Brockman - Australian Brockmans

Australian Brockmans

The Australian Branch consists primarily of three sub-branches. The first two branches originated from two brothers William Locke Brockman (5th son) and Robert James Drake-Brockman (9th son) being the sons of Rev. Julius Drake-Brockman and Harriet Drake-Brockman (née Locke). The third branch of the Australian family originated from James Groves Birdwood Drake-Brockman who was a nephew of William and Robert.

William Locke Brockman arrived at the Swan River Colony on the ship Minstrel in January 1830. He arrived with his wife Ann Hamersley and first-born son Edmund Ralph, a prefabricated house, seven servants and his livestock (sheep), which included three rams and 46 pure merino ewes. He was the ninth landowner of the new colony to be granted land (Lot 9 Swan River Colony) by Surveyor General John Septimus Roe.

His younger brother Robert Brockman arrived on the ship Egyptian on December 1831 and their nephew James Groves Birdwood Drake-Brockman arrived many years later in 1872 after serving in the Indian Police. Web pages detailing the genealogy and history of the Brockman and Drake-Brockman families in England and Australia can be found here.

The Brockman family have a long history in Western Australia, including:

• AJ Brockman, a visual communicator and award-winning digital artist]];
• William Locke Brockman, pastoralist and MLC;
• Edmund Ralph Brockman, pastoralist and MLC;
• Henry Brockman, pastoralist and MLC;
• Edmund Vernon Brockman, MLA;
• Frederick Slade Drake-Brockman, explorer and Surveyor General of Western Australia
• Slade Drake-Brockman, organiser of the WAY 1979 sesquicentennial celebrations;
• Grace Drake-Brockman née Bussell, of SS Georgette shipwreck fame;
• Henrietta Drake-Brockman, Western Australian author and historian
• Major General Edmund Alfred Drake-Brockman, Australia WWI & WW2 Veteran, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., M.I.D.
• Sir Thomas Charles Drake-Brockman K.B., D.F.C. – Long serving Australian Senator (politician), former minister in the Fraser Government;
• Charles Samuel Brockman, explorer, grazier, pastoralist and pioneer of the Western Australian Gascoyne region;
• George 'Julius' Brockman, explorer, pearler and pioneer of the Kimberley region of Western Australia;
• Geoffrey Drake-Brockman (MC), engineer for the North-West of Western Australia and author of the book titled the 'Turning Wheel'.