Emma Hesketh, born at Bothwell on 20 Apr 1856, was one of ten children of Rev. Wickham Meyer (Moyes) Hesketh (1811-1868) and Georgiana Averina Moore (1828-1879). Rev. Hesketh was the Anglican minister at Bothwell when Emma and her twin brother Charles Edward were born. She or her sister Louisa was a soprano in the Tasmanian Exhibition Choir in 1891-92. On 25 Nov 1896, when she was 40, Emma married 59 year old Henry Edward Bowcher. Her sister Louisa and brother Leonard are also pictured in the Family Album.
Marion Sargent Dec 2008