Male BROCK

- 1857

• Name	Male BROCK
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	Gas lighting engineer  [1]
  Death	1857	Calcutta, West Bengal, India   [1]
  	Cause: Cholera
  Person ID	I698	UK Thrale family
  Last Modified	10 Nov 2024

  
  

  Family	Ann BILLOWS,   b. Abt 1822   d. 1884, Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, England (Age 62 years)
  Children	1. Frederick BROCK BILLOWS + 2. Mary BROCK BILLOWS,   b. Abt 1852, Dorset, England d. 13 Aug 1945, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (Age 93 years) m. Thomas George WILSHIRE, Jr (1885)
  Family ID	F309	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Feb 2004

  
  

• Event Map		Death - Cause: Cholera - 1857 - Calcutta, West Bengal, India  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S25] Steve and Judy Jones, 23 Jun 2002. Dear David, Your website looks great and it is a thrill to see the pictures of the goblet, John and Sarah. I only picked up 2 small errors. Thomas George Wilsher Jr immigrated to Australia in 1884. Mary Brock Billows immigrated in 1885 with her brother, Frederick to marry Thomas. The family story is that Thomas immigrated to escape being made to go to Italy for singing lessons. He had a marvellous voice and sang in the choir at St Alban's Cathedral. He was only 20 years old when he arrived in Melbourne. Mary Brock Billows, his sweetheart, followed a few months later. She was 12 years older than him. Her father, a gas engineer died in 1857 in Calcutta, India from cholera where he was installing gas lighting for the city. Thomas George Wilsher Jr sang at my parents' wedding in 1949. He died in 1953, a year before I was born. His wife, Mary (known as Polly) died in 1945. The owner of the goblet is not my mother, but my aunt, Grace Thiele. Judy Jones sajones@bigpond.net.au .