John McPhee Family - Blue Vapours

Below: Bessie Drummmond, known as Aunt Bessy, Mrs
James Drummond, from 10 Bank Street Blairgowrie Scotland,
about 1860, with message on the back of photo: “Give our best
respect to yourselves and to all enquiring friends…a Newspaper
will accompany this.” Photographed by A.F.McKenzie, Birnam,
Perthshire Scotland.
John McPhee Family
Left: John McPhee, who is identified by his birthplace as John ‘Inverary’
McPhee, born 1796 and died at Geelong in 1867. John brought his family
of seven children to Victoria in 1853. This is the only extant photograph
of John McPhee, and it was taken in Geelong in 1860 at the time of John’s
daughter Isabella marrying James Rollo Stewart, and before the Stewarts
left to live in New Zealand.
Below: Emily Johnston, the aunt of John, Margaret, Archibald,
Isabella, Anne, Robert and Alexander McPhee. “The younger ones
in the family were taken care of by my aunt, Mrs Emily Johnston;
she was like a mother to us, caring for us and educating us.”
Photographed by A.B.Taylor, Escanaba, Michigan. On the back of
the photo is the handwritten address: Mrs Emily Johnston, Racine
College, Wisconsin USA.
Father Donald Forbes, Catholic Parish Priest in Brae
Lochaber in Scotland from 1826 until 1878. Parish records
show that he baptized some of the McPhee children, including
John McPhee. This photo is from Ann MacDonell of Spean
Bridge, Scotland 1985.
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