Series:
Glass Plate Negatives
Series Number:
Access:
Open
Start Date:
01 Jan 1890
End Date:
31 Dec 1910
Creating Agency:
| William Watchorn Perkins and Family (NG231) | 01 Jan 1867 |
How to Use:
Digital images of photographs in this record series are available to view online by clicking on the item links below to get to the Item Details pages.
Items in this series may be freely used as the copyright has expired.
When using or sharing the images, please ensure that clear attribution is made to the Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office (TAHO).
TAHO does not endorse any inappropriate or derogatory use.
Series notes:
This series comprises glass plate negatives that were found under the house, 'Mawhera', 2 Mawhera Avenue, Lower Sandy Bay. One of the boxes has an order number made out to 'Mrs Perkins' which confirms that the subjects of the plates are Perkins family members and friends across a number of generations. There are family weddings and young children included. There are also two properties that appear frequently; Mawhera is one, and an assumption has been made that the other house could be the cottage that was constructed on the Mawhera land and let as a tenancy (referred to in advertisements in the Mercury - e.g. Mercury, 24 June 1886. p.1).
As this series largely comprises family groups and portraits, the Perkins children and spouses are listed below by name to assist with possible identification. Many of the people in the images remain unidentified, but it is possible that they could be matched with other photographs of the Perkins family and friends in the larger collections of the Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office, including newspaper photographs.
The names the Perkins children and spouses are: Augusta Clementina Frances Perkins (b.1871) married Joseph Boultbee (m.1901), Jane Emmely (b.1872) James Alexander McElroy (m.1901), Dora Winifred (b.1874) married Arthur Larchin Butler (m.1898), Margaret Gwendoline (b.1876-d.1884), William John Alan (b.1878) married Nora Barclay (m.1905), Edith Lillian (b.1880), Ruby Emmeline (b.1882), Elsie Eileen Janet (b.1883) Frederick Betts (m.1910), Charles Morice (b.1885-d.1922) married Claire Watchorn (m.c.1916), Colin Henry (b.1887) married Mary Mearling (m.1919-London), Kenneth Winter (b.1889-d.1889) and Lawrence Winter and David Warrender (twins b.1893-d.1893).
These records are part of the holdings of the Tasmanian Archives
System of Arrangement:
Arrangement is as found in thier boxes. There is considerable damage to some of the emulsion on the plates due to damp storage. A number of plates are also chipped and/or broken.
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