NameBrownleeDescriptionWilliam Brownlee was born in Country Armagh, Northern Ireland about 1838. In 1862 he married Elizabeth Mary Collins at Wollongong.
William and Elizabeth had six children; John, Mary, Patrick, Murray, Francis and Jane.
William discovered coal on his property at Tongarra in the 1880's.
Site of Tongarra Coal Mine, c.1890.