Caroline Simpson Collection

Thorburn family members on the front verandah of Warro, 5 Warrangi Street, Turramurra, around 1908 / photographer unknown

[c1908]

1 postcard photoprint : b & w ; 9 x 14 cm.

verandahs
brick houses
garden paths
Federation architecture
Thorburn family.
Warro (Turramurra, N.S.W.)

The house 'Warro' in Warrangi Street, Turramurra was built around 1906, probably by Ferdinand Wilhelm Friederich, a German-born architect. In 1908 the property was transferred to Euphemia Henderson Thorburn (1860-1945), wife of Robert Taylor Thorburn (1847-1934) and remained the Thorburn home until Euphemia's death in 1945. Robert Thorburn was the eldest son of Scots emigrants Robert Thorburn and Jessie Catherine McKenzie, born on the family dairy farm Barr Hill at Jasper's Brush in the Shoalhaven district of New South Wales. He moved to Sydney around 1900 following a successful career first as a farmer and later as a businessman with mining and transport interests in the Shoalhaven. It was Robert Thorburn who bought the 5-acre block of land in Nowra on which the house Meroogal was built in 1885-1886 and it was his widowed mother Jessie who became the matriarch of Meroogal.

Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection ; CSL&RC MSS 2008/1 [Tom Thorburn papers]

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