JOHN STREET GILES, CAROLINE GILES (NEE FERGUSON) & CHILD

John Street Giles and family. The identification with the photograph attributes the woman as his wife Caroline (nee Ferguson). Caroline was John's second wife (married 1879), his first wife, Harriet, having died in 1874.
The identity of the boy in the photo is a matter of conjecture. John had both daughters and sons from his two marriages. The only son that seems to have survived past 1879 was Frederick James b.1870.
John came from the Victorian goldfields in c1854 and was a labourer at Toodyay before joining the Police Force in 1859.
He developed his farm at 'Nunyle' with his son (and sons-in-law?) and died in 1911 of a falling tree while helping with the clearing.
This photograph came into the museum collection in late 2013 as part of an album of photographs donated by Marilyn Walker of Kingscliffe, NSW. The earliest photos in the album, from around the 1880s, were of members of the Sinclair and Glass families who had settled in the Toodyay area.