. During the voyage Sarah gave birth to a son, John Thomas who died before the ship reached New Plymouth.  It appears that William and his family were not happy in New Plymouth and 4 years later moved to Sydney with daughter Mary and presumably 2 year old son, John Whiddon. Sons Thomas and Albert were born in Sydney. John Whiddon died in 1854 according to NZ BDM records. John’s death notice in the Taranaki Herald of 5 July refers to “son of the late Mr W. Brooking, blacksmith of Sydney and late of this place”. This raises the question “Is the death notice correct?” Does it mean William returned to New Plymouth and died there or did he die in Sydney. Either way it means William died before 1854

1st generation descendants are:-

LCJ - Mary Ann (1839-1879)

LCJ - John Thomas (1841-1841)

LCJ - John Whiddon (1843-1854)

LCJ - Thomas (1846-1933)

LCJ - Albert (1853-1926)

Brooking Descendants

7 people listed in Brooking Society charts.

Related Descendants

54 people listed in Brooking Society Charts

Coogan (30), Fox (2), Hedge (6), Hedge-Lozowoi (1), Hunt (2), Mc Donald (2), Templeman (3), Waller (1), Whitehead (6)

Alice Brooking (23 Feb 1842)

Chart LCA Reference LCA13

Alice  Brooking (1827 - 1861) emigrated in 1841 arriving in New Plymouth on the ‘Timandra’ on 23 Feb 1842. Alice travelled with her 2 elder brothers and settled in New Plymouth marrying Thomas Hannah in 1843. Sometime after this the family moved to Newcastle, NSW, Australia with their first born son John who was born in 1845. The next child, Janet, was born in Newcastle in 1850. The family then moved to Williamstown, Victoria, Australia where Alice resided until her death in 1861. Alice and Thomas had a total of eight children,  6 girls and 2 boys. The relocations of Alice and Thomas from New Plymouth to  Newcastle and then to Williams town were possibly a result of Thomas’s career as a Master Mariner. After the death of Alice Thomas married Sarah Brooking, Alice’s younger sister. Thomas and Sarah had 8 children, 2 girls and 6 boys.

1st generation descendants are:-

LCA - John Hannah (1845-1898)

LCA - Janet Sugden(1850-1920)

LCA - Alice Hannah(1852-1861)

LCA - Harriot Hannah(1854-1898)

LCA - Kate Rolfe(1856-1933)

LCA - Annie Howell(1858-?)

LCA - Mary Hannah(1860-1863)

LCA - William Hannah (?-?)

Brooking Descendants

There are no Brooking descendants

Related Descendants

The Brooking Society has no records for related descendants.

George Brooking 12 August 1853

Charts BS and BSB Reference BS7/BSB1

George Brooking was born in  Brixham, Devon, England in March 1826. His father John Henry Charles Brooking (BI25/BS1) was a Doctor of Medicine, who had married his mother Ellen Elizbeth Helmer (BI26/BS2) on 19 September 1820 in Southpool. George was 3rd eldest and 2nd boy of 11 children, 6 boys and 5 girls Little is known about George’s young life. George emigrated to New Zealand in 1853, arriving in in Wellington on the "Admiral Grenfell" on 12 August. He travelled in the cabin so must have had some money. Soon after arriving in Wellington, he moved to the Wanganui area and took up farming. George married Frances Margaret (Fanny) Gibson on Oct 12, 1854.  George and Fanny prospered with property being an investment focus. George served as the Town Clerk for Wanganui for 22 years during which time he saw the township grow from an informal arrangement to a Town then a Borough.  He also served as the Secretary of Local Authorities including the Hospital Board. There is a bit of mystery surrounding his sudden resignation in 1888. He had been suspended by the Government Auditor on 22 May and he resigned on 29 May. When George died in 1902 at Kaponga in Taranaki, New Zealand, they owned farming land in Kaponga and a riverside property in Wanganui. Their sons Charles and John also farmed in the Kaponga area.

1st generation descendants are:-

BSB - George Harrison (1857-1896)

BSB - Annie Elizabeth (1858-1939)

BSB - Frances Jane (1859-1937)

BSB - Arthur (1860-1941)

BSB - Charles Herbert (1866-1955)

BSB - Berta (1871-1871)

BSB - Winifred (1873-1954)

BSB - John Alfred (1877-1975)

Brooking Descendants

40 people listed in Brooking Society charts.

Related Descendants

90 people listed in Brooking Society Charts.

Buckthought (15), Conder (8), Hamel (2), Marks (1), McCutcheon (3), McLeod (1), Morrison (14), Rossiter (5), Scott (3), Searanke (6), Stewart (4), Tedesco (2)Vlasic (6) Walker (18), Zaknich (2),

Henry Brooking 2 November 1853

Charts BIA and BK Reference BIA7/BK1

Henry Brooking (1814 – 22 Feb 1865) emigrated in 1853 arriving in the ‘John Taylor’ the same year as his Cousin George. Henry disembarked in Wellington a year later settled in Napier. As a bachelor he visited New York in1837 and 1839. Henry married Annette Caroline Steuart Corry in August of 1841. By 1844 Henry and family were settled in Brixham, Devon where Henry was a Collector  of Customs. The Henry and Anette with 5 children embarked at Gravesend for N.Z. on the 'John Taylor' on 10 July 1853. They arrived at Wellington, New Zealand on 2 November 1853 after arriving at Lyttleton on the 18 Oct.  By the beginning of 1858 Henry had established a timber yard on Gough Island Napier where he sold timber products as well as being a Ship Commission Agent. Henry died at Clive some 11km south of Gough Island on 22 February 1865.

1st generation descendants are:-

BK - Henry Steuart Corry (1842-1916)

BK - Charles Henry John (1844-1913)

BK - Julian Arthur (1845-1918)

BK - Roope (1846-1925)

BK - Annette Steuart Corry (1851-1923)

BK - Benjamin Roope Buxton (1855-1926)

Brooking Descendants

158 people listed in Brooking Society charts.

Related Descendants

136 people listed in Brooking Society Charts

Anderson (2), Armstrong (6), Bennet (1), Biddle (1), Cochrane (2), Ellmers (2), Eyles (1), Hamilton (3), Hammond (6), Harper (1), Harwood (1), Jamieson (1), Johnston (2), Kane (4), Mihaere (1), Mitchell (4), Ngaropo (2), O’Malley (4), Peterson (6), Riley (3), Shanks (15), Shaw (7), Sheppard (8), Short (7), Spooner (2), Stewart (4), Stirling (2), Stumpf (8), Taylor (7), Thornburrow (2), Timu (6), Waititi (2), Waitoa (2), Walford (8), Webber (2), and Wharehinga (2).

Anthony Rowe Brooking 10 February 1855

Chart JB Reference JB5

Anthony Rowe Brooking (1813-1872) left England for Melbourne with his 8 year old son William on the “Caroline Chisholm” arriving in Port Phillip Melbourne as an unassisted emigrant on 25 May 1853.  His wife Honor Dawe had died in childbirth in February 1851. The baby Honor Mary Hannah Brooking died a few months later. Anthony worked as a carpenter in Melbourne and married Mary Ann Jasper  on 16 October 1854.  Mary Jasper had only arrived a week earlier.  She died from dysentery on 19 November 1854. Anthony’s brothers John, with wife Ann and Francis, with wife Jane, arrived in Melbourne on the ”Vriendschap” in August 1854. The journal Francis kept shows he and wife Jane arrived in New Plymouth 10 February 1855 on the “Onkaparinga”. They are not listed on the ships passenger list and neither is Anthony. Anthony purchased 300 acres of land 3 weeks after the arrival of the Onkaparinga so it appears very likely Anthony and William travelled with Francis. Anthony was active in Taranaki with his farming, timber mill and blacksmith shop as well be involved in local politics. His brother John and wife Ann stayed in Melbourne. .In 1871 Anthony returned to Australia arriving in Sydney on 17 August 1871. He then moved to the Ballina area NSW and died while hunting cattle in the bush not long after his arrival.

1st generation descendants are:-

JCP4 - William Francis (1844 –1923)

JB17 - Honor Mary Hannah (1846-1846)

Brooking Descendants

2 people listed in Brooking Society charts.

Related Descendants

The Brooking Society has no records for related descendants.

Francis Lang Brooking 10 February 1855

Charts JB and JCP Reference JB11/JCP1

Francis Lang Brooking (1821 – 1895) with wife Jane and brother John, with his wife Ann , arrived in Melbourne, Australia on the ”Vriendschap” in August 1854.  They joined their brother Anthony who had travelled to Melbourne in 1853. Francis with brother Anthony travelled on to New Plymouth according to Francis’s journal on the “Onkaparinga” arriving there 10 February 1855.  As Anthony bought 300 acres of land 3 weeks after this we can only presume the Anthony with son William travelled on the “Onkaparinga” as well.  Francis and Jane initially farmed on their land in the Omata district after their house was completed in May 1856.  The war with the Māori’s forced Francis and Jane to move into New Plymouth and then Jane and the children were moved to Nelson for safety. They returned to the farm to live after the fighting and lived there until they moved into the town of New Plymouth in October 1871. Moving from the farm must have unsettled Francis as he was convicted of Vagrancy in the March of 1874. He died at home in on 29 November1895.

1st generation descendants are:-

JCP - Emma (7 October  1856 – 9 December 1923)

JCQ - Mary (15 May 1858 – 4 November 1934)

JCP - Thomas Phillips (29 October 1861 – 23 August 1911)

Brooking Descendants

3 people listed in Brooking Society charts.

Related Descendants

60 people listed in Brooking Society Charts

Blair (6), Brown (1), Chamberlain (1), Greig (7), Ovens (6), Reckert (3), Stark (4), Wakefield (4), Williams (1), Taylor (26)

Samuel Elfordleigh Brooking 14 May 1865

Chart JR Reference JR3

Samuel Brooking (1834 – 23 Feb 1895) was born in Plympton St Mary in 1834 and emigrated to NZ on the clipper ship “Empress” arriving in Auckland on 14 May 1865.  He was accompanied by his wife Elizabeth Mason and their 9 month old son Samuel Stafford.  Samuel’s father Samuel (the Elder), a widower. also travelled with the family.  Samuel had worked as a clerk in the office of a Queens Counsel attached to Lincoln’s Inn Fields, one of the Inns of Court where English Barristers practice.  

Samuel set himself up in Auckland as a Commission Agent while Samuel the Elder practised as a landscape Gardener. Samuels first wife Elizabeth died in 1870 and he married  Emily Florence Fossette in 1872. Emily died in 1883 and Samuel married for a third time to Mary Yandle in 1893.

1st generation descendants are:-

JR5  - Elizabeth Jane (19 July 1862 – 1863)

JR7 - Samuel Stafford (23 August 1864 – 9 March 1866)

JR9  - Emily Mary (5 July 1866 – 28 October 1928)

JR11 - Sarah Ellen (5 July 1866 – 25 March 1868)

JRK1 - Samuel Hastings (17 October 1876 – 19 September 1962)

JR15 - Walter Fossette (1878 – 13 February 1900)

JR17 - Dorothy Yandle (24 April 1894 – 25 December 1970)

Brooking Descendants

18 people listed in Brooking Society charts.

Related Descendants

134 people listed in Brooking Society Charts.

Baker (2), Borsky (2), Corbett (4), Drower (3), Foley (4), Glass (1), Hockney (4), Jacomb (3), Jessen (20), May (57), Mercer (10), Rackham (10), Rennie (4), Robson (4) and  Wood (5).

Samuel William Pathrick Brooking 3 September 1872

Chart JG Reference JGD3

Samuel William Pathrick Brooking (1846 - 8 April 1873) married Mary Sullivan in 1869 at East Stonehouse. It appears that the first children were twins Hannah and Susanna born in 1870. As Susanna dis not accompany the family to New Zealand it is assumed she died at a very young age.  A son Samuel was born on the voyage to NZ and died at age 2 on 25 June 1874

1st generation descendants are:-

JGD7   – Hannah (1870 - ??)

JGD9   – Susanna (1870 – 1872)

JGD11 – Samuel (1872 – 1874)

Brooking Descendants

No Brooking descendants listed in Brooking Society charts.

Related Descendants

No related descendants listed in Brooking Society Charts.

Samuel Brooking 1879?

Chart KN Reference KN1

Samuel Brooking (1855 - 6 October 1918) was born in Stoke Climsland, Cornwell and emigrated to NZ in about 1879. He married Ann Elizabet Goodwin in Addington a suburb of Christchurch, NZ on 26 January 1882 and settled in Christchurch.  By 1887 Samuel had established himself as a coachman. By 1904 he was list in the Stones Directory as a hotel keeper in Sumner a suburb of Christchurch.   By 1907 he had moved to Lyttelton, the port serving Christchurch, as the licensee of the Saxon Hotel.

According to his obituary published in the Lyttelton Times on 8 October 1918 was still the licensee there for 12 years. It is also mentioned that he was a native of Keelybridge Cornwall and came to NZ 39 years ago (1879).  He had been a successful poultry breeder and was a keen horticulturist.

1st generation descendants are:-

Brooking, Eva Annie (1883 - 1970)

Brooking, Ernest Escott (25 Nov 1884 - 1964)

Brooking, Samuel (17 September 1887 – 8 April 1983)

Brooking Descendants

23 people listed in Brooking Society charts.

Related Descendants

75 people listed in Brooking Society Charts.

Agnew (3), Barnett (3), Baron (24), Cunliffe (5), De Serville (20), Falloon (5), Gendall (9), Haskell (3), Heape (2), Hodges (3), Manville (3), Midgely (4), Oser (3), Paterson (3), Timbs(2) and Wilson (1).

Samuel Brooking  26 November 1883

Chart OFH Reference OFH1

The obituary for Samuel Brooking (1856 – 17 August 1932) in the Poverty Bay Herald of 23 August 1932 states he “came to New Zealand in the eighties in the ship Triumph”.  The steamer “Triumph”’ made only one voyage to New Zealand arriving in Auckland on 26 November 1883. He is not shown in any passenger lists.  As the “Triumph” sunk near the Tiri Tiri  lighthouse northwest of Auckland after discharging passengers and cargo. No lives were lost and the crew would have to be paid off in Auckland.  It is likely that Samuel was a member of the crew. This assumption is supported by the fact that Samuel was granted a Third Class Engineers licence by the Seafarers certificates and Licences B in 1910. It is known from the list that many of the passengers were to travel on to the Hawkes Bay area. Among these passengers were the Rundle family which include a daughter Elizabeth aged 20 years. Samuel married Elizabeth Rundle in 1885 at Taradale, Napier.  

1st generation descendants are:-

OFH - William John (1886 - 1958)

OFH - Samuel James 1888 – 1918)

OFH - Mary Jane Grace (1893 - 1965)

OFH - Ada Maud (1896 -1962)

OFH - Orline Dorothy (1898-1976)

Brooking Descendants

15 people listed in Brooking Society charts.

Related Descendants

5 people listed in the Brooking Society Charts.

Rollander (2) and Ryan (3)

William Henry Brooking 8 June 1886

Chart LKC Reference LKC3

William Henry Brooking (1847 – 22 September 1916) was in the 1881 census living in Torquay Devon England and working as a blacksmith’s labourer. He came to Otago NZ on the “Doric” arriving 8 June 1886 with his wife Emma Brooking [Emmett], whom he married in 1875 at Tormohan (Torquay) in the Newton Abbot district, Devon, England.

After initially settling in Kaiapoi for 2 years the family moved to Ashburton and remained there for the rest of their lives. William had been a church choir singer from his early youth and continued that activity in Ashburton as one of the leading bass singers in the St Stephens Anglican Church choir. He was also a verger at the Church for a number of years. Henry suffered ill health for 10 years prior to his death which resulted from a fall which left him unconscious.  He never recovered consciousness and died 8 days after the fall. Emma died on 7 November 1918

Brooking Descendants

William and Emma had no children

William Frederick Brooking 1886

Chart JC Reference JC5

William Frederick  Brooking (12 March 1862 – 17 Jan 1933) had been apprenticed to the hardware trade in Exeter, Devon where he was born. He migrated in 1886 on the “SS Tongariro’ arriving in Auckland on or about 10 December 1886 and settled in Northcote a suburb on the north shore of Auckland where he worked in the fruit growing industry. In 1891 he moved to a property in Tarry’s Hall at Northcote specialising in growing strawberries. He also acted as valuer to local Councils and was also a Clerk of Works for the Northcote water supply scheme. In about 1907 he worked  as the manager for account sales for the Waitemata Cooperative Fruitgrowers’ Association In In 1921 he joined Turners and Growers Ltd. produce merchants of Auckland.

1st generation descendants are:-

JCE - Frederick Albert (1892 – 1966)

JCM  -Edith (1893 - 1983)

Brooking Descendants

18 people listed in Brooking Society charts.

Related Descendants

30 people listed in Brooking Society Charts.

Berry (8), Downie (3), King (1), Mc Kenna (9), Muriwai (2), Nordby (2), Van de Ven (2) and Welch (3)

Richard Thomas Brooking 1910

Chart IVD Reference IVD1

Richard Thomas Brooking (1885-1958) was born in Nymagee, NSW  the third son to Samuel Henry Brooking and Johannah Trembath.  Samuel and Johannah Trembath had emigrated to Australia sometime after their marriage in Ludgvan, England in 1875 and before 1881.  Richard emigrated from Orange, NSW, Australia and settled in Auckland in 1908. In 1909 he married Isabella Henderson.

1st generation descendants are:-

IVD - Arthur Samuel (1910-1993)

IVD - Richard Raymond (1912-1971)

Brooking Descendants

8 people listed in Brooking Society charts.

Related Descendants

The Brooking Society has no records for related descendants.

William John Brooking 1910

Chart IV Reference IV5

William John Brooking (1881-28 November 1945) emigrated in 1910 from Orange, NSW, Australia and settled in Auckland. William was the eldest son  of Samuel H Brooking and Johannah Trembath who had emigrated to Australia sometime after their marriage in Ludgvan, England in 1875 and before 1881.

He married Louisa Eliza Mc Dermott (1890 – 1955) in 1910.  In the 1935 electoral roll he was listed as an engineer.

1st generation descendants are:-

IV - Fay Ellen Louise Brooking (1910 - 1945)

IV - Ava Elsie Lillian (1915 - 1995)

Brooking Descendants

There are no Brooking descendants.

Related Descendants

5 people listed in Brooking Society charts.

Ellerington (3) and Spencer (2)

Walter Sidney Brooking 1945

Charts JK and JKE Reference JK15/JKE1

Walter Sidney  Brooking was born in Tottenham  on Feb 3, 1900 to Francis Lang Brooking and Emma Selina Rowsell. Walter married Ada Pardoe in Tottenham on August 26, 1923 and the couple with their  6 children emigrated in 1945 after the birth of their  last child in October.  The family settled in Christchurch. Walter served in the Royal Fusiliers in the WW1 and WW2.

1st generation descendants are:-

JKE - Elaine (1924 - ??)

JKE - Walter John Frank (1925-1994)

JKE - Elsie Lillian Alice (1927 -?? )

JKE - Donald Frederick (1932-1948)

JKE - Cynthia Ann (1937 - ?? )

JKE - Madeline Gloria (1945 - ??)

Brooking Descendants

9 people listed on Brooking Society charts.  

Related Descendants

4 are listed in Brooking Society Charts

Ball (2) and Burgess (2)

Frank Eric Brooking 1955

Chart UDT Reference UDT5

Frank  Eric Brooking was born in Ecclesall, Bierlow RD, Sheffield, England on 9 April 1910 and later joined the Royal Navy serving on the HMS Achilles which had been based in New Zealand from 1936. The HMS Achilles was transferred to the RNZ Navy in 1941 having fought in the Battle of the River Plate in 1940.

Frank married Neville Speirs Glennon 14 August 1941 in Auckland and shortly after was transferred back to the UK. Neville followed him arriving at Cardiff in March 1943. Frank remained in the Royal Navy after the war, stationed in UK and Malta. Frank and Neville had 3 children all boys with the oldest, John, and youngest, Charles, born in the UK and Roger born in Malta. Frank with Neville and the children migrated to New Zealand in 1955 arriving in Wellington on 15 April via the “SS Rangitiki”. They settled in Whanganui.

1st generation descendants are:-

UDT - John (1947 - ??)

UDT - Roger (1950 - ??)

UDT - Charles (1952 - ??)

Brooking Descendants

3 people listed in Brooking Society charts.  

Related Descendants

The Brooking Society has no records for related descendants.

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