Greenough Museum and Gardens > Records

Order for bricks from R.J. Brockman

« Prev Item Next Item »

Robert Brockman

1865

Subcollections

Maley Mill and Store Archives

Overview

hand written letter on paper

Historical information

Robert James Brockman (1812-1897) was a pastoralist and farmer with properties at Northam, Gingin, Moore River and Greenough.
William Doyle (1829-1905) was convicted in Ireland of cattle stealing, and was sent to Western Australia on the Robert Small in 1853 (no.2137). He married Mary Ann Walsh at Moore River and later became a tenant farmer at Walkaway.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-72-GMOB1475

Item type

Letters

Themes

Mining and Resources

People

Social History

Material

Ink

Writing Paper

Width

151 mm

Height or length

101 mm

Depth

1 mm

Inscriptions and markings

Flats Oct 26th 1865
Mr J Maley
Please let the bearer Wm Doyle have a load of bricks on my a/c
Robt Jas Brockman

Contextual information

As well as having a flour mill and general store at Greenough, John Maley also had brick kilns where bricks were made to build his house and to sell to others.

Keywords

Bricks

Place made

Greenough, Western Australia, Austria

Year

1865

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Social or spiritual significance

Comparative significance criteria

Interpretive capacity

Well provenanced