See also

Family of Henry Arthur Mitchell and Minna Sophia Thomson

Husband: Henry Arthur Mitchell

  • Name:

  • Henry Arthur Mitchell

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • 6 Sep 1870

  • Bunbury, Western Australia

  • Education:

  •  

  • Bunbury & Bishop's School in Perth

  • Occupation:

  • 1895 (age 24-25)

  • Surveyor's Assistant

  • Death:

  • 5 Oct 1940 (age 70)

  • Bunbury, Western Australia

Wife: Minna Sophia Thomson

  • Name:

  • Minna Sophia Thomson

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • James Guy Thomson (1832-1890)

  • Mother:

  • Emma Lucille Frances Roe (1837-1876)

  • Note:

  • The following reminiscences of Minna Thomson were published in the Western Mail in 1948 when the Brookhampton property was sold:

    'There were tales of wild gallops to Perth when exhausted horses were unhitched at McLarty's, Pinjarra, and fresh ones carried on with their untiring driver still cracking his whip; of breathtaking escapes when only brilliant handling of runaway horses on the winding five-mile forest track prevented upset of the coach.'

  • Birth:

  • 26 Sep 1863

  • Brookhampton, Blackwood, Western Australia

  • Death:

  • Feb 1951 (age 87)

  • Boyup Brook, Western Australia

Child 1: Mary Marjorie Bremer Mitchell

Child 2: Henry Rex Bremer Mitchell

  • Name:

  • Henry Rex Bremer Mitchell

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Birth:

  • 1901

  • Bunbury, Western Australia

  • Death:

  • 1902 (age 0-1)

  • Bunbury

Child 3: James Henry Bremer Mitchell

  • Name:

  • James Henry Bremer Mitchell

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Birth:

  • 22 Sep 1902

  • Donnybrook, Western Australia

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • -; Farmer / Grazier

  • Death:

  • 11 Oct 1968 (age 66)

  • Donnybrook

  • Cremation:

  •  

  • Karrakatta Cemetery

Child 4: Guy Newman Bremer Mitchell

  • Name:

  • Guy Newman Bremer Mitchell

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Eva Lee Steere (1904- )

  • Birth:

  • 2 Sep 1903

  • Donnybrook, Western Australia

  • Death:

  • 19 Apr 1977 (age 73)

  • Boyup Brook, Western Australia

  • Cremation:

  •  

  • Karrakatta Cemetery

Child 5: Charles Bremer Mitchell

  • Name:

  • Charles Bremer Mitchell

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Leila Trigwell ( - )

  • Birth:

  • 19 Jan 1905

  • Donnybrook, Western Australia

  • Death:

  • 1979 (age 73-74)

  • Blackwood, Bridgetown, Western Australia

Child 6: Minna Kate Bremer Mitchell

  • Name:

  • Minna Kate Bremer Mitchell

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Spouse:

  • Reginald Thomas Dawson Drake-Brockman (1905-1989)

  • Note (shared):

  • supervised 3 land girls and prisoners of war

  • Birth:

  • 19 Oct 1909

  • Donnybrook, Western Australia

  • Death:

  • Jan 2002 (age 92)

  • Western Australia

Note on Wife: Minna Sophia Thomson

The following reminiscences of Minna Thomson were published in the Western Mail in 1948 when the Brookhampton property was sold:

'There were tales of wild gallops to Perth when exhausted horses were unhitched at McLarty's, Pinjarra, and fresh ones carried on with their untiring driver still cracking his whip; of breathtaking escapes when only brilliant handling of runaway horses on the winding five-mile forest track prevented upset of the coach.'

Note on Child 6: Minna Kate Bremer Mitchell - shared note

supervised 3 land girls and prisoners of war