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Claremont Museum > Records

SHARKEY COLLECTION - GROUP INCLUDING JOHN AND MAIDA LEFROY

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c. 1935

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B/W print. One man is standing and seven adults and two children, all in summer clothes, are seated on the edge of the verandah of what appears to be a weatherboard holiday house. A hessian blind partly encloses the end of the verandah and heaps of stones hide the stumps. In pencil on the rear [John Lefroy L/ Maida Lefroy nee Sharkey/ 3rd from R front].

Historical information

Maida Winsome Sharkey was born in Claremont in December 1905 and was the daughter of Raymond and Edith Florence Sharkey of 'Wainomi', 3 Victoria Avenue. Maida married John Lefroy in 1932.

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cwa-org-28--9-323-

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Thursday, 12 June, 2025

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