[Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Davis, parents of Steele Rudd] [picture] / R.T. Cartwright
- Bib ID:
- 1624519
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Cartwright, R. T
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- [ca. 1859]
- 1 photograph on carte de visite : sepia toned ; 10.3 x 6.3 cm.
- Summary:
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Photograph shows Steele Rudd's parents with two small children.
- Biography/History:
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"Mr Eric Davis ... Geebung, Queensland, 4034. Thomas Davis, Mary Davis (nee Mary Green). Thomas Davis migrated to Australia in the 1840's. Came to Drayton in 1849, was with Sir Thomas Mitchell's party on the Balonne River district, Q. Married in Drayton and returned to the Balonne with his wife who was the first white woman in Surat. Known as White Mary & well liked by the Aborigines. Thomas Davis returned to Drayton & for a time ran the mail on horseback from Drayton to Surat. Speared by the Aborigines but recovered. Later first blacksmith & wheelwright in Drayton. The two children are believed to be Thomas William & Jane (later Mrs Robert Glasby)" --Compactus card.
- Notes:
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- Condition : Fair.
- Inscriptions: "R.T. Cartwright, photo, Bristol" --Printed beneath photograph. "Drayton" --In ink on reverse.
- Title from caption on compactus card.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-136720381
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Pioneers
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Photograph
- Published status:
- Unpublished
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