The Haddon Family Archives is an eclectic collection of material donated to the Library. The collection includes photo albums, letters, handwritten notes, books, and articles from the family. The collection includes material from the family's travels and periods of time spent abroad, including in New Zealand.

Family Photo Albums

We were fortunate enough to receive many beautiful photo albums of the Haddon Family’s travels from all over the world. From New Zealand to Egypt and Great Britain, members of the Haddon Family were well travelled. The travel photo albums are a wonderful snapshot of the world in the early twentieth century.

Also contained in the Albums are photographs of the Haddon family throughout the decades, and it is a wonderful example of the progression of a family.

Two Studio Portraits from Elite Studios by W. Hatton c. unknown.

Travel Album containing photos of Egypt, date unknown.

Family photo album with various members of the Haddon family, names and dates unknown.

Illustrated War News

The Haddon Family Archives possesses two bound collections of the Illustrated War News. Originally published by the London Illustrated News, these landscape magazines were published weekly and were solely dedicated to news of the Great War, interspersed with advertisers from predominantly London.

Containing hundreds of photos and illustrations of the period between 1915-1918, these individual magazines were collected and bound by the Goulburn and Districts Soldiers Club and donated to the Goulburn City Library in 1916.

The Haddon Family and the Anglican Church

The Haddon Family have a long history of religious study and belief. Walter Haddon, the patriarch of the family, was the only son of the Reverend T.C. Haddon, of Norfolk, England. The family had a long association with St Nicholas' Anglican Church, Goulburn, where many of the family were married through the years. The collection contains many remnants of the family's devoutness, including Walter's family bible, and his daughter Hyacinth's Common Prayer English Hymnal.

Walter Haddon's Bible (1855) and Hyacinth Haddon's (later Scott) Hymnal (1929).

However, it was Walter Haddon's son, Arthur Langan Haddon who obtained the most accolades in the field of theology. A.L. Haddon was the Principal of the Dunedin Bible College in New Zealand. Although raised Anglican, Arthur eventually converted to the Church of Christ and went on to be the most prominent leader of the Associated Churches of Christ in New Zealand, and was well respected in the field of ecclesiology worldwide. This collection also contains two copies of the New Zealand Christian pamphlet, including the memorial issue for A.L. Haddon's death.

Portraits of Arthur Langan Haddon as a young man, and as Principal of the Dunedin Bible College, dates unknown.

Two issues of The New Zealand Christian from 1962 and 1965.

Remnants of a Life

As with many of these family archive collections, they become a bit of a time capsule to what life was like in an earlier time. Although the photographs themselves are wonderful snapshots of life, small ephemera such as address books, pension cards, and bank deposit books all tell a story about how daily life was conducted.

The majority of the ephemera belongs to Kenneth Walter Scott, husband of Hyacinth Haddon, who lived at 44 Mulwaree Street, Goulburn up until her death.

Address Book, Commonwealth Depositor Book, and Pensioner Medical Service Entitlement Card, all belonging to Kenneth W. Scott, 1964-1977.

You can view the rest of the Haddon/Hatton collection at the Goulburn Mulwaree Library today!