Donald Charles Cameron (*1814) and Margaret Ann Moore (*1819)


First farm-house "Barcaldine" Queensland, Australia; ca. 1865. Slab walls, bark roof, bean vines providing food and heat shelter (from MCR).
 
 
 
 
 
At left: Donald Charles Cameron; ca. 1865 (from MCR).
 
 
Donald died in 1872.

 
 

Margaret bought in 1887 the house "Fairholme" in Toowoomba, photo ca. 1890.
After the purchase, the vines were soon cleared away (MCR).
Photo from the Fairholme College website.


Margaret Cameron née Moore at Fairholme with granddaughter Margaret (Meta); 1903 (from pAJnS).

 
 


Adele Serane, born 1798 in Basseterre, Guadeloupe, Margaret Moore's mother. Picture of unknown date (from MCR).


Margaret Moore (born 1819 on St. Eustache), Adele's daughter. Photo ca. 1910 ? The broche later passed on to MCR (from MCR).

 
 
pAJnS = photo archive Aprilla Jacometti, great-granddaughter of Beachamp and Bea.
MCR   = "A Strange Bird on the Lagoon" by Margaret Reeves née Cameron, great-granddaughter of WJBC and EPC (1985, Boolarong Publications; ISBN 0908175 957).

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