Eticup People
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Eticup was one of the earliest settlements in the region and was planning to become the major town to service the central great southern region. The routing of the Great Southern Railway through Broomehill instead of Eticup saw the town slowly close as people moved their businesses to the new railway siding.
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THE EARLY SETTLERS
- c1855
- Solomon Drolf
- Edward Spencer JP
- c1857
- John Maher and Catherine Maher (nee McGough)
- b 1867 Margaret Searle (nee Maher) (m William Searle Jnr.)
- b 1887 Anne Catherine Grace Searle
- b 1867 Margaret Searle (nee Maher) (m William Searle Jnr.)
- John Maher and Catherine Maher (nee McGough)
- c1858
- c1863
- James & Ann (nee Toovey) Annice Senior – “Coorinyup” 1877 (Hayfield)
- John & Alice (nee Toovey) Annice
- James L. & Mary (nee McGuire) Annice
- James & Ann (nee Toovey) Annice Senior – “Coorinyup” 1877 (Hayfield)
- c1864
- Patrick & Elizabeth (nee Moir) Garrity Senior – “Greenhill”
- John & Ruth (nee Nelson) Garrity
- Patrick & Mary Jane Garrity (nee Haddleton)
- Patrick & Elizabeth (nee Moir) Garrity Senior – “Greenhill”
- c1866
- Thomas & Christen (nee Wray) Norrish JP – “Ettakup” 1871 – “Sunnyside” 1883
- William Grover – Police Constable (1867-69)
- c1868
- Arthur & Mary (nee Spencer) Trimmer JP
- Algernon Trimmer
- Arthur & Mary (nee Spencer) Trimmer JP
- c1869
- Philip & Mary Ann (nee Reardon) McGuire – “Moorelup”
- c1872
- Sophia, Dowager Lady Cockburn-Campbell (nee Trimmer) – “Goblup Estate”
- c1875
- George & Mary (nee Buirchell) Whitton
- c1878
- Joseph Nelson
- Alfred & Elizabeth (nee Carmody) Nelson – House/Blacksmith
- Natheniel & Mary Ann (nee Cull) Nelson
- Thomas & Margaret (nee Flarherty) Rogers – Carpenter/Boarding House
- George Buirchell
- Edward & Fannie (nee Piggott) Brown
- 1879
- Patrick & Mary (nee Annice) Carmody
- John Carmody
- Louis & Mrs Van Zuilecom JP – Leased “Fairfield” to 1891
- Henry Van Zuilecom
- Patrick & Mary (nee Annice) Carmody
- 1884
- William & Mrs Peate
- 1885
- David & Rudolph Krakouer – Drapery & Grocery Store
- 1887
- Charles Carpenter
- J J Treasure & Emma Jane (nee Carpenter)
- Charles Carpenter
- 1889
- James & Annie (nee Toovey) Tylor – House, Blacksmith
- Joseph Bettridge.
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LORD THOMAS BRASSEY
Australian Dictionary of Biography
by B.R. Penny
Lord 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
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McGUIRE FAMILY
Philip McGuire was born in 1827 at Killesher, Fermanagh, Ireland, and died in Albany, Western Australia on 18 January 1905. He married Mary Ann Reardon who was born on 14 May 1834 in Tipperary, Ireland and died on 6 August 1917. After he had completed his education, he became a labourer. He later enlisted in the Royal Marines 57th Regiment as a Private on the 30 October 1847 at Manchester when aged 21 years. He was invalided out on the 17 May 1848 according to his military record from Royal Marines description books.
In 1869 Philip took up land at Eticup and named his property “Moorellup”, which was incorporated in the Fermoy Farm at East Broomehill in 1905. The original house is still preserved there. The farm is owned by the descendants of his son Thomas McGuire. Continue reading
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ALICE AGNES BUIRCHELL
Great Southern Herald
26 September, 1952
OBITUARY.
The death occurred in the Kojonup District Hospital on September 5 of Mrs Alice Agnes Buirchell, at the age of 76, after a long illness. Mrs Buirchell, who was the youngest daughter of the late Mr and Mrs T. Rodgers, was born at Eticup in 1876. Continue reading
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RUDOLF THEODORE KRAKOUER
The funeral of the late Mr. Rudolph Theodore Krakouer, late of Norseman, W.A., took place on Sunday afternoon last, June 27, in the Jewish portion of the Karrakatta cemetery, and was attended by a large number of relatives and friends. Continue reading
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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.
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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.
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PATRICK GARRITY (Snr.)
Birth 1840
Death 15 Aug 1907 (aged 66–67)
Burial Broomehill Cemetery aged 67 years
Burial No. 08
Ceremony by: Rev. A. C. V. Knight
“Patrick Garrity of Eticup near Broomehill, WA.
Beloved husband of Elizabeth Garrity.
Died Aug. 15. 1907, aged 67 years.
I miss thee from our home, dear husband
I miss thee from thy place.
A shadow o’er our life is cast
I miss the sunshine of thy face
I miss thy kind and willing hand
Thy fond and earnest care.
Our home is dark without thee-
I miss thee everywhere”
From West Australian Pioneers and Settlers Facebook Group
Submitted by Robynne Walsh
Here are some of the family graves in the Broomehill Cemetery . My nanna Julia May Whitehead told me that she often visited Broomehill from Perth. This was in the 1910’s. She told me that Thomas McGuire married Brigid Roche when she came to teach at the Broomehill School from Victoria. They had 13 children who were all very clever. My nanna remembers them all reading every night by lamp light . The children all went on to have good lives and contribute to the community. Lots of farmers and teachers amongst them .
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PATRICK GARRITY (Jnr.)
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WILLIAM HENRY GRAHAM
In the 1860’s, William Henry Graham had 10 000 acres with a 40-acre homestead block at Nanamillup. By the 1870s W. H. Graham had added 100 acres next to his homestead block. Graham was frequently called upon to measure other settler’s selections for them. As well as a chain (which others no doubt had) he had circumferentor (an instrument fitted with a compass) which ensured accuracy of angles. However, there is some evidence that in the early days the land was usually remeasured by an Assistant Surveyor. In later years, much of the survey work was done by H.S. Ranford.
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VAN ZUILECOM FAMILY
Captain Charles Louis van Zuilecom came to Albany with his family in 1866. His son Louis Frederick with his wife and children settled in Kojonup on a property called Pardellup (later called Eenyellup, now called Yeenyellup). His father also came to Kojonup in 1870 and built a property called Quanandrup.
Captain van Zuilecom became an influential JP in the area, and his son, Louis, became a prominent Kojonup Road Board member, having been elected founding Chairman in 1871. Captain van Zuilecom died in 1874 and was buried at Quanandrup along with his wife when she died. The van Zuilecom family were very prominent in the district and their family became linked to the Egerton-Warburton family when Blanche van Zuilecom married John (Jack) Egerton-Warburton in 1913.
Their grave-site has historical significance as the van Zuilecom family were very prominent in the district. The grave was clearly marked by the Road Board in the 1950’s. The van Zuilecom Grave is situated in a grassy location in the Railway Reserve off Broomehill Road and Korrinup Road. There is a large granite slab and headstone engraved with the following: “In memory of Charles Louis van Zuilecom Died 18th Feb 1874 Who with his wife is buried here.”
Captain Charles Louis van Zuilecom
From Broomehill Tambellup Times.
December 2014
By Shirley McDonald
The grave is located on the van Zuilecom property once known as Quanandrup. It is not in its original position as it had to be moved owing to the proximity of the railway.
Charles Louis van Zuilecom was the designer and builder of the P&O Company’s floating dock in Albany, Western Australia, launched in April 1866, and the first of only three wooden floating docks built in Australia (see entry). He arrived in Albany on board the steamer Bombay (1,186 tons, Captain Methwen) at about the same time as the material and tools brought by the Haddington. He later resigned from the company and moved to Kojonup to become that town’s first resident magistrate. Read more
In 1860s, he had property near Kojonup and, in 1871, was elected to the first Kojonup Road Board. He was Chairman and also Secretary. In October 1879, he leased Fairfield from William Henry Graham and expected to stay there with his family until Graham’s return about 1888. The Van Zuilecom’s were frequent visitors to Goblup and later Sunnyside, social calls, Church services, and on farming and community matters. In august 1891 one of the daughters wrote “Tomorrow the Grahams arrive and are to take charge, so we shall be busy packing up.”
Louis Henry Van Zuilecom
Louis Henry was the eldest son of Louis Frederick. On 6 February 1895, Y. Norrish helped Harry to thresh some wheat, so he was obviously at Fairfield but it was not until November that year that Thomas Norrish wrote “Henry Van Zuilecom is in charge at Fairfield.”
On 9 July 1898, Mrs L.F. Van Zuilecom (second wife Violet Toll) and members of the family were at Thomas Norrish’s 61st birthday party and various members called during July, August and September.
Henry was elected to Broome Hill Road Board in December 1899 but in March 1900 he was killed when his horse, harnessed to a trap, bolted and tried to jump a gate. Harry was buried in the Eticup Cemetery beside his Mother, Emily.
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TYLOR FAMILY
From Broomehill Tambellup Times.
December 2014
By Shirley McDonald
FREDERICK TYLOR
The Broomehill historical notes suggest that Fred worked in Kojonup but later it is apparent that he was working for George Norrish.
In May 1879, he brought wheat to Goblup and Thomas Norrish exchanged it for barley and Fred went home. He called at Goblup twice in August 1880, the second time with a telegram. At the end of August 1881, at Warkalup he went horse-hunting with Johnny and Billie Bimbert. A few days later he came to Goblup for the timber that Thomas Norrish was lending to his brother George.
At Martinup on 12 September 1882, Thomas Norrish sold his bay mare to Fred for £20 and late in November Fred was at Goblup with George Norrish on the way to Josiah Norrish’s Tambellarup.
On 6th April 1893, Thomas Norrish was horse-hunting at Mandelup and found a mare belonging to Fred Tylor and took her to Kojonup. Two days later Johnny and Fred were horse-hunting at Warkalup. On 4 July the same year, Fred Tylor arrived at Goblup to see if Thomas Norrish could let George Norrish have a load of barley straw and next day he was back with a wagon and three horses for the straw; Bill the Emigrant was with him.
On 22 July 1883′ he was at Goblup again for ½ ton of chaff and spent a day helping to cut it. He returned about ten days later with George Norrish’s team to get chaff from George Whitton.
JAMES TYLOR
James Tylor was a blacksmith whose smith and house were on Greenhills Road across from St Peter’s Church. He married Anna Louisa Toovey. In 1890 to 1892, he shod two of Thomas Norrish’s trap horses and repaired the plough (twice). On 28 November 1890, the Tylor’s daughter was confirmed by Bishop Parry and on 16th March 1893.
Mrs and Miss Tylor called at Goblup. By 1895 James Tylor appears to have been working in Broome Hill as Thomas Norrish’s son, will took the trap into town for Mr Tylor to cut the tyres – cost £1.15.0. The Tylors moved to Katanning about 1899.
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FAMILY NOTICES
The West Australian
27 June, 1927
IN MEMORIAM
BETTRIDGE. – In loving memory of our dear mother and grandmother Ann, who passed away at Glen Iris on June 26, 1916, aged 78; also our dear father and grandfather Joseph, who passed away at Eticup, on December 4, 1904, aged 74.
Love’s greatest gift, remembrance.
Inserted by their loving daughter and son-in-law and grandchildren,
W. M. Garrity and family, Eticup, Broome Hill.
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BROOMEHILL & ETICUP CEMETERIES
The Eticup Cemetery is a small cemetery, one of a few reminders of the small village of Eticup, 6km west of Broomehill. It is located on the eastern side of the Greenhills Road and north of the St Peter’s Church site, which is on the opposite side of the road.
There are believed to be 29 graves in the Eticup Cemetery but only four bear headstones. Those that have been traced include; Mrs Louis van Zuilecom and her son Henry, Thomas Norrish and his son George, Algernon Trimmer, Joseph Nelson Snr. and his grandson (the infant son of Nathaniel and Mary Nelson), the infant son of Ben and Annie Bransby, James and Sonny, the 3 and 5 years’ old sons of Thomas and Alice Birchall, Edward Brown, William and Mrs Peate, the little daughter of a railway worker, George Birchall and Nathanial Birchall’s son, Nathanial.
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