Camera Workers, 1858-1950

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Macdonald, Emma

Female 1860 - 1893  (33 years)


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  • Name Macdonald, Emma 
    Born 1859 or 1860  Bowmanville, ON Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Where Active (Non-Specific Address) 1880?-1881?  Victoria, BC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Died 21 Jul 1893  Seattle, WA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Association Maynard, Richard (Relationship: Father) 
    Association Maynard, Hannah Hatherly (Relationship: Mother) 
    Association Maynard Albert Hatherly (Relationship: Brother) 
    Association Maynard, Hannah Hatherly (Relationship: Employee?) 
    Person ID I829  Camera Workers | M, vol. 1, 1858-1900
    Last Modified 20 Jan 2017 

  • Notes 
    • STATUS: Commercial (assistant).
    • BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A daughter of Hannah and Richard Maynard, she was married to James F. Macdonald (1852-1912) at the time of the 1881 census. Her age is given as 21, occupation, photographer, no doubt an assistant to her mother or father. She and her husband, from whom she filed for divorce in Jun 1892, had three children: Harry Hatherly Macdonald and Maynard Macdonald, and a third child, Albert James Macdonald, living with Richard and Hannah Maynard at the time Emma died. Her portrait appears in a few of her mother's multiple exposure tableaux.
    • REFERENCES: 1881 Dominion Census (OOA microfilm reel C-13285); Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 1893 07 22/8 and 1893 07 23/8; Mattison (1980 10):14-19; Wilks (1980); BVIPA Visual Records Photographer File; M. Cirelli to Mattison, 1992 08 06 (death date and obituaries).