Mary Murray b. 16 October 1817

Also known as Mary Gibbes, Minnie Gibbes, Minnie Murray, née Gibbes Mary Murray
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
A sketcher, Mary Murray arrived in Sydney in 1834, the daughter of Colonel Gibbes who designed Kirribilli's Wotonga House, which now forms part of Admiralty House, official home of the Governor-General. Murray's sketches and albums are held in private collection and the National Library of Australia.
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Name
Mary Murray
Also known as:
  • Mary Gibbes
  • Minnie Gibbes
  • Minnie Murray
  • née Gibbes Mary Murray
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Birth date
16 October 1817
Birth place
Pontefract, Yorkshire, England, UK
Death date
2 January 1858
Death place
New South Wales
Burial place
Winderradeen, NSW
Active Period
  • 1834 - 1857
Arrival
  • 1834 (Sydney, NSW, aboard the 'Resource'.)
Residence
  • 1855 - 1858 Winderradeen, NSW
  • 1843 - 1855 Yarralumla, ACT (Then Limestone Plains, NSW )
  • 1843 - Kirribilli, Sydney, NSW
  • 1834 - 1843 Point Piper, Sydney, NSW
  • c.1827 - c.1837 London, England, UK
  • c.1819 - c.1827 Falmouth, Jamaica, West Indies
  • c.1817 - c.1819 England, UK
Languages
  • English

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References [<ExternalResource: Wilson, G. (1968), 'Murray of Yarralumla', Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: (1992), 'Murray, Mary (Minnie)', The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870, edited by Joan Kerr, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Vic. p.558.>, <ExternalResource: Buscombe, E. (1978), 'Artists in Early Australia and their Portraits', Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Clarke, P (1986), 'A Colonial Woman: The Life and Times of Mary Braidwood Mowle 1827-1857', Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Mowle, L.M. (1978), 'A Genealogical History of Pioneer Families of Australia', Adelaide, SA.>]