Returned soldiers 1945: from the Nevin and Moran family albums

Commemorating ANZAC DAY 2024

Wedding photograph from the (Nevin and Moran) family albums:
Brothers Tony and Dick Moran in army uniform at the wedding of Dick Moran to Biddy Coleman, Sydney, NSW, taken shortly before Dick's discharge on 23 November 1945. All three were known to family and friends by their monikers, not birth names.

From left to right: Flowergirl: (unidentified)
Best man: Frederick Denis (known as Tony) Moran
Bridesmaid: Joan Moran, Tony and Dick's sister
The groom: John Gregory jnr (known as Dick) Moran
The bride: May (known as Biddy) Coleman
Father of the bride: John (?) Coleman
Bridesmaid: Biddy's sister Eileen Coleman
In sailor's uniform: Eileen's fiancé Arthur Burnside (married in 1946)
Flowergirl: (unidentified)

Photographer: McEnnally, N. 240 Beamish Road Campsie NSW (1938-1946)
Copyright © KLW NFC Group Private Collection.

Further information: external links

Moran, F. D. (Tony), Virtual War Memorial Australia
Tony served in Papua New Guinea
Link: https://vwma.org.au/explore/people/1377562

Moran, Dick (John Gregory jnr), Virtual War Memorial Australia
Dick served in Greece and Crete
Link: https://vwma.org.au/explore/people/1759077

From the early 1950s to 1972 Dick Moran was resident caretaker with his wife Biddy and four children of Hardy's Chambers, De Mestre Place, built in 1926 for the Hardy Brothers, jewellers and goldsmiths, accessed off 310 George St. or rear of 5 Hunter St. Sydney NSW.

De Mestre Place was demolished in 2023 to make way for Sydney Metro West.
Link: https://trove.nla.gov.au/list/170381

This news item from Channel Seven, Sydney, 29 April 2024 shows where the George Street skyscraper will be built over the new Hunter Street Metro West station on the former site of De Mestre Place.

"More changes are coming to the city centre with the approval of 2 new skyscrapers | 7 News Australia"
Link: https://youtu.be/1y_mrkp8BnM?feature=shared

IN HIS OWN WORDS...

"T. J. NEVIN
PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIST,
Returns his sincere thanks to his friends and the public for past favours, and having made a considerable Reduction in his Prices to suit the times, he solicits a continuance of their patronage, and invites attention to his circulars, showing particulars of the small cost for a first-class faithful Likeness.
140 ELIZABETH-STREET"
Hobart Mercury, 1st February 1873

“I hope that you have not got it in your mind that I am implicated with the ghost“.
Hobart Mercury, 4 December 1880

"Defendant said that he was the father of a large number of children, and did not know which one was referred to. (Laughter.)"
Hobart Mercury, 11 August 1886

"Mr. Thos Nevin was under the impression that the police should be under stricter supervision."
Hobart Mercury, 19 July 1888.

BIOGRAPHY: professional photographer Thomas James Nevin snr (1842-1923) produced large numbers of stereographs and cartes-de-visite within his commercial practice, and prisoner identification photographs on government contract. His career spanned nearly three decades, from the early 1860s to the late 1880s. He was one of the first photographers to work with the police in Australia, along with Charles Nettleton (Victoria) and Frazer Crawford (South Australia). His Tasmanian prisoner mugshots are among the earliest to survive in public collections, viz. the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston; the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart; the Tasmanian Heritage and Archives Office, Hobart; the Port Arthur Historic Site, Tasman Peninsula; the National Library of Australia, Canberra; and the Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, Sydney. Thomas J. Nevin's stereographs and portraits are held in public and private collections in Australia, New Zealand, the USA, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark, France and Switzerland.

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lutruwita/Tasmania/Van Diemen's Land (loo-tru-wee-ta) always was, always will be Aboriginal land.

This weblog pays respect to the ancestors and elders past, present, and emerging of the first Australian peoples and acknowledges their continued connection to land, sea and culture as the traditional custodians of this country.

Irish-born Thomas J. Nevin would have been keenly aware that the residence and photographic studio he occupied at No's 138-140 Elizabeth St. Hobart in the 1870s were built on the traditional lands, nipaluna of the palawa people. It is no small irony that today, the very same property, which is renumbered as No. 198 Elizabeth St. Hobart and is occupied by the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, has returned to its traditional owners.

Looking east from the corner of Patrick St., the Royal Standard Hotel, 142 Elizabeth St. then T. J. Nevin’s studio and residence, 140-138 Elizabeth St. Hobart, 1870s

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Anthony Trollope at Port Arthur

Thomas Nevin's VIP commission 1872

VISIT TO PORT ARTHUR.- Mr. Trollope and the Hon. Howard Spensly, Esq., Solicitor-General of Victoria, accompanied the Hon. the Premier, J.M. Wilson, Esq., and the Hon. the Attorney-General, W.R. Giblin, Esq., embarked in the Government schooner late last night, some time after Mr. Trollope had concluded his lecture on "Modern Fiction, as a recreation for young people," and left for Port Arthur. Their visit to the Peninsula will be a very hurried one, and will afford them only scant opportunity of inspecting the penal establishment, it being the intention of Messrs. Trollope and Spensly to leave Hobart Town for the North, en route for Victoria in a few days ...

Source: The Mercury 2 February 1872