Annie Brookes

Surname:

Brookes

Given names:

Annie

Given address:

Clyde Avenue

Sheet No: 83

Town/Suburb:

Mornington

City/Region:

Dunedin

Notes:

This entry is either Ann Brookes nee Parkinson or her daughter Ann.

Biographies contributed by Katherine Blakeley.

Ann Parkinson was born about 1840. She married Michael Brooks about 1860 and, in 1861, they sailed from London to Melbourne on the “Green Jacket”.

Their first two children were born in Victoria before, around 1864, the family sailed for Otago and settled in Naseby.

Michael tried his hand at mining before becoming a storekeeper and they had a further seven children.

In 1876 Michael was declared insolvent and in 1879, when their youngest child was one year old, Michael died – he is buried in the Naseby Cemetery.

In 1883 Ann moved to Dunedin where she took over the Royal Hotel in King Street.

When she signed the suffrage petition Ann was living with her family in Clyde Avenue, off St David St, in North Dunedin.

Ann 24 died on November 1902 – she is buried in the family grave in the Northern Cemetery.

Ann Brookes was born in Naseby in Central Otago in 1869.

After her father’s death the family came to live in Dunedin and when Ann signed the suffrage petition she was living with her family in Clyde Avenue, off St David Street, working as a dressmaker.

She married John Ryan on 28 November 1900 at St Joseph’s Cathedral, Dunedin. “After the ceremony an adjournment was made to the residence of the bride’s mother” “where the wedding breakfast was laid and partaken of by a large number of guests”.

At the time of Ann’s mother’s death in 1902 she and John were running the Waterloo Hotel in Caversham.

They moved to Naseby the following year to run the Royal Hotel.

John died in Lauder in 1930 “late licensee of the Railway Hotel, Lauder” – he is buried in the Blacks Cemetery, Omakau.

In 1931 Ann “left for Wellington en route for Perth, where she will in future reside”.

When and when she died is unclear.