Weldrick and Harding family photographs and theatre program

PXA 7713

fonds

approximately 1920-1949

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Ephemera

9669907

12 photographic prints

The Weldrick family were descendants of William Heny Weldrick (d.1955) and Ruth Rebecca Weldrick. They had eight children Harry, Nellie (Mrs J.Liversidge) Emily (Mrs. W. Poland), Joseph (d. 1953), William, Bessie (Mrs. J. McMurtrie), Elsie and Frank. They moved from Woonoona to Kembla Heights NSW in 1912 when William Weldrick (1901-1995) commenced work as a miner with the Mt Kembla Coal and Oil Company. The family later moved to Lithgow.

Reference
Library correspondence file
"Family notices". The Sydney Morning Herald, July 6, 1955

By descent from William Weldrick to his daughter Valerie Weldrick

This collection comprises photographs of members of the Weldrick and Harding families and various friends around Sydney.

1. Elizabeth [Bessie] Weldrick later McMurtie, Jack McMurtrie and friends from Lithgow at Wattamolla Falls, 1920s
2. Milly Weldrick in her brother Cecil Harding’s grocery shop, Parramatta Road, 1930s
3. Cecil Harding and his sisters Milly Weldrick and Thelma Harding in his shop, Parramatta Road, 1930s
4. Pearl Harding, her sister Milly Weldrick, Milly's son Ray [Weldrick] holding new watch, son Alan [Weldrick] holding Pearl's hand, and daughter Milday (Mildred) in hat, and cousins Len and Shirley Downey, all from Lithgow, about 1934-1935, [by] E. Haydock, Pitt Street, Sydney
5. Ray Weldrick and his Aunt Pearl Harding, from Lithgow, [by] a street photographer, Sydney, approximately 1934
6. Pearl Harding and nephew Ray Weldrick from Lithgow, about 1934
7. Milly [Mildred] Harding and daughter Thelma Downey, [by] Leica Flash, No. 4 Royal Arcade Sydney [street photographer], 1940s.
8. Milda, Ray and Alan Weldrick from Lithgow, at Luna Park, 1936
9. [Portrait of Pearl Harding (b.1908)?]
10. [Portrait of sisters Ruth Mildred Harding (b.1905) and Pearl May Harding (b. 1908), Lithgow, New South Wales]
11. [Portrait of Ruth Mildred Harding (b.1905), Lithgow, New South Wales]
12. [Group portrait of bride Ruth Mildred Harding with groom William Weldrick with sister Pearl Harding, father Walter Edward Harding, best man Harry Steele taken in Lithgow, 1925]

Also included is a theatre program of The Rockdale Municipal Orchestra in conjunction with the Polish Australian Ballet, Rockdale Town Hall 18 & 19th July, 1949 for performances of Les Sylphides, Les Preludes, Le Spectre de la Rose, Danube au printemps

Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Some photographs captioned and stamped on verso