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A fine family portrait, theres even the hint of a smile on the girl at top left. As for the Gentleman's facial hair, outstanding!

Incredible fashions- those really WERE the days!! ;)

Mike Although from a female standpoint, those probably were the [uncomfortable] days! :)

Me encanta...una maravilla. Saludos

I suspect that this is actually Greenville in Kilkenny, just across the Blackwater from Kilmacow. If so, this is the Brown family in the 1901 census.

Mrs. Brown would be Anna C., and widowed by 1901. She gives her occupation as Former Mill Owner in 1901, and Mill Owner in 1911, while her son John is a Manager at 22 in 1901, and both John and Arthur are Millers in 1911.

On the OS 25" you can see the Corn Mill, and nearby, Greenville Mill House, which is where I think the Browns lived. There is also a Greenville House to the East, which might have been their home, but looks to have been a farm.

Slightly to the south is the much larger Kilcronagh house belonging to the De La Poer family, which we have seen before:

www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/pietown.html?c... Great article with the history of Pie Town inspired by these photographs.

Great documentary photo!

Notice how the walls are lined with cardboard.

I keep coming back to photo's of homesteader Jack Whinery and his family. Yes the dugout interior walls are covered with cardboard - The dugout itself is made of large logs - Not sure what the roof is. I don't know if Jack dug the space-cut the tree's-hauled the rocks for the 'foundation'-not sure what the roof is made of - or see any bathroom (i'm sure was outdoors. Look at the tenacity/hardness of his face. The mother has a hard worn edge - 5 children-keeping the homestead up not to mention I'll bet she was out in the fields with the children doing their part to help. I also got a sense of community from these photo's. They may not have had "the best" but the children look relatively healthy. They went to school-church-worked-played. It feels like a family unit that worked/played together during extremely tough times. They worked hard and brought the family together to enjoy the fruits of their labors. Wonder if any of the children still survive? Did they stay in the area? Did they grow up and get as far away as they could? Was there more going on in that dugout than what we think we see thru the lens of the camera?Would be fascinating to hear their life story.

I saw this first at Shorpy. "The House that Jack built" and at that site there is much more information about the family. What a great family shot - poor or not, the family looks healthy and that was an achievement back then.

Some Splendid Peaches. From Mr Charles Smith, the well known orchardist of Glen Aplin, Stanthorpe, we have received a case of peaches. They constitute a sample of his second early crop and are without doubt most excellent, both in size and flavour. When it is remembered that with the exception of a shower last Sunday there has been no rain at Glen Aplin for two months one cannot but be struck with the remarkable productiveness of the district especially in respect of fruit growing. After tasting the luscious peaches under notice it does seem strange that there should be such scarcity of this high-class fruit in Brisbane. Mr Smith's fruit has certainly stood the dry spell well, and that the excellent sample he sends is not a representative of small crops shown by the fact that in peaches alone he is this season marketing between 3000 and 4000 cases. Source: The Brisbane Courier; 05 Jan 1912 trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/19734424

It is possible the children's father was Mr Charles Smith, an orchardist from Glen Alpin.