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Studio portrait of Jessie Catherine Thorburn, around 1900 / Samuel Cocks, photographer
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Title:
Studio portrait of Jessie Catherine Thorburn, around 1900 / Samuel Cocks, photographer
Creator:
Cocks, Samuel, 1871-1948.
Date:
[c1900]
Format:
1 cabinet photograph : albumen print ; 16.5 x 10.5 cm.
Inscription:
Photographer's name printed below image: Cocks.
Subject:
portraits
Thorburn, Jessie Catherine, 1824-1916.
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.
Provenance:
Estate of June Wallace (1917-2010)
Source:
Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection ; June Wallace papers: JMW/34
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:
44970
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