BROOMEHILL PEOPLE History Lost Katanning Eticup Broome Hill

Broomehill People

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BROOMEHILL

LORD THOMAS BRASSY

ETICUP

It is the people who create a community – the people from our earliest settlers through to today. The hardships our pioneers faced, the loneliness, the emptiness, and yet they persevered to pave the way for others to follow. Broomehill (or Broome Hill as it was originally named) started life as a tiny rail siding on the new Great Southern Railway after the earlier settlement of Eticup had been bypassed.

Although growing as a community in its early days it has remained a small but robust town situated on the Great Southern Highway in Western Australia’s Great Southern region.

On this page I will be providing information about people from Broomehill who have been leaders of the community, succeeded in business or sport and who have contributed over and above to their community.

NOONGAR PEOPLE

From Wikipedia

The first people recorded in the Broomehill area were the Koreng, also spelled Goreng, who are an indigenous Noongar people of south-west of Western Australia. Noongar means ‘a person of the south-west of Western Australia,’ or the name for the ‘original inhabitants of the south-west of Western Australia’ and they are one of the largest Aboriginal cultural blocks in Australia. The Noongar (/ˈnʊŋɑː/) (also spelt Nyungar, Nyoongar, Nyoongah, Nyungah, Nyugah, Yunga^[1]) are a constellation of peoples of Indigenous Australian descent who live in the south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton on the west coast to Esperance on the south coast. Noongar country is now understood as referring to the land occupied by 14 different groups: Amangu, Ballardong, Yued, Kaneang, Koreng, Mineng, Njakinjaki, Njunga, Pibelmen, Pindjarup, Wardandi, Whadjuk, Wiilman and Wudjari.^[a] READ MORE HERE

LORD THOMAS BRASSEY

Lord Brassey

Australian Dictionary of Biography
by B.R. Penny

Thomas Brassey (1836-1918), governor, was born on 11 February 1836 at Stafford, England, eldest son of Thomas Brassey, railway contractor, and his wife Maria Farrington, née Harrison. He was educated at Rugby School and University College, Oxford (B.A., 1859; M.A., 1864; D.C.L., 1888) and was called to the Bar, Lincoln’s Inn, in 1866. After several attempts between 1861 and 1866 to enter parliament as a Gladstonian Liberal, he won Hastings in 1868, holding the seat until 1886. He was Civil Lord of the Admiralty in 1880-84 and its parliamentary secretary in 1884-85. Continue reading

Citation Details:
B. R. Penny, ‘Brassey, Thomas (1836–1918)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/brassey-thomas-5339/text8947, published first in hardcopy 1979, accessed online 2 September 2021.
This article was published in hardcopy in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 7, (Melbourne University Press), 1979
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ROBERT HENRY JONES.

Great Southern Herald
8 September 1937

The announcement that Mr. R. H. Jones, of Broomehill, had died at the Katanning Hospital in the early hours of Saturday morning came as a great shock to his many friends in these districts, numbers of whom known him intimately for a great number of years. Mr Jones, who was 70 years of age, had contracted a chill which turned to influenza, his condition necessitating removal to hospital at the beginning of last week, and the end came suddenly and unexpectedly.

Mr. Jones was born at Clifden, Connemarra, Ireland, in 1867, the son of a Methodist clergyman, and came to this State In 1894 after having been for some years in Sydney and Melbourne. He settled at Broomehill, selecting two fair-sized properties in the vicinity of the townsite, these now being owned by his two elder sons. In his early years of his association with the district he was for a period secretary to the Broomehill Road Board. Continue reading

JOSEPH NELSON – Eticup

Joseph Nelson

Joseph Nelson was born in 1819 in the village of Welton, near Hull in Yorkshire, England. His father died when Joseph was 15 and his elder brother inherited the family blacksmith business. It is assumed that following his apprenticeship under his brother, Joseph left the village to seek his living. He was enlisted in the Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners on 25 October 1842. Two years later he was serving on Gibraltar where he was stationed for four and a half years and where he married Ruth Jackson in 1848.

Nelson lived out his years at Eticup, as a blacksmith for the local farmers and the coach traffic to and from Albany, serving as a member of the Broomehill Road Board from 1892 to 1895, and enjoying his life as a grandfather. He died in 1907 and is buried in the old cemetery at Eticup. Continue reading

MCGUIRE FAMILY

Thomas Francis (Frank) McGuire served in WWII in the Australian Army enlisting on 11 June, 1941 and was discharged 25 February, 1946. He was a private in the 8 Australian Port Operating Coy. McGuire was a farmer and worked at Fermoy when he died in a car accident after his car hit a tree and overturned five miles from Broomehill on the Katanning Broomehill Road. He was single and a member of the Broomehill Rifle Club. He is buried in Broomehill Cemetery . Continue reading

NORRISH FAMILY

Thomas Richard Norrish was born in England in 1837. His father, Corporal Richard Norrish, the son of an English doctor, was born in the County of Middlesex in 1812. Richard Norrish enlisted with the 96th Regiment of Foot in 1831 for a period of 15 years and 250 days. In 1842 he was sent to Tasmania in charge of a draft of convicts, and from there to Western Australia, his wife and children accompanying him. Continue reading

THOMAS CARTER

Thomas Carter (1863-1931), ornithologist and pastoralist, was born on 6 April 1863 at Masham, Yorkshire, England. Landing at Carnarvon in 1887, he was employed as jackeroo on Boolathanna station and wrote his first notes for the British wildlife magazine the Zoologist, launching the modern period in intensive studies of Western Australian birds.

On 8 September 1903, at Twickenham, Middlesex, he married Annie Ward. Returning to Western Australia the following year they settled on a southern sheep property at Broomehill. ‘Birds of the Broome Hill District’ appeared in the Emu in 1923-24. Continue reading

MARSHALL FAMILY

The two Marshall boys born in 1876 and 1877 were Robert Hamilton Marshall and Norman Eugene Marshall. Robert and Norman were born in Tasmania and, in very young life, began working underground in the mines. Robert married Lilliot Jones and Norman married Cora Jones in South Australia, and they later moved to Kalgoorlie, still working in the mines underground. In about 1906, they purchased one thousand six hundred acres of land at East Broomehill. The farm was named “Tama Grove.” Continue Reading

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