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British Families in Southern Patagonia

HOBBS--BLOOM

Ernest William HOBBS; b. 1866 Basingstoke, Hampshire; son of Philip HOBBS & Elizabeth Mary HOLMESTED; apprenticed on uncle's farm in Falklands [Malvinas]; c.1882 immigrated to Punta Arenas; pioneer rancher; 1899 manager at Ea. Gente Grande, Tierra del Fuego; 1904 shareholder in Sociedad Ganadera Gente Grande, with Rodolfo Stubenrauch; 1899 will; 1911 president of Sociedad Ballenera de Magallanes; partner, Hobbs y Cía., obtaining large concession of land in Aysén; 1919-25 appointed first mayor of Punta Arenas; active in community groups, including British Association of Magallanes, Anglican Society; d. 1948 Santiago

m. 1895 Punta Arenas

Sara María Teresa BLOOM Muñoz; b. 1869 Punta Arenas; dtr. of Guillermo BLOOM, Russian (b. 1836 Riga, Latvia; d. 1912 Punta Arenas), blacksmith & Teresa MUÑOZ, from Chiloé (m. 1866 Punta Arenas); d. 1961 Santiago

Children:
1. Anita Teresa; b. c1898; m. 1923 Punta Arenas, Francisco GARCÍA
2. Ethel Irmgard, d. 1997 UK
3. Clarence Magellan; b. 1899; d. 1941
4. Rudolf Ernest ("Rudi"); b. c1901; m. 1941 Punta Arenas, Daphne JONES (see JONES--BOND); 1965 retired from sheepfarming to Cordoba Hills, Argentina; d. 1983 Buenos Aires
5. Sylvia ("Bunny"); b. c1902; d. 1982 UK
6. Cecil; b. c1903
7. Violet ("Cheetah"); b. c1905; d. 1999 UK
8. Olive; b. c1907; d. 2001 UK
9. Helen Primrose ("Nona"); b. c1908; d. 1985 UK
10. Ray Erica ("Decca"); b. 1909; m. 1934 Punta Arenas, Arthur HUNTLEY; d. 2003

Ernest Hobbs
Ernest Hobbs

[family photos]

Sources:
(1) "Inmigrantes Malvineros en Magallanes" (Apéndice II), Mateo Martinic B., Punta Arenas, Chile 1996
(2) Notarios de Punta Arenas
(3) Parish registers, Punta Arenas
(4) Consular registrations, Punta Arenas
(5) "Streams in the Wasteland", Elizabeth Dooley, Punta Arenas, 1993
Thanks: Kathleen Huntley (various, XII-2015), Niels Scherling (IV-2008)
Last updated: 28-XII-2015