Historical information

Thomas Austin was born in Tunbridge Wells, England, in about 1822. He married Charity Ford (or Foord) in England and they migrated to Australia with their first three children in 1849.
They had eight more children in Australia. The Austins lived in Linton from about 1861, where Thomas Austin ran first a post office, newsagent and stationery shop, and afterwards a tailor's shop, in Sussex St Linton next to the Grenville Shire offices. Thomas Austin moved to Kyneton in 1882. He died in Melbourne in 1888, and is buried at Linton.
Photograph is part of Old Lintonian collection ; No. 1.

Physical description

Portrait of a bearded man wearing jacket collar and tie.

Inscriptions & markings

"Arrived in the year 1854" (part of message on back)