Mrs Julia Parry and her nephew Reggie Bonham

A carte-de-visite portrait of Mrs Julia Adelaide Parry (née Bonham) and her nephew Reggie Bonham.

Julia Adelaide Bonham, youngest daughter of the politician Henry Bonham, was born on 24 December 1821. On 10 July 1866 she married Nicholas Parry of Little Hadham, Hertfordshire. Her husband died in 1879. Mrs Parry died, aged 91, on 4 April 1913 at Hove in Sussex.

Reginald Malcolm Charles Bonham was born on 11 December 1855 at Brighton in Sussex. His parents were Charles Wright Bonham, R.N., and Isabella Eliza née Hailes, who were married 16 August 1853 at St James’s, Westminster.

Reginald Bonham appears on the 1861 census, aged 5, living with his aunt Mrs Julia Adelaide Parry at 15 York Road, a lodging house in Hove, Sussex.

He immigrated to Australia when he was 27 years old, arriving in Melbourne aboard the Orient Company’s steamship Chimborazo in 1878.

In 1881 in Victoria he married Jessie Marie Young. Their marriage produced at least three sons.

According to an electoral roll of 1914, Reginald Bonham was a farmer at Leongatha in Victoria, 135 kilometres south-east of Melbourne.

Reginald Malcolm Charles Bonham died, aged 72, on 18 May 1927 at 42 Barfield Street, Sandringham, a coastal suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia.

Photographed by the Greetham Brothers of Portsmouth, presumably before Mrs Parry's marriage in 1866, given Reggie's apparent age.

[From an album compiled by Mrs Parry’s niece Marianne Charlotte Isabelle Gilbert (née Peters), wife of Colonel Walter Raleigh Gilbert of The Priory, Bodmin, Cornwall.]