Series 3: Bridal and Lampe family portraits, ca. 1855-65 / ambrotype portraits by unknown photographer

MIN 284
MIN 285
MIN 286
MIN 287
MIN 288

series

1855-65

Graphic Materials, Photographs

826046

5 photographs - ambrotypes, hand tinted - various sizes

Martha Bridle (nee Miles), parents Edward Miles and Susannah Smith (Staines), was born on the 4th February 1807 in Prospect, N.S.W. and died in November 1886 in Tumut, N.S.W. She married William Bridle at St Peters Church of England, Campbelltown by Reverend Thomas Reddell on 30th June 1823

William Bridle was born in Somerset England on the 4th May 1797. He was convicted of larceny on the 5th of February 1817 and sentenced to 7 years transportation to Australia on board the Larkins arriving on the 22nd November 1817. He married Martha Miles at St Peters Church of England, Campbelltown by Reverend Thomas Reddell on 30th June 1823. Following his arrival, William was assigned to James Meehan, Surveyor, at Macquarie Fields. He was granted his Certificate of Freedom on the 19th February 1824. In 1848 he obtained a lease of Talbingo Station on the Tumut River. The property was later sold, in 1866, to Oltmann Lampe and they moved to live at Fitzroy Cottage Tumut.

Susannah Margaret Eleanor Franklin nee Lampe, daughter of Oltmann and Sarah Lampe, was born at Monaro in 1850. She married John Maurice Franklin in 1878 and lived at Talbingo and later at Brindabella. She is the mother of Stella Miles Franklin.

Reference:
Miles Franklin: her brilliant career / Colin Roderick. Adelaide : Rigby, 1982

These portraits were identified as Stella Miles Franklin’s mother, great-grandmother and great-grandfather from other photographs in the collection. PX*D 250-2, nos. 8, 12; PX*D 251, no. 1, 47b.

MIN 284
Portrait of Martha Bridle, c. 1855-1860
Ambrotype ; 6.3 x 4.8 cm; in leather bound case
(Lid of leather bound case was missing when received.)

MIN 285
Portrait of William Bridle, c. 1855-1860
Ambrotype ; 6.4 x 5.1 cm, leather bound case 7.3 x 6 cm


MIN 286
Portraits of William and Martha Bridle, c. 1855 - 1860.
2 ambrotypes ; set into front and back of a brooch 4.1 x 3.6 cm
(The glass over the portrait was broken when received.)

MIN 287
Portrait of Susannah Margaret Eleanor Franklin nee Lampe, c. 1865
Ambrotype ; 6.4 x 5.1 cm in leather bound case 7.3 x 6.2 cm

MIN 288
Portrait of a member of the Lampe family
Ambrotype
(Identity of sitter is unknown, possibly one of Miles Franklin’s uncles).

All works are untitled. Title from cataloguer

MIN 284 of Martha Bridle and MIN 285 William Bridle are individual photographs paired together in a leather bound case.

MIN 286 portraits of Martha and William Bridle The glass on one side of the brooch was broken when received in the Mitchell Library

MIN 288: Identity of sitter is unknown, possibly one of Miles Franklin’s uncles

Unsigned and undated, dated from appearance of sitters and approximately the period ambrotypes were popular in Australia.