This picture depicts John Mutter, stone and marble mason, and one of his Brooker grandsons, probably taken at the house he built at Taitville, Wellington. Mr Mutter was born on 31 Jan 1874 at Talawain, Trevethin, Pontypool, Wales. He married Annie Martha Welham on 6 Mar 1897 at Wesleyan Methodist church, Rosebank, Capetown, South Africa.

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