Bourn Russell family ambrotype portraits, between 1855-1860

MIN 507
MIN 508
MIN 509

fonds

between 1855-1860

Graphic Materials, Photographs

1058426

2 photographs - ambrotype, full plate (1 hand col.) in pinchbeck frame with curved top inside velvet-lined leather case - framed image 18.4 x 13.4 cm, case 22.5 x 17.5 cm
1 photograph - ambrotype in embossed oval pinchbeck frame inside leather case - image 5 x 3.7 cm, case 7.4 x 6.2 cm

MIN 507
BOURN RUSSELL (1794-1880)

Son of Bourn Russell, commander of merchant ship, and Hannah Russell. Married Jane McCreth in 1815 in England and had issue, 2 daughters and 5 sons. Congregationalist.

Retired factory owner of independent means. Educated at Free Grammar School in Rye and then at Edmonton and then under Reverend William Fuller in Sussex. Apprenticed to sea in 1810; by 21 was a ships commander. Soon after became captain and then part owner of a vessel trading chiefly in China and South Seas from 1815 until 1824. Went into whaling. Brought wife and children to New South Wales in 1834; settled at Maitland in 1844 and lost everything in the depression. Operated boiling down works at Stoney Creek in 1846; venture prospered and he sold out having acquired independent means. Member of Legislative Assembly and Council, 1856-1880. Father of New South Wales government astronomer, Henry Chamberlain Russell.

Bourn Russell was the first Harbour Master of Eden fom 1862

References: Parliament of New South Wales website. (http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/web/common.nsf/v3home) accessed October 21, 2013
The town of Eden, from the Light House, between 1862-1880 / photographer unknown (SPF / 1627 and SPF / 1628)

MIN 508
JANE RUSSELL, nee McCRETH (1794-1881)

Born Sunderland, Durham, England, 25 August 1794
Died Woolloomooloo, Sydney, NSW, 11 July 1881

MIN 509
JANE FOSS (1818-1889)

Born South Shields, Durham, England, 1818
Married John William McCurdy, 13 September 1841. He died 22 August 1852
Married Ambrose Foss, 7 January 1854. He died 4 May 1862
Married John Raymond, 1866. He died 4 February 1877
Jane died Portland Place, Middlesex, England, 5 January 1889

Reference:
Note from the donor included with MIN 509

MIN 507
Bourn Russell, between 1857-1859 / Freeman Brothers, Sydney

MIN 508
Jane Russell, nee McCreth, between 1857-1859 / Freeman Brothers, Sydney

MIN 509
Jane Foss attributed, between 1855-1860 / photographer unknown

Out of copyright: Created before 1955.
Please acknowledge:: Mtchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Freeman embossed gilt stamp with New South Wales coat of arms on the reverse of MIN 507 and MIN 508

MIN 507 and MIN 508 is a pair of ambrotypes, of a couple photographed ca. 1857-1859 in the Freeman Studios. The donor identified MIN 509, taken between 1855-1860, as Ambrose Foss's second wife Jane McCurdy, nee Russell. MIN 507 and MIN 508 identified as Bourn Russell and Jane Russell, nee McCreth by comparison with other photographs in the Library of Jane Foss's father Bourn Russell

Dated by the Curator of Photographs