The 'Miss C. Perdriau, of Balmain' who was visiting England in 1881 when her collection of poems Lays of an Australian Lyre was published by a London publisher (under the pseudonym 'Austral') was likely to have been one of the daughters of Henry Carter Perdriau (1817-1892), a mariner and steamboat proprietor of Huguenot descent who served as mayor of Balmain in 1868, 1872 and 1875.
