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Aaron and Margaret Harding [B 33024] • Photograph

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Aaron and Margaret Harding.

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Physical description

Photograph; 17.3 cm x 16.1 cm

Dates / Publication details

1880

Collection

Part of Portrait Collection

Subject

Harding, Margaret, 1850-1928
Harding, Aaron, 1845-1928

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General notes

Aaron Harding, the son of a convict also named Aaron, was born at Sutton Forest in the southern highlands of New South Wales on 24 September 1845. By three years of age, young Aaron had travelled overland from Sutton Forest to South Australia with his father, his mother (Ellis or Alice, formerly Sargent, nee Packham) and the four youngest children from his mother's first marriage - Henry, Jane, Mary and James Sargent. In 1851, when Aaron was six, his father then aged 61 died near Gawler in South Australia. Margaret Harding (nee Brown) was born at Driffield in Yorkshire, England on 28 October 1850. By three years of age, Margaret had travelled as an emigrant with her parents, Elizabeth and James Brown, and three children from her father's first marriage - Maria, Ann and Harriet - from Liverpool, England to Port Adelaide, South Australia. They travelled aboard an American-built sailing ship 'Shackamaxon' and arrived at Port Adelaide on 19 January 1853. By 1869, Aaron had acquired a property at Julia Creek near Eudunda. On 19 July 1871, Aaron and Margaret were married at the home of Margaret's father in Waterloo, South Australia. In March 1880, the family acquired the original leases to three sections of land in the Hundred of Wonna at Franklyn near Terowie where they built their home and raised a family of 10 children. Around 1911, Aaron and Margaret Harding retired from farming and moved to Unley, a suburb of Adelaide. Aaron Harding died on 15 June 1928 and Margaret died on 31 August 1928. They are buried at the West Terrace Cemetery in Adelaide.

Digitisation information

Date

31/03/2008

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Resolution

2,610 x 3,508 pixels (9.2 MP)

Size

27.50 MB

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