Agnes was born in Liverpool England, about 1845, her father having escaped the Russian grip on his Polish homeland in 1833 and later married in England, where he spent twenty years.
At age 9, with father Severin, mother Catherine and 3 younger siblings they sailed from Liverpool 29th December 1852[1] and arrived Melbourne, Australia on the 27th April 1853. [2]
The passenger list details were as follows:
Severin Rakowska 42 Clerk
Catherine 32 Wife
Agnes 9
Idalia 6
Severin 4
Edgar 1
She was known as Agnes, her fathers will has "Maria Agnes" but most BDM records have "Agnes" or "Agnes Maria".
The Polish Biografia autobiography for her father has her name "Agnieszkę Marię Magdalenę".
The family lived in Richmond, Severin carried on an importing business in Flinders Lane, and also was an agent for ships sailing to New Zealand, dabbled in accounting and had or leased land between Greensborough and Yan Yean, on which he claimed to have discovered a gold reef.
He was an an activist against Russia, and discovered from his nephew, in the Russian Navy, Russia was preparing to attack Australian Ports, beginning with Melbourne.
Agnes attended The Model School in Spring St. Melbourne, in September 1855 she was in fifth class and won a prize for drawing[3]
Her family were well liked, visiting friends and and welcomed visitors.[4]
Diarist, John Henry Watmuff met her just before he left for the New Zealand Gold Rush, in December 1861, his sister Mary and Agnes were members of the (Melbourne) Philhamonic Society.
[Tuesday, 10 December 1861]
In the evening I went with Mary
to the philharmonic rehearsal (she is
a member of the Society) we called for a
friend of hers Miss Rekowskie, a charming
little girl, (a daughter of a Polish gentleman
a fine jolly old fellow,) with nice quiet winning
manners that are irresistibly attractive —
Harry Dight called on me to day he arrived
from Bendigo last night
[Tuesday, 17 December 1861]
"I went to the Philharmonic Society in company with Mary & Agnes Rekowski, heard them
rehearsing something that gave me an idea of the
confounding of tongues at "Babel" called at [Rakowski’s] R. on our
way home spent about an hour very pleasently at their house"
Agnes Married William Henry Dalrymple in 1864[5] and died in Glebe, NSW in 1913[6]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.) Thu 24 Mar 1864 Page 4
DALRYMPLE—RAKOWSKI.—On the 23rd inst., at St.
Stephen's Church, Richmond, by the Rev. T. C.
Perks, William Henry, youngest son of the late
Patrick Dalrymple Esq., of Mount Leslie, Tasmania,
to Agnes Maria Magdalene, eldest daughter of Severin Rakowski, Esq., of Flinders-street, Melbourne, merchant.[7]
Children
BORN IN VICTORIA
1) Agnes Jessie 22751/1866[8]
2) Kate 10990/1869[9]
3) Ida Mary 4924/1871[10]
Ida Mary DEATH 3113/1876 [11]
4) Amy Isabel 19330/1873[12]
5) Florence Maud 25370/1875[13]
BORN IN NSW.
6) Lilian M. 4383/1878[14]
7) Frederick Sydney 5079/1880[15]
8) Estelle C. 5902/1883[16]
Her husband died in 1898
Agnes Maria Magdaline (Rakowski) Dalrymple died in Glebe in 1913.
↑BDM Victoria Secondary Birth Recordhttps://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/research-and-family-history/search-your-family-history
Family name: DALRYMPLE |
Given name(s): Agnes Jessie |
Event: births |
Mother's name: Agnes |
Mother's family name at birth: RAKOWSKI |
Father's name: William Henry |
Place of birth: MELB |
Reg. year: 1866 |
Reg. number: 22751/1866
↑BDM Victoria Secondary Birth Recordhttps://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/research-and-family-history/search-your-family-history
Family name: DALRYMPLE |
Given name(s): Kate |
Event: births |
Mother's name: Agnes Maria |
Mother's family name at birth: RAKOWSKYE |
Father's name: William Henry |
Place of birth: RICHMOND |
Reg. year: 1869 |
Reg. number: 10990/1869
↑BDM Victoria Secondary Birth Recordhttps://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/research-and-family-history/search-your-family-history
Family name: DALRYMPLE |
Given name(s): Ida Mary |
Event: births |
Mother's name: Agnes Maria |
Mother's family name at birth: RAKOWSKI |
Father's name: William Henry |
Place of birth: RICH |
Reg. year: 1871 |
Reg. number: 4924/1871
↑BDM Victoria Secondary Death Recordhttps://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/research-and-family-history/search-your-family-history
Family name: DALRYMPLE |
Given name(s): Ida Mary |
Event: deaths |
Mother's name: Agnes |
Mother's family name at birth: RAKOWSKIE |
Father's name: William Henr |
Place of birth: RICH |
Place of death: |
Age at Death: 5 |
Reg. year: 1876 |
Reg. number: 3113/1876
↑BDM Victoria Secondary Birth Recordhttps://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/research-and-family-history/search-your-family-history
Family name: DALRYMPLE |
Given name(s): Amy Isabel |
Event: births |
Mother's name: Agnes |
Mother's family name at birth: RASKOWSKI |
Father's name: William Henry |
Place of birth: R'MOND |
Reg. year: 1873 |
Reg. number: 19330/1873
↑BDM Victoria Secondary Birth Recordhttps://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/research-and-family-history/search-your-family-history
Family name: DALRYMPLE |
Given name(s): Florence Maud |
Event: births |
Mother's name: Agnes |
Mother's family name at birth: RAKOWSKI |
Father's name: William Henry |
Place of birth: RICH |
Reg. year: 1875 |
Reg. number: 25370/1875
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