Portraits of residents of Rylstone, 1919 / J. Check

ON 45

fonds

1919

Graphic Materials, Photographs

836946

14 negatives - glass

1. Barney Yarrington - Employed at Kandos: cousin to McKenna and Babbage families, Rylstone: later conducted a general store at Rylstone; married Hilda Cooper, died about 1958.

2. Tom Foodey - With his two sisters, Dorrie and Mona, lived with a maternal uncle, Mr Staff; both parents dead; well-known locally as an athlete and footballer; employed at Kandos: married Alice Fuller of Rylstone.

3. Mrs Hector Maclean - wife and a hairdresser: formerly Amy Sampson; member of a large family; her cousin, Miss Jackson, married Maurice Hayward, proprietor of a general store in the town.

4. Ina Maclean - eldest child of Hector and Amy Maclean: sister of Jack, Mona and "Boy": her father's sister married a Dawson from "Henbury" on the Kandos Road.

5. Kearney - member of a family which included Mrs Babbage and Mrs McKenna (both nee Kearney).

6. Wally Gillan - worked at Kandos, but did not originally come from Rylstone: married a local girl.

7. S. Johnson - son of a local farmer.

8. A. Ferguson - son of a council employee, who had married a member of the Taylor family.

9. Ernest Taylor - member of a large local family which included Mrs Ferguson.

10. P. & W. Quinnell - sons of railway fettler: brothers of Ruby.

11. Turner - a relative of the Sampson family.

12. Cecil Brown - member of a large family, the mother of which died from pneumonic flu in 1918: obtained a bursary to Mudgee High School, but, on account of the impoverished circumstances of the family, had to refuse it and take employment with the local butcher, William Black.

13. Doreen, Constance and John Tuttell - children of James Tuttell, drapery manager at Hayward's Store: the family belonged to Queanbeyan.

Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.

Prints from negatives are filed at P1 with names of residents on back of prints. Names of the residents have been supplied by the donor.

Joseph Check was a foreign photographer who travelled through the country districts. He spent three months in Rylstone in 1919, and discarded all his negatives after dealing with orders for prints. The fourteen negatives now filed at ON 45 appear to be all that have survived out of some hundreds. J. Check had 6 daughters, one of whom, Ivy, married Fred Lysaght of Cootamundra (information supplied by donor).