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Image Not Available for Miss Tyrie, Appila, Yarrowie, South Australia & Mr H B Hawke, Hawkesly House, Kapunda
Miss Tyrie, Appila, Yarrowie, South Australia & Mr H B Hawke, Hawkesly House, Kapunda
Image Not Available for Miss Tyrie, Appila, Yarrowie, South Australia & Mr H B Hawke, Hawkesly House, Kapunda

Miss Tyrie, Appila, Yarrowie, South Australia & Mr H B Hawke, Hawkesly House, Kapunda

Date1866-1910
Object numberANMS0229[057]
NameNote
MediumHuman hair
DimensionsDisplay dimensions: 120 x 110 mm
ClassificationsEphemera
Credit LineANMM Collection Gift from Robert D McKilliam
HistoryHenry Binney Hawke established a successful foundry and engineering works at Kapunda, South Australia, in 1857, moving his family to there in 1859. He married Christina Rayner in 1852 and after her death in 1866 he married Julia Barkla in 1868. He sold the business in 1884 (which became H.B. Hawke & Company) and retired to Port Lincoln in 1884. He returned to Kapunda in 1891 where he resided till his death in 1904. He was playing billiards with his son Harold at the North Kapunda Hotel when he died. The Hawke on the note could be Henry Binney Hawke (1827-1904) or his son Harold Binney Hawke (1878-1963). If the note relates to the lock of hair within it, the note and hair could date from when Henry was seeking a second wife (1866-1868) or to an early romance of his son Harold. In 1915, on his WWI enlistment papers, Harold Binney Hawke is noted as being married to Rose Sexton (1890-1965) and living in Adelaide. In 1924 he had a daughter with this second wife Clarice Hale (1883-1975).