Alfred Henry Scoffin family photographs

PXD 1551

fonds

approximately 1912-1959

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9659591

5 photographic prints (1 box) - 48 x 61 cm or smaller - black and white

Joseph John Scoffin was born on 16 November 1880 to Henry Scoffin and Ellen Scoffin in Beverly, Yorkshire, UK. He worked for the railways as a fitter and left in 1910, presumably to come to Australia. Scoffin was on the ‘Orontes’ departing the UK on 4 Aug 1911 and arriving in Freemantle, WA on 5 Sept. 1911. He is classed as an Engineer in the arrivals listing. In 1912, Scoffin married Bertha Tipping in Brompton, South Australia and they had a son Alfred in 1913 and another son, Bertram in 1920, by which time they had moved to Sydney. He was a Commonwealth Councilman in the Amalgamated Engineering Union. Scoffin died in 1930 in Sydney.

References:
Library correspondence file

From the estate of Alfred Scoffin, son of J.J. Scoffin.

1. Bertram Scoffin painting a 'no smoking' sign, signed '[J.F.?] Harding'
2. Group portrait of fourteen members of the Scoffin family including J.J Scoffin, his wife Bertha and mother with baby Alfred Scoffin on her lap
3. Portrait of infant Alfred Scoffin, imprint 'Roberts Studio, Hindmarsh'
4. Group portrait of five members of the Scoffin family, including J.J. Scoffin, his wife Bertha, sons Alfred and Bertram and grandmother Scoffin
5. Group portrait of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, Interstate Conference, Melbourne, 1927.
Back row:- Geo Dawson, Tasmania; J.P. Shannon, Newcastle; P.A. Elliot, O.D.D., S.A.; E.C. Madden, O.D.D., Sydney; H. Long, S.A.; P. Watson, Queensland; R.J. Carroll, O.D.D., Q'land.
Middle row:- H.V. Symons, O.D.D., W.A.; C.E. Mundy, ARB. Agent; J. Cranwell, Melbourne; N. Roberts, O.D.D., Melbourne; Robt. Lyle, O.D.D., Queensland; A.E. Fair, Min Sec.; G. Bramall, Sydney.
Sitting:- T.B. Ward, O.D.D., N.S.W.; E.A. Ellis, W.A.; J.J. Scoffin, C.C.; A.S. Evernden, Chairman, C.C.; L.N. Wickham, Sec. C.C.; H. Pickard, C.C.; G. Hargreaves, O.D.D., Vic. and Tas.

Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Date of production (earliest 1912) estimated from the time Joseph Scoffin married Bertha. Date of production (latest approximately 1959) based on photograph of Bertram Scoffin working as a sign writer.