Lang family collection

fonds

1858-1954

Textual Records, Graphic Materials

80522

Alexander Robertson Lang emigrated to Australia from Scotland in 1859. He settled in the Shoalhaven district of NSW where his son Robert Lang was born in 1866. The family moved to Musswellbrook in 1871 where Robert was apprenticed to a carpenter. Robert married Harriet Noble in 1892. He became well known as a cabinetmaker and was responsible for many pieces of church furniture. In 1910 he settled in Haberfield where he took an active part in the life of the local church. There were three children of the marriage but only one, Edna, survived beyond infancy.

1858-1954; Papers of Alexander Robertson Lang, Robert Lang, Agnes Marian Lang, Harriet Noble and Edna Lang (Call No.: ML MSS 6360)
1880-1910; Photographs and architectural drawings of church furniture made by Robert Lang (Call No.: PXA 859 ; PXD 814 ; ON 218)

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