c. 1880 Shaw family

ID: 14490
Photographer: Johnstone O'Shannassy
Copyright: library does not own image (image on public access)
Org ID: emshawfam

Description: Family photo of George and Eliza (nee McKay) Shaw and their eleven children. They independently migrated to Australia from northern Ireland in the 1850s. George and his brother Gavin were wholesale grocers and wine & spirit merchants. They had a store, G & G Shaw, at 35 Flinders Street East. George and family first lived at 19 Jolimont Street, Jolimont, and then moved to a mansion at 108 Wellington Pde, East Melbourne they named 'Tullyvallin'. After their departure, this later became 'Thorlinda Mansions' (around 1921). George was instrumental in the founding of the Cairns Memorial Presbyterian Church in East Melbourne and also P.L.C. Photograph is taken at 'Tullyvallin' and shows: Back row, l-r: Eliza jnr (aka Dolly), George jnr, George snr, William, Patrick, Eva. Front row, l-r: Henry, Margaret, Eliza McKay Shaw, Gordon, Mary. Seated: Herbert, Gavin. Image held by East Melbourne Library.
Subject: families

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