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- 1890 - 1946 (Creation)
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Stephen Thomas Woodward (1858-1935) and Florence Elizabeth Woodward (1861 - 1946 nee Hopton) were married in Geelong in 1885 and had three children: Florence Agnes Woodward (1886 - 1946 married Wilmot), Violet Louise Woodward (1887 - 1951 married Portch) and Hubert Stephen Hopton Woodward (1892 - 1982).
Stephen Thomas Woodward was a coach builder in Corio Street, Geelong. His son Hubert Stephen Hopton Woodward attended Flinders State School and studied engineering at Geelong Gordon College from 1908-1911. After graduating, he worked at R.W Hill Engineer’s in South Geelong. In 1916, Hubert Woodward travelled to England and worked in an ammunitions factory in Sheffield during the First World War. He married Kate Buttery (1891-1974) and returned to Geelong to work in the engineering firm, Humble & Sons Vulcan Foundry in Little Malop Street.
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The Woodward family album spans three generations of the Woodward family in Geelong from the 1880’s to the 1940’s. A donation of photographs was made to the Geelong Heritage Centre in 1991 and 1992. The exact provenance of the album is unknown.
The album consists of over sixty black and white photographs and memorabilia of Woodward family members, relatives, friends, and unidentified persons.
The album mainly consists of photographs relating to Hubert Stephen Hopton Woodward (1892 – 1982).
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Photographs