CIRCUS

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Headstone at Wagga Wagga Cemetery:

http://postimg.org/image/3rezg6itx/

[sparrett]

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/108835667
 
This is the death of a daughter, Mrs MOXHAM in 1883.
It remarks she is the daughter of Mrs BROWN "of circus renown".

It is a bit ambiguous.  Does it convey that the circus continued after the death of Mr BROWN in 1955?
 

Sue 

[spices]

Wow, many thanks for that snippet. 

I think the 1941 cutting I posted earlier suggests the circus stopped after his death.

Add
I wonder that that book has cited its sources ... if so, perhaps our OP would be interested in following those back to their primary origins.   

Cheers,  JM

Yes the book has 3 pages of Sources
Newspapers, Magazines, Books, Playbills & Interviews.

"Interviews have been cited as appropriately throughout the book."

The St Leon family were circus performers not sure if they owned circuses.
In 1954 Leo St Leon was a fourth generation St Leon family performing under the Wirth canvas during the Sydney Easter season.

For interest Mark St Leon started preparing this book while in his final year at high school & completed the task 13 years later.

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NSW State Records online Convict Index….
John BROWN on the John (4)  Recommended Conditional Pardon …. Reel 798, page 003 …. NO DATE mentioned at index.

John BROWN {John (4)}
Conditional Pardon No: 46/892
Year: 1846

[Jaznjjj]

Yes Sue, Mrs Moxham was Susannah Hannah (known I believe as Hannah) the daughter of Susannah Eleanor Brown nee Seymour and a liaison with Augustus Caesar before her marriage to Tinker Brown.
Baptised as Susannah Hannah Caesar Seymour.   I have just re-read some of the notes from Wagga Museum which states that Hannah's interest in her mother's estate was not to be "subject to the debts, control or intermeddling of the said Henry Moxham her present husband or any future husband she may in turn marry". 

[Jaznjjj]

Just noticed that Susannah died June, 1883, her daughter Hannah (Mrs Moxham) died December that same year  "The fortune dissipated whilst held in a trust...."  More information available if anyone is interested.  Susannah held much property in Wagga from which she collected rent. 

I have no idea at this stage whether the circus continued beyond William's death but that's something I will be looking out for. 

[~MERLIN~]

John BROWN - Trial 30th June 1831 CCC, London:

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t18310630-147-punish792&div=t18310630-147#
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/print.jsp?div=t18310630-147
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/images.jsp?doc=183106300081

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Transportation:

John BROWN 1832
Ship: John I (4)
Tried: London 1831
Sentence: 7yrs

[Jaznjjj]

Thank you Merlin,

John I (4)  arrived Sydney 08 06 1832  NSW 07 02 1832  Downs 122  200 198  Sam J Lowe Jas Lawrence
http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/shipNSW2.html

John Brown was said to have arrived as a convict in 1837 though I haven't been able to check that.  John II arrived in 1837.  John 1(4) arrived (as above) in 1832.   No arrival in 1839 in the list above.

Conditional pardon received 1846, sentence was 7 years, so this indicates year of arrival of approx. 1839. 

The John Brown Old Bailey proceedings in 1831 indicate he was 15 years old - consistent with birth in 1815. 

John Brown's permission to marry in 1841 states his age as 26, indicating a birth year of 1815 which is not quite but reasonably consistent with death in 1858 at age 40.  Age at death is consistent with death date of 1855 = birth year 1815! 

So did John Brown arrive in 1832, 1837 or 1839?