The Cedars, Rev. Samuel Marsden’s Old Home, Parramatta, N.S.W, unknown photographer (n.d.)

The Cedars, Rev. Samuel Marsden’s Old Home, Parramatta, N.S.W, (n.d.), object: 30967, Josef Lebovic Gallery Collection No. 1, Public Domain Mark 1.0, National Museum of Australia.

After: Parramatta Associations. The Old Parsonage Modernized, by Illustrated Sydney News (1883)

“AFTER”: “Parramatta Associations. The Old Parsonage Modernized [sic],” “The Old Parsonage, Parramatta,” Illustrated Sydney News (NSW : 1881 – 1894), Saturday 17 March 1883, p. 16.

George Barrington drawn from the life during his trial at the Old Bailey on Friday Sep 17 1790, by unknown artist (1790)

George Barrington drawn from the life during his trial at the Old Bailey on Friday Sep. 17, 1790, by unknown artist, (1790), (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), © The Trustees of the British Museum.

Parramatta River, New South Wales, by J.H. Goldfinch (184-)

J. H. Goldfinch, Parramatta River, New South Wales ([184-]), PIC Volume 54 #T756 NK800/13 / nla.obj-138571964. Courtesy National Library of Australia via Trove.

The Old Parramattan

The Old Parramattan tells the stories of the people of Old Parramatta. Were your ancestors “Old Parramattans”? Search the database to find out!

“Ways and Means or the Last Shift,” political sketch about Parramatta Female Factory, by Edward Winstanley (c.1844)

Edward Winstanley, “Ways and Means or the Last Shift.” Printed at top of image “Political Sketches by B.B. No.2,” printed beneath image “Printed and published by E.D. Barlow No.9 Bridge St,” in 8 political lithographic cartoons, mostly by Edward Winstanley, (Sydney: Raphael Clint & Edward Barlow publishers, c.1844), DL PXX 66 / FL991395. Dixson library, State Library of New South Wales.

Portrait of Parramatta Female Factory inmate Adelaide de la Thoreza, unknown photographer (before 1877)

Portrait of Parramatta Female Factory inmate Adelaide de la Thoreza. “Adelaide de la Thoreza,” frontispiece in Reverend Dr. James Cameron (1827–1905), Adelaide de la Thoreza: A Chequered Career, (Sydney: Foster and Fairfax, 1878). Call number: Np 994.402092 T489C / nla.obj-39562168. Courtesy of National Library of Australia via Trove.

Francis Howard Greenway, pencil portrait by unknown artist (between 1814 and 1837)

Francis Howard Greenway, pencil portrait by unknown artist, ML 482 / FL3266814, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.

Charles Harry Roberts, The Female Factory at Parramatta, a station fifteen miles from Sydney, New South Wales (c.1823)

Charles Harry Roberts, The Female Factory at Parramatta, a station fifteen miles from Sydney, New South Wales, (c.1823), nla.obj-139327410. Courtesy of National Library of Australia.

Female penitentiary or factory, Parramata [i.e. Parramatta Female Factory], N.S. Wales, by Augustus Earle (1826)

Augustus Earle, Female Penitentiary or Factory, Parramata [i.e. Parramatta Female Factory], N.S. Wales [picture], nla.obj-134500491, Courtesy of National Library of Australia via Trove.