More collection items have been added to the collection search page from the extensive Donaldson, Laughton, and Man album of family photographs. The photographs listed below also expand the coverage of this album in to the Heath, Lenthall, Husband, Atkinson and Mathams families, to name a few.
The Photographs
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A further series of photographs illustrating the wider Mitchell family including various branches.
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This series of photographs illustrates members of the Laughton family in Brisbane – Kenneth Heath Laughton, Helen Emily Laughton (nee Mitchell) and their children, Dorothy Laughton (Brown) and Gwenda Laughton (Donaldson – my grandmother).
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Frances Robson
Hi!
I am currently undertaking a research internship based at the University of Melbourne. In the new engineering collection I think there is a photo of Robert johnstone Donaldson is featured in. I’ve seen the WWI photos and I think the similarity is strong. However they are profile views and I only have an image with Donaldson facing towards the camera. The image dates to 1902. Do you have any images from this time I can use to compare? You can contact me through frob2921@uni.sydney.edu.au
vastiel
Thanks for your message Frances – I’ll send you an email now! I can definitely assist and would be very interested to see the Melbourne image as I didn’t know it existed. I assume you know, but RJD was a Melbourne Engineering grad.
James
Howard Mitchell
Hi James,
I just stumbled across this by accident and am fascinated by these photographs of my ancestors!
My name is Howard Gratnell Mitchell, and my grandfather was Ralph Gratnell Mitchell who features in your photos. (My dad was Peter Gratnell and my son is Hugo Gratnell!).
I would love to see clearer versions of your photos as we don’t have many (if any) of Ralph and his siblings as kids and very few of my namesake great grandfather. Not sure if/how that could be facilitated.
Regards
Howard
Joan Holloway
Hi James, I can’t seem to find the 2 or 3 photos that are somewhere on your site which relate to the Laughton home at 27 Kedron St, but I DID see them last visit & recall that you mentioned the house being relocated ca 1990. That is true, though it would have been probably late 1985. I lived with my family in that Kedron St house for 15 or so years. It was a beautiful, gracious house built of solid timbers with probably still the original pale green Wilton carpet in sitting room & hallway. We loved its gorgeous scrolled internal archways, high ceilings with circular fretwork covers for the dropped lights, a couple of original light fittings, spacious hardwood verandahs & 3 enormous floor- to-ceiling drop windows & lots else besides. I did visit the house in its new setting (somewhere at Oxley, though I would not now be able to remember where), glad that it had been saved from demolition. It looked well cared for, but I was struck by how much it had been architect designed for a corner block & how it lost some of its grandeur by being hemmed in on to a rectangular block. The photos I saw on your site were of the 2 little girls probably on the Kedron St/Stuckey Rd corner, the same little girls in the back yard with a goat (possibly near where the old tank stand was: we had guinea pigs, chooks & cats so I’m fascinated by the goat) & the photo that really struck home to me with poignancy – a number of people sitting on the front steps that led down to the Kedron St gate, just as we so often sat on those same steps in the cool of the afternoon, or to watch the children playing nearby.