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Note for: Frederick Vernon Watermeyer Brooks, 1910 - 25 Feb 2005 Index

Nickname: Sonny

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Living in Perth, Western Australia.
87 NORTH AVENUE, SALISBURY.
Sonny Brooks has kindly sent in another reminiscence.
The house was a substantial brick building with many rooms. It was built in 1910 for a Mr Bowen, who was fond of hunting so there was stabeling for four hunters and accommodation for a pack of hounds. My father purchased it for 2000 Pounds in 1916. At that time the road in front was a veld track. It was there at the age of six that my memories of 87 begins. Dad was one of Rhodesias early sportsmen. He played cricket, hockey, rugby and tennis representing the country in most. He was on most of the sport committees so 87 saw many sporting arrangements decided there. Life gradually changed as four children grew up. Meetings changed to parties and later dances. Almost every day, Mum would preside with a large green tea pot, bread and jam over 4 o'clock tea at the big oak table in the dining-room, where the family would gather with 3 or four friends. Interesting conversation and debate brought many to those teas. There are many in high places who remember the argument and laughter kindled there. Being a tennis family, we got together and built ourselves a court. A scotch cart and two oxen were borrowed from a farming relation. levels were taken out with a transit and the two oxen transported grey ant heap from the commonage near the Police Camp. What hours were spent on that court. Mum's Visitors Book had names from all over the world. Sportsmen, artists, actors and churchmen were some of the few. Some on very short notice. Dad might ring up and say that he had agreed to put someone up for the night or that there were people for tennis, such as a touring company. We met the World. Sometimes language wasn't easy. Mum had green fingers and every cutting sprang to life. The garden was a bit higgledy piggley but interesting. The family grew up, got jobs and eventually married one by one, except the youngest who was claimed by war. After 27 years Mum and Dad decided to sell the old home and move out of town. The three of us have had our own families who have moved on. We are spread - one still in Zimbabwe on the family farm, one in Wagga Wagga with most of her family near and one in Perth W.A.

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Note for: Alice Margret Brooks, 20 Apr 1917 - 18 Oct 2001 Index

Nickname: Polly

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Note for: Henry Mowbray Northcote, 10 Sep 1826 - 6 Feb 1878 Index

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Educated Eton College 1839-1842 and New College, Oxford. Matriculated 24th January, 1846, aged 19; B.A. 1849; M.A. of Temple Hill, Ease Budleigh.
rector (1853-1872) Monk Okehampton Hatherleigh Devon a family living

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Note for: Ruth Elinor Northcote, ABT 1873 - 23 May 1953 Index

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1901 census: listed as "Rutte E. Northcote, daughter, age 28; born E. Budleigh, Devon; living at Tormoham with Torquay, Devon, with mother Eleanor Northcote (nee Mallet).

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Note for: St. John Northcote, 9 Nov 1871 - 10 Oct 1904 Index

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Died unmarried.

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Note for: Andrew Cockburn Northcote, 25 Oct 1873 - 1956 Index

Christening:
     Date:   30 Nov 1873
     Place:   East Budleigh, Devon, England

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     Invalid, under care (mentally)
Alive in 1948
Died unmarried.

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Note for: Florence Emily West, ABT 1871 - Index

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1901 census - living in Birstall, West Riding, Yorkshire.
1915 - living in Birstall.