Son of Thomas Brookes 1st & Harriett (nee Perrems), born at Shoreditch, London and Alton in Hampshire, England.
Departed London on 14 August 1854 as a crew member on the 'Huntley' and arrived in Melbourne on 3 December 1854.
Philip married Susannah Gale on 22 October 1866 at the Registry Office, Fitzroy and had ten children.
He lived most of his life in or around Port Melbourne as a Boatman or Waterman (rowed people across the Yarra and across the Bay to Williamstown etc). In 1851 the England Census recorded him as as 'Apprentice Waterman). The Company of Watermen and Lightermen was established by an Act of Parliament in England in 1555 to control the Watermen on the River Thames responsible for the movement of goods and passengers. Watermen rowed boats carrying passengers and their opposite Lightermen carried cargo. The term found its way to Australia in the 19th century and Philip John Brookes 1st listed his occupation as a Waterman in his Marriage Records of 1866.
Philip died at the "Melbourne Hospital', Cnr Lonsdale & Swanston Streets in 1883
Departed London on 14 August 1854 as a crew member on the 'Huntley' and arrived in Melbourne on 3 December 1854.
Philip married Susannah Gale on 22 October 1866 at the Registry Office, Fitzroy and had ten children.
He lived most of his life in or around Port Melbourne as a Boatman or Waterman (rowed people across the Yarra and across the Bay to Williamstown etc). In 1851 the England Census recorded him as as 'Apprentice Waterman). The Company of Watermen and Lightermen was established by an Act of Parliament in England in 1555 to control the Watermen on the River Thames responsible for the movement of goods and passengers. Watermen rowed boats carrying passengers and their opposite Lightermen carried cargo. The term found its way to Australia in the 19th century and Philip John Brookes 1st listed his occupation as a Waterman in his Marriage Records of 1866.
Philip died at the "Melbourne Hospital', Cnr Lonsdale & Swanston Streets in 1883
Son of Thomas Brookes 1st & Harriett (nee Perrems), born at Shoreditch, London and Alton in Hampshire, England.
Departed London on 14 August 1854 as a crew member on the 'Huntley' and arrived in Melbourne on 3 December 1854.
Philip married Susannah Gale on 22 October 1866 at the Registry Office, Fitzroy and had ten children.
He lived most of his life in or around Port Melbourne as a Boatman or Waterman (rowed people across the Yarra and across the Bay to Williamstown etc). In 1851 the England Census recorded him as as 'Apprentice Waterman). The Company of Watermen and Lightermen was established by an Act of Parliament in England in 1555 to control the Watermen on the River Thames responsible for the movement of goods and passengers. Watermen rowed boats carrying passengers and their opposite Lightermen carried cargo. The term found its way to Australia in the 19th century and Philip John Brookes 1st listed his occupation as a Waterman in his Marriage Records of 1866.
Philip died at the "Melbourne Hospital', Cnr Lonsdale & Swanston Streets in 1883
Departed London on 14 August 1854 as a crew member on the 'Huntley' and arrived in Melbourne on 3 December 1854.
Philip married Susannah Gale on 22 October 1866 at the Registry Office, Fitzroy and had ten children.
He lived most of his life in or around Port Melbourne as a Boatman or Waterman (rowed people across the Yarra and across the Bay to Williamstown etc). In 1851 the England Census recorded him as as 'Apprentice Waterman). The Company of Watermen and Lightermen was established by an Act of Parliament in England in 1555 to control the Watermen on the River Thames responsible for the movement of goods and passengers. Watermen rowed boats carrying passengers and their opposite Lightermen carried cargo. The term found its way to Australia in the 19th century and Philip John Brookes 1st listed his occupation as a Waterman in his Marriage Records of 1866.
Philip died at the "Melbourne Hospital', Cnr Lonsdale & Swanston Streets in 1883
