BRUMBY FAMILY

                      The first of the family I can link to the family coming to Australia is in Lincolnshire, England                       C1650 with the birth of William BRUMBY who married Helen PYE in 1674 in Scotter,                       Lincolnshire, England.

                      The family were known to be horse breeders. James, the first to arrive in Australia breed                        horses in New South Wales, before been transferred to Tasmania in 1804. He could not catch                        all of his horses. They went wild. People in the colony asked whose horses they saw running                        around the colony. The reply was they are off BRUMBY's run. As the years went by it was                        shortened to BRUMBY's, so now all the wild horses in known as BRUMBY's.

                      James BRUMBY arrived in Australia as a Private in the Army in 1791. He was 6'1" tall and                       18 years old. When he left the army he was a Sergeant in Tasmania in Paterson Corps. He                       married Elizabeth Annesley (an ex-convict) who had co-habituated with him for a time in New                       South Wales. She had been sent as a convict to New South Wales in 1794 as a widow named                       Elizabeth Hainsley, they married in Launceston in 1804. They had 3 sons. William, Robert and                       James. Robert was killed when he was 18 years old riding a horse. There are many                       descendants from William and James. A prayer book belonging to James's father was found in                       Victoria a number of years ago, with the names of James and his siblings birth and baptism                       dates and times.   

                     James wrote back to his family in Lincolnshire and as a result 4 of his nephews also came to                      Tasmania. 1 settled in Victoria, the other 3 in Tasmania. In later years some of his grand                      nieces and nephews also made the journey to Australia and New Zealand.