Ambrotype
Photograph
Maker & role
Unknown, Maker
Production date
1860s
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Object detail
Title
Portrait of Roderick Macgregor
Production place
Collection
Measurements
Case, H: 12.2 x W: 9.7cm (H: 122 x W: 97mm)
Subject person
Credit line
Purchase, 1985
Meroogal Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Meroogal Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Description
Roderick McGregor (also spelled Macgregor) was a Shoalhaven schoolmaster. He was born around 1842 in the parish of Gairloch, Ross Shire, on the north-west coast of Scotland and left home at the age of 18, arriving in Sydney as an assisted immigrant on the Lady McDonald in 1860. He settled in the Shoalhaven district on the south coast of New South Wales where there was a well-established community of Scottish Presbyterians centred on Alexander Berry’s Coolangatta estate, near the township of Berry. The township was originally established as a private town named Broughton Creek and Roderick Macgregor became the teacher at Broughton Creek Public School in 1864. Ten years later he was appointed to Cambewarra Public School where he was Head Teacher until his retirement in 1886. He had married Mary Susan Thorburn at Jasper’s Mount, Shoalhaven, in 1868 and together Roderick and Mary Susan had a family of 8 children. They lived on a farm called Torrisdale in the foothills of Cambewarra Mountain, a location well-suited for Roderick to follow his personal interest in astronomical observation.
Accession number
M86/190
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