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Small faded carte de visite photograph of Major Willoughby Brassey, mounted on card. Head and shoulders portrait of an older man with receding hair and a moustache, wearing a dark suit with white collar showing. Image deliberately blurred around the edges. Reverse printed with maker's details, photographer Fred. S.D. Phillips of the London Photographic Company.
Willoughby Brassey was born 31st August 1817 in Barking, Essex, England, son of Richard John and Anne Ibbetson, and was Christened on 2nd February 1818. He enlisted with the military in 1842 as an ensign of the 2nd European Light Infantry, and emigrated to New Zealand where he served as a Major in the Taranaki Militia.
Brassey married Elizabeth Munhal in 1861 and they had the following children:
Adolphus Willoughby born 1861
Brownlow Ellen born 1863
Catherine born 1867
Grace Jane born 1869, died aged five months
Elizabeth Brassey died in 1870 aged 30 years. Willoughby went on to marry Frances Slattery in 1880 but no further children are recorded, and he died in Westmere, Auckland, on 8th September 1907 aged 90 years.
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