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Mylnes of Eatonswill

Eatonswill Homestead

The Massey family (new owners) pose in front of Eatonswill homestead ca. 1890. Detail from postcard “Greetings from Eatonswill Station” (Clarence River Historical Society, E1029, Album 155, Compactus).

Cliff near Wreck Site

Cliff at The Gap, Sydney, near where the Dunbar was wrecked. North Head is in the background (photograph by T. A. Mylne, 2014).

Dunbar Anchor

One of the Dunbar's anchors recovered by local residents 50 years after the shipwreck and set up "in memory of the tragic event" (photograph by T. A. Mylne, 2014).

Dunbar Memorial General View

Tomb containing "such as could be discovered of the passengers and crews who perished in the ships Dunbar and Catherine Adamson" in 1857. The tomb is located in Camperdown Cemetery, behind St Stephens Church, 189 Church St, Newtown, Sydney (photograph by T. A. Mylne, 2014).

Dunbar Memrial Inscription

Tomb in Camperdown cemetery (photograph by T. A. Mylne, 2014) The inscription reads: Within this tomb were deposited by direction of the Government of New South Wales such remains as could be discovered of the passengers and crews who perished in the ships Dunbar and Catherine Adamson the former of which was driven ashore and foundered when approaching the entrance to Port Jackson on the night of the 20th August the latter after entering this port on the morning of the 24th October A.D. 1857

Dunbar Memorial Close-up

Inscription on the tomb in Camperdown cemetery (photograph by T. A. Mylne, 2014).

Lieut Mylne Marriage

Newspaper report of the marriage of Lieut. Graham Mylne and Helena White (probably from The Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser, 1861, Apr 30). The Colonial Secretary and Private Secretary were Robert Herbert and John Bramston respectively.

in Scotland

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