The house called Wavertree, in New Zealand Street Parramatta, was built before 1843 by prominent Parramatta builder James Houison who gave it to his daughter Annie on her marriage to Captain Hugh Fairclough in 1862. Fairclough came from Wavertree near Manchester, England. A slightly different view of Wavertree, also taken by the A&A Photographic Company is published in Shylie & Ken Brown
Parramatta, a town caught in time, 1870 Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1995, p.88.
The photographer Beaufoy Merlin and his American and Australasian Photographic Company arrived in Sydney from Victoria around July 1870, via several country towns in New South Wales. In an advertisement placed in the Sydney Morning Herald on 21 September 1870 he announced that they had "now just completed taking nearly 800 views of Parramatta alone". This photograph must be one of those views.
