Item MM 97867 Digital Photograph - Family Portrait, Scrimgeour, Crocker, Davies Family, South Melbourne, 1939

Summary

Black and white photograph of five members of the Scrimgeour, Crocker and Davies family in South Melbourne in 1939. This family all used a family wedding veil which was passed down through the one female line and worn by over 100 women over five generations.

The Limerick lace wedding veil was imported from Ireland for the wedding of Scottish migrant Janet Scrimgeour when she married Danish migrant Peter Franz Brackelmann in Bendigo in 1865. It remained in the family until it was donated to Museum Victoria.

Description of Content

Family portrait of three or four generations of the Scrimgeour, Crocker, Davies family in a garden setting. An elderly woman is seated in a chair in the centre of the photograph, she holds the hand of a young girl who stands next to her, behind the girl stands a young woman (possibly her mother), next to the young woman, and directly behind the seated elderly woman, stands a man and next to him stands an older woman.

Physical Description

Digital image from a black and white photograph