Amelia Gaynor b. 15 May 1836

Also known as Amelia Jane Gaynor
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Her sole known sketch is a pencil drawing of her home at Norfolk Island now held at the State Library, Tasmania.
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sketcher, was born in Hamilton, Van Diemen’s Land, on 15 May 1836, eldest child of George Francis Huston, surgeon-superintendent of the Asylum at New Norfolk (1855-80) and subsequently MLA, and Sarah, née Hawthorn. George Hawthorn was her uncle. On her eighteenth birthday Amelia Jane married, from her father’s residence on Norfolk Island, Lieutenant (later Major) Francis Seymour Gaynor of the 99th Regiment, son of Bryan Gaynor of Killinea House, County Dublin. She died at her father’s house, Frescale, New Norfolk, on 29 April 1860, survived by her husband, a son and two daughters. Her only known sketch is a competent pencil drawing, Home at Norfolk Island , inscribed lower right 'A.J.G. 1854’ (ALMFA).

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Writers:
Stilwell, G. T.
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011

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