His step brothers with Harvey walden The brothers, Joseph Brooks (1802-1835), George (1805-1875) and Edward (1814-1893), and founded their establishment at Otago Heads in 1831, the first enduring European settlement in what is now the City of Dunedin.
Members of a wealthy land-owning family from Folkestone, Kent, they moved serially to Australia, partly to alleviate Joseph Brooks Weller's tuberculosis.