Red Flowering Gums (1)Elsie Rankine Finlayson was the headmistress of Presbyterian College in Peppermint Grove, Perth, Western Australia from 1923 till 1927. She was a very well loved and respected headmistress but met Wilfred Ogden, an orchardist and after marrying him moved to Enderslea in...
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[caption id="attachment_547" align="alignleft" width="225"] "Are We Downhearted?"[/caption] [caption id="attachment_580" align="alignright" width="225"] May was commissioned to do a number of educational illustrations when she moved to Sydney[/caption] [caption id="attachment_529" align="alignleft" width="225"] Little Ragged Blossom is one of the May Gibbs books held in the Enderslea Farm Collection[/caption] [caption id="attachment_573"...
[caption id="attachment_517" align="alignnone" width="300"] Newspaper notification of my parents wedding I was sent this newspaper notification by a friend in Melbourne, David Kitchens. It was a real surprise and cetainly all new information for me. [/caption] The Clarke Family History is very well researched by R.H. Clarke...
Henry and Sarah Morley arrived at the Swan River Colony on 30th January, 1830, on board the Wanstead. They left their home near Brighton, England in July 1829 with a three year old daughter Jane. A second daughter, Joannah, was born a sea five weeks...
MARY ANNE FRIEND wrote a diary during her voyage out to Western Australia in 1829. She was the wife of the WANSTEAD'S master Captain Mathew Curling Friend and this trip has particular interest as Henry and Sarah Morley were travelling below decks as steerage passengers...
Founded in 1853 by Henry and Sarah Morley, Enderslea Farm is 165 years old in 2018. FIONA HARRIS has done remarkable research into the history of the Morley Family here and in Sussex England. ...
I'm in the process of creating an information page about the 2nd Headmistress of Presbyterian Ladies College Elsie Rankine Finlayson Ogden. She was a distinguished MA honours graduate from Cambridge and had wide teaching experience. Shannon Lovelady, the Archivist at PLC, was interested in her and...