THOMAS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE SINCLAIR & ELIZABETH MATILDA SINCLAIR

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c. 1868

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Overview

A sepia photo of two people, the man seated on the right, the woman standing on the left. She is wearing a long dress & he is in a suit.
Believed to be brother and sister, Thomas Napoleon Bonaparte Sinclair and Elizabeth Matilda Sinclair.

Historical information

Part of a collection of items, mainly photographs, relating to the Sinclair family and donated to the museum in 2014 by Marilyn Walker of Kingscliffe, NSW.
Documentation that came with the photo reads "Thomas Sinclair & EM Sinclair [Mrs Joseph]. Children of James Sinclair & Mary nee?" From this it is assumed the people in the photo are Elizabeth Matilda Sinclair (1852-1888) and her brother Thomas Napoleon Bonaparte Sinclair (1850-1930). They are the children of James David Berkley Sinclair and Mary Jane (nee Glass) Sinclair. The Sinclairs lived at Dumbarton in the district of Toodyay. Elizabeth married Arthur John Wroth in 1877. Thomas married Melinda Amelia Wilkerson in 1882.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-37-2013.9

Item type

Photographs

Inscriptions and markings

Photographer's mark: "Manning & Knight Perth".
On back of photo, " To Mrs J Sinclair, Dumbarton, Toodyay.

Contextual Information

The Manning & Knight photography studio (so named after James Manning Jnr & Nathan Elias Knight) was active during the 1860s.

Keywords

SINCLAIR, E.M. & Thomas

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