Albury family further papers and photographs, including Winn Albury papers and photographs and letters by Henry Lawson

MLMSS 11785

fonds

probably between 1880 and 1994

Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Photographs, Clippings, Ephemera

9650390

0.16 metres of textual material (1 box), includes 131 photographs

Henry Albury (1825-1908) immigrated to N.S.W. when he was age 13, settling with his family west of Sydney, and working as a labourer on farms around the Nepean River in the vicinity of Mulgoa. He married Harriet Elizabeth Winn (1825-1895) in 1845. Harriet and her sister had arrived in N.S.W. in 1841, Harriet finding a position as a needlewoman in Mulgoa. The family relocated to the Mudgee area, where in 1856 they built a timber cottage at 14 Lewis Street, Mudgee. The couple had twelve children – Emma, Louisa (Louisa Lawson), Phoebe, Elizabeth, Gertrude, Peace, Ann, Joseph (Joseph John Henry Albury), Fanny, Ellen, Blanch and Ernest.

Louisa Lawson (nee Albury) (1848-1920) was born at Guntawang, marrying Norwegian miner Niels Hertzberg (Peter) Larsen (d. 1888) in Mudgee in 1866. They had five children – Henry, Charles, Peter, Annette and Gertrude.

Joseph John Henry Albury (1861-1943), a railway worker, married Julia Spicer (1859-1952) in 1882. The family lived in Goulburn, returning to Sydney in 1907 where they built a home, “Maxwin”, in Burdett Street, Hornsby. They had four children – Ernest (1883-1960), Helen (known as Nell, 1885-1975), Ethel (1889-1974), and Winn (1896-1994).

Harriet Elizabeth Winn (Winn) Albury (1896-1994), a commercial and watercolour artist, was born in Goulburn, N.S.W. – the youngest child of Joseph John Henry Albury and Julia Spicer. She studied art at Sydney Technical College, travelling to the United States in 1928 with her sister Ethel, where she worked as a commercial artist and interior decorator in California before returning to Australia around 1930. In Sydney, she worked as a commercial artist for several department stores including Bebarfalds, Grace Bros and Anthony Hordern & Sons. During the 1950s She was responsible for the Christmas display windows for Anthony Hordern & Sons and Grace Bros. In later years she painted portraits on commission.

References:
A shepherd from Kent : the story of John Albury and his family, 1838-1988 / compiled and written by Alison Brooks. Cromer, N.S.W. : A. Brooks, 1988.
Sydney Living Museums. https://sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/ (accessed March 9, 2020)
Compiled from the collection

By descent from Doris Jean Sage (nee Albury) to donor.

HARRIET ELIZABETH WINN (WINN) ALBURY
Folder 1: Winn Albury papers and photograph, 1912-ca. 1994
Includes Intermediate certificates for art, 1912-1914 ; references ; letters regarding offers of positions in California ; transcripts from KGDM radio interviews, Stockton, California, 1946 ; divorce papers ; quotes and invoices for Christmas attractions, 1952-1960 ; notebook and newsclippings.

Folder 2: Winn Albury photographs, predominantly early 20th century (19 photographic prints)
Includes photographs of Winn Albury ; Homer Coe ; family and friends

ALBURY & SPICER FAMILY PHOTOGRPAHS, & MISCELLANEOUS PHOTOGRAPHS
Folder 3: Albury and Spicer family photographs, 20th century (22 photographic prints)
Includes photographs of Spicer and Albury families taken at Bright Hill, Taralga ; photographs of Winn and Ethel Albury ; and photographs of Albury family members taken in Hornsby.

Folder 4: Albury family photographs, predominantly 1890s-20th century (39 photographic prints, 2 items of textual material and 1 clipping)
Includes photographs of Joseph John Henry Albury ; Julia Albury (nee Spicer) ; Alan Albury ; Maizie Albury ; Ernest Albury ; Elsie Maude Albury (nee Squire) ; Ethel Albury ; William Goodwin ; Helen (Nell) Swinney (nee Albury) ; Ernest Swinney ; Josie Swinney ; page from autograph book ; newspaper clipping of golden wedding dinner for Mr J. and Mrs Albury ; and Greetings from Egypt Christmas card to Ethel Albury, 1915.

Folder 5: Albury, Lawson, Salmon, Spicer, and Woodcock family photographs, mainly 1890s – early 20th century (33 photographic prints)
Includes photographs of Henry Albury ; Harriet Elizabeth Albury (nee Winn) ; Louisa Lawson (nee Albury) ; Peter Lawson ; Henry Lawson ; Peace Salmon (nee Albury) ; Leah Salmon ; Gertrude Salmon ; Charlotte Spicer ; Venus Spicer ; Elizabeth Spicer ; J. Woodcock ; Fred Woolmer ; Julia Albury (nee Spicer) ; Norman Woodcock ; Charles Spicer ; Elizabeth Woodcock ; Fred Spicer ; Blanch Bowen (nee Albury) ; Frank and Heydon Bowen ; William Spicer Snr. ; and memorial cards for George and Joseph Spicer.

Folder 6: Miscellaneous photographs, 19th and 20th centuries (17 photographic prints)
Includes photographs of “Maxwin”, 23 Burdett Street, Hornsby. Built in 1907 by J. J. H. Albury ; James Bryson ; Lizzie Treewick ; T. Taylor ; Mr Spooner Senior ; and unidentified houses.

HENRY LAWSON
Folder 7: Letters by Henry Lawson, 1891 and 1899
Letter to Gran from Henry Lawson, McMahons Point, July 4th 1891, regarding family news, selling his work, and a local accident involving a boy picking up a dynamite cap ;
Letter to Joe from Henry Lawson, Bulletin Office, Lower George Street, Sydney, Aug. 8 1899, regarding receiving no reply to his letters ; stories published in Truth and the Worker which could not be located ; asking for the return of papers which were sent to his grandmother by Aunt Emma ; and that if he receives no reply he will no longer write to family members “except perhaps to speak his mind”.

DORIS JEAN SAGE (NEE ALBURY)
Folder 8: Doris Jean Sage (nee Albury) papers, 1937-1946
References for Doris Jean Sage (nee Albury) from R. S. Morris & Co., Alex. W. Morrison, The Pepsodent Co., and Wormald Brothers.

Copyright restrictions may apply:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

Some photographs in collection published in A shepherd from Kent : the story of John Albury and his family, 1838-1988 / compiled and written by Alison Brooks. Cromer, N.S.W. : A. Brooks, 1988 (Mitchell Library call no. Q929.20994/A345.1/1).