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Finsbury St, 45

Page history last edited by Lenore Frost 5 years, 3 months ago

Time Travellers in Essendon, Flemington and the Keilor Plains

Houses-in-Flemington

 

This photo probably shows Grace Arnott with her son Horace in about 1897.  Courtesy of the

Sam Merrifield Library, Moonee Ponds.  HER-00349.

 

This photo probably shows three of the Arnott boys, Gervaise, Horace and Leslie.  Courtesy of the Sam

Merrifield Library, Moonee Ponds.  HER-00350.

 

The family depicted in these photos is most likely the Arnott family,  who were living in the house by at least 1897.  Earlier occupants listed in the Sands & McDougall directories were the W Bayliss family, there in 1895, and the William E Goodfellow family, listed in 1896-97. 

 

My reasons for selecting the later part of the 1890s as the probably time period is partly because of the costume of the woman, and that the earlier residents don't seem (based on Victorian Birth Death and Marriage records) to have a young family living with them.  In the 1890s leg o' mutton sleeves became popular.  Width rather than height was the main aim to begin with, and sleeves reached their widest in 1895.  Thereafter sleeves became a little narrower, with some height at the shoulder, as shown in the  above photo.

 

Arthur Edward Arnott married Grace Colquhoun in Victoria in 1891.  Their children were Arthur John, b 1892 at Kyneton, Horace David b 1894 at Ballarat East, Gladys Annie, b 1897, Leslie George, b 1899 at Flemington, Gervais Colquhun b 1899 at Flemington, and Clara Grace, b 1901 at Newmarket.

 

The family was still residing at 45 Finsbury St as late as 1916 when Arthur and Grace were listed at that address in the 1916 Electoral Roll. By 1917 they had moved to Ormond Rd, Kensington.   Arthur's occupation was given as railway employee.

 

The earliest confirmation of the Arnott's presence in Finsbury St is a death notice for their little baby, Gladys Annie, mentioned in The Age on 4 January 1898:

 


The first photo above probably shows Grace Arnott with her second son, Horace David, aged about 3 in 1897.   

 

The second photo shows the fence and fence post with a level of deterioration, and is probably taken a few years later, probably around 1903, and showing from the left Gervaise, aged 2, Horace, aged 9, and Leslie, aged 4.

 

These photos are in the Sam Merrifield Library, Moonee Ponds, donated by Janice Carol Davey.

 

45 Finsbury St is on the right of this delightful row of terraces.

 

 

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