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Alban George RUSHBROOKE

Alban George RUSHBROOKE

Male 1885 - 1933  (47 years)    Has 30 ancestors and 85 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Alban George RUSHBROOKE 
    Birth 07 Aug 1885  Great Ellingham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4] 
    Baptism 27 Sep 1885  Great Ellingham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Gender Male 
    Immigration From 29 Oct 1897 to 13 Dec 1897  steamship GOTHIC Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 6] 
    Immigration From 29 Oct 1897 to 13 Dec 1897  Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 6] 
    Occupation 1911  [7] 
    Farmer, Kihikihi, Waikato 
    Occupation 1918  [8, 9, 10] 
    Farmer, Manawaru 
    Occupation 1933  [8, 11] 
    Wool and coal merchant, with horse haulage business 
    Death 21 Jul 1933  Te Aroha, Waikato, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location  [12, 13, 14] 
    Burial 22 Jul 1933  Te Aroha, Waikato, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location  [9, 12] 
    Probate 26 Jul 1933  Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location  [15] 
    Person ID I31  NZ Genealogy Project | RUSHBROOKE Descendant
    Last Modified 8 Jun 2021 

    Father Ernest Edwin RUSHBROOKE,   b. 10 Feb 1859, Scoulton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Apr 1940, Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years) 
    Mother Ellen Sarah WRIGHT [Sarah],   b. 1857, Great Ellingham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 08 Sep 1934, Te Awamutu, Waikato, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years) 
    Marriage 30 Sep 1884  Great Ellingham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [16, 17, 18, 19] 
    Residence 1900  Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Residence 1905  Taupiri, Waikato, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Residence 1911  Kihikihi, Waikato, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Residence 1914  Te Mawhai, Waikato, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Residence 1919  Te Awamutu, Waikato, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Documents
    1891 Census    		1891 Census
    Marriage 1884    		Marriage 1884
    Children of Ernest E and Ellen S Rushbrooke    		Children of Ernest E and Ellen S Rushbrooke
    Sourced from Rushbrooke Family Bible on Trademe.co.nz
    Family ID F39  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elinor McLAREN [Nellie],   b. 14 Apr 1891, Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Mar 1971, Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years) 
    Marriage 15 Aug 1914  Manawaru, Waikato, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location  [20] 
    Residence 1919  Manawaru, Waikato, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Notes 

    • WEDDING.

      RUSHBROOKE - McLAREN

      A pretty wedding that created a great amount of interest at Manawaru was celebrated in Christ's Church (Anglican) at Manawaru on Wednesday, the Rev. H M. Smyth being the officiating minister. The contracting parties were Miss Elinor McLaren eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs T. McLaren, of Manawaru, and Mr Alban George Rusbbrooke, eldest son of Mr and Mrs E. E. Rushbrooke of Te Mawhai, Te Awamutu.

      There was a large attendance of relatives and friends of the young couple at the church which presented quite a pretty scene when the bride arrived accompanied by her father and bridesmaids. The party entered and left the Church to the strains of Mendelsohn's wedding march played by Mrs Robert Duxfield. When leaving the Church, the children from the school paraded outside and showered an immense amount of confetti on the young couple.

      The bride was attired in cream crystaline silk with allover silk lace and wore a veil, court train and orange blossoms. She also carried a shower bouquet of asparagus, maiden-hair fern, heath and narcissi.

      The bridesmaids, Misses Bessie and Ethel McLaren, sisters of the bride, both wore dresses of cream radianta trimmed with cream lace, insertion and buttons and cream mob caps trimmed with white lace. Both carried shepherd's crooks with white flowers and streamers. The bride was given away by her father.

      The bridegroom's presents to the bridesmaids were handsome greenstone broaches mantled with heavy gold. Mr Ernest Rushbrooke, brother of the bridegroom attended his brother as best man.

      The presents on view at the bride's home were of a beautiful and useful nature, and included several cheques and a silver kettle and spirit lamp from the adherents of the Manawaru Anglican Church.

      About forty-five guests assembled at the home of the bride's parents to partake in the wedding feast, and the tables presented a pretty array. These were profusely decorated with jonquils and narcissi, and carried a really sumptuous repast, including an elaborate three decker cake, manufactured by Messrs Wigg & Co. The toast of the Bride and Bridegroom was proposed by Rev. Smyth, and that of the parents of the Bride and Bridegroom by Mr R. L. Somers. The young couple left by motor car for Hamilton, from whence they will proceed to tour the Auckland Province. They will afterwards take up their residence at Te Mawhai. '

      Source: Te Aroha News, 7 August 1914, page 2.
    Children 
    +1. Alban James RUSHBROOKE [Jim Rushbrooke],   b. 18 Apr 1915, Te Awamutu, Waikato, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Jun 1993, Te Aroha, Waikato, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)
     2. Joan Elinor RUSHBROOKE,   b. 05 Jul 1921, Te Aroha, Waikato, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Aug 1991, Te Aroha, Waikato, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years)
    +3. Alisa Elizabeth RUSHBROOKE,   b. 08 Mar 1923, Te Aroha, Waikato, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Mar 1982, Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 59 years)
    +4. Ethel Mary RUSHBROOKE,   b. 17 Oct 1925, Te Aroha, Waikato, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 05 Sep 2015, Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 89 years)
    +5. Ena RUSHBROOKE,   b. 16 Aug 1932, Te Aroha, Waikato, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Apr 1985, Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 52 years)
    Family ID F12  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 31 Dec 2024 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 07 Aug 1885 - Great Ellingham, Norfolk, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBaptism - 27 Sep 1885 - Great Ellingham, Norfolk, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsImmigration - From 29 Oct 1897 to 13 Dec 1897 - Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 15 Aug 1914 - Manawaru, Waikato, New Zealand Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1919 - Manawaru, Waikato, New Zealand Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 21 Jul 1933 - Te Aroha, Waikato, New Zealand Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - 22 Jul 1933 - Te Aroha, Waikato, New Zealand Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsProbate - 26 Jul 1933 - Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand Link to Google Earth
     = Link to Google Earth 
    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Photos
    Alban George RUSHBROOKE
    Ernest and Alban RUSHBROOKE, 1893

    Documents
    Will - Will - Alban George RUSHBROOKE    		Will
    Baptism - Alban George RUSHBROOKE    		Baptism - Alban George RUSHBROOKE

    Histories
    Places - Great Ellingham, Norfolk, England    		Places - Great Ellingham, Norfolk, England
    Information about the parish and village of Great Ellingham in Norfolk. The parish was the birth place of Ellen Sarah Wright in 1857 and her sister Alice Mary Wright in 1861. Ernest Edwin Rushbrooke lived in Bury Hall, a substantial property on the outskirts of the village, from about 1881 until 1897. He married Ellen Sarah Wright in the village church, and six of their children were born in the village. They mirgrated to New Zealand in 1897.
    1897 Voyage to NZ on the steamship Gothic    		1897 Voyage to NZ on the steamship Gothic
    Details of the Gothic and the 1897 voyage to New Zealand. Ernest Edwin RUSHBROOKE, his wife Ellen Sarah WRIGHT and their six children migrated to New Zealand on the steamship Gothic in 1897. Mary Alice WRIGHT and James George WRIGHT, Ellen's sister and brother, also traveled to New Zealand on the voyage.
    1921 Letter from Northern Ireland - Transcript    		1921 Letter from Northern Ireland - Transcript
    Transcript of a letter from Elizabeth McLaren (nee DUXFIELD) to her eldest daughter Elinor Rushbrooke (nee McLAREN). The letter was written while Thomas and Elizabeth McLaren were staying with relatives in Northern Ireland, near Carmavey in County Antrim where Thomas had grown up.

    Album Photos
    Alban George RUSHBROOKE 1884-1933    		Alban George RUSHBROOKE 1884-1933

    Albums
    Rushbrooke, Alban and Elinor     		Rushbrooke, Alban and Elinor (9)
    Photos of Alban and Elinor Rushbrooke and their children.

  • Notes 

    • BIOGRAPHY

      Alban George Rushbrooke, the first child of Ernest Edwin Rushbrooke and Ellen Sarah Wright, was born on 7 Aug 1885 in Great Ellingham, Norfolk, England. His father was a farmer who lived at Bury Hall in Great Ellingham. Alban migrated to New Zealand with his parents and family in 1897 on the steamship Ionic when he was 12 years old.

      Alban had an argument with his father on the voyage to New Zealand when he discovered his Aunt Alice was pregnant with his father's child. Alban worked as a teamster in Auckland and subsequently in the Waikato. Alban had a natural ability to work with horses.

      Alban and his brother Ernest developed farms adjacent to their parent's property at Te Mawhai near Te Awamutu. Their sister Phyllis looked after them. Alban built a house at Te Mawhai for his bride and himself. He married Elinor McLaren on 15 August 1914 at Manawaru in the Waikato. Elinor (known as Nellie) was the second child and first daughter of Elizabeth Sarah Duxfield and Thomas McLernon, born on 14 April 1891 in Devonport, Auckland.

      Within days of Alban and Elinor returning from their honeymoon, Alban began vomiting blood. He had an aneurysm in his stomach. After three months they moved to Manawaru and lived with Elinor's family. In 1921 Alban purchased a business in Te Aroha with stables, wood and coal merchandising and horse haulage. Alban died in August 1933 at Te Aroha, aged 47, leaving a young family of one son and four daughters.

      OBITUARY.

      MR A. G. RUBHBROOKE.

      TE AROHA, Friday.

      The death has occurred of Mr Alban George Rushbrooke, at the age of 47 years.

      He was born at Ellingham, England, and came to New Zealand when eight years of age. In 1888 the family settled in the Waikato and were engaged in farming. Later they moved to Taupiri and afterwards to Shaftesbury.

      For some years Mr Rushbrooke was in business in Te Aroha. He was a member of various institutions, including the school committee and Orphans' Club, and was always much respected. In 1914 he married Miss McLaren, of Manawaru.

      Deceased leaves a widow and a family of four girls and one boy.

      Source: Waikato Times, 22 July 1933, Page 6.

      MR. A. G. RUSHBROOKE

      TE AROHA, Saturday. The death occurred yesterday of Mr. A. G. Rushbrooke, a well-known and highly-respected Te Aroha resident, at the age of 47 years. Born at Ellingham, England, he came to New Zealand with his parents as a child. The family took up land in the Waikato, and Mr. Rushbrooke worked on his father's farms at Hamilton, Taupiri and Shaftesbury. Seventeen years ago he started a carrying business in Te Aroha, which he continued until the time of his death. For many years he was a member of the Te Aroha School Committee. He leaves a widow and five children.

      Source: New Zealand Herald, 24 July 1933, Page 12.


      Elinor's son Jim ran the wood and coal merchant business after Alban died. Elinor raised her family in Te Aroha. In about 1956 Elinor moved to Hamilton, purchasing a house next to her youngest daughter Ena. In 1963 she moved to Auckland having purchased a house close to Ena and her family. She died on 20 March 1971 in Auckland. Both Alban and Nellie were buried in Te Aroha.

  • Sources 
    1. [S66] Census England - 1891.
      RG12/1549 Great Ellingham 80/7. Alban G RUSKBROOKE, son, 5 years, born G Ellingham.

    2. [S67] Chris J Korte, Rushbrooke Voyage to New Zealand 1897, (Chris Korte, Horsham, Australia 27 Jan 2007).

    3. [S1669] Norfolk, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1922, (Ancestry.com).

    4. [S1670] Rushbrooke Family Bible - Birth dates.

    5. [S1669] Norfolk, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1922, (Ancestry.com).
      Name: Abban George Rushbrooke, Gender: Male, Baptism Age: 0, Birth Date: 7 Aug 1885, Baptism Date: 27 Sep 1885, Baptism Place: Great Ellingham, England; Father: Ernest Edwin Rushbrooke, Mother: Ellen Sarah Rushbrooke

    6. [S68] Michael A Rushbrooke, Lavenham, Suffolk, Rushbrooke Family, (Michael Rushbrooke, Lavenham, Suffolk 2000).

    7. [S604] Diane Wilson, NZ 1911 Electoral Roll, (New Zealand Society of Genealogists Inc., 2010).

    8. [S13] Michael A Rushbrooke, Rushbrooke's of New Zealand.

    9. [S447] NZSG Index Version 5, (New Zealand Society of Genealogists Inc., Auckland 2008).

    10. [S614] NZ Electoral Rolls, 1853-2010, (Ancestry.co.uk.), none.

    11. [S1719] New Zealand Society of Genealogists Inc., Kiwi Collection Online, (New Zealand Society of Genealogists Inc., https://kiwicollection.genealogy.org.nz/).

    12. [S26] New Zealand Society of Genealogists, NZ Cemetery Records, (New Zealand Society of Genealogists Inc 1985).
      Te Aroha Cemetery headstone: Alban G., husband of Elinor Rushbrooke, died 21 August 1933 aged 47. Also his wife Elinor, died 20 March 1971 aged 79.

    13. [S10] New Zealand Registrar-General's Office, NZ Register of Deaths - Indexes.
      Alban George Rushbrooke 1933 #2253

    14. [S1116] Family Search - NZ Archives - Probate Records, (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), none.

    15. [S17] David Bryant, NZSG Index, (New Zealand Society of Genealogists Inc., 2005).
      Probate Record

    16. [S92] FreeBMD, (http://www.freebmd.org.uk//), none.
      Marriages Sep 1884. Ernest Edwin Rushbrooke and Ellen Sarah Wright. Wayland, 4b, 445.

    17. [S213] Copy of Entry of Marriage, (General Register Office, England).
      1884 Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church in the Parish of Great Ellingham in the County of Norfolk. No 163. When Marrried: September 30 1884. Name and surname: Ernest Edwin Rushbrooke, Ellen Sarah Wright. Age: 26 and 26. Condition: Bachelor and Spinster. Rank or Profession: Farmer. Residence at time of marriage: Great Ellingham and Great Ellingham. Father's name and surname: Alban Rushbrooke (Farmer) and George Samuel Wright (Farmer). Witness: William Arthur Roberts and Alice Mary Wright.

    18. [S332] FreeREG, (http://www.freereg.org.uk/), none.
      Marriage - County Norfolk; Place Great Ellingham; Church St James; RegisterNumber 163; MarriageDate 30 Sep 1884; GroomForename Ernest Edwin; GroomSurname RUSHBROOKE; GroomAge 26; GroomParish Great Ellingham; GroomOccupation Farmer; GroomAbode Great Ellingham; BrideForename Ellen Sarah; BrideSurname WRIGHT; BrideAge 26; BrideParish Great Ellingham; BrideAbode Great Ellingham; GroomFatherForename Alban; GroomFatherSurname RUSHBROOKE; GroomFatherOccupation Farmer; BrideFatherForename George Samuel; BrideFatherSurname WRIGHT; BrideFatherOccupation Farmer; WitnessOneForename William Arthur; WitnessOneSurname ROBERTS; WitnessTwoForename Maria; WitnessTwoSurname WRIGHT

    19. [S31] Family Search, (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), none.

    20. [S86] New Zealand Registrar-General's Office, NZ Register of Marrages - Indexes.
      Alban George RUSHBROOKE and Elinor McLAREN #6715 1914


 

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