Philip Gidley King family scrapbook and photograph album

fonds

1808-1904, compiled 1867-1933

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Photographs

9651869

1 scrapbook (112 pages) - ink, pencil
1 album (89 photographic prints) - albumen

Members of the King family were significant figures in the early years of Australia’s history.

Philip Gidley King (1758-1808) arrived on the First Fleet as second lieutenant of HMS Sirius. He established the settlement on Norfolk Island and was the third governor of New South Wales.

Elizabeth Maria Goldfinch (1867-1933) was daughter of Elizabeth Macarthur and Philip Gidley King (1817-1904), the eldest son of Admiral Phillip Parker King (1791-1856), who was the son of Captain Philip Gidley King (1758-1808). Elizabeth Maria Goldfinch was born at Elizabeth Farm, Parramatta, the home of her maternal grandfather, Hannibal Hawkins Macarthur and in 1881 she married Lieutenant Henry Edward Goldfinch.

References:
Library correspondence file

From the estate of Elizabeth Maria Goldfinch, daughter Philip Gidley King (1817-1904)

File 1
Scrapbook compiled by Elizabeth Maria Goldfinch

File 2:
Photograph album comprising studio portraits of the King, Goldfinch and Macarthur families

Out of copyright:
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