Lilias Stuart Humphreys collection, ca. 1800-1987, compiled ca. 1960-1987

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ca. 1800-1987, compiled ca. 1960-1987

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Watercolours, Photographs

411813

Textual Records - 24 boxes and 1 outsize item
Photographs - 1 box

Lilias Stuart Humphreys, artist and genealogist, was born at Orange, N.S.W. in 1909, the fourth daughter and eldest child of Percival Stuart Garling (1873-1951) and Margaret Isabella Jane McSpadden. She married, in 1936, Jack Iorweth Humphreys (1905-1989) at her parents' home 'Wanganui', Longueville, N.S.W.; they had a daughter, Jennifer Karen (1937-1983). In 1927 the family home had been the venue for the celebration of the 112th anniversary of the arrival in Australia of Lilias's great-great grandfather, the solicitor and magistrate Frederick Garling Senior (1775-1848). Her great grandfather was the customs officer and marine artist, Frederick Garling Junior (1806-1873), whose son was Arthur Crawford Garling (1833-1910).

In the 1960s, Lilias Humphreys began her genealogical researches into the descendants of Frederick Garling Senior and their extensive connections with other families. She carried on the earlier researches of her uncle, William Mylam Nicholas Garling. She was assisted by her daughter, Jennifer, who conducted her own research on Susannah Matilda Ward, nee Baldwin, appointed by Governor Macquarie as matron and superintendent of the Female Orphan Institution. Lilias Humphreys died in 1985.

Most of the papers that comprise the Lilias Stuart Humphreys collection came into the possession of the donor, Lady Hurley, after Lilias' death and before the death of her widower, John Humphreys, in 1989. Lady Hurley was married to Sir John Garling Hurley (1906-1989), whose mother, Annie Elizabeth Garling was Lilias' aunt. In 1991, Lady Hurley commissioned Patricia R. McDonald to list the collection and to make recommendations about its dispersal. An inventory was compiled to the papers in various subject groups and accompanied the collection when it was presented to the State Library of New South Wales in the same year.

A. Papers, ca. 1800-1987, chiefly compiled by Lilias Stuart Humphreys, ca. 1960-1987
B. Pictorial material (inc. photographs, drawings, etching & seals), ca. 1850-1935

This collection comprises 2 record series. You may navigate to a more detailed description of each series from this collection record.