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Peter BRODIE
1866 - 1959

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• Birth	12 Jul 1866	Ipswich Qld Aust (1866/001253)
  Gender	Male
  Died	24 Mar 1959	Toowoomba Qld. Aust. Aged 92 Yrs.
  Buried	Cecil Plains Cemetery
  Person ID	I1901	Qld Branch Tree 1
  Last Modified	29 Sep 2012

  
  

  Father	Living
  Relationship	Natural
  Mother	Living
  Relationship	Natural
  Family ID	F522	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Margaret FORSYTH,   b. 15 May 1872, Mt. Flinders, Ipswich, Qld. Aust. (Q/BDM 1872/001244) ,   d. 31 Jan 1949, Thane, Qld Aust.
  Married	10 Dec 1890	Greenmount, Qld, Aust. (Q/BDM 1890/000491)
  Children	1. Violet Mary BRODIE,   b. 19 Feb 1891, Greenmount Qld Qust (Q/BDM 1891/002884) ,   d. 26 Sep 1962, Dalby, Qld Aust.   2. Flora Annie BRODIE,   b. 1892,   d. 25 Dec 1909, Source Qld. B.D.M. 1910/003396   3. Daniel Colin BRODIE,   b. 17 Oct 1897, Greenmount Qld Aust. (Source Q/BDM1897/002684) ,   d. 28 Aug 1957, Toowoomba Qld, Aust.   4. Robert BRODIE,   b. 17 Jun 1899, Source Qld BDM 1899/002552 ,   d. 22 Jun 1899, Source Qld BDM 1899/001489   5. Katherine Jean BRODIE,   b. 17 May 1906, Source Qld BDM 1906/002525 ,   d. 09 Mar 1912, Source Qldl BDM 1912/004344   6. Agnes Lillias BRODIE,   b. 12 Sep 1910, Qld Aust.(Q/BDM 1910/0013346)   7. Peter Stuart BRODIE,   b. 05 May 1912, Toowoomba Qld. Aust.(Q/BDM 1912/013189) ,   d. 01 Jul 1989, Toowoomba Qld, Aust.
  Family ID	F685	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  Extracts from the book "Loch Lomond to Australia 1862. The Family of Peter & Jane Mc Intyre: "Peter Brodie was born at Ipswich on 12 July 1866, the fourth child of violet and daniel Brodie. The family moved to Emu Crek after his father;s death. Peter was a first day scholar at the Emu Creek State School when it opened in 1875, at what is now East Greenmount. One of his jobs early in life was looking after sheep watering at emu Creek. Without dogs and being on foot, it would have been a challenge just to keep apart the different mobs watering there. He went to Sydney to his Uncles Duncan and Dugald Mc Intyre to learn the building trade. His Uncle Dugald was a partner in a building firm, "Jones and Mc Intyre". Peter became a carpenter and cabinet maker and attended night school to learn trade drawing. The apprentice in those days cooked the builders their breakfast on the job, so it would have been an early start for Peter. It was when he was working in Sydney, that Peter married Margaret Forsyth at Greenmount in 1890. After 13 years in Sydney, he left the building trade to come back to Queensland to become a farmer, firstly at Nobby on a farm know as "Ross Dhu", and next to his brother Jacks; farm "Waratah". When Eton vale was thrown open for closer settlement, he took up land near Greenmount. He named his farm "Glengyle", which he farmed for some years before moving to Greenmount to continue in the building trade. Peter and Margaret had a family of eight children, Violet, Flora, Edith, Colin, robert, Katherine, Nesta, and Peter. Colin was a first World War veteran and Peter was a prisoner of war of the Japanese in the second world Wor. Peter and Margaret moved to Cecil Plains to help heir sons and aughter. Here Peter designed and build many of the buildings on his families' properties. His hobby in later life was building pieces of furniture for family members. These are still cherished todayt. Margaret died on 31 January 1949 at Thane and Peter died in Toowoomba on 24 March 1959, aged 92 years.