Pedal Organ
c. 1900Wood with celluloid keys, leather bellow, steel wire connections to pedals.
Timber box with keyboard, folding lid with collapsible music holder attached. On two carved timber supports connected by timber brace at base with two timber pedals attached.
This pedal organ was associated with the Dent and Ellery families 1829 aboard the 'Marquise of Angl.
The Dent family came to Fremantle on the 'Marquise of Anglesea' in 1929. Sophia Dent was born on the beach at Fremantle and was possibly the first European child born in the Swan River Settlement. She is buried in the Dongara cemetery. The organ was passed to Sophia Dent's daughter, Amy Ellery. Amy married William Rumble.
Their daughter Violet passed the organ to Amy's nephew, Charlie Ellery.
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This item is associated with the first European settlers to come to Western Australia and with the first white child Sophia Dent who was born on the beach at Fremantle. Sophia later lived at The Irwin Post Office near Dongara and is buried in the Dongara Cemetery.
The object 'Baby Organ' (IROB0202) has high aesthetic significance, given its form, colour, texture and has some rarity value. The item has low scientific significance, although being representative of the class MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS/Keyboard in good condition. The item has high historic significance for the local community and possibly for the State and has high interpretive potential. This item has some social significance given it was associated with SOPHIA DENT (ELLERY, MITCHELL)(1829,1900).
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