[TASMANIA; PORT PHILLIP] Studio portraits of Wimmera squatter Monckton Synnot (ca. 1864), his wife Anne (Wedge) Synnot (ca. 1870), and their seven children (1863).

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I. W. F. Roberts, Market Square, Geelong, photographer. [Probably taken on the same day in late 1863]. Seven albumen print studio portraits, in uniform carte de visite format. The seven young sitters are all identified in a fully contemporary hand on the versos as follows: Monckton Davy Synott (1854-1938), Jane Elizabeth Synott (1855-1933), Richard Walter Synnot (1857-1932), John Patrick Synott (1858-1891), Marcus Synott (1860-1946), Lucy Anne Synott (1861-?), and George Houston Synnot (1863-?), who is pictured as an infant being held by a wet nurse. II. Batchelder O Neill, 41 Collins Street, East, Melbourne, photographers. [Probably taken around 1864]. Albumen print studio portrait of Monckton Synnot (1826-1879), identified in contemporary hand verso. III. John Botterill, 19 Collins Street, East, Melbourne, photographer. [Probably taken around 1870]. Albumen print studio portrait of Anne Emily Wedge Lawrence (Synnot) (1833-1920), identified in contemporary hand verso. This quite possibly unique group of nine portraits documents the young family of pastoralist Monckton Synnot and his wife Anne (Wedge) Synnot. Monckton was one of the many early Port Phillip settlers who came across from Van Diemen s Land, arriving with his brothers as a twelve year-old in 1838. He was a squatter, first on South Brighton station in the Wimmera district, and from 1868 on Terrick Terrick station in north central Victoria. He later became one of the colony s most successful wool merchants. Monckto

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