Caroline Simpson Collection

Jessie Catherine Thorburn (1824-1916) in the garden at Meroogal Nowra, around 1914 / photographer unknown

[c1914]

1 photoprint mounted on card : b & w; 31.5 x 26 cm.

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Thorburn, Jessie Catherine, 1824-1916.

June Wallace papers

This picture shows the matriach of Meroogal, Jessie Catherine Thorburn, nee McKenzie, (1824-1916). Jessie McKenzie arrived in Australia from Scotland with her parents and five siblings in 1839, aged 15. She married a farmer named Robert Thorburn in 1846 and like her own mother, had eight children. She was widowed in 1869 and in 1886 relocated with her four unmarried daughters from the family farm at Barr Hill, near Jasper's Brush, to live in a newly built house - Meroogal - in Nowra.
The book she is holding , in arthritic hands, in this photograph is 'Letters from a self-made merchant to his son, being the letters written by John Graham, head of the house of Graham & Company, pork-packers in Chicago', published in Methuen's Colonial Library in 1903.

Estate of June Wallace (1917-2010)

Refer: Janet K. Ramsay The women of Meroogal Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 1988, p.26.

Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection ; June Wallace papers: JMW/36

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