Historical information
Mary Linton, nee Dunlop, was born in 1809 the West Indies, and married Joseph Linton in Scotland when she was eighteen. Mary and Joseph Linton migrated to Victoria in 1839, and took up a pastoral lease in the Wardy Yaloak district which they called Emu Hill. They had eleven children, ten of whom survived to adulthood. Mary died in Ballarat in 1887. The township of Linton derives its name from this family.
Part of Old Lintonian collection ; No. 12
Physical description
Sepia photograph of a woman wearing a gown with a lace collar and cap, seated with right arm resting on book on table, left arm resting on lap.
