Edwin Rouse, 1806-1862
Hannah Terry Rouse, nee Hipkins (1819-1907) was born in Staffordshire, England and came to New South Wales in 1837. She married Edwin Rouse, third son of Richard and Elizabeth Rouse of Rouse Hill in the Parramatta district of New South Wales in 1840 and lived for the first fifteen years of her married life on the Rouse family property at Guntawang near Gulgong. In her long life Hannah travelled to Australia and back to England four times and eventually died in Sussex, England, in 1907.
Source: Caroline Rouse Thornton Rouse Hill house and the Rouses 1988
Hannah Rouse (1819-1907), circa 1855
Source: Sydney Living Museums
Hannah Rouse, circa 1863
The Rouse family were living at Rouse Hill when Edwin died in April 1862 This photograph, probably taken around 1863, shows Hannah in full mourning dress.
Hannah Terry Rouse, nee Hipkins (1819-1907), circa 1866
Source: Sydney Living Museums
Richard Rouse (1842-1902) of Guntawang near Gulgong, NSW, was the oldest child of Edwin Rouse (1806-1862) and his wife Hannah Terry Hipkins (1819-1907) and was a grandson of Richard and Elizabeth Rouse of Rouse Hill in the Parramatta district of New South Wales.
Richard married Charlotte Emily Barnard (1844-1902) in July 1865 in Hobart, Tasmania.
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By the time the following photographs of the Rouse children were taken, probably in late 1855, Edwin and Hannah Rouse and their children had moved to live at Rouse Hill, Edwin having taken responsibility for the property following his father's death.
Emma Rouse (1843-1928) - photo taken circa 1855
Source: Sydney Living Museums
Emma Rouse (1843-1928), was the second child of Edwin Rouse (1806-1862) and his wife Hannah Hipkins (1819-1907) and was a granddaughter of Richard and Elizabeth Rouse of Rouse Hill in the Parramatta district of New South Wales. Emma was born at the Rouse family property Guntawang near Gulgong. In 1871 Emma married Lieutenant Dudley Batty, an English army officer, in London. They had met onboard the sailing ship Sobraon in 1869, when Emma and her mother, brother Edwin and sister Lizzie were returning from a European trip and Dudley Batty was making a sea voyage for the sake of his health. Dudley Batty died in 1878 and Emma never returned to Australia.
Source: Caroline Rouse Thornton Rouse Hill house and the Rouses 1988
Lizzie Rouse (1845-1931), circa 1855
Source: Sydney Living Museums
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Rouse (1845-1931) was the third child of Edwin Rouse (1806-1862) and his wife Hannah Hipkins (1819-1907) and was a granddaughter of Richard and Elizabeth Rouse of Rouse Hill in the Parramatta district of New South Wales. She was born at the Rouse family property Guntawang near Gulgong. In 1884 Lizzie married Colonel Fred Buckley Campbell in London and remained in England for the rest of her life.
Source: Caroline Rouse Thornton Rouse Hill house and the Rouses 1988
Mary Phoebe Rouse (1847-1931), known as Phoebe, was the fourth child of Edwin Rouse (1806-1862) and his wife Hannah Hipkins (1819-1907) and was a granddaughter of Richard and Elizabeth Rouse of Rouse Hill in the Parramatta district of New South Wales. She was born at the Rouse family property Guntawang near Mudgee but by the time this photograph was taken, probably in late 1855, Edwin and Hannah Rouse and their children had come to live at Rouse Hill, Edwin having taken responsibility for the property following his father's death. In September 1866 Phoebe married Albert Augustus Dangar at St Matthew's Church, Windsor. He was the fourth son of the surveyor and pastoralist Henry Dangar and was himself a prosperous pastoralist.
Source: Caroline Rouse Thornton Rouse Hill house and the Rouses 1988
Edwin Rouse (1849-1931), circa 1855
Source: Sydney Living Museums
Edwin Stephen was the fifth and youngest child of Edwin Rouse (1806-1862) and his wife Hannah and the grandson of Richard and Elizabeth Rouse of Rouse Hill in the Parramatta district of New South Wales. Edwin Stephen was born at the Rouse family property Guntawang near Gulgong. In 1874 he married Eliza Ann (Bessie) Buchanan, daughter of William Buchanan, surveyor and pastoralist.
This portrait of Edwin Stephen Rouse (1849-1931) mounted in a rococo style gold brooch may have been a keepsake belonging to his mother, Hannah Rouse nee Hipkins (1819-1907).
Source: Caroline Rouse Thornton Rouse Hill house and the Rouses 1988
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The following carte-de-visite portraits seem to be from a suite of studio portraits of Edwin and Hannah's children taken at a single session in about 1866.
Richard Rouse (1843-1906), around 1866
Source: Sydney Living Museums
Emma Rouse (1843-1928) - photo taken circa 1866
Source: Sydney Living Museums
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Rouse (1845-1931), circa 1866
Source: Sydney Living Museums
Mary Phoebe Rouse (1847-1931), circa 1866
