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Residents of Mount Gambier: Margaret Preece [B 3002] • Photograph

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Summary

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.

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Physical description

1 photograph : black and white ; 6 x 9 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1875

Photographer

Norman, H

Collection

Part of Album Collection

Subject

Preece, Margaret, 1810?-1877
Women -- South Australia -- Mount Gambier.
Clothing and dress -- South Australia -- Mount Gambier.

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Digitisation information

Date

20/04/2005

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

2,143 x 3,137 pixels (6.7 MP)

Size

20.19 MB

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