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Title:
Mrs Jane Kennerley, nee Rouse / photographer unknown
Date:
[around 1855]
Format:
1 photograph : daguerreotype;
Subject:
Rouse Hill House (N.S.W.)
portraits
bonnets
dresses
Kennerley, Jane, 1809-1877.
Rouse family.
Description:
Jane Kennerley, nee Rouse, was the second daughter of Richard Rouse (1774-1852), early Hawkesbury settler and colonial government employee, and his wife Elizabeth Adams (1772-1849). Her earliest years were spent at Parramatta where her father was an
auctioneer and Superintendent of Government Works but she grew up at Rouse Hill, a house her father began building in 1813. This house became the centre of the Rouse family estates. In February 1834 Jane married Alfred Kennerley, a recently-arrived English settler who had bought a property called 'The Retreat Farm' at Bringelly, near Camden. Kennerley owned The Retreat Farm (later called Kelvin) for more than twenty years but he and Jane spent some of that time in England and when they returned to Australia in 1857 they settled in Hobart, Tasmania. Kennerley became a magistrate, was elected to the city council and served as Mayor of Hobart. He was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council in 1865 and served as Premier from 1873 to 1876. Jane maintained frequent contact with her family at Rouse Hill and members of the extended Rouse family sometimes holidayed in Hobart. Jane Kennerley died in Hobart in May 1877.
Source:
Rouse Hill House & Farm ; R90/81
Rights:
You may save or print this image for research and study. If you wish to use it for any other purposes, you must contact the
Historic Houses Trust
to request permission.
Material Type:
Picture
Record number:
43228
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