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[Group portrait spanning four generations.]

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  • Description

    The sitters (from left to right) are Elizabeth Haresnape, Esmeralda Watson, Mr A. Watson and Christina McDonald.

    "Mrs Elizabeth Haresnape, The eldest daughter of Mr & Mrs John McDonald was 17 years of age on arrival on the sailing ship VIOLA in April 1865, she married at the age of 21 Richard WATSON, who was killed in a mine explosion in 1875. There were two of a family, John and Arthur Watson, Mrs Watson later married William Haresnape, from this marriage she had three children; Jessie Mary Christina White born 1881, Donald Duncan McColl HARESNAPE born 1885, and Archibald Haresnape born 1887 died 1958."

    In actuality the mine explosion occured in 1873, not 1875 as the typescript insert quoted above suggests. The site was Karanui Gold Mine.

  • Other Id

    58539 (Presto content ID)

    PH-ALB-453-2-p2-4 (Reference Number)

    PH-CNEG-c16009 (Copy negative number)

    93257 (DBTextworks system ID)

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