Biographical entry: Henning, Rachel Biddulph (1826 - 1914)
- Born
- 1826
- Died
- 1914
Summary
Letters, 1853-1882. Rachel Taylor, nee Henning, came to Australia with her sister Amelia in 1854, to join their brother Edmund Biddulph, and sister Annie, later Mrs George Hedgeland. Rachel stayed first in Sydney, then at her brother's farm at Appin, and on Bulli Mountain. In 1856 she returned to England, but came again to Australia in February 1861; she lived with Amelia and her husband Thomas Sloman at Bathurst from May 1861 to March 1862, and from September 1862 to September 1865 was with her brother (known always as Biddulph) and Annie on Exmoor Station, south-west of Bowen. The letters of Rachel Henning provide rich insights into frontier life and Victorian mores, in the first years of settlement in north Queensland. Following her marriage in 1866 to Deighton Taylor, Rachel lived in the country in New South Wales.
Letters 1853-1882. Includes letters to her sisters Henrietta Boyce, called Etta, to Annie and Amelia, called Amy, to her brother Biddulph and brother-in-law Reverend Thomas Whyte Boyce. She described her daily life in England, the voyages on board the ships Calcutta and Great Britain, and also life in New South Wales and at Exmoor Station. Microfilm of originals held Mitchell Library. Oxley: A.4,12.