sketcher, was born at Newington Green, Surrey, on 10 May 1846, third daughter and youngest of the six children of John and Eliza Thurston . She came to New South Wales with her widowed mother and sisters in 1853. With her mother and sister Eliza West Thurston , she moved to Mudgee to live with her brother Horatio; a card decorated by Emily is inscribed 'Mudgee, 25 December 1865’. Horatio took her photograph in his Mudgee studio about 1867-68. A photograph album decorated by Emily is dated 1871, at which time she and her mother were staying in her sister-in-law’s family home, Fernside at Rylstone.
Emily married Henry Burrows at Cooma in December 1873. All her known art works are floral watercolour decorations in albums and on cards (private collection).
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- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 1989
