Meroogal: a home of their own
In February 1886, widow Jessie Thorburn moved into a picturesque home named Meroogal, located in Nowra, New South Wales, with three of her four unmarried daughters, Belle, Kate and Georgie. Her youngest daughter, Kennina Fanny, who was known as Tot or Tottie, joined them in 1893.
Meroogal stands today as a house museum, a time capsule that for 100 years was home to four generations of women: matriarch Jessie and her daughters, their Macgregor nieces and
