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Many thanks maddys52  and other members of Roots Chat for all your help in the search for the Pitt brothers, ttip and I are know to each other and have corresponded. I appreciate all your time and  help on both threads of this topic, we will forge on with our quest to discover these brothers Pitt before they came to Australia and hopefully one day something will appear for us. Roots Chat is indeed an amazing help. Cheers Kay

‘William Pitt Senior’, in Companion to Theatre in Australia, Currency Press, 1995, one of the sources of the article.  One of the online references says the following "William Pitt  Painter and scene-painter, the son of a successful English scene painter, arrived at Port Melbourne on 27 January 1853 with his wife Jane as unassisted migrants. An experienced scene-painter from the London Lyceum Theatre, he was soon employed by the theatrical entrepreneur George Seth Coppin.Biographer: Maslen, Joan Source of info: The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870 Date written: Date: 1992"

I have found another topic on this forum named Help- Scenic Theatre Artists 1840's. They too were searching for Thomas Pitt, Artist.
There is a Thomas Pitt at the Adelphi from 1824-1858 however he is Thomas H Pitt. His death is recorded 18th Aug, 1873 Thomas H Pitt aged 70 yrs of 58 Westbourne Road North, Bamsbury. He worked at the Royal, Alelphi and Drury Lane. In 1871 Census he is at Westbourne Road, place of birth Croydon (confirmed by the 1861 census). Perhaps my Thomas Pitt changed his name to stop confusion. Or perhaps Pitt was not his name from the beginning. The theatre circuit included Birmingham and Sunderland so perhaps he met Jane Dixon during one of these circuits.

William Pitt is described as an Artist, aged 30 yrs England, his brother Thomas aged 32 yrs, no occupation and Williams defacto wife Mrs Jane 24 yrs, on the ship "Birman"' arriving 1853 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia from Glasgow, Scotland. No children with them. They were not married so no Marriage certificate details. They never married in Australia after they arrived despite having children here.

William Pitt was a well know theatre artist in Melbourne. He was well documented in Victoria, Australia as a publican and artist and owner of the Cafe de Paris. His origins in England are the mystery.