art student, took a quarter’s drawing lessons from Conrad Martens in 1850-51, the 5-guinea fee for Mrs 'Jenkens’ (sic) being entered into Martens’s account book on 24 December 1850. The student was probably Mary Louisa Adelaide (called Louisa), elder daughter of Captain Patrick Plunkett, a police magistrate and pioneer settler in the Illawarra district of New South Wales, who had married Robert Pitt Jenkins at Wollongong in November 1843. Their town residence was 2 Burdekin Terrace, Sydney. Six sons and a daughter were born before both parents and their five surviving sons were drowned in the wreck of the Royal Charter off the coast of Wales on 26 October 1859.
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