This carte-de-visite is one item within a small album containing photographs of members of the extended Rouse and Terry families. Hannah Terry Rouse, nee Hipkins (1819-1907) was born in Staffordshire, England and came to New South Wales in 1837. She married Edwin Rouse, third son of Richard and Elizabeth Rouse of Rouse Hill in the Parramatta district of New South Wales in 1840 and lived for the first fifteen years of her married life on the Rouse family property at Guntawang near Mudgee before taking up residence at Rosue Hill. They were living at Rouse Hill when Edwin died in April 1862 This photograph, probably taken around 1863, shows Hannah in full mourning dress. In her long life Hannah travelled to Australia and back to England four times and eventually died in Sussex, England, in 1907. [ref. Caroline Rouse Thornton
Rouse Hill house and the Rouses 1988].
