Sarah Ann Dawe migrated to Victoria with her husband William and children in 1857. The Dawe family lived at Geelong before settling in Linton, where William Dawe ran a greengrocery store in Sussex Street (on corner where Sussex Street becomes Skipton Road, on other side of road to the former Wishart forge.) Printed from glass plate negative (c1900). Found after death of the donor's uncle. Believed to be from collection of Augustus Titter (husband or son of Rose Dawe).Double black and white photograph of lady wearing dark dress with white lace collar, sitting in wooden chair, with open book on side table."Ann Carpenter (nee Blair )- Wife of William Dawe".sarah ann dawe nee carpenter

Sarah Ann Dawe, née Carpenter, was the wife of William Dawe who ran a general store/greengrocery in Sussex Street, Linton, probably from the 1870s, and who also had mining interests. The Dawe family migrated to Victoria in 1857. They first lived at Geelong but are believed to have settled in Linton shortly after their daughter Mary Ann married Robert Simeon Nelson in 1864. The photograph was printed from a glass plate negative found after death of the donor's uncle. Believed to be from collection of Augustus Titter (husband or son of Rose Dawe, who was Sarah and William Dawe's granddaughter).Elderly woman wearing black dress with white collar and brooch at neckline, seated in wooden chair."Ann Dawe nee Carpenter".sarah ann dawe nee carpenter

Mary Ann Dawe migrated to Victoria with her parents William and Sarah Ann Dawe in 1857, and married Robert Simeon Nelson at Linton in 1864. At that time R. S. Nelson was a carpenter/cabinet maker with a sideline in coffin-making, whose buisiness in Sussex St was slowly evolving into that of an undertaker. Robert Simeon and Mary Ann Nelson had six children, four of whom lived to adulthood. Mary Ann died from complications of childbirth in 1887.Black and white copy of an original portrait showing an older woman wearing a black high ruffle necked dress with a brooch at her throat and a black feathered hat.mrs robert simeon nelson (nee mary ann dawe) 1846-1887