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AG Foster transcribing the details of the vault where David Ramsay and Sarah Ann Lord were interred on the Dobroyd estate, c1910

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Ethel Foster
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[ON 146/440c]
(Mitchell Library)

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Foster, Ethel

Josephine Ethel Foster was a historian and photographer. She and her husband Arthur George Foster were two of the earliest members of the (now Royal) Australian Historical Society. They documented the Devonshire Street Cemetery in the early 1900s before its removal for the construction of the Central Railway station.

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Dobroyde Estate

Farm estate in present-day Haberfield, bequeathed to his daughter by Simeon Lord as part of her dowry. It was subdivided several times from 1860.

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Ramsay, David

Medical practitioner who commanded the transport ship Surry on three voyages to Australia before settling in New South Wales to pursue commercial and pastoral interests.

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Ramsay, Sarah Ann

Born of convict parents, her large family became wealthy and successful as the colony grew.

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Foster, Arthur George

Theodore Arthur George Foster, better known as AG Foster, was a historian. He and his wife Ethel Foster were founding members of the Royal Australian Historical Society and documented the Devonshire Street Cemetery in the early 1900s before its removal for the construction of the Central Railway station.

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