Pockley family pictorial material, ca. 1860-1930s

ML 1335
V/299
PXD 1407
MIN 522
MIN 526

fonds

ca. 1841-1970

Graphic Materials, Paintings, Watercolours, Photographs

1336561

1 painting - oil on canvas - visible image 57.5 x 45.5 cm., in frame 72 x 59 cm
5 photographs - 39 x 46 cm or smaller
1 lithograph - visible image 43.5 x 33 cm., in mount 48 x 61 cm
1 drawing - watercolour - visible oval image 11 x 18.5 cm., in case 15.5 x 13 cm

Robert Francis Pockley (1823-1892) went to sea in 1832 and obtained his master's ticket in 1841. He brought the Barque Tobago to Sydney in 1842 and was master of the Emma on the Sydney to Hobart run. He became a shipowner and harbourmaster of Sydney in the 1850s. He married Selina Antill (1837-1924) in 1854. They had 15 children including Robert Francis, Eric Osbaldistone, Ella, and Enid Marguerite.

Enid Marguerite Pockley (1879-1970) travelled to Europe in 1895. In 1897 she married Dr Henry Critchley Hinder in Jersey. Dr Hinder died in 1913 and she married Robert Holloway in 1916.

Florence Elizabeth Holloway (1874-1957), brother of Robert Holloway, was born in Wagga Wagga New South Wales and enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force as an unmarried women on 27/8/1917 at the age of 43. She served as a nurse in England and Egypt, and was discharged 16/3/1920.

Robert Emerson Curtis (1898- ) was born in England, and arrived in NSW in 1924. He established himself primarily as a commercial artist, who specialised in documentary illustration. He drew the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, worked for B.H.P. and also documented projects such as the Sydney Opera House and the Gladesville Bridge. He was also commissioned to design murals and posters.

References:
Frank Hinder papers relating to the Pockley family, 1837-1972, MLMSS 7324
Florence Elizabeth Holloway World War I diary, photograph albums, scrapbook and war medals, 1907-1942, MLMSS 8046
Robert Emerson Curtis collection of drawings and photographs including Sydney, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Gladesville Bridge, Sydney Opera House, Newcastle Steel Works, Broken Hill mines, and commercial designs for murals and posters, PXD 688

Passed through the donor's wife's family

ML 1335
Oil painting portrait of Enid Marguerite Pockley, ca. 1920s

V / 299
Sydney Harbour Bridge, lithograph by Robert E. Curtis, 1930

PXD 1407
1. Photograph of 'Carlton', home of Enid Marguerite Holloway (nee Pockley), 32 Nelson Street, Gordon NSW, ca. 1930s
2. Photograph of Captain Robert Pockley and family, ca. 1880s
3. Photograph of Florence Elizabeth Holloway, ca. 1915
4. Photograph of Captain Robert Pockley, ca. 1880s

MIN 522
Watercolour portrait of Enid Marguerite Pockley in leather presentation case, ca. 1900

MIN 526
1. Hand coloured photographic portrait of Selina Pockley (nee Antill), ca. 1860
2. Portrait photograph of Selina Pockley (nee Antill), ca. 1915

Access via appointment - Applies to ML 1335 and MIN 522 and MIN 526

Out of copyright: Photographs created before 1955
Copyright restrictions may apply: Applies to paintings and drawings
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Frame for item PXD 1402/2, which was removed, had the following inscription identifying the family members:
[L to R, top to bottom] Francis Antill Pockley, eldest son to live to [grow?] up; Harry Richardson, second eldest son ; Ethel Ernestine, 3rd daughter, married Harry Hinder ; Norman Vanderbyl, 3rd eldest son ; Alice Isabel, always called Ella, later as Aunty La ; Mother, Selina Antill Pockley ; Father, Robert James Pockley ; Helen Marjorie, youngest child of 15 children to Robert and Selina ; Florence Augusta, a daughter - married Reeve ; Harold Graham, second youngest boy ; Edith Muriel, called Gillie had twin boy who died in July as child ; Enid Margeurrite, second youngest child, married deceased sister's husband H.C. Hinder, married later Robert Holloway