DONALD & JESSIE ELIZABETH (NEE SYRED/MCKNOE) MACPHERSON
c. 1869Black and white portrait of Mr & Mrs Donald MacPherson.
He is sitting slightly side on and looking to the front, dressed in a formal suit, with high stiff collar and bow tie etc.
His left hand is resting on his leg.
His wife. Jessie Elizabeth, is standing to his right, with her left elbow resting on the back of the chair.
She is dressed in a patterned full skirt and darker jacket. She is wearing a scarf tied above her collar.
Donald MacPherson 1815 - 1887.
Jessie Elizabeth McKnoe 1828 - 1869.
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Donald & Jessie married in 1853.
Donald arrived in Western Australia in 1839 as a shepherd, indentured to Captain Scully. By 1845 he was a independent flock master in partnership with brother John and cousin Ewen Mackintosh. He established a pastoral station at "Glentromie" in the Victoria Plains district and by the 1880s was a leading pastoralist, farmer & horse breeder. (ref: p.2035 Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians by Rica Erickson)
