Delarue family papers and pictorial material, 1855-1982

MLMSS 5106

fonds

1855-1982

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Clippings

888335

0.18 metres of textual material and 10 photographs (1 box)

Hippolyte Felix Delarue was born in France ca. 1829 and came to Sydney, N.S.W., ca. 1852, where he established a clock and jewellery business. In 1855 he married Lydia Knight. Two of their three sons, Leopold Hippolyte and Emile entered the business, while Valentine Albert Victor became an architect. Leopold married Matilda Kate Brown in 1879 and they had two daughters, Lydia Victorine and Eugenie Louise.

The business prospered during the lifetime of Hippolyte Felix Delarue but after his death at the age of 59 in 1881 a slow decline began and trading ceased altogether about 1908.

Mrs Eugenie Crawford has recorded the adventures of her grandmother and her two daughters in two books: A bunyip close behind me : recollections of the nineties. Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1972 and Ladies didn’t : recollections of an Edwardian girlhood. Penguin, Ringwood, Vic., 1984

Donor great granddaughter of Hippolyte Felix Delarue

Detailed contents list for manuscript component of collection (Items 1-6) available

Item 7
Photographs of the Delarue family, ca. 1865-1915, including portraits of Eugenie and Lydia Delarue, and business premises of H. F. Delarue

French, English

Out of copyright: Created before 1955. Applies to photographs

Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -

Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 2 as part of the eRecords Project, 2009-2010

This collection includes pictorial material at Pic.Acc.6731

Photographs identified in pencil on versos

Photographs in fair condition. One photograph badly damaged