Juliet Valpy Explained

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 and Caroline Valpy (born Jeffreys), a pioneering family who arrived in Dunedin, New Zealand in January 1849 aboard the Ajax.^{[1] [2]} She was born in Sikraul Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, 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 Catherine, who was marrying James Fulton.^{[3] [4]} Three days after the wedding, their father unexpectedly died.^[5] 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.^[2]

Her watercolour paintings survive in the Hocken Collections.^[6]

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ajax list. www.ngaiopress.com. 2015-10-25.
2. Book: The Book of New Zealand Women. Macdonald. Charlotte . Bridget Williams Books. 1991. Wellington, New Zealand. 702–704.
3. Web site: Fulton, Catherine Henrietta Elliot. www.teara.govt.nz. 2015-10-25. New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu. Taonga.
4. News: Married . 1 November 2015 . Wellington Independent . VIII . 732 . 16 October 1852 . 3.
5. News: Dunedin, Saturday, October 2, 1852 . 1 November 2015 . . 72 . 2 October 1852 . 2.
6. Web site: Valpy, Juliet A. O. First four houses (wattle & daub). Hocken Snapshop. 2015-10-25.