Elizabeth Rachel Nevin nee Day (1847-1914)
Original by her husband Thomas J. Nevin ca. 1874
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The Generations
Below is a brief summary of generational levels of the immediate families of photographer Thomas J. Nevin and his wife Elizabeth Rachel Nevin nee Day.
(a) GENERATION ONE: Dickson, Nevin, Pocock, Day and Goldsmith
Mary Ann Nevin nee Dickson (1810-1875) and John Nevin snr (1808-1887) had four children, all born near Belfast, Ireland between 1842 and 1852, prior to arrival as free settlers at Hobart, Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) in July 1852. Mary Ann Dickson was the sister of rose grower Alexander Dickson, established at Newtonards, Ireland. John Nevin snr was a former soldier ( Royal Scots First Regiment), a journalist, poet and gardener.
Children of Mary Ann Nevin nee Dickson and John Nevin snr
1. Thomas James (Thos) Nevin (1842-1923) m. Elizabeth Rachel Day (1847-1914)
2. Mary Ann Nevin (1844-1878) m. John Carr
3. Rebecca Jane Nevin (1847-1865)
4. William John (Jack) Nevin (1852-1891)
Children of Rachel Day nee Pocock (ca. 1812-1857) and Captain James Day (1806-1882). Rachel Day nee Pocock died of “consumption” at Hobart in 1857, and Captain James Day died in 1882 at the home of his younger daughter Mary Sophia Axup, Battery Point, Hobart. Photographer Thomas James Nevin married Elizabeth Rachel Day on 11th July, 1871 at Kangaroo Valley, Hobart.
1.Elizabeth Rachel (Lizza) Day (1847-1914) m. Thomas J. Nevin (1842-1923)
2. Mary Sophia Day (1853-1942) m. Hector Charles James Horatio Axup (1843-1927)
Children of Elizabeth Goldsmith nee Day (1802-1875), sister of Captain James Day, and Captain Edward Goldsmith (1804-1869). These were the Goldsmith cousins of the Day sisters, Elizabeth Rachel Day and Mary Sophia Day. Richard died in Hobart, 24 yrs old, in 1854 and Edward jnr died in Rochester (UK) in 1883.
1. Richard Sydney Goldsmith (1830-1854)
2. Edward Goldsmith jnr (1836-1883) m. Sarah Jane Rivers (1835-1926)
(a.1) GENERATION ONE extended: John Nevin’s second marriage: Genge and Chandler families
Mary Ann Nevin nee Dickson (1810-1875), first wife of John Nevin snr (1808-1887) died in 1875. He married his second wife, widow Martha Genge (1833-1925) (formerly Salter), in 1879. There were no children born to Martha Genge and John Nevin, although they acted as step-grandparents to Minnie Carr (1878-1898) daughter of John Nevin’s daughter Mary Ann Carr nee Nevin (1844-1878) who died in Victoria within weeks of giving birth.
Mary Chandler nee Genge (1835-1923), sister of Martha Nevin nee Genge was the second wife of shoe maker William Chandler. Of the three children born in this marriage, the youngest, James Chandler (1877-1945), who would become a professional photographer, was Thomas J. Nevin’s successor to the vocation of photography within the extended family network.
(b) GENERATION TWO: Day, Nevin, and Axup
Mary Sophia Axup nee Day (1853-1942) and Hector Charles James Horatio Axup (1843-1927) had five children between 1878 and 1891.
Children of Mary Sophia Axup nee Day and Hector C. Axup
NB: These dates may not be totally accurate.
1. Rachel Frances Eva Axup (1878-1978) m. P. Baldwin
2. Sidney James Vernon Axup (1882-1975) m. Emily Tyson
3. Edward Harold Leslie Axup (1885-1964) m.
4. Patience Ella Mary Axup (1889-1913)
5. Olive Lilian Ethel Axup (1891- ? ) m. Charles Wilshire, 10 May 1920
Elizabeth Rachel Nevin nee Day (1847-1914) and Thomas James Nevin (1842-1923) had seven children, six surviving to adulthood. Three sons – Sydney, William and George – were born at the Hobart Town Hall during their father’s residency as Office and Hall Keeper. Sydney died four months after birth.
Children of Elizabeth Rachel Nevin nee Day and Thomas J. Nevin:
1. Mary Florence Elizabeth (May) Nevin (1872-1955)
2. Thomas James (Sonny) Nevin (1874-1948) m. Gertrude Tennyson Bates (1883-1958)
3. Sydney John Nevin (1876-1877)
4. William John Nevin (1878-1927)
5. George Ernest Nevin (1880-1957)
6. Mary Ann (Minnie) Nevin (1884-1974) m. James Henry Alfred Drew (1878-1963)
7. Albert Edward Nevin (1888-1955) m. Emily Maud Davis (1891-1971)
Posts about Women in 19th century Tasmania, Australia
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- By his own hand: Morton Allport's trade in Aboriginal remains
- Mugshots of Women Prisoners, Tasmania 1897-1910
- Nevin family telegram 1942 on the passing of Mary Sophia Axup
- Thomas Nevin's studio decor: the lady's slipper chair
- Returned soldiers 1945: from the Nevin and Moran family albums
- Confusion for the press, 1879: was she/he/they a female or a male "impersonator"?
- Christmas from our Archives
- First Mate James DAY on the "Panama" to California 1850-1852
- Prisoner Charles J. GARFORTH said he would make Superintendent Adolarious H. BOYD pay dearly, 1875
- "HOPE": John Nevin's poem on slavery 1863 and the U.S. Proclamation of Emancipation
- Mrs Elizabeth Goldsmith and the saltmarsh known as Lady's Tippett, 1870
- Preview of new research 2023
- Indigenous elder Truganini and poet Ann Kearney, 1875
- Lost originals: the Nevin, Genge and Chandler family photographs
- NEVIN & SMITH, 1868: the client with white fingernails
- Captains, emigrants and convicts: the summer of 1842-1843 in Hobart, VDL
- Best of friends: Emma PITT and Liz O'MEAGHER 1866
- Lost and found: one day in 1866 and the scientific racism which followed
- Captain Goldsmith's "private friend" Edward Macdowell 1840s
- George and Matilda Cherry at Thomas Nevin's studio ca. 1872
- Reproductions of Charles A. Woolley's portrait of Tasmanian Aborigines 1860s-1915
- Captain Hector Axup and the French lady of Green Island, 1888
- The case against Henry Stock (var. Stocks) 1884 for the murder of his wife and her child
- Clients posing with Thomas J. Nevin's big box stereoscopic viewer
- Prisoner Joseph WALMSLEY: a "queer-looking man" 1842-1891
- Thomas J. Nevin at his finest: Camille Del Sarte and family 1860s-1870s
- John Nevin at inquest for James Thornton 1889
- Alfred Bock and the Bayles sisters
- Elizabeth Allport nee Ritchie at Thomas J. Nevin's studio 1876
- Alfred Hope and his landau with Albert Nevin on horseback early 1900s
- Elizabeth Rachel Day's album opener 1860s
- Sarah Crouch at Thomas J. Nevin's studio ca. 1872
- James McEvoy's fine fabrics ex Captain Goldsmith's "Parrock Hall" Sydney 1845
- T. J. Nevin's 1870s mugshots the inspiration for 21st century artworks
- Youngest daughter Minnie Nevin m. James Drew (1884-1974)
- Rosanna Domeney nee Tilley at Thomas Nevin's studio 1870s
- Thomas Nevin and Alfred Barrett Biggs 1872-1876
- Exhibition 2019: T. J. NEVIN's mugshot of prisoner James BLANCHFIELD 1875
- Prisoner John NOWLAN alias DOWLING 1870 - 1876
- Prisoner William SAYER or SAWYER 1875
- Thomas Nevin, Sam Clifford and the Flying Squadron at Hobart, January 1870
- Joseph Somes, Captain Edward Goldsmith and the "Angelina" 1844-46
- A distinguished forelock: Henry Dresser Atkinson on board the "City of Hobart" 1872
- Captain Edward Goldsmith and wife Elizabeth's land deals in VDL
- Bleak Expectations: Captain Goldsmith's will in Chancery 1871-1922
- John Nevin snr and family 1851-1854: shipping documents
- Captain Edward Goldsmith and the conundrums of the Ethiopian Serenaders 1851
- The Will of Richard Goldsmith snr (1769-1839)
- Treasures passed down from Captain Edward Goldsmith and Captain James Day
- Portraits and landscapes from T. J. Nevin's cohort
- Amy Bock's bid for marriage equality in 1909 in New Zealand
- One session, two poses at the City Photographic Establishment
- Marriage breakdown: Elizabeth Amos v Alfred Threlkeld Mayson 1879-1882
- Tom Nevin and father-in-law bandmaster Walter Tennyson Bates
- Prisoners William SEWELL and Ralph NEILL 1867-1874
- Captain Goldsmith & death at sea of Antarctic circumnavigator Captain John Biscoe 1843
- The desecration of Minnie Carr's grave 1898
- Woman with pink ribbons by Thomas Nevin 1870s
- Captain Edward Goldsmith, the diarist Annie Baxter and a burial at sea 1848
- Captain & Mrs Elizabeth Goldsmith: Rattler's maiden voyage 1846
- Captain Goldsmith, the Parrock Hall and playwright David Burn, Sydney 1844
- Captain Edward Goldsmith's grave at Chalk Church, Kent UK
- Thomas Nevin and Frederick Stops, right-hand man to the A-G
- With Jean Porthouse GRAVES 1870s West Hobart
- Elizabeth Bayley at Runnymede, New Town 1874-1875
- Elwick House and Elwick Bay
- Calling the shots in colour 1864-1879
- Portraits of older women by Thomas Nevin 1870s
- Thomas Nevin's women clients and their dresses 1870s
- Our Fourteenth Anniversary 2005-2019
- The firm of Nevin & Smith stamps and label 1867-1868
- The concertina player 1860s
- Thomas Nevin, informant for surveyor John Hurst 1868
- A few drinks on Christmas Eve 1885 at New Town
- Thomas J. Nevin at the New Town studio to 1888
- Captain Goldsmith dines with the Franklins at Govt House
- Prisoner Henry SINGLETON aka Harry the Tinker who pinches books
- Miss Nevin and Morton Allport
- Carnal knowledge of children: convictions 1860s-1880s
- "Lines on the much lamented death of Rebecca Jane Nevin" by John Nevin 1866
- Cousins Edward and Elizabeth baptised at St Mary's Rotherhithe
- Captain Edward Goldsmith and the wreck of the James 1830
- One of the last portraits by Alfred Bock in Hobart 1865
- Mary Sophia Axup chair of the WPL 1913
- Captain Edward Goldsmith and the McGregor family
- John Nevin snr and the Genge family
- Thomas Nevin's stereos of sister Mary Ann at New Town rivulet
- A highly coloured portrait
- The Photographer's wife at the studio
- Husbands and Wives NPG Exhibition 2010
- The Nevin farm burglariously entered 1881;
- John Nevin: "My Cottage in the Wilderness" 1868
- The early deaths of Thomas Nevin's sisters and niece Rebecca, Mary and Minnie Carr
- The firm of Nevin & Smith
- Oral history: Nevin family at Kangaroo Valley
- Thomas Nevin's portraits of his wife Elizabeth Rachel
- Prisoners Henry SINGLETON, Richard PINCHES, and Robert BEW
- The Nevin group portrait and wedding photo 1871
- The Medical Officer's report of the Fairlie passengers 1852
- Site Map No.1: Nevin Family
- Nevins on sick list during voyage out on the Fairlie 1852
- Prisoner poses: women, children and ticket-of-leave men
- Thomas Nevin and Robert Smith 1865-1868
- Elizabeth Nevin's souvenir cruet of the Model Prison
- Sonny Nevin's American journey with the Bates family
- First- born child May Nevin and her China trade soapstone vase
- Nevin & Smith tinted vignette of Elizabeth Rachel Day 1868
- Elizabeth Rachel Nevin nee Day & children
- Key dates in Thomas Nevin's life
- Kangaroo Valley house and school stereographs ca.1868
- Rocking Stone Parties on kunanyi/Mount Wellington
- G.T. Stilwell's letter to Mrs Shelverton 1977
- Mary Ann Nevin, sister of Thomas Nevin
- John Nevin's marriages to Mary Ann Dickson and Martha Genge
- Thomas and Elizabeth Nevin's Wedding Photographs 1871
- Nevin & Smith studio Elizabeth St. 1867-1868
Emily Maud Davis (standing) with her mother Frances Davis nee Stewart, ca. 1909, married Albert E. Nevin 1917
Photographed at Burrows & Co, the Quadrant. Launceston, blind stamp on recto.
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