This carte-de-visite is one item within a small album containing photographs of members of the extended Rouse and Terry families.Mary Phoebe Rouse (1847-1931), known as Phoebe, was the fourth child of Edwin Rouse (1806-1862) and his wife Hannah Terry Hipkins (1819-1907) and was a granddaughter of Richard and Elizabeth Rouse of Rouse Hill in the Parramatta district of New South Wales. She was born at the Rouse family property Guntawang near Mudgee but at the time this photograph was taken she was living with her siblings and widowed mother at Rouse Hill. This carte-de-visite portrait seems to be one of a suite of four studio portraits of Edwin and Hannah's children taken at a single session. In September 1866 Phoebe married Albert Augustus Dangar at St Matthew's Church, Windsor. He was the fourth son of the surveyor and pastoralist Henry Dangar and was himself a prosperous pastoralist. [ref. Caroline Rouse Thornton
Rouse Hill house and the Rouses 1988].
