Rosalie Ann Thorne (later Watkins), of Rose Bay and Parramatta : a substantial archive of unique manuscript ephemera, 1850s-1890s, including family correspondence and material relating to the homescho

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Provenance: Rosalie Ann Thorne (1850-1927); Elizabeth Cecilia McNally, aka The Duchess of Spring Hill (1909-1996), legendary Brisbane antiques dealer and collector; private collection, Queensland. As the archive is so large, we have arranged it into four main sections catalogued under alphabetical headings, A D (see below). ROSALIE ANN THORNE AND HER FAMILY Rosalie ( Rose ) Ann Thorne (1850-1927) was the third daughter and fifth of ten children of prominent Sydney businessman George Thorne (1810-1891) and his wife Elizabeth Ann Bisdee (1821-1910). Her parents had married in Hobart in 1842 before moving from Tasmania to New South Wales in the mid-1840s. The Thorne family home was Claremont, a grand double-storey residence on the Wentworth estate in Rose Bay, built in 1851-52. In 1882, when Claremont was purchased by the Sisters of the Society of the Sacred Heart, it was to become the first building used by the newly established Kincoppal School. Like her mother, Rose was a talented amateur artist. She is believed to have received lessons from Conrad Martens through her friendship with the artist s daughter, Rebecca Martens. A number of her surviving watercolours and sketches are held in public collections (for example, her Sketches of the Flying Squadron, Claremont and Roseneath, 1869-1881 , in the SLNSW). At Clontarf on 12 March 1868, Rose witnessed the assassination attempt on Prince Alfred, the Duke of Edinburgh, and saw her father wounded in the foot by a bullet fired from

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