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`Glen Rock' [i.e. Glenrock] Darling Point, one of the old residences of Sydney ...

`Glen Rock' [i.e. Glenrock] Darling Point, one of the old residences of Sydney ...

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9NaA3NKY

`Glen Rock' [i.e. Glenrock] Darling Point, one of the old residences of Sydney ...

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Full title

`Glen Rock' [i.e. Glenrock] Darling Point, one of the old residences of Sydney ...

Date

undated [ca. 1860]

Call Numbers

SPF/648

Record Identifier

9NaA3NKY

Reference Code

414135
Physical Description

Contents

Photographs - on mount 18.6 x 27.8 cm. - albumen photoprint

Other Descriptions

Level of description

Item

Access and use

Issue Copy

Digitised

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Alternative Titles

Full title

`Glen Rock' [i.e. Glenrock] Darling Point, one of the old residences of Sydney ...

Notes

General note

References:
Some houses and people of New South Wales / by G. Nesta Griffiths. Sydney : Ure Smith, [1949]
Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 5 `John de Villers Lamb (1833-1900)'
New South Wales Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages indexes
Another photograph held at SPF/648a

Digital order no:a089648

This item has been catalogued and digitised under a project funded and supported by the State Library of New South Wales Foundation, 2001....

Signature / Inscriptions

"J. William Dowling" on reverse
"To Arthur Dowling from Fr. O.M. Rothery, 24 VIII 15. "Glen Rock" Darling Point, one of the old residences of Sydney, taken when John de V. Lamb lived there. It shows John Lamb; Mrs John Lamb & her first child in her arms; Mrs Thomas Smith (Mrs J. Lamb mother) and old John the gardener. The vacant land at the back...

Contextual Information

Source

Presented Jun 1924

Administrative / Biographical history

Glenrock Cottage was built in 1836 for Thomas Smith. John de Villers Lamb (1833-1900) married Henrietta Octavia Smith (1839-1914), daughter of Thomas Smith in 1859, their first child Emma was born in 1860.

Identifiers

Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

SPF/648

Record Identifier

9NaA3NKY

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9NaA3NKY

Other Identifiers

Reference code

414135

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