![]() ![]() Following Thorpe’s death in September, Elsie Bramell was appointed scientific assistant in February 1933. In 1932 he was promoted to scientific cadet and assigned to assist W. The location was also the subject of his first published paper, which appeared in the Australian Museum Magazine in the following year. Developing an interest in anthropology, he and a colleague excavated a rock shelter at Burrill Lake on the State’s south coast in 1930. In 1920 McCarthy began work at the Australian Museum as assistant librarian. As a young man he was keen on rowing, swimming, and bushwalking. He was educated locally, finishing his tuition at Annandale Junior Technical School. The family moved to Leichhardt soon after his birth. ![]() Fred was born on 13 August 1905 at Petersham, Sydney, elder twin and second of four children of Charles Henry McCarthy, tram driver, and his wife Jane, née Fyfe, both New South Wales born. Frederick David McCarthy (1905-1997) and Elsie McCarthy (1909-1985), anthropologists and museum curators, were husband and wife. ![]()
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