Robert Stevens photographer

[muss]

Hi

Did your aunts and uncle marry ? if so do you know the name of their spouses ?

Muss

[BettyBoops]

Apologies for the mixup in names, JM
The BDM fizzled out. Without sitting with a map of the Gosford area, I tried Gosford, Kincumber and Sydney, and as someone else said, there were no Stevens' in the area at that time. Cheers Betty
I'm excited to view the Wakefield news. Ta

[BettyBoops]

Did Walter Stevenson of Grafton have any other children aside from Eldrid and Sybil Violet Oram? Just wondering why Robert would be deceptive in the issue of siblings/names.

[majm]

Live in Gosford and Work in Sydney .... even in this century it seems to be a very time consuming exercise to live Gosford and Work in Sydney.   

Do you know the decade that Walter was living Gosford, working Sydney?  Do you know whereabouts in Sydney - CBD, or in the suburbs?   


JM

[majm]

Info on Walter' STEVENSON's Dad

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/61262888 7 August 1894 Clarence & Richmond Examiner.

ADD
Walter's Grafton studio named "Vice-regal studios " http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/61629270 16 May 1914 Clarence & Richmond Examiner


JM

[BettyBoops]

Hi Muss - Robert's sisters and brother's names are just here-say, as I have never met/spoke/heard from them. What became of them was never discussed (in my presence). Betty

Oh, HUGE blunder on my part. Robert's DOB IS  20 April (not 18th)1895. oops

MAJM - I understood Walter to travel by train, and the business was in Sydney cbd. The latter was an assumption, as Dad would say the father had a shop in Sydney.

[BettyBoops]

MAJM - As Walter was a photographer when Dad was a child, and apparently well established in the profession, I'd say anywhere between 1870 to 1930. Betty

[majm]

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/193823807 9 March 1945. Daily Examiner, Grafton.
death of Eldred Stevenson 

So, Walter STEVENS by train Gosford to Sydney well - Sydney Harbour Bridge not finished until 1932, so the train came Gosford - Hornsby etc to Central via Strathfield.  The railway bridge across the Hawkesbury, at Brooklyn opened in about 1889 (relying on memory).   Again, from memory - Electric trains to Hornsby (from Central) started just before the Great Depression, so about 1929ish...   

JM

[majm]

I am currently waiting on one of my elderly rellies  to return my phone call,  he worked in the photographic trade prior to WWII, in Sydney CBD.    He has a reliable memory so to write,   

Fingers crossed he can give me some clues as to where to start to join the dots to help sort. 

JM