George Brand (actor)
George Brand may refer to: * George Brand (convict) (1820–1872), convict transported to Western Australia * George Brand (politician) George Edmund Dowd Brand (11 March 1911 – 5 March 1997) was an Australian politician who served as a Liberal Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1965 to 1971, representing Lower North Province. Brand was born i ...

George Brand (convict)
George Brand (1872) was a convict transported to colonial Western Australia. Born in Perthshire, Scotland around 1820, Brand married Isabella Duncan in January 1840. Over the next seven years they had three sons and one daughter. Brand was working as a carter in 1852 when he was convicted of theft at Edinburgh; Brand was sentenced to 14 years' transportation, and arrived in Western Australia on board in June 1855. He received his ticket of leave the following year, and took up employment in the Greenough area. By the time he received his conditional pardon in August 1859, his wife and children had emigrated to the colony to join him. A fifth child was born in 1861. In 1867 Brand bought of land at Bootenal Reserve near Dongara. The family worked to establish a farm there, and later became active in the district's civic affairs. George Brand died in 1872. Each of his sons later became successful farmers in the district, and every one of his children married out of the c ...
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