Hannah Brocksopp

1795 - 24 Feb 1855

• RESIDENCE: 1813, Argentina
• OCCUPATION: Farmer
  
• BIRTH: 1795, Ault Hucknall, , Derbyshire, England
• CHRISTENING: 4 Jul 1796
• DEATH: 24 Feb 1855, Cardalito, Saladillo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• BURIAL: British Cemetery Victoria, Buenos Aires, Argentina

• MARRIAGE: 3 Sep 1815, HBM Orpheus, off the coast of Buenos Aires

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Hanna Brocksopp arrived to Buenos Aires in 1813 with her sister Martha. Both started working in the land of James Barton in Monte Grande. Two years later she married John Joseph Byrne, who had a house and some farmland there. In 1821 Byrne died and Hanna inherited his properties. She worked hard and after some time she was able to buy her own land in Cañuelas. She was a woman of strong personality; she was never able to have her own children, but she raised the orphaned children of her sister Martha, and two children of his brother Ralph. When Ralph died she was named guardian of his children and executrix of his will, which generated arguments with his widow. When she died in 1855 she left significant extensions of land and properties to the children of her siblings.


Source: Maxine Hanon, Diccionario de Británicos en Buenos Aires


Arrived in Argentina the year 1813 with her sister Martha. Bought in Oct 1835 Los Ombúes, Los Retamos and Los Robles in the area of Tristán Suárez, Provincia de Buenos Aires, totaling 1.400 Hts., later in Saladillo, Provincia de Buenos Aires, bought Cardalito with 17.000 Hts. from John Miller. The first three are today next to Ezeiza Airport., the most important general store in Saladillo area was that of Hannah (Ana) Byrne, bought rom Robert Houston, an Englishman, today 1996 in the district of Roque Pérez, Provincia de Buenos Aires.

Padrón de habitantes del partido de Las Cañuelas, Provincia de Buenos Aires, año 1836: Ana Byrne, 2 blancos, 2 pardos, 5 extranjeros.

Source: Miguel Turner Archive