Eugene Dominique Nicolle letters and photograph

fonds

approximately 1895-approximately 1900

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Textual Records

9640633

0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder) - manuscript
1 photograph - albumen print on card mount - mount 18 x 25 cm

Eugène Dominique Nicolle (1823-1909), engineer and inventor, studied in France before coming to Australia to pursue his career as an engineer. On 27 July 1848 he married Catherine Henrietta Jacobine Schick, daughter of Professor Johann Christian Schick, at Saint James Westminster, London. In 1853, Eugene and Henrietta migrated to Australia. Their first child Jules Henri was born in Melbourne on 16 September 1853.
During the late 1850s, Eugene Nicolle made the acquaintance of a widow Jane Williamson (née Schermer) who already had a daughter Jane Louise Gregory Williamson (born in England about 1855). On 5 April 1862 Nicolle married Jane Williamson at Woolloomooloo. On 4 February 1861 she gave birth to his son, Eugene Henry Stanley Nicolle (known as Stanley) and twin daughters Adelaide Constance and Eugenie Florence Eleanor were born to them on 17 May 1862.
In 1878, Nicolle retired to Wollongong, by the eastern shore of Lake Illawarra where he built a residence which he named Whiteheath.

Reference:
Organ, Michael & Turnidge, Fred. "E.D. Nicolle - Australian Pioneer of Refrigeration". Accessed 10 March 2021. https://documents.uow.edu.au/~morgan/nicol1.htm

By descent from Eugene Dominique Nicolle to great great grandson Kent Taylor.

Item 1
Letters from Eugene Dominique Nicolle to his daughter Adelaide (Ada), Five Islands, Unanderra

Item 2
Photograph of Eugene Nicolle with his twin daughters Adelaide and Eugenie, his step-daughter Jane and her daughter Eugenie / The Falk Studios

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