Photographs relating to the Windeyer family, 1829-1943

ONCY 78
PXA 1492

fonds

1829-1943

Graphic Materials, Photographs

908679

21 photographs - albumen, gelatin silver - 20.5 x 28 cm or smaller
2 negatives - film - 35 mm

Charles Windeyer, 1780-1855, arrived in New South Wales in 1828. He served as a police magistrate, retiring in 1848. His brother John arrived, and later died, in 1835. His children included Ann Mary, 1809-1894, who married John Thompson; Elizabeth Julian, 1814-1886; and Richard, 1806-1847, journalist, barrister and agriculturalist, who married Mari Camfield, 1795-1878, in 1832 and joined his family in New South Wales in 1835. R. Windeyer's aunt was Mary Puddefoot. His son, William Charles, 1834-1897, was a member of the Legislative Assembly, 1859-1879, Attorney-General, 1877-1878 and a judge of the Supreme Court, 1879-1896. He was knighted in 1891. His wife, Mary Elizabeth, nee Bolton, 1836-1912, was active in work for charity and woman's suffrage. Among their 9 children were Jane, 1865-1950, and Margaret, 1866-1939, who was a librarian on the staff of the Mitchell Library and active in movements for womens rights; Richard, 1868-19--, and Edward, 1876-1942. The family home was at Tomago, N.S.W. Anne Jane Bolton, 1829-1906, sister of Lady Windeyer, was one of the first women graduates of Canterbury College, New Zealand

ONCY 78
Negatives of Constantine Francis Bolton, District Surveyor of Wagga District and interior of Tomago House, Tomago, New South Wales

PXA 1492
Includes Windeyer family photographs; stereographic view of Tasmanian Aboriginal Australians; Ruth Fairfax bookplate; carte-de-visite of Constantine Francis Bolton, District Surveyor of Wagga District; interior of Tomago House, Tomago, New South Wales; cabinet card of J. Avis, Sydney bookbinder in the 1880's-1890's and Lawrence Hargrave's house in Rushcutters Bay Road, Rushcutters Bay, Sydney

This pictorial material is part of the Windeyer family papers, 1829-1943 at MLMSS 186

Out of copyright: Created before 1955 (Photographs)
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