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Last Name Forde

Given Name Helena °

alt. Names H. S. ; née Helena Scott ; Nellie Scott ;

Marriage surveyor Edward Forde (1800 c. -1866) in 1864 ;

Children none

Year born 1832 in Ash Island, Newcastle, New South Wales

Year died 1910

Place of death Harris Park, Parramatta, New South Wales

Father's occupation entymologist Alexander Walker Scott (1800-1883)

Relatives Harriet Calcott (1830 c. -1866) (mother), seamstress; sister -> Harriet Scott (1830-1907); grandfather Dr.med. Helenus Scott botanist

Education natural history from father ;

Country of Activity Australia

Worked for Alexander Walker Scott: Austral. Lepidoptera Trans 1864 ; James C Cox: Land Marine Shells Australia 1868 & from SW Pacific 1871 and Solomon Louisiade Islands 1873 ; William Woolls ed.: Flora Australia 1867 ; Gerard Krefft: Snakes (1869) & Mammals (1871) ; Arthur Sidney Olliff/HF; William Sharp Macleays;

Patronage William Swainson

Collaborators lithographer G. B. Sowerby Jr ; illustrator -> Harriet Scott ; Edward Forde ;

Techniques botanical, mammal, herpetological, and zoological pencil, pen-and-ink wash drawing, watercolour, and lithography ;

Sample(s) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Helena_Scott08.jpg ;

Archival sources Australian Museum Archives; Forde collection State Library New South Wales ; https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/forde-helene.html ;

Published sources AJK 42 2004: 290 ; Nancy Gray in Australian Dict.Biog 6 1976 ; Cleevely 1974:522f ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 # 3786 ;

other Newcastle, Ash Island. William Macarthur; Edward Pierson Ramsay; Sir Terence Aubrey Murray ;

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