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Jessie Catherine Thorburn with her four unmarried daughters at Meroogal, around 1915 / photographer unknown
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Title:
Jessie Catherine Thorburn with her four unmarried daughters at Meroogal, around 1915 / photographer unknown
Date:
[c1915]
Format:
1 photoprint: b & w ; 7 x 4.5 cm.
Subject:
family groups
Thorburn family.
Thorburn, Jessie Catherine, 1824-1916.
Thorburn, Jessie Catherine (Kate), 1857-1945.
Thorburn, Annabella Jane (Belle), 1852-1930.
Thorburn, Kennina Fanny McKenzie (Tot), 1865-1956.
Thorburn, Georgina Isabella (Geo), 1854-1927.
Meroogal (Nowra, N.S.W.)
Series:
June Wallace papers
Description:
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 four Thorburn daughters standing at the back, left to right: Tot, Belle, Georgie and Kate.
Provenance:
Estate of June Wallace (1917-2010)
Published in:
Joy Hughes and Meredith Walker Meroogal, Nowra: a history and guide Sydney, Historic Houses Trust of NSW, 1988, p.9.
Source:
Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection ; June Wallace papers
Rights:
You may save or print this image for research and study. If you wish to use it for any other purposes, you must contact Museums of History NSW to request permission.
Material Type:
Picture
Record number:
44951
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