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Copy of tintype photograph of Neil Cameron 1824-1909.

Neil Cameron (1824-1909) of Balevullin who emigrated to Canada on the `Charlotte` in 1849 with his widowed mother Flora MacFarlane Cameron and his brothers and sisters. He married Margaret Thornhill in 1857 and had five children: John, Robert, Margret Jane, Hugh and Flora. He moved to Michigan and then Minnesota where he took out American citizenship.

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2006.45.2

Copy of tintype photograph of Flora MacFarlane, wife of Hugh Cameron, with her grandchildren around 1873.

Flora MacFarlane, wife of Hugh Cameron of Balevullin, with her grandchildren Neal (b. 1867), Margaret Jane (b. 1861) and Isabella (b. 1869), taken around 1873. Born in 1795 in Kilkenneth, the daughter of Neil MacFarlane and Marion MacLean, Flora, then a widow, emigrated to Canada with four of her children on board the `Charlotte` in 1849. The family settled in Bruce County, Ontario.

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