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Emma COWIE (1807 - 1880)
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John Lewis VON STIEGLITZ (1809 - 1868)
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Rachel BUXTON (1769 - 1846)











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In Loving Memory of
Emma Von Stieglitz
Born Novr 13th 1807
Died Novr 1st 1880

And Of Her Sister
Jane Cowie
Born March 8th. 1801
Died February 2nd. 1884

"He Giveth His Beloved Sleep"

b. 13 Nov 1807 at Middlesex, England
m. 03 May 1836 John Lewis VON STIEGLITZ (1809 - 1868) at Campbell, Tasmania, Australia
d. 01 Nov 1880 at Launceston, Tasmania, Australia aged 72
Cause of Death:
pleurisy
Near Relatives of Emma COWIE (1807 - 1880)
Relationship Person Born Birth Place Died Death Place Age
Father in Law Heinrich Ludwig Henry Lewis Baron VON STIEGLITZ 1762 Saxony 08 Jun 1824 Cookstown, Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland 62
Mother in Law Charlotte ATKINSON abt 1784 Lewis Hill, Co Armagh, Ireland 22 Nov 1852 Ballan, Victoria, Australia 68

Father George COWIE 1761 1829 68
Mother Rachel BUXTON 1769 1846 77

Self Emma COWIE 13 Nov 1807 Middlesex, England 01 Nov 1880 Launceston, Tasmania, Australia 72

Husband John Lewis VON STIEGLITZ 1809 Co Armagh, Northern Ireland 22 Aug 1868 Ireland 59

Sister Jane COWIE
Brother Robert COWIE 1802 1884 82
Brother Edward COWIE 1804 1845 41
Brother John Anthony COWIE 13 Apr 1806 England 07 Jan 1875 Ireland 68
Sister Rachel COWIE 1809 1817 8
Sister Georgiana COWIE 1811 1899 88

Niece Mary COWIE 1837 Tasmania, Australia 1928 91
Nephew Edward ATKINSON
Nephew Frederick ATKINSON
Nephew Henry ATKINSON
Niece Marianne ATKINSON
Nephew William ATKINSON
Niece Frances ATKINSON 1840 1852 12
Niece Charlotte ATKINSON 1841 1850 9
Niece Agnes Eliza ATKINSON abt 1843 17 Mar 1909 Hawthorne, Victoria, Australia 66
Nephew Richard VON STIEGLITZ
Niece Jessie VON STIEGLITZ 12 Oct 1835 Avoca, Tasmania, Australia 28 Dec 1913 Launceston, Tasmania, Australia 78
Nephew Frederick Lewis VON STIEGLITZ 31 Mar 1837 Avoca, Tasmania, Australia 16 Dec 1913 Prospect, Tasmania, Australia 76
Nephew Henry Gordon VON STIEGLITZ 05 Feb 1839 St Pauls Plains, Tasmania, Australia 21 Feb 1906 Fingal, Tasmania, Australia 67
Niece Charlotte Mary VON STIEGLITZ 29 Jul 1840 St Pauls Plains, Tasmania, Australia 14 Nov 1906 Ascot Vale, Victoria, Australia 66
Nephew Adam Douglas VON STIEGLITZ 07 Jun 1842 St Pauls Plains, Tasmania, Australia 17 Oct 1899 Longford, Tasmania, Australia 57
Nephew John Charles VON STIEGLITZ 18 Nov 1844 St Pauls Plains, Tasmania, Australia 26 Aug 1916 Springwood, New South Wales, Australia 71
Nephew William Robert VON STIEGLITZ 01 Sep 1846 St Pauls Plains, Tasmania, Australia 14 Feb 1910 Fingal, Tasmania, Australia 63
Niece Helena Margaret VON STIEGLITZ 08 May 1848 St Pauls Plains, Tasmania, Australia
Nephew Walter Francis VON STIEGLITZ 1850 11 Jul 1852 Victoria, Australia 2
Niece Emma Selina VON STIEGLITZ 1851 Swansea, Tasmania, Australia 09 Nov 1950 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 99
Nephew Lewis Frederick VON STIEGLITZ 09 Apr 1841 Tasmania, Australia 06 Apr 1869 Wedbly, Herefordshire, England 27
Niece Christina VON STIEGLITZ 01 Jun 1842 Tasmania, Australia 05 Aug 1888 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 46
Nephew Augustus Francis VON STIEGLITZ 30 Dec 1844 Tasmania, Australia
Nephew Edgar Boyne VON STIEGLITZ 01 Jul 1847 Tasmania, Australia 29 Jul 1918 Clayfield, Queensland, Australia 71
Niece Selina Anne VON STIEGLITZ 1849 Fingal, Tasmania, Australia 15 Dec 1903 Co Armagh, Northern Ireland 54
Nephew Caspar Harry VON STIEGLITZ 17 Dec 1851 Tasmania, Australia 29 Dec 1891 Fingal, Tasmania, Australia 40
Niece Florence Elizabeth VON STIEGLITZ 22 May 1853 Tasmania, Australia 20 Jun 1891 Tasmania, Australia 38
Niece Mary Jane VON STIEGLITZ 22 May 1854 Fingal, Tasmania, Australia 1885 Longford, Tasmania, Australia 31
Nephew Oscar Ernest VON STIEGLITZ 27 Sep 1856 Fingal, Tasmania, Australia 27 Aug 1914 Queensland, Australia 57
Nephew Tasman Blacker VON STIEGLITZ 06 Mar 1860 Fingal, Tasmania, Australia 16 Apr 1919 Launceston, Tasmania, Australia 59
Niece Adelaide Mary VON STIEGLITZ 1848 Ireland
Niece Elizabeth Charlotte VON STIEGLITZ 06 Dec 1855 Co Dublin, Ireland 20 Aug 1915 Norwich, Norflok, England 59
Niece Florence Marcella VON STIEGLITZ 28 Jun 1861 Ireland 12 Aug 1910 Germany 49
Niece Augusta Sophia VON STIEGLITZ 29 Aug 1866 Ireland

Brother in Law Frederick Lewis Ludwig VON STIEGLITZ 13 Oct 1803 Eglish, Co Armagh, Ireland 14 May 1866 Glen, Co Armagh, Ireland 62
Sister in Law Elizabeth Caroline VON STIEGLITZ 1805 Co Armagh, Northern Ireland 1870 Victoria, Australia 65
Brother in Law Henry Lewis VON STIEGLITZ 13 Jan 1808 Eglish, Co Armagh, Ireland 06 Jul 1876 Nile, Tasmania, Australia 68
Brother in Law Francis Walter VON STIEGLITZ bef 29 Dec 1811 Eglish, Co Armagh, Ireland 14 Apr 1889 Launceston, Tasmania, Australia 77
Sister in Law Charlotte Christine VON STIEGLITZ 1812 Eglish, Co Armagh, Ireland 03 Apr 1879 Tasmania, Australia 67
Brother in Law Robert William VON STIEGLITZ 04 Aug 1816 Cookstown, Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland 18 Mar 1876 Drumindony, Co Down, Ireland 59
Brother in Law Charles Augustus VON STIEGLITZ 1819 Co Armagh, Northern Ireland 26 Jul 1885 Rostrevor, Co Down, Ireland 66
Sister in Law Juliana LUTHMAN
Brother in Law Phillip OAKDEN 1784 1851 67
Events in Emma COWIE (1807 - 1880)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
13 Nov 1807 Emma COWIE was born Middlesex, England
1829 22 Death of father George COWIE (aged 68)
03 May 1836 28 Married John Lewis VON STIEGLITZ (aged 27) Campbell, Tasmania, Australia
1846 39 Death of mother Rachel BUXTON (aged 77)
22 Aug 1868 60 Death of husband John Lewis VON STIEGLITZ (aged 59) Ireland
01 Nov 1880 72 Emma COWIE died Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
Personal Notes:
Emma von Stieglitz
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sketcher, was born in London on 13 November 1807, daughter of George Cowie, a bookseller, and Rachel, née Buxton. With her mother and three sisters, Emma arrived at Hobart Town on board the Eveline on 7 December 1834 to join her brothers Robert and Anthony. She lived with Robert at his home, Brookstead, Avoca, where, on 3 May 1836, she married John Lewis von Stieglitz. There were no children of the marriage. In about 1839 the von Stieglitzes moved to Ballan, Victoria, some 40 miles from Melbourne, to a property called Ballanee. They returned to Ireland about 1860 and settled at Altmore, County Tyrone where, on 22 August 1868, John died. By November 1875 his widow had returned to Tasmania and was living in Elizabeth Street, Launceston. She remained there until her death from pleurisy, on 1 November 1880. She was buried in the Cypress Street Cemetery, Launceston, although her headstone was subsequently re-erected in the Church of England Cemetery, Evandale.

Emma von Stieglitz's sketchbooks (p.c.) have been published in part in two booklets, Early Van Diemen's Land 1835-1860 (Hobart 1963), edited by K.R. von Stieglitz, and Emma Von Stieglitz: Her Port Phillip and Victorian Album, published by Fullers Bookshop, Hobart (1964). These pencil and watercolour views, largely of family homes and domestic affairs, range from the interior view of a settler's hut (1841) and bush kitchen (1854) to the wash-place on the Werribee River at Ballanee (November 1849) and a shepherd's watch-box (March 1854). Poor Mungit's Grave, Ballan (November 1852) and Deserted Mia Mias at Villamanatta (25 March 1854) indicate that the artist's interests and sympathies were not entirely confined to the affairs of white settlers.

Portraits of a Tasmanian Aboriginal man and woman forwarded to the 1855 Paris Universal Exhibition by her brother-in-law, Frederick Lewis von Stieglitz of Killymoon, Fingal, were catalogued with the statement that they were intended as 'a correct idea of the appearance and character of Tasmanian aborigines, and by no means as works of art, conscious that as such they are altogether undeserving of notice' - comments probably emanating from the modest Emma herself, whose paintings they undoubtedly were. The perceived inferiority, however, lay in being colonial rather than female, similar comments being recorded at the same exhibition from a male Tasmanian photographer, Douglas Thomas Kilburn.

Emma von Steiglitz's Ballan House (1851, w/c) and Killymoon, Tasmania (pen and wash) are in the La Trobe Library but most of her work is still held privately.

The massive population growth of 1839 to 1841 placed enormous pressure on the capacity of the new colony to adequately supply the needs and wants of the thousands of recently arrived immigrants (Boys 1959, pp.117 & 129). Some, like John von Stieglitz and his wife Emma, were relatively well off and could probably afford to bring significant amounts of portable material culture with them on their voyage to the new land, while others had to select from what was made available to them in the retail establishments of Melbourne. The extent and nature of some of the portable material culture available to a well-off squatter and his wife in the year 1841 can be seen in Emma von Stieglitz’s watercolour painting depicting the interior of their home (Figure 1). The presence of books, artworks and a piano on the right-hand side of the room, for example, are clear demonstrations of their owner’s social status (Lane & Serle 1990, p.64).
Figure 1 Interior of a Squatter’s Hut at Port Phillip (1841) watercolour painting by Emma von Stieglitz (from the collection of Mr. H.O.C. Gilbert; reproduced from Lane & Serle 1990, p.65)
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