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Name: | Charles Brady |
Sex: | Male |
Father: | Anthony Brady (1777-1847) |
Mother: | Marianne Perigal (1780-1868) |
Birth | 1 Aug 1819 | Deptford, Kent |
Baptism | 9 Sep 1819 (age 0) | Saint Paul, Deptford, London |
Census | 1841 (age 21-22) | Merchant clerk, Keppel St, Bloomsbury, Middlesex |
Occupation | 4 Jul 1848 (age 28) | -; Wine merchant, 3 Clements Lane, Lombard St, partnership with George Perigal, bankrupt (L.Gazette 22.8.1848, p.3142) |
Occupation | 2 Nov 1850 (age 31) | -; Merchant, 6 Rood Lane, Fenchurch St, London (petition for bankruptcy, L.Gazette 24.12.1852) |
Census | 1851 (age 31-32) | Merchant, 12 George St, Greenwich St Alphage (unmarried) |
Charles Brady left England in 1851, was for some time in New Zealand, and afterwards had a grant of land on the borders of the River Tweed, in New South Wales, where he has introduced into that country the cultivation of the silkworm.
Source: Some Account of the Perigal Family (1887)
Little interest in silkworms was reported in the 1850’s due to pre-occupation with gold discoveries, but around 1862, Charles Brady of Manly, NSW, began experiments to breed a more resistant strain of silkworm more suited to Australian conditions. This was the time of devastation and death of the silk industries in Europe due to pebrine disease. Brady managed to import and maintain healthy strains of silkworms on his property at the Tweed River, NSW, but the project was not continued because he was not able to gain government support to expand the industry.
RIRDC: Silk Production in Australia, May 2000, p.46
https://rirdc.infoservices.com.au/downloads/00-056