GEORGE ANTHONY TISSINGTON
EARLY PHOTOGRAPHER of SOUTHERN QLD
This site was created 19 February 2001
& was last updated 16 March 2003
ADDRESS OF OPERATION
 DATES ACTIVE
NOTES
Gulgong, NSW
Goulburn, NSW
616½ George St, Sydney
Flinders St, Townsville
Carcoar, NSW
116 Queen St, Brisbane
Brisbane St &
Ellenborough St
Toowoomba
Roma (at Cottell's)
Adelaide St, Maryborough		 1872
1873
1875
1877
1877-1878
1878

3/1878-1883
1880-1881
Mar 1882
1882

 Travelling photographer - worked in various NSW towns such Gulgong, Goulburn and Carcoar.  Set up a studio in Sydney in 1875, then Townsville in 1877, back to Carcoar, NSW then opened a studio in Brisbane in 1878 trading as the Frisco Photographic Co.  Moved into Brisbane St, Ipswich (the premises of Bingingee Poochee) in March 1878.  Relocated to Ellenborough St where he employed Francis Whitehead who took over the studio in 1883.  Tissington opened a short-lived studio in Toowoomba in 1880 and another in  Maryborough in 1882.  He worked out of R. F. Cottell's studio in Roma for a short time in March 1882. 
The 1872 NSW Post Office Directory lists Anthony Tissington as a stockbroker in Gulgong and George A. Tissington as a photographer in Gulgong.
GEORGE ANTHONY TISSINGTON m. 1873, Goulburn, NSW, MARGARET LEE
    Children:
     1. i GEORGE EDWIN TISSINGTON b. 1874, Waterloo, NSW.
     ii BERTIE L. TISSINGTON d. 1877, Carcoar, NSW.
     ii LESLIE TISSINGTON b. 1878, Carcoar, NSW, d. 1878, Carcoar, NSW.

Second Generation

1. GEORGE EDWIN TISSINGTON b. 1874, Waterloo, NSW, m. 1898, Sydney, NSW, ADA L DAVIES
     Children:
     iGEORGE A. TISSINGTON b. 1899, Drummoyne, NSW, d. 1899, Drummoyne, NSW.
     ii IRENE R. E. TISSINGTON b. 1900, Drummoyne, NSW.
    iii EDITH K. L. F. TISSINGTON m. 1928, Sydney, NSW, JOHN R. FELTHAM.

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