Sepia Saturday 191: 24 August 2013

 © Rob Steven via Flickr

This week I am going to stray from my norm and give you photos found on Picture Queensland rather than from my own family albums.  Rob Steven has given us such a fantastic photo that I feel nothing in my family albums is equal to the task...and besides...I do like a good hat...or bonnet.

 Nothing is known about the prompt image, so I could look for siblings, wives, penetrating gazes, shawls, gloves, beards, hands on shoulders or any group of three.

So off we go, a hunting for bonnets and penetrating gazes

Mary Ann Low 1877 - State Library of Queensland
Out of copyright

This is Mary Ann Low.  According to State Library of Queensland  she is "photographed wearing a bonnet decorated with feathers and lace ties. She has a cameo brooch on the neck of her dress."

Here's another photo of her with her daughter many years later. 

NB. Hand on shoulder....ooh...and shawl...

Mother and daughter Mary Ann Low and May Scott in 1927
State Library of Queensland
Out of Copyright

I don't know much about Mary Ann Low but I did find an article in the Brisbane Courier on Trove from 19 June 1929.  It said 

"The late Mrs. Mary Ann Low, whose

death took place at her residence at

Nanango on June 3, was 86 years of

age. The deceased was bom in

Staithes. in Yorkshire, England, and

arrived in Brisbane in 1877. She lived

for 27 years in the Bundaberg district,

when she moved to Nanango, where

she had since resided for 22 years.

Her husband predeceased her some

years ago. She leaves one daughter

(Mrs. J. W. Scott,  Nanango), ten

grand-children, and 13 great grand-

children."

I did find another beautiful bonnet....

State Library of Queensland.
Undated.
Portrait of Mrs. Gertrude Steindl (nee Brennan), wife of Lee Steindl, and baby. Mrs. Steindl is wearing an embroidered blouse and a hat swathed in fabric. Baby is wearing a dress and bonnet. Photograph taken by Olesen and Strong of Maryborough.
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Isn't it a beauty?  

Who is or rather was Gertrude Steindl with such impeccable taste in hats?

Here she is with her sisters.....NB another hand on shoulder...

From State Library of Queensland.
Portrait of five sisters (nee Brennan) who all married into the Steindl family.  At top left is Gertrude Steindl, who married Lee Steindl of Maryborough in 1905. At bottom left is Nellie Steindl, and one of the other sisters is Winnie Steindl Photograph taken by Vandyck Studio of Bourbon Street, Bundaberg. Undated.
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Here is Gertrude on her wedding day ...are the men wearing gloves????  I think they must be.  Their hands can't be that white...surely????

 State Library of Queensland
Lee Steindl and his wife Gert are pictured with their attendants on their wedding day. The groomsman pictured on the left is Tony Steindl from Bundaberg.
April 1905
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Lee Steindl's father owned a brewery and his obituary in the Brisbane Courier 24 May 1913 read as follows:

"Being of a most liberal disposition, he freely supported various bodies in the town financially, churches of all denominations, sporting bodies, and other societies sharing in his. generosity. He was a member of the Pastoral and Agricultural Society, the Chamber of Commerce,the Maryborough Jockey Club, a life member of the H.A.O.B. Society, and patron of the Wide Bay Rowing Club, but of late years, owing to ill-health, he took no active part in their affairs."

State Library of Queensland
Louis Steindl was born in Austria and came to Australia to live. He settled in Maryborough and became the proprietor of a brewery from 1876.
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Can we just see that baby girl one more time and make sure that the taste in hats does not diminish with the worry of child-rearing?

State Library of Queensland
Gert Steindl with her little daughter.  Maryborough. ca 1907
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Phew!

Now to some more sombre bonnets...

State Library of Queensland
Willhemina, youngest daughter of Rev. Charles Ogg, in mourning dress with and elaborate black lace bonnet, lace collar and cuffs, and a brooch.
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Please note how Wilhemina spells her name.  I wasted a lot of time looking for WilheLmina...silly me.  Wilhemina was born in 1878 (according to the Qld BDM index and if I have the right family of Oggs and her mother was Agnes McKellar).  Whilst the State Library says this photo is ca 1880, I think it is more likely to have been taken later as Wilhemina looks a bit older than 2 years of age and a bit older than seventeen which is how old she was when her father died.  But I am happy to be corrected if I've got my Wilheminas mixed up or my Oggs mixed up.

State Library of Queensland
Rev. Charles Ogg ca 1880
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Look!

It's a beard!!

Wilhemina's father Rev. Charles Ogg died 10 April 1895 and his obituary in the Brisbane Courier read as follows:

"Mr. Ogg, who had attained the ripe'age of 77 years, had been a resident of Queensland for nearly forty years, and was the father of the Presbyterian Church in this colony. Born in Arbroutha Scotland, he after receiving a sound education at the parochial school, proceeded to the University, and studied both at Edinburgh and Glasgow, obtaining high honours in Latin and Greek at the latter college. He came out to New South Wales in 1854, and was ordained at Sydney. He arrived in Moreton Bay two years later, and shortly after formed the Ann-street charge, of which he had the spiritual oversight up to the day of his death. In the early days he travelled a good deal throughout the colony, fulfilling the duties of a minister

of the Presbyterian Church ; but of late years he seldom went far afield. Mr. Ogg leaves a widow and a family of five daughters and four sons."

Speaking of the other sons and daughters....Look!  

I have a trio for you.

Son and two daughters of Rev. Charles Ogg. Both girls are wearing skirts embellished with frills and gathers, and have lace cuffs and bows at the neck.
ca. 1879
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Bingo.  I've done it.  Penetrating gazes - check, beard, check, trio, check, gloves, check, bonnets, check, siblings, check, wives, check, hands on shoulders, check.

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