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Re: family tree

Posted: 28 Mar 2015 10:10PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hello Sue

I saw your old posts about George and Cecil (Bernays) Harris.
I'm not related to either but I do have a photograph taken in a Mt Gambier, South Australia studio of one of their youngest daughters titled "T Cecil Harris Aged 19" - Theresa Cecil Harris.

This must have been taken before her December 1878 marriage to Phillip Anson Vyner in Mt Gambier. They had two daughters including one named Margaret Bernays Vyner before they went to live in New Zealand (Invercargill).
A late great aunt apparently thought Theresa married a brother of my gggrandmother our family had lost contact with in the mid-1880's. Seems she had confused Cecil with a similar sounding part of his real wife's name!

This photo is one of about 100 I have from 1850's to 1880's.
Only about half are named. Several unnamed ones are of "middle-aged" women and men who I am fairly sure are not part of my extended family.

I think the Harris' were were long time family friends.
My extended family had a large house in Caulfield, Victoria from 1850's to early 1900's - the suburb where the Harris children were born, as well as a sheep station ("Maaoupe") near Penola, South Australia from 1840's to 1940's near Mt Gambier where George was an engineer with the Roads Board from 1866.

I have tried to identify the unnamed one's without any success so far.
Sorry I can't be of more help.

rgds
Neil
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