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John Charles King and family : Old Melbourne Cemetery, c. 1920; Miller, Everard Studley, 1886-1956.; GS-TM-33

GS-TM-33; John Charles King and family : Old Melbourne Cemetery, c. 1920; Miller, Everard Studley, 1886-1956.; Photograph of a simple, Gothic pointed top, upright tombstone marking the burial place of John Charles King, town clerk and politician, his parents, sister and daughter. The stone sits on a small plinth and is enclosed by a railing with a quatrefoil design. The inscription reads: (40 in Selby's grave index p. 390, OPMHoM) SACRED (Gothic Script) In Memory Of HENRY KING Who Died 30th October, 1840 Aged 47 Years -------- Of His Daughter MARY KING Who Died 3rd May, 1842 Aged 26 Years -------- And Of His Wife MARTHA JANE KING Who Died 11th August, 1860 Aged 70 Years -------- And Of His Son JOHN CHARLES KING Who Died 26th January, 1870 Aged 52 Years -------- Also Of ANNIE JANE HADDON Daughter of the Above and Wife of FREDERICK WILLIAM HADDON Who Died 31st December, 1877 Aged 37 years According to Selby, John Charles King died on board the "Southern Cross" four years after he ruptured a blood vessel putting him in bad health. The funeral procession moved from his residence at the "Argus" office, and he was buried in the south-eastern corner of the Old Cemetery, and around the grave "stood the representative men of Melbourne." (p. 410, OPMHoM) John Charles King, born in County Down, Ireland, first sailed to Sydney in 1838. Hearing good things about Port Phillip, he sailed back to Ireland, married, and returned to Australia in 1841 with his wife, parents and other family members, setting up business in Elizabeth Street, Melbourne. He was appointed the first town clerk in 1842. (Australian Dictionary of Biography) This image is attributed to Everard Studley Miller who photographed many graves and tombstones in the Old Melbourne Cemetery (established in 1837) around 1920 as part of a project led by Isaac Selby to record and commemorate all aspects of Melbourne's second cemetery (the first being at Flagstaff Hill). The RHSV holds original glass negatives and albums of the photographs from this project. One of the many glass slides purchased from retailers or specifically made for illustrated lectures given by Isaac Selby between c. 1930 and c. 1955 to raise money for the Old Pioneers Memorial Fund. Selby numbered this slide #57. For more information about this image <a href="https://www.historyvictoria.org.au" target="_blank"> contact Royal Historical Society of Victoria.</a>; Photograph; Images collection

Joseph Raleigh : Old Melbourne Cemetery, c. 1920; Miller, Everard Studley, 1886-1956.; GS-TM-39

GS-TM-39; Joseph Raleigh : Old Melbourne Cemetery, c. 1920; Miller, Everard Studley, 1886-1956.; A photograph of an imposing stone monument marking the remains of Joseph Raleigh, merchant, and his wife Priscilla. The monument comprises of a chest tomb in the shape of an elegant lidded casket which is mounted on six balls, which then stand on large rectangular plinth. Graffiti has been scratched or chalked onto the plinth. In the background can be seen the cemetery fence and, according to Selby's plan of the cemetery, buildings on the other side of Franklin Street. Currie & Richards were iron merchants and their store yard can be seen in the background. The inscription reads: (80 in Selby's grave index, p. 378, OPMHoM) Here Lie The Remains Of JOSEPH RALEIGH Died November 26th 1852 Aged 49 Years According to Selby the other side of the casket reads: Priscilla, wife of John Raleigh 7th March, 1846, aged 32 "Thou art gone to the grave, but we will not deplore thee, For God was thy ransom, thy guardian and guide; He gave thee, He took thee, and He will restore thee, And death has no sting for the Saviour has died." Selby tells us that, "At Raleigh's burial were nearly all the tradesmen and leading merchants in Melbourne. His body was brought from his residence at Moonee Ponds." Priscilla died at her daughters' residence in Spencer Street. Raleigh was a store owner and shipping agent. His name appears numerous times in the newspapers; in advertisements promoting shipping lines including, telling "shippers of gold" to take the "Sydney direct" route; and when his store at Sutton Grange, near Mount Alexander, and his warehouse on the wharf are robbed. This image is attributed to Everard Studley Miller who photographed many graves and tombstones in the Old Melbourne Cemetery (established in 1837) around 1920 as part of a project led by Isaac Selby to record and commemorate all aspects of Melbourne's second cemetery (the first being at Flagstaff Hill). The RHSV holds original glass negatives and albums of the photographs from this project. One of the many glass slides purchased from retailers or specifically made for illustrated lectures given by Isaac Selby between c. 1930 and c. 1955 to raise money for the Old Pioneers Memorial Fund. For more information about this image <a href="https://www.historyvictoria.org.au" target="_blank"> contact Royal Historical Society of Victoria.</a>; Photograph; Images collection

Elizabeth Stevens : Old Melbourne Cemetery, c. 1920; Miller, Everard Studley, 1886-1956.; GS-TM-41

GS-TM-41; Elizabeth Stevens : Old Melbourne Cemetery, c. 1920; Miller, Everard Studley, 1886-1956.; A photograph of a broken, fallen stone with a triangular top, which lies over the remains of Elizabeth Stevens. Two small roundels containing a four petaled flower are carved on either side at the top of the stone. There is a low edging or kerb to the grave seen to the right of the image, and long grass takes over in the background. Selby tells us the stone is near grave #165, a blank stone, in the index. Both graves are located in the south-east corner of the Episcopalian section. Elizabeth's inscription tells us that she was the wife of George T. Stevens, a butcher, residing at Batman's Swamp. It also tells us that she came from Leddington, Rutlandshire, but information about the grave in Selby's book says that she came from Seddington. Neither place existed in Rutlandshire in the 1800s, but a Lyddington does. The inscription reads: (438, nr. 165, in Selby's grave index, p. 383, OPMHoM) SACRED (Gothic Script) To the Memory of ELIZABETH Wife of GEORGE T. STEVENS Butcher. Batmans Swamp. Melbourne who died 26th Decr 1852 Aged 51 Years (Gothic script) Native of Leddington, Rutlandshire ------- I shall go to her, but she shall not return to me. 2 Saml 12th & 23ve vse George Thomas Stevens was issued with a slaughtering license in Melbourne, January 1850. He was in business with John Dickins. George remarried in 1854 to Anne Rankin. In March 1858, Mrs Anne Stevens, widow of Mr George Thomas Stevens, deceased June 1855, aged 44, was involved in a court case concerning one of her deceased husband's paddocks situated in Flemington Swamp and used as a slaughter yard. This image is attributed to Everard Studley Miller who photographed many graves and tombstones in the Old Melbourne Cemetery (established in 1837) around 1920 as part of a project led by Isaac Selby to record and commemorate all aspects of Melbourne's second cemetery (the first being at Flagstaff Hill). The RHSV holds original glass negatives and albums of the photographs from this project. One of the many glass slides purchased from retailers or specifically made for illustrated lectures given by Isaac Selby between c. 1930 and c. 1955 to raise money for the Old Pioneers Memorial Fund. The date 1918 is written on the border of the slide. For more information about this image <a href="https://www.historyvictoria.org.au" target="_blank"> contact Royal Historical Society of Victoria.</a>; Photograph; Images collection

LIB 011081; Acclimatisation Society; Bound volume containing duplicate copies of the following: Rules of the Acclimatisation Society of New South Wales, 1862. Joseph Cook & Co., Printers, 370 George Street. The acclimatisation of harmless, useful, interesting and ornamental animals and plants : being a paper read before the Philosophical Society, Adelaide, South Australia on May 13th, 1862 by George William Francis. Adelaide, Register and Observer General Printing Office, 1862. Annual report of the Acclimatisation Society of New South Wales, 1861. Sydney. Joseph Cook & Co., 370 George Street, 1862 Handleiding tot de kunstmatige vermenigvuldiging van visschen [Guide to the artificial multiplication of fishes], 's-Gravenhage : De Erven Doorman, 1853. Print : Brig Jane and Cutter Beaufoy in Indian Cove, Terra del Fuego, drawn by A. Masson from a sketch by Cap Weddell. Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. I. Clark, sculp. Acclimatisation : its eminent adaption to Australia. A lecture delivered in Sydney by Dr., George Bennett. Melbourne, Wm. Goodhugh & Co., Printers, 48 Flinders Lane east, 1862 Rules and objects of the Acclimatisation Society with the report adopted at the first general meeting of members and a list of the officers, members and subscribers to the society. Melbourne, Wm. Goodhugh & Co., Printers, 48 Flinders Lane east, 1861. Report of the provisional committee to the members of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, 7th August [includes list of birds released and localities] List of the officers [members and subscribers] of the Acclimatisation Society The Alpaca : its introduction into Australia and the probabilities of its acclimatisation there : a paper read before the Society of Arts, London by George Ledger. Melbourne, Mason & Firth, printers, 16 Elisabeth Street, 1861. The vineyards and orchards of South Australia (First series), by Ebenezer Ward, being a series of articles written expressly for the 'South Australian Advertiser' and 'Weekly Chronicle'. 1862 [includes publishers advertising] ; Book; Library - Rare books

MS 000609 (Box 061-5); John F. Mann letter to Mr Larnach, 1886; Mann, John Frederick, 1819-1907; Letter dated 20th March, 1886 and signed by John F. Mann of Neutral Bay to Mr. Gordon G. Larnach, member of the Victorian Council of the Geographical Society of Australasia. Mann's letter is in response to Mr Larnach's written request for information about the papers of Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (1792-1855). Mann had worked in the Surveyor-Generals Department under Thomas Mitchell from 1848, after arrival in Sydney in 1842 at the age of 22. Mitchell was also previously John Mann's father-in-law, as Mann had married Mitchell's daughter Camilla in 1857. John Mann thanks Mr Larnach for sending him some historical papers, written by Larnach himself, about firstly John Batman and secondly about the English-born Australian landscape painter and artist, Conrad Martens, the latter whom Mann said he knew well. Mann tells Mr Larnach that after making inquiries he has learned that Mitchell's maps were returned to England after his death. However Mann has copies of some of Mitchell's plans and sketches (lithographs) which he is sending to Larnach, including ones of old Newcastle and also of Western Victoria. John Mann also goes on to describe two books he has been recently loaned of a historical nature. Firstly a large old book of Voyages to New South Wales which described the original settlement at Botany Bay. This book Mann praises highly and describes in detail. The second book was Cobletts Annual Register for the years 1802-1803, which he has found lacking of interest. Letter includes pen drawings made by Mann of tall ships in Botany Bay Harbour and two people in a rowboat that Mann has copied from the first book of voyages that Mann has judged as so valuable. The letter has been transcribed in full and is in the file. ; Document; Manuscripts Collection

RG03-44-101; Set of papers: heritage consultant administration and site files, City of Melbourne; Butler, Graeme, 1947-; Set of papers accumulated by conservation architect Graeme Butler while working as a consultant heritage advisor for the City of Melbourne, in c.1990-1992. The set includes correspondence as well as heritage advice reports for specific properties. FOLDER 1: > 5 x items of administration correspondence: February 1992 - August 1992, regarding appointment to heritage consultancy for the Development Approvals branch , then subsequent department budget reductions and reduction in use of consultants by the department of City Planning and Development, City of Melbourne. > Project Brief for the promotion of a key retail centre outside the Central Activities District: Errol Street, North and West Melbourne, July 1990. > "Melbourne City - buildings on the H.B.C. Register, 20.09.1991", (typed list) > Planning and Design Heritage Topic Group; "The Image of Heritage" draft topic paper, c.1991. (fax original) > Untitled document, sent by Kaye Oddie to Graeme Butler, 13.06.1991, [Melbourne Residential 1R2 Zone], related to Melbourne City Council's North and West Melbourne review. (fax original) > List, Alleys and lanes (Melbourne) > List, Melbourne Central Activities Study sources, for sites pre-1917. FOLDER 2: 9 x files/correspondence related to planning issues at individual properties within the City of Melbourne, 1989-1991: >> 105 McConnell Street, Kensington >> 28 Mangalore Street, Ascot Vale (Travancore) >> 68 Curzon Street, North Melbourne >> 505 Dryburgh Street, North Melbourne >> Corner Rosslyn & William Streets, West Melbourne >> Lonsdale Street pedestrian bridge, Myer to Melbourne Central Shopping Centre. >> Latrobe & King Street Centre, 347-349 King Street, Langdon Buildings >> Princess Mary Club, 118-122 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne >> 201 Victoria Street, West Melbourne This item are part of the Butler Collection, a large archive of conservation studies, photographs and related reference material.; 1989-1992; Document; Butler Collection; Donated by Graeme Butler, 2023.

Elevated view across Carpentaria Place (later Gordon Reserve), Eight Hour Day Monument to Geological Museum, Macarthur Street, Government Printing Office and Treasury Building, Spring Street, Melbourne, c. 1910; T.W. Cameron (Firm); 1910; GS-BCS-15

GS-BCS-15; Elevated view across Carpentaria Place (later Gordon Reserve), Eight Hour Day Monument to Geological Museum, Macarthur Street, Government Printing Office and Treasury Building, Spring Street, Melbourne, c. 1910; T.W. Cameron (Firm); This is a colourised photograph probably taken from an upper level of the Grand Hotel (later Windsor Hotel) on Spring Street, a tower of which casts a shadow in the foreground. To the left, four Hansom cabs wait near the cabbies' shelter in Carpentaria Place. The small triangle of land in the middle foreground, bounded by Spring and Macarthur streets, was detached from the grounds around Parliament House in 1863 and named Carpentaria Place. The Stanford Fountain, built by William Stanford (1839-1880), was placed here in 1870, and is seen in the middle of the triangle circled by flowerbeds and paths. The statue of General Charles Gordon, killed at Khartoum, Sudan, in 1885, was erected in 1889 at the apex of the triangle where Macarthur and Spring streets meet, and is circled by bollards and a link fence. In the middle foreground, in front of the fountain, is the Eight Hour Day Monument, placed here in 1903 and relocated to the corner of Russell and Victoria streets in 1923. The Adam Lindsay Gordon Memorial was placed on the site vacated by the relocated monument in 1932. A large Morton Bay Fig, to the left of the fountain, is what remains after other exotic plantings including weeping willows and conifers were removed around 1900. Carpentaria Place was renamed the Gordon Reserve in the 1961. Two cable trams can be seen running along Macarthur Street behind the triangle. The large white double-storey, grey roofed, Renaissance revival-style building, on the left, is the Geological Museum. It was built in 1909, architect J.J. Clark (1838-1915), and demolished in 1965 when government buildings were constructed. The large yellow four-storey buildings behind the Geological Museum are the Government Printing Office completed in 1856. The red brick chimney might be associated with the printing office. Another J.J. Clark design is the Old Treasury Building to the right of the photograph, said to be one of Australia's finest Renaissance Revival buildings. Behind the Treasury Building, in the background, is the suburb of Jolimont. One of the many glass slides purchased from retailers or specifically made for illustrated lectures given by Isaac Selby between c. 1930 and c. 1955 to raise money for the Old Pioneers Memorial Fund. For more information about this image <a href="https://www.historyvictoria.org.au" target="_blank"> contact Royal Historical Society of Victoria</a>; 1910; Photograph; Images collection

An imagined view of Bourke Street, Melbourne, looking east from Queen Street (shows Parliament House with dome), c. 1885; Cooper & Co (firm); GS-BCS-48

GS-BCS-48; An imagined view of Bourke Street, Melbourne, looking east from Queen Street (shows Parliament House with dome), c. 1885; Cooper & Co (firm); This drawn image depicts an imagined view looking east along Bourke Street from Queen Street, towards Parliament House. It is "imagined" for a few reasons, one being that the impressive dome which sits atop the Parliament building in the background was never built, due to the economic depression of the 1890s. This image is reproduced from "Historical Sketch of Victoria" by James Smith, which was part of a larger publication, "Picturesque Atlas of Australasia", edited by Andrew Garran and first published in 1886. This original work contained over seven hundred illustrations, engraved on wood and steel by the best engravers available in Australia and the United States. The image is dominated by the General Post Office building, located on the north-east corner of Bourke and Elizabeth streets, with its ornate clocktower. The engraver must have been working from architectural plans because the addition of the third storey and tower wasn't completed until 1887, after publication. The building in the left corner is Griffin's Farmers' Club Hotel. The foreground shows a wide and busy Bourke Street, as it rises steeply towards Queen Street, with cable trams, horse-drawn vehicles and crowds of pedestrians and passengers receding into the distance. The large ecclesiastic style building, standing above the city to the right of Parliament House, is St Patrick's Cathedral before its spires were added. It is actually located behind Parliament house and would not be seen from this view, but the artist has included it in the picture. There is a snippet of a quote in the top right-hand corner of the slide. This is taken from the text of "Historical Sketch of Victoria" and partly describes the lawyers who inhabit Chancery Lane, the extension west of Little Collins Street. The lawyers, "... are addicted - owing to the nature of their occupation and their daily familiarity with the seamy side of human nature - to rather pessimistic views of mankind in general...". This image was reproduced on linen in the 1960s by John Rodriguez, who also reproduced a drawing of Collins Street from the same publication (GS-BCS-74). One of the many glass slides purchased from retailers or specifically made for illustrated lectures given by Isaac Selby between c. 1930 and c. 1955 to raise money for the Old Pioneers Memorial Fund. For more information about this image <a href="https://www.historyvictoria.org.au" target="_blank"> contact Royal Historical Society of Victoria</a>; Photograph; Images collection

Bourke Street (south side) from near Elizabeth Street, Melbourne; c. 1875; GS-CS-04

GS-CS-04; Bourke Street (south side) from near Elizabeth Street, Melbourne; View looking east, from near Elizabeth Street, showing the businesses along the south side of Bourke Street. On the left of the image is a slight view of the north side of the street showing a large canvas advertising a haberdashery clearance sale. Next to this sign is a tall pole topped with sign that in earlier photographs (c. 1865) clearly advertised the "Cobb & Co Coach Office", which was at #35 Bourke St. The sign looks like it has been blacked out even though a branch of the business was still there. In the 1875 Sands & McDougal Directory, another Cobb & Co Office was located at #52 Bourke St. On the right-hand side of the image is a sign for Victoria Baths which was at #42 (c.1865-c.1875). Baths were built to stop people from bathing in the Yarra, which was getting very polluted and too dangerous to bathe in. To the left of this signage is what looks like the figure of an animal, which is advertising Wright's Bull & Mouth Hotel. These two businesses are seen more clearly in a drawing by Samuel Calvert, dated 1865, held in the La Trobe Collection. Other business names are difficult to read, but the Sands & McDougall Directory of 1875 tells us that the 2-storey building, third from the right at #56, is the Colosseum Hotel and Music Hall, proprietor, C. Wright. On the corner with Swanston Street, the building with the triangular parapet, is the Leviathan Clothing and Boot Company at #64. On the opposite corner of Swanston Street is the Royal Mail Hotel. Bourke Street continues up the hill to Parliament House at the top-left of the image. There are many horse-drawn vehicles in the street, including a row of four hansom cabs parked in the middle. Deep gutters run either side of the street with small metal or wooden bridges placed to facilitate accessibility for people and goods. A lady in a typical Victorian, as in the Queen, wide-skirted dress and bonnet, walks along the pavement in the lower-left corner. One of the many glass slides purchased from retailers or specifically made for illustrated lectures given by Isaac Selby between c. 1930 and c. 1955 to raise money for the Old Pioneers Memorial Fund. Selby probably showed this slide during his many lectures on old or early Melbourne, given during the 1930s. "When Melbourne Takes Rank as a City", was given on 12th February, 1948, at the Assembly Hall, Collins Street. For more information about this image <a href="https://www.historyvictoria.org.au" target="_blank"> contact Royal Historical Society of Victoria</a>; c. 1875; Glass slide; Images collection

Amy Johnson after her 1936 record flights between England and South Africa; 1936; GS-PW-06

GS-PW-06; Amy Johnson after her 1936 record flights between England and South Africa; In May 1936 Amy Johnson set records for the fastest flights from England to South Africa and back. This image shows Amy being welcomed at Croydon Airport on 7th May on her return from South Africa. The man standing immediately behind Amy's raised arm is James Mollison, another well-known pilot. He and Amy were married in 1932 and divorced in 1938. In 1930, Amy, a legal secretary originally from Hull in northern England, made history by becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia. Born in 1903, Amy graduated from Sheffield University and worked as a legal secretary in London. She also took up flying and gained her pilot’s licence at the London Aeroplane Club. Amy decided that she wanted to fly to Australia and she set about preparing herself. She learnt about aero engines by working unpaid as a mechanic at the London Aeroplane Club in the mornings before her secretarial job and again in the evenings after work. She became the first woman to gain a British ground engineer’s licence in 1929. She also gained a navigation licence in 1930. She struggled to find sponsors for her Australian flight. Finally Lord Wakefield, head of Castrol, agreed to pay for petrol. Her father paid for her aircraft, a Gipsy Moth she christened Jason, and everything else she paid for herself. Amy left Croydon Aerodrome on 5th May 1930 and reached Karachi on 10th May, having broken Hinkler’s record time by two days. She continued across India and into Burma where Jason was damaged in a rough landing. Following repairs she flew on via Bangkok to Singapore, then on to Timor. On 24th May 1930 she crossed the Timor Sea to reach Darwin nineteen days after leaving Croydon. The biggest crowd ever seen in Darwin greeted her. Amy went on to rapturous welcomes around Australia. This was her only visit to this country but a connection to Australia remains. In Hull each year an award is given to recognise the bravery of a local child. The award is funded by money raised by the children of Sydney in recognition of Amy’s achievement. Amy Johnson was killed in 1941 while ferrying an RAF aircraft as part of the war effort. One of the many slides purchased from retailers or specifically made for illustrated lectures given by Isaac Selby between c. 1930 and c. 1955 to raise money for the Old Pioneers Memorial Fund. This image is provided for research purposes and must not be reproduced without prior permission.<a href="https://www.historyvictoria.org.au" target="_blank">For a high resolution copy of this image, contact Royal Historical Society of Victoria</a> ; 1936; Glass slide; Images collection

Amy Johnson, first woman to fly solo from England to Australia in 1930; c. 1931; GS-PW-31

GS-PW-31; Amy Johnson, first woman to fly solo from England to Australia in 1930; In 1930, Amy Johnson, a legal secretary originally from Hull in northern England, made history by becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia. Amy Johnson was born in Kingston-upon-Hull in 1903. After graduating from Sheffield University she worked as a legal secretary in London. She also took up flying and gained her pilot’s licence at the London Aeroplane Club. Amy decided that she wanted to fly to Australia and she set about preparing herself. She learnt about aero engines by working unpaid as a mechanic at the London Aeroplane Club in the mornings before her secretarial job and again in the evenings after work. She became the first woman to gain a British ground engineer’s licence in 1929. She also gained a navigation licence in 1930. She struggled to find sponsors for her Australian flight. Finally Lord Wakefield, head of Castrol, agreed to pay for petrol. Her father paid for her aircraft, a Gipsy Moth she christened 'Jason', and everything else she paid for herself. Amy left Croydon Aerodrome on 5th May 1930 and reached Karachi on 10th May, having broken Bert Hinkler’s record time by two days. She continued across India and into Burma where 'Jason' was damaged in a rough landing. Following repairs she flew on via Bangkok to Singapore, then on to Timor. On 24th May 1930 she crossed the Timor Sea to reach Darwin nineteen days after leaving Croydon. The biggest crowd ever seen in Darwin greeted her. Amy went on to rapturous welcomes around Australia. This was her only visit to this country but a connection to Australia remains. In Hull each year an award is given to recognise the bravery of a local child. The award is funded by money raised by the children of Sydney in recognition of Amy’s achievement. Amy married James Mollison, another famous pilot, in July 1932 after a twelve week engagement. They were divorced in 1938 and Amy reverted to using her maiden name. Amy was killed in 1941 while ferrying an RAF aircraft as part of the war effort. One of the many slides purchased from retailers or specifically made for illustrated lectures given by Isaac Selby between c. 1930 and c. 1955 to raise money for the Old Pioneers Memorial Fund. This image is provided for research purposes and must not be reproduced without prior permission.<a href="https://www.historyvictoria.org.au" target="_blank">For a high resolution copy of this image, contact Royal Historical Society of Victoria</a> ; c. 1931; Glass slide; Images collection

Lonsdale children and Smythe family : Old Melbourne Cemetery, c. 1920; Miller, Everard Studley, 1886-1956.; GS-TM-36

GS-TM-36; Lonsdale children and Smythe family : Old Melbourne Cemetery, c. 1920; Miller, Everard Studley, 1886-1956.; A photograph of a very overgrown and damaged railed grave. More tombs and trees are seen in the background. According to Selby, the grave had been wrecked by some vandals. Three long, inscribed, horizontal stones were inside the iron railing, the central stone having been broken into pieces. The stones had to be cleaned before they could be read. (119 in Selby's grave index, p. 380, OPMHoM) Stone 1: Sacred to the memory of Ellen Peveril, born 26th January, 1842, died 25th March, 1842; Ralph Peveril, born 27th September, 1847, died 23rd May, 1852. The much-loved children of William and Martha Lonsdale. "They will not return to us, but by Thy grace, Oh Lord, we hope to go to them." Stone 2: In memory of H. W. H. Smythe, born on 27th May, 1815, died 8th May, 1853; also of Allan Smythe, only son of Henry and Jessie Smythe, who died in infancy. Stone 3: Sacred to the memory of Allan Smythe, infant son of Henry and Jessie Smythe, died 3rd December, 1842; also to the memory of Jessie Smythe Baker, died 24th March, 1852, aged 12 months. William Lonsdale was a captain in the 4th (King's Own) regiment when he married Martha, on 6th April, 1835, at Port Macquarie. Martha was the daughter of Benjamin Smythe, a civil engineer at Launceston. The following year Lonsdale was made the first police magistrate at Port Phillip, and the family moved there. Henry William Smythe, Esq., married Jessie Allan, daughter of George Allan of Allan Vale, Launceston, on 19th February, 1841. After Henry's death, Jessie remarried Augustus F. Boyse in 1858, in Paris. Selby tells us that Henry was known as "Long Smythe" on the account of his being very tall. William Lonsdale died in London in 1864, survived by his wife and two sons. This image is attributed to Everard Studley Miller who photographed many graves and tombstones in the Old Melbourne Cemetery (established in 1837) around 1920 as part of a project led by Isaac Selby to record and commemorate all aspects of Melbourne's second cemetery (the first being at Flagstaff Hill). The RHSV holds original glass negatives and albums of the photographs from this project. One of the many glass slides purchased from retailers or specifically made for illustrated lectures given by Isaac Selby between c. 1930 and c. 1955 to raise money for the Old Pioneers Memorial Fund. Selby wrote 1918 on this slide. For more information about this image <a href="https://www.historyvictoria.org.au" target="_blank"> contact Royal Historical Society of Victoria.</a>; Photograph; Images collection

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