Juliet Anna Owen Valpy Mackworth (23 August 1835 – 9 April 1911) was a New Zealand artist, and one of six children of

William Henry Valpy William Henry Valpy (2 January 1793 – 25 September 1852) was a noted early settler of Dunedin, New Zealand. He is sometimes referred to locally as "The father of Saint Clair", as he was the first settler in the area now occupied by the suburb ...

and Caroline Valpy (born Jeffreys), a pioneering family who arrived in

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, New Zealand in January 1849 aboard the ''Ajax''. She was born in Sikraul Varanasi,

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, where her father was a judge. She married William Mackworth at her parents' home The Forbury, Dunedin, on 22 September 1852, in a double wedding with her sister

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, who was marrying James Fulton. Three days after the wedding, their father unexpectedly died. Mackworth and Valpy had a daughter, Wilhelmina, but Mackworth died while she was an infant. Valpy married Bayly Pike, and had four children with him. Her watercolour paintings survive in the

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References

External links

* Profile of Juliet Valpy in the Dunedin Family History Group newsletter, June 2014: http://www.dunedinfamilyhistory.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/DFHG-2014-june-newsletter.pdf ValpyFJ tree

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