Alexander Lindo Henriques

THe following is the reply I received from the State Library of Victoria about Alexander Lindo Henriques. He was the uncle of Rosa Sara Smith nee Henriques. He came to Australia but I could never figure out why. From the reply it seems he was a trained printer. It also seems that his father came out too. Did they come because of the Victorian goldrushes? Dear Robert, Thank you for your query. I am guessing you have searched the digitised newspapers on Trove and would know most of Melbourne Punch is digitised up until 1939 (where it ended it's run having merged with Table Talk newspaper in 1925). The publication changed its name over the years -see here. There are various references to Henriques in the newspapers on the 1850s and 60s, including in relation to employment as a printer for both Melbourne Punch and the Herald. Search results for "Alexander Lindo Henriques" Search results for "Alexander L. Henriques" Search results for "Alex Lindo Henriques" Also: NOTICE.-I have this day admitted Mr. ALEXANDER LINDO HENRIQUES a PARTNER in the proprietary of MELBOURNE PUNCH. JAMES SMITH. August 29,1850. I beg to inform tho public that I have opened a JOBBING-OFFICE In connection with the above Publication, at 45 La Trobe-streetcast, corner Swanston-street, where all orders will be executed,with care, economy, and despatch. ALEXANDER LINDO HENRIQUES. Advertising (1859, August 29). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 8, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5687043 These articles provide some basic information about the publication: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne_Punch http://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00951b.htm I have checked a number of biography card indexes and found one reference to an article in The Australasian Typographical Journal (April 1898, p.2) which included some information on Henrique: "Mr. A Lindo Henriques, employed in the publishing department of the Herald, was the purchaser of the jobbing office. He had a small plant of his own, which was worked by a young fellow, Richard P. Hurren, and he amalgamated both. I worked casually there [the author of this article being Mr. T.L. Work]. Henriques was of Spanish descent, a native of Cuba, tall, swarthy, somewhat saturnine, sparing in speech, and afflicted with a bronchial malady. He engaged as overseer Mr. Alex M. Gaul, who subsequently went to Fergusson & Moore's office, and while there, in 1872, executed the famous Thistle poster for the Kennedy concerts. This was a most unique job, printed in green ink, with red top - leaves, stalk and flower all type. The designer of the job was Mr. D. Kennedy, jun (sic?) himself a printer, who terminated his too brief career in South Africa, in 1885, a year before the death of his talented father. Mr. Henriques died in 1869, and the Herald job became a thing of the past. The plant was leaves to his assistant, Mr. Hurren, who afterwards had an office of his own in Post Office Place, where he printed Centaur's Index - a sporting record - and other work. He died a few years ago." Henriques' death notice on Ancestry identifies his parents as Benjamin Henriques and Sarah Sanguinetti.