William Alfred Benzley and his wife Mary are the couple in the photograph. William Alfred was the son of Jacob and Amelia Benzley who were early business people and vignerons in Sunbury.A scanned sepia studio photograph with a cream border of a lady and a man. The man is seated and the lady is standing beside him.william alfred benzley, mary benzley, vignerons

William Alfred Benzley and his wife Mary are the couple in the photograph. William Alfred was the son of Jacob and Amelia Benzley who were early business people and vignerons in Sunbury. William was the son of Albrecht Rudolph Alfred Bonzil, who had arrived in Australia from Switzerland. Some time after arriving in Australia he must have Anglicised the family name to Benzley.The Benzley family were one of many families who helped to establish the Wine Industry in Sunbury during the nineteenth century. Some of those families were from the Germanic provinces in Europe.A copy of a sepia studio photograph with a light blue border, is of a well-dressed couple. The man dressed in a tailored suit is seated and the lady is dressed in clothes fashionable in the first decade of the twentieth century is standing next to the man.william alfred benzley, amelia benzley, vineyards, sunbury