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About Capt. Robert Thomas Brown
Details: Captain Robert Brown started a settlement at Codfish Island when the sealing industry was waning. He arrived on the Glory in 1823. He married Te Wharerimu, and had 5 children; Tame/Thomas- "The first half-caste child born in southern New Zealand"; Kararaina/Caroline who married the whaler John Howell of Riverton; Tera/Sarah who married the Tasmanian born whaler Ned Palmer; Peti/Elizabeth who married Tame Parata later MP for Southern Maori; and Papu/ Robert who married Tini/ Jane Palmer, daughter of Ned Palmer's uncle Edward Palmer, in 1847. All these children were born in the 1820s and 30s.
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Capt. Robert Thomas Brown's Timeline
| 1794 |
June 8, 1794
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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| 1800 |
1800
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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| 1827 |
1827
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Codfish Island, Southland, New Zealand
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| 1830 |
1830
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Codfish Island, Southland, New Zealand
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| 1832 |
September 23, 1832
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Whenua Hou [Codfish Island], Foveaux Strait, west of Rakiura [Stewart Island], New Zealand
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1832
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Codfish Island, Southland, New Zealand
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| 1836 |
1836
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Codfish Island, Southland, New Zealand
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| 1844 |
1844
Age 44
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Drowned at Sea
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