Provenance

Kew Historical Society

Purpose/Function

Since its foundation in 1958, members of the Kew Historical Society have been compiling and storing information about subjects relating to the history of Kew and its environs, of which this file is an example.

Arrangement

Arranged by Secondary Values (value of records to users)

Content

Subject file created by researchers of the Kew Historical Society containing information about Georgiana McCrae and her family. (Note that there were a number of McCrae families in Kew, including a Cr McCrae, no relation.) The file includes an article from National Trust News (1988) on Georgiana MCCrae's life, the catalogue of the Museum and Hall at the McCrae Homestead, and a letter from Barbara McCrae (perhaps unrelated), a member who moved from Kew to Hawthorn & could not attend meetings. (Note that the Reference Library includes the journal of GM and that one of the Eva Grant albums includes photographs of her house in Abbotsford.