Jane Catherine Rohu b. c.1845

Also known as Ada Jane Rohu, Jane Catherine Tost, Ada Jane Coates
  • Artist
Taxidermist, who worked with her mother Jane Tost. For over forty years (1860-1900) Jane Tost and Ada Jane Rohu were the most consistent and most successful NSW women exhibitors at international exhibitions, winning at least twenty medals between them.
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associate of
Johann Ludwig Gerard Krefft
1830
Artist (Draughtsman)
grandchild of
Herbert Ward
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relative of
Henry Ward
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child of
Charles Tost
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sibling of
Charles Tost
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spouse of
James Coates
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spouse of
Henry Rohu
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associate of
James Tyrell
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parent of
Willis Coates
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child of
Jane Tost
1845
Artist, Maker
Coates, Ada Jane (née Tost)

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References [<ExternalResource: 'NSW Birth Records: 1090/1871'.>, <ExternalResource: 'NSW Death Records: 14993/1928'.>, <ExternalResource: Sear, Martha (March 1996), '"Most Curious and Peculiar": Women Taxidermists in Colonial Sydney', Mackay Museum, University of Sydney, New South Wales, .>, <ExternalResource: Tyrell, James R. (1952), 'Old Books, Old Friends, Old Sydney', Sydney, New South Wales.>, <ExternalResource: Strachan, Ronald (1979), 'Rare and Curious Specimens', Sydney, New South Wales.>, <ExternalResource: Sear, Martha (1996), 'Nineteenth Century Women's Work Exhibitions', PhD thesis (in progress) University of Sydney and '"Most Curious and Peculiar": Women Taxidermists in Colonial Sydney', Mackay Museum exhibition leaflet, Sydney, March 1996.>, <ExternalResource: 'Australian Museum Archives', Sydney, New South Wales: Australian Museum.>, <ExternalResource: 'Archives of the Royal Society of Tasmania', Hobart: Royal Society of Tasmania.>, <ExternalResource: (1893), 'Art and Handicraft in the Women's Building, World's Columbian Exposition', Chicago, Illinois, USA.>] [<ExternalResource: 'NSW Birth Records: 1090/1871'.>, <ExternalResource: 'NSW Death Records: 14993/1928'.>, <ExternalResource: Sear, Martha (March 1996), '"Most Curious and Peculiar": Women Taxidermists in Colonial Sydney', Mackay Museum, University of Sydney, New South Wales, .>]