Caroline Simpson Collection

Husband family outside Oak Cottage, Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst, around 1859 / photographer unknown

[c1859]

1 photoprint : b & w ; 13.5 x 15 cm.

Inscribed in pencil below image on album page : "Oak Cottage / Sydney".

Liverpool Street (Darlinghurst, N.S.W.)
children
balconies
dormer windows
picket fences
lampposts
street lamps
sandstone buildings
Thomas, Caroline Georgiana Home, 1855-1932.
Husband, James, 1803-1878.
Husband family.
Husband, Emily Herbert Matilda, 1850-1940.
Husband, Caroline Jane, 1806-1880.
Oak Cottage (Darlinghurst, N.S.W.)

This photograph is one item within an album/scrapbook containing small watercolour sketches, letters and newspaper cuttings as well as photographs. The scrapbook belonged originally to Cordelia Ellen Thomas (nee Husband) (1835-1857) and was handed on to her daughter Caroline Georgiana Home Thomas (1855-1932) in 1873. The small child in the picture is probably Caroline - called Georgie within the family - and the slightly older girl is probably her youngest aunt, Emily Husband. The adults are probably Georgie's maternal grandparents, James Husband and his wife Caroline Jane, nee Home.
James Husband was a solicitor who arrived in Sydney, with his family , in 1852. They lived in Oak Cottage from ca.1856 to ca.1863. The cottage was a two-storey sandstone building on the south-west corner of Liverpool Street and Upper Dowling Street (now called Darley Street), Darlinghurst.

Estate of Caroline Georgiana Home Lamb, nee Thomas.

Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection ;

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