Lance Duryea

M, b. 10 March 1895, d. 28 March 1895
  • Last Edited: 27 Sep 2009

Richard Duryea

M, b. 25 October 1859, d. 7 May 1951
  • Last Edited: 29 Sep 2009

Townsend Duryea

M, b. 1823, d. 13 December 1888
  • Birth*: Townsend Duryea was born in 1823 at Glencoe, Long Island, New York, USAG; DURYEA, TOWNSEND (1823-1888), photographer, was born at Glencoe, Long Island, New York, North America, son of Hewlet Duryea. He was trained as a mining engineer and his experience in the art of photography dated from 1840. He also took an art course. He arrived at Melbourne in 1852 and next year entered a studio partnership with Alexander McDonald in Bourke Street. In 1855 he moved to Adelaide and in February opened daguerreotype rooms over Prince's store at the corner of King William and Grenfell Streets. Later that year Townsend and his brother Sanford formed the partnership of Duryea Bros. They were the first photographers known to have worked outside Adelaide; by 1856 they had visited Auburn, Burra, Clare, Kapunda, Goolwa, Milang, Port Elliot and their near-by villages. In 1857 Duryea used experience gained in America as a shipbuilder to build the thirty-foot cutter Coquette behind the Maid and Magpie Hotel at Magill. Though the cutter was said to be for the River Murray trade, it was used mainly in racing; stakes in private challenges were sometimes £100 a side. Duryea was also interested in copper finds near Wallaroo, and by February 1861 a fine lode of copper had been cut on section 471, the property of 'Mr Duryea and others'. Within a few months the Duryea Mining Association owned fifteen mineral sections in the area.
    In 1863 Townsend dissolved the partnership with his brother. His studio was the most popular in Adelaide, patronized by governors, visiting dignitaries and Adelaide's leading citizens. As well as portraits he produced many views, including several notable panoramas of Adelaide. In 1872 he photographed almost all the surviving old colonists and made their portraits into a large mosaic comprising some 675 cartes-de-visite. Duryea was chosen as official photographer in the royal visit of 1867. On 9 November the Duke of Edinburgh posed at Duryea's King William Street studio for the first royal portraits made in Australia. Duryea then accompanied the official party throughout the visit, travelling in a specially prepared photographer's van. By the early 1870s Duryea's panoramas, royal portraits and prizes won in Society of Arts photographic competitions had made him famous. He achieved his high standard with the help of skilled operators. Short in build he was extremely energetic, of 'vigorous mind and keen intelligence, his whole character bearing the impress of sterling integrity'. Duryea always made full use of the advertising facilities offered by newspapers and almanacs. His career as a photographer was cut short when his studio and entire collection of 50,000 negatives were destroyed by fire on 18 April 1875. This loss was a serious blow to Duryea and historians alike, as the plates were the best record of early South Australian colonial life ever made. After the fire Duryea moved to the Riverina district of New South Wales and took up a selection near Yanga Lake. In his later years he was crippled by a stroke and became an invalid. He died on 13 December 1888 after a buggy accident and was buried at Parkside near Balranald.
    Duryea was married twice in America: first to Madalina and second about 1852 to Elizabeth Mary Smith who accompanied him to Adelaide. In Adelaide on 22 May 1872 he married Catherine Elizabeth Friggins. He was survived by a son and daughter of the first marriage, four sons and a daughter of the second, and three sons and two daughters of the third. Several of his sons and grandsons became photographers.
  • He was the son of Hewlett Duryea.
  • Marriage*: Townsend Duryea married Elizabeth Murray Smith circa 1850.
  • Marriage*: Townsend Duryea married Catherine Elizabeth Friggens, daughter of Thomas Friggens, on 22 May 1872 at Residence Of Catherine Elizabeth Friggens, Adelaide, SA, AustraliaG.
  • Death*: Townsend Duryea died on 13 December 1888 at Balranald, NSW, AustraliaG; DURYEA, TOWNSEND (1823-1888), photographer, was born at Glencoe, Long Island, New York, North America, son of Hewlet Duryea. He was trained as a mining engineer and his experience in the art of photography dated from 1840. He also took an art course. He arrived at Melbourne in 1852 and next year entered a studio partnership with Alexander McDonald in Bourke Street. In 1855 he moved to Adelaide and in February opened daguerreotype rooms over Prince's store at the corner of King William and Grenfell Streets. Later that year Townsend and his brother Sanford formed the partnership of Duryea Bros. They were the first photographers known to have worked outside Adelaide; by 1856 they had visited Auburn, Burra, Clare, Kapunda, Goolwa, Milang, Port Elliot and their near-by villages. In 1857 Duryea used experience gained in America as a shipbuilder to build the thirty-foot cutter Coquette behind the Maid and Magpie Hotel at Magill. Though the cutter was said to be for the River Murray trade, it was used mainly in racing; stakes in private challenges were sometimes £100 a side. Duryea was also interested in copper finds near Wallaroo, and by February 1861 a fine lode of copper had been cut on section 471, the property of 'Mr Duryea and others'. Within a few months the Duryea Mining Association owned fifteen mineral sections in the area.
    In 1863 Townsend dissolved the partnership with his brother. His studio was the most popular in Adelaide, patronized by governors, visiting dignitaries and Adelaide's leading citizens. As well as portraits he produced many views, including several notable panoramas of Adelaide. In 1872 he photographed almost all the surviving old colonists and made their portraits into a large mosaic comprising some 675 cartes-de-visite. Duryea was chosen as official photographer in the royal visit of 1867. On 9 November the Duke of Edinburgh posed at Duryea's King William Street studio for the first royal portraits made in Australia. Duryea then accompanied the official party throughout the visit, travelling in a specially prepared photographer's van. By the early 1870s Duryea's panoramas, royal portraits and prizes won in Society of Arts photographic competitions had made him famous. He achieved his high standard with the help of skilled operators. Short in build he was extremely energetic, of 'vigorous mind and keen intelligence, his whole character bearing the impress of sterling integrity'. Duryea always made full use of the advertising facilities offered by newspapers and almanacs. His career as a photographer was cut short when his studio and entire collection of 50,000 negatives were destroyed by fire on 18 April 1875. This loss was a serious blow to Duryea and historians alike, as the plates were the best record of early South Australian colonial life ever made. After the fire Duryea moved to the Riverina district of New South Wales and took up a selection near Yanga Lake. In his later years he was crippled by a stroke and became an invalid. He died on 13 December 1888 after a buggy accident and was buried at Parkside near Balranald.
    Duryea was married twice in America: first to Madalina and second about 1852 to Elizabeth Mary Smith who accompanied him to Adelaide. In Adelaide on 22 May 1872 he married Catherine Elizabeth Friggins. He was survived by a son and daughter of the first marriage, four sons and a daughter of the second, and three sons and two daughters of the third. Several of his sons and grandsons became photographers.
  • Last Edited: 16 Oct 2009

Family 1: Elizabeth Murray Smith b. c 1830

Family 2: Catherine Elizabeth Friggens b. 1847, d. 1925

Family 3:

Townsend Duryea

M, b. 1855, d. 14 May 1924
  • Last Edited: 28 May 2014

Family: Catherine McCorquodale b. 1863, d. 27 Jun 1942

Townsend Duryea

M, b. 27 October 1885, d. 19 December 1888
  • Last Edited: 27 Sep 2009

Victor Roy Duryea

M, b. 14 February 1892, d. 11 November 1957
  • Last Edited: 2 Oct 2009

Walter Joseph Duryea

M, b. 1882, d. 1972
  • Last Edited: 23 Feb 2008

Arthur Charlie Dutton

M, b. circa 1920
  • Last Edited: 14 Aug 2009

Family: Ella Townsend b. c 1920

Ella Dutton

F, b. circa 1942, d. 1943
  • Last Edited: 14 Aug 2009

James Vernon Dutton

M, b. circa 1942, d. 1945
  • Last Edited: 14 Aug 2009

William Duxbury

M, b. circa 1865
  • Last Edited: 28 Aug 2009

Family: Grace Frances Long b. 1868, d. 1947

Clarence James Dwyer

M, b. 1 May 1902
  • Last Edited: 3 Apr 2023

Joseph Dwyer

M, b. circa 1880
  • Last Edited: 28 Mar 2022

Family: Annie Townsend b. c 1880

Mary Dwyer

F, b. circa 1865
  • Birth*: Mary Dwyer was born circa 1865.
  • Marriage*: She married Alexander McRae circa 1885.
  • Married Name: As of circa 1885,her married name was McRae.
  • Last Edited: 9 Oct 2009

Family: Alexander McRae b. c 1865

Robert Francis Dwyer

M, b. circa 1910
  • Last Edited: 19 Apr 2023

Family: Ruby Townson Steele b. 3 Mar 1938

Robert Francis Dwyer

M, b. 1939, d. 11 May 1991
  • Last Edited: 19 Apr 2023

Walter James Dwyer

M, b. circa 1870
  • Last Edited: 28 Aug 2009

Family: Mary Elizabeth Dillon b. 1876, d. 1907

Frank Eric Dyer

M, b. circa 1915
  • Last Edited: 28 Mar 2020

Family: Dorothy Phyllis Townson b. 14 Jan 1915, d. 13 Aug 1992

Samuel Dyer

M, b. circa 1820
  • Birth*: Samuel Dyer was born circa 1820.
  • Last Edited: 26 Dec 2013

Family:

William Dyer

M, b. circa 1850
  • Last Edited: 29 Jan 2016

Family: Emma Townsend b. 28 Jun 1851

Alfred John Dyke

M, b. circa 1910
  • Birth*: Alfred John Dyke was born circa 1910.
  • Marriage*: He married Cora Geere Langley circa 1935.
  • Last Edited: 27 Feb 2023

Family: Cora Geere Langley b. c 1910

Coral Rose Dyke

F, b. 1937, d. 1985
  • Married Name: As of 1955,her married name was Townsend.
  • Last Edited: 27 Feb 2023

Sarah Matilda Dynes

F, b. circa 1885
  • Married Name: As of 10 January 1906,her married name was Townsend.
  • Last Edited: 26 Apr 2020

Family: Edward Walter Townsend b. 15 Oct 1881, d. 16 Sep 1958

Christina Isabella Dyson

F, b. circa 1870
  • Married Name: As of 1892,her married name was Townsend.
  • Last Edited: 31 Jan 2008

Joyce Alice Dyson

F, b. circa 1910
  • Married Name: As of 30 November 1932,her married name was Townsend.
  • Last Edited: 26 Mar 2013

Family: Albert Edward Townsend b. c 1910

Lorna Pearl Dyson

F, b. circa 1900
  • Married Name: As of 9 January 1925,her married name was Townsend.
  • Last Edited: 25 Mar 2013

Family: Harold John Townsend b. c 1900

Sarah Ann Eacott

F, b. circa 1870
  • Birth*: Sarah Ann Eacott was born circa 1870.
  • Marriage*: She married Abraham France circa 1890.
  • Married Name: As of circa 1890,her married name was France.
  • Last Edited: 27 Feb 2023

Family: Abraham France b. c 1870

(?) Ead

M, b. circa 1880
  • Last Edited: 20 Aug 2009

Family: Matilda Ellen Potter b. 1880, d. 1956

Charles Eadie

M, b. circa 1885
  • Birth*: Charles Eadie was born circa 1885.
  • Last Edited: 4 Oct 2007

Family:

Mary Adelaide Russell Eadie

F, b. 1908, d. 14 July 1969
  • Married Name: As of 1932,her married name was Townsend.
  • Last Edited: 4 Jul 2009

Family: William T Townsend b. c 1910

Ellen R Eagar

F, b. circa 1860
  • Married Name: As of 1885,her married name was Townsend.
  • Last Edited: 15 Sep 2007

Family: John Townsend b. c 1860

Charles Eagleton

M, b. 1858, d. 8 July 1889
  • Last Edited: 3 Oct 2009

Family: Ann Frances Hargrave b. 31 Jan 1863, d. 1940

Octavius Chapman Fyn Eagleton

M, b. circa 1835
  • Birth*: Octavius Chapman Fyn Eagleton was born circa 1835.
  • Last Edited: 3 Oct 2009

Family:

Frances Ann Eales

F, b. 1882, d. 1950
  • Married Name: As of circa 1905,her married name was Ware.
  • Last Edited: 13 Mar 2023

Family: (?) Ware b. c 1880

John Eales

M, b. circa 1860
  • Birth*: John Eales was born circa 1860.
  • Marriage*: He married Jane Townsend circa 1880.
  • Last Edited: 13 Mar 2023

Family: Jane Townsend b. c 1860

Annie Maud Earl

F, b. circa 1890
  • Married Name: As of 24 March 1905,her married name was Hawthorn.
  • Last Edited: 23 Feb 2016

Family: Arthur Renard Hawthorn b. c 1890

Linda Earl

F, b. circa 1920
  • Married Name: As of 1943,her married name was Daunt.
  • Last Edited: 17 Oct 2009

Lily Gertrude Earle

F, b. circa 1875
  • Married Name: As of 1900,her married name was Steele.
  • Last Edited: 3 Feb 2014

Family: Frederick William Albert Steele b. c 1875

Charles Albert Ears

M, b. 1854
  • Last Edited: 31 Aug 2009

William Charles Ears

M, b. circa 1830
  • Birth*: William Charles Ears was born circa 1830.
  • Marriage*: He married Elizabeth Townsend circa 1850.
  • Last Edited: 31 Aug 2009

Family: Elizabeth Townsend b. c 1830

Amy Florence Eastgate

F, b. 20 July 1892, d. 26 January 1970
  • Married Name: As of 1918,her married name was Storey.
  • Married Name: As of 1936,her married name was Gill.
  • Last Edited: 14 Apr 2023

Family 1: Conrad Storey b. c 1890

Family 2: George Henry Gill b. c 1890

Arthur William Eastgate

M, b. 6 September 1887, d. 10 December 1887
  • Last Edited: 6 Apr 2023

Beatrice Sarah Eastgate

F, b. 9 February 1901, d. 25 May 1974
  • Married Name: As of 1925,her married name was Pitceathey.
  • Last Edited: 16 Apr 2023

Family: James Pitceathey b. c 1900

Fred William Eastgate

M, b. 1 October 1890, d. 17 April 1971
  • Last Edited: 16 Apr 2023

Gladys Olive Eastgate

F, b. 27 June 1898, d. 18 May 1985
  • Married Name: As of circa 1920,her married name was Bassett.
  • Last Edited: 17 Apr 2023

Family: (?) Bassett b. c 1895

Harry Arthur Eastgate

M, b. circa 1865
  • Last Edited: 31 Mar 2022

Family: Sarah Townson b. c 1865, d. 29 Dec 1935

Harry Arthur Eastgate

M, b. 4 October 1888, d. 30 January 1975
  • Last Edited: 16 Apr 2023

Ivy Eveline Eastgate

F, b. 6 October 1903, d. 28 May 1981
  • Married Name: As of circa 1925,her married name was Pitceathly.
  • Last Edited: 17 Apr 2023

Family: (?) Pitceathly b. c 1900

Linda May Eastgate

F, b. 12 June 1894, d. 3 July 1983
  • Married Name: As of circa 1915,her married name was Pitceathly.
  • Last Edited: 17 Apr 2023

Family: (?) Pitceathly b. c 1890

Mary Ann Eastgate

F, b. circa 1825
  • Married Name: As of 20 May 1850,her married name was Townsend.
  • Married Name: As of 31 October 1858,her married name was Appleyard.
  • Last Edited: 29 Jan 2016

Family 1: George Townsend b. c 1825, d. b Oct 1858

Family 2: Edmund Appleyard b. c 1825