Records re Norman and Matthews genealogy. [PRG 422/35/1-10] • Manuscript
Records re Norman and Matthews genealogy.
Mr. Denovan who married Miss Gowan of Berwick upon Tweed. A relation of Elizabeth Denovan Gowan. Elizabeth Denovan Gowan married Rev. Kerr Johnston of Greenock and later founded the Seamen's Institute in Port Melbourne
Records re Norman and Matthews genealogy.
Miss Gowan who married M. Denovan and who is the great grand aunt of Ruth Norman
Records re Norman and Matthews genealogy.
Norman family relation
Records re Norman and Matthews genealogy.
Captain John Matthews born 5/4/1798 Truro Cornwall, died 22/7/1866 Melbourne Victoria, who married Honor Williams. Came to Australia 1853, age 58 to try his luck in the gold fields. They had two sons Daniel and William Matthews
Records re Norman and Matthews genealogy.
Honor Williams wife of Captain John Williams
Records re Norman and Matthews genealogy.
Captain John Matthews
Records re Norman and Matthews genealogy.
Norman family portrait copied from the original photograph of the family of Kerr Johnston and his wife Elizabeth Denovan (nee Gowan) my mother's parents (John Kerr Matthews), taken by Stewart and Co. Melbourne 1883. "To my dear sister Alma Janet Norman on the occasion of her 67th birthday - 30th June 1947 - with love from her brother John Kerr Matthews, The White House, Avenue Road, Payneham, Adelaide South Australia". Back row (1) Kerr born Melbourne 30 March 1853, (2) Arthur Byram Gowan born Shipley 21 September 1851, (3) Eliza [married JP Ludlow] born Perth born 4 April 1845, (4) Robert William [married Henrietta Sinnati] born Hobart 27 February 1855. Front row (5) Mary [R.V. Danne] Shipley born Yorkshire England December 1849, (6) Kerr Johnston First Seamen's Missionary Port Melbourne [married Sandridge] of Greenock, born Scotland 26 August 1812, (7) Isabella Delgarno [married C. Baeyertrz] born Williamstown Victoria 1 March 1857, (8) Elizabeth Denovan (nee Gowan) born Berwick on Tweed, 26 August ca. 1848, (9) Janet Shipley [married D. Matthews] born 1 November 1848. Three of the family died, Margaret (born Perth 8 June 1843) Lydia (born Birdhope Craig, Northumberland 17 February 1847), John (born and died in Hobart after 2 days 1856)
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Family portrait at "Helenholme" Mitcham, summer 1923 just after the arrival of John K. Matthews and his family from Canada and England 12 March 1923. "To dear Ruth Alma Dorothy Norman - with lots of love and heaps of good wishes for a Merry Christmas and a New Year of blessing - 1957 1958 - from Uncle John K Matthews Payneham". Names from left, Auntie Daisy, Gretta, Joyce, Daisy Honor, Ruth, John Lavers, Daniel Kerr, Gowan Pridham, Isabel, Auntie Honor, Grandma Matthews, Uncle Ted Dridham
Records re Norman and Matthews genealogy.
Captain Murray Randell and wife of Murray Bridge. River boat captain
Records re Norman and Matthews genealogy.
Mannum, old dry dock engine.