Joshua R. Bray b. 1838

Also known as I. R. Bray
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Painter)
A settler in Murwillumbah in northern New South Wales, who sketched a small pencil view of his home, Kynnumboon.
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colourist, amateur photographer(?), civil servant and settler, initialled ('I.R.’) a small pencil view of Kynnumboon, his home on the Tweed River near Murwillumbah in northern New South Wales, dated 8 December 1865 (Murwillumbah AG), which he is said to have sent to his future wife. Bray was the first police magistrate, the first clerk of Petty Sessions and the first postmaster in the Tweed River district. He died at Murwillumbah on 20 February 1918.

A cdv sized, undated image showing the rear of the house with three women posed in the Kynnumboon garden (c.6“x 4½”) annotated, 'This ptg was done by an aunt of Mrs Duguid, a descendant of Joshua Bray’, appears to be a heavily coloured photograph.

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Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011

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Other occupations
  • postmaster (ANZSIC code: 5101)
  • clerk of Petty Sessions (ANZSIC code: 7540)
  • police magistrate (ANZSIC code: 7540)
  • settler
  • civil servant (ANZSIC code: 75)
  • postmaster (ANZSIC code: 5101)
  • clerk of Petty Sessions (ANZSIC code: 7540)
  • police magistrate (ANZSIC code: 7540)
  • settler
  • civil servant (ANZSIC code: 75)
Alternative names
  • I. R. Bray
  • I. R. Bray
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