Meagher Family Group

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1900

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Overview

Formal photograph of the Meagher family. The small table is set with light coloured cloth and tea service, there are cups on the lawn and ivy and shrubs in background.

Rear: Hilda Parry standing beside her father, Malachi Meagher, Charles Henderson.
Mid: Shirley Kelly in tunic with lace collar, Kate Kelly seated, Mary Henderson seated in cane chair, Frances Meagher holding baby Charles Henderson, Frank Henderson in sailor suit standing beside a seated Lillian Meagher.
Front: John Henderson in tunic with sailor collar, Lucille Kelly in white pinafore and Albert Kelly.

Historical information

Malachi Reidy Meagher (1836-1906) was a former convict who worked from the Freshwater Bay Convict Depot (1859).

Malachi married Caroline Stubberfield (1836-1898) in 1862.

They had 9 surviving children:
Mary Ellen (1862-1943)
Gerald (1864-1937)
Francis John (1866-1935)
Nora (b.1867)
Kate (b.1869)
Lilian Caroline (1871-1942)
Frances Julia (1873-1947
Martin Malichi (1875-1897)
Hilda Margaret (1877-1910)

Historic records contain variations in names (Malichi and Reedy). Malachi was also known as Miall. One reference refers to Gerald as Gerald Shenstone.

Mary Ellen married Charles Henry Henderson (1865-1936) in 1894 and they had six children:
Frank Instone (b.1896)
John Magnus (b.1898)
Charles Gordon (b.1900)
Lorna Mary (b.1902)
Thelma Margaret (b.1902)
Olive Hilda (b.1904)

Kate married Albert Rupert Kelly in 1895 and they had four children:
Viotte Constance Roberts (b.1896)
Lucille Nora Roberts (b.1897)
Shirley William Roberts (b.1899)
Rupert Stanley Roberts (b.1906)

Hilda Margaret married Alfred Edward Perry in 1908.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-28--5-42-

Item type

Photographs

Themes

Social History

Year

1900

Links to additional resources

Claremont Museum.