Norman, H., c. 1875, Photograph, B 3002
Carte de visite studio portrait of Margaret Preece, nee Callaghan/Calaghan, wife of Evan Preece of Mount Gambier. Margaret was an Irish orphan from County Cork who came to Tasmania with her sister under the London Emigration Scheme. She married convict Evan Preece (sentenced to hang for stealing a sheep with his brother John). When Evan was pardoned they left Tasmania with their 10 children and came, through Portland, to South Australia. Their last child, Alexander, was born in Mount Gambier in 1851.