Edmund Samuel Parkes (1834-1887) married Nancy Penrose Lawry (1831-1886) in 1855 in London. They travelled to Australia aboard the Damascus in November 1867 with their six children and other relatives to enable Edmund to take up an appointment as inspector of the Bank of Australasia. Four more Parkes children were born in St Kilda. They lived at Iron (later called Willyama), 241 Carlisle Street, Balaclava. Edmund Parkes was one of the best educated banks in Victoria. Following his appointment as superintendent of the Bank of Australasia in 1876, he purchased a Remington typewriter for the bank and employed Australia's first woman bank employee, Mary Swifte, to operate it. Nancy died in 1886. Edmund died in a train accident in 1887. His life is commemorated with a stained-glass window and memorial plaque at Holy Trinity Church, Balaclava.Black and white photograph mounted on plywood and cardboardHandwritten notes on the back: Edmund Samuel Parkes Father of Agnes Sargood nee Parkesst kilda, edmund samuel parkes

Nancy Penrose Lawry (1831-1886) married Edmund Samuel Parkes (1834-1887) in 1855 in London. They travelled to Australia aboard the Damascus in November 1867 with their six children and other relatives to enable Edmund to take up an appointment as inspector of the Bank of Australasia. Four more Parkes children were born in St Kilda. They lived at Iron (later called Willyama), 241 Carlisle Street, Balaclava.Black and white photograph mounted on plywood and cardboardHandwritten notes on the back: Nancy Parkes - wife of Edmund Samuel Parkes. Mother of ten (10) Agnes Sargood nee Parkesnancy parkes, st kilda

Agnes Penrose Sargood (1860-1916) was the daughter of Edmund Samuel Parkes (1834-1887) and Nancy Penrose Lawry (1831-1886) who lived at Iron (later called Willyama), 241 Carlisle Street, Balaclava. She married Frederick Thomas Sargood of Rippon Lea in April 1995 at Holy Trinity Church, Balaclava. These days Holy Trinity commemorates the life of Edmund Parks with a stained-glass window and a memorial plaque.Black and white photograph mounted on plywood and cardboardNotes on back: Agnes Penrose Sargood nee Parkes - born 1860(?) daughter of Edmund Samuel and Nancy Parkes taken about 1880st kilda, agness penrose sargood

Map of Australia printed for the Centenary of Federation 1901-2001. Description of the footsteps to federation and starting at left pictures of: John Forrest (first premier of Western Australia) - Edmund Barton (Australia's first Prime Minister) - Charles Kingston (premier of South Australia) - Catherine Helen Spence (first woman to run for political office) - Alfred Deakin ( Australia's first deputy Prime Minister) - John Quick (Force behind the people convention) - Andrew Inglis Clark (Attorney General of Tasmania) - Henry Parkes (Premier of New South Wales) - Robert Garran (helped draft the final version of the Constitution) - George Reid (Premier of New South Wales) - Maybanke Wolstenholme (leading women' s suffrage and Federation campaigner) - Samuel Griffith (former Queensland Premier) - The Exhibition Building, Melbourne - Vaiben Louis Solomon (represented the Northern Territory). On the right the evolution of the colonies and the states from 1788 to 1915.australia, history, centenary of federation