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- 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.
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On 4 March 1896 she married Theodore Arthur George Foster at her mother’s home in Petersham, Sydney. He was born in Werris Creek near Tamworth on 4 August 1861. He was the third son of London-born carpenter and builder John Henry Foster (1827-1900) and his wife Lucy Ann, nee Collett (1823-1902).
Josephine Ethel Foster, better known as Ethel Foster or Mrs AG Foster, was a historian and photographer, who was one of the first members of the Royal Australian Historical Society. She and her husband, fellow historian Arthur George Foster, documented the Devonshire Street Cemetery in the early 1900s before its removal for the construction of ...
On 4 March 1896 he married Josephine Ethel Roberts at her mother’s home in Petersham, Sydney. She had been born in Paddington on 19 January 1870, the daughter of Henry Clarence Roberts (1851-1891) and his wife Josephine, nee Baylis (1849-1914). [1]
Arthur and Josephine Ethel Foster are buried at South Head cemetery. Almost 120 years after the Devonshire Street cemetery was cleared, the headstones that remain standing at Botany cemetery are still beautiful — though altered.
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.
Arthur George Foster and Josephine Ethel Foster papers and photographs, 1900-1901 Author / Creator Foster, A. G. (Arthur George), 1861-1924 Foster, A. G. (Arthur George), Mrs, 1870-1955
Born in Paddington in 1870, Ethel – as she preferred to be known – dedicated her life to the preservation, promotion, and appreciation of Australian history. Ethel shared this keen interest with her husband, Theodore Arthur George Foster, whom she married in 1896.
