This carte-de-visite is one item within a small album containing photographs of members of the extended Rouse and Terry families.Edwin Stephen was the fifth and youngest child of Edwin Rouse (1806-1862) and his wife Hannah Terry Hipkins (1819-1907) and the grandson of Richard and Elizabeth Rouse of Rouse Hill in the Parramatta district of New South Wales. Edwin Stephen was born at the Rouse family property Guntawang near Mudgee but at the time this photograph was taken he was living with his 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. Edwin Stephen inherited Rouse Hill House after the death of his father and in 1874 he married Eliza Ann (Bessie) Buchanan, daughter of William Buchanan, surveyor and pastoralist. [ref. Caroline Rouse Thornton
Rouse Hill house and the Rouses 1988].
