• Title
  [Rushcutters `Bay' House, N.S.W. : residence of the Hargrave family]
• Call number
  SPF/738
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  undated [ca. 1870s]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  414109
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - carte de visite - 6.4 x 10.2 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Judge, John Fletcher Hargrave (1815-1885) arrived in Sydney in February 1857. His son, aeronautical pioneer and inventer, Lawrence Hargrave (1850-1915) reached Sydney in November 1865 and moved into his father's house `Rushcutters Bay House' -- Reference: Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol.4 and Vol.9
• General note
  
  Inscription by Helen Gray (nee Hargrave), 1879-1966.
  Margaret and Lawrence Hargrave's first child, Helen, was born on the 22 Jun 1879, at Rushcutters Bay House. Lawrence had two brothers, Ralph and Gilbert.
  Related manuscript material: Hargrave family (MLDOC 1908 Mitchell Library) see recollections and maps of Bay House
  Digital order no:a089738
  This item has been catalogued and digitised under a project funded and supported by the State Library of New South Wales Foundation, 2001.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "Rushcutters "Bay" House where J.F.H. lived from the time he went to Sydney till his death in 1885. I was born in room with balcony, 22-6-79. Wing to right had the 3 boys rooms. R. G. & L. H. (his workshop later on. J.F.H. liked tower as at Coalcliff" -- on reverse
• Name
  Hargrave family
  
• Topic
  balconies
  houses
  
• Place
  Rushcutters Bay House (Rushcutters Bay, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1228995

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