Caroline Simpson Collection

Kenneth McKenzie (c1835-1922), wearing Highland dress, around 1885 / Crown Studios

Crown Studios (Sydney, N.S.W.)

[c1890]

1 mounted photoprint; b & w; 9.2 x 5.5 cm (image); 14.2x9.2 cm (card).

Studio name printed on card below image: 'The Crown Studios Sydney 'and 'The / Crown Studios / Sydney) embossed on front wrapper.

portraits
Highland dress
McKenzie, Kenneth, c1835-1922.

June Wallace papers

Kenneth McKenzie (c1835-1922) was the youngest of six children of Thomas and Mary McKenzie, Scottish emigrants to the Shoalhaven district on the south coast of New South Wales in 1839. As a young man in the 1860s he worked on the goldfields at Mitchell's Creek near Bathurst, returning to the McKenzie family home in Cambewarra around 1871 where he set up as a builder and was listed as such in the New South Wales Post Office directory for 1872. In 1886 he was responsible for the design and building of Meroogal in Nowra for his widowed older sister Jessie Catherine Thorburn (1824-1916). He was a foundation member of the Nowra Branch of the Highland Society of NSW, established in 1885.

Estate of June Wallace (1917-2010)

Janet K. Ramsay The women of Meroogal Sydney, Historic Houses Trust of NSW, 1988, p.54.

Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection ; June Wallace papers: JMW/37

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