SHARKEY ALBUM - GOVERNMENT HOUSE, PERTH
c. 1895B/W print. Glimpse of imposing, brick building with stone quoins through heavy foliage of garden. Top of fence and capped pillar in foreground. Printed in pencil on album page [GOVT HOUSE].
Lived at the 'Appy 'Ome as a bachelor. Born in 1868 in New South Wales, Raymond Sharkey was an architect and surveyor and amateur photographer. He worked for a time in Esperance and the goldfields. He married Edith Florence Ray in Melbourne on October 4th, 1899. They had four children Josephine, Peggy, Maida and Bruce. Moved to 3 Victoria Avenue 'Wainomi in 1903'. While living in Claremont, worked as a draughtsman for the Public Works Department. Died of a heart attack at the Subiaco train station at age 41 on September 22, 1910.
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