Caroline Simpson Collection

Thorne family members in the garden at Claremont, Rose Bay, around 1875 / photographer unknown

[c1875]

1 albumen photoprint ; sepia toned ; 11.5 x 22.2 cm.

Print pasted down in a Thorne family album.

stone houses
villas
verandahs
iron lace
family groups
gardens
lawn rollers
towers
Claremont (Rose Bay, N.S.W.)
Thorne family.

The house Claremont in the Sydney suburb of Rose Bay was built in 1851-1852 for Bristol born Sydney businessman George Thorne (1810-1891) who had migrated to Australia in 1840. He married Elizabeth Ann Bisdee in Hobart in 1842. They had 10 children, some of whom presumably appear in this photograph. George Thorne retained ownership of Claremont until early 1879 but the family did not reside in the house continuously. The house was let at various times in the late 1850s, early 1860 and again in late 1869. [ref: SMH 6.2.1858; 11.4.1861; 27.11.1869; 25.1.1879]

Estate of Rosalie Ann Watkins, nee Thorne, (1850-1927) of Penrose, Marsden Street Parramatta; Kenneth Stewart, Sydney antiquarian bookseller

Nesta Griffiths Some houses and people of New South Wales Sydney: Ure Smith, 194, p.158.

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