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Elizabeth Innes
Object number: 7176
Gallery: 8
Object Name: photograph
Title: Elizabeth Innes
Artist: Bowron & Cox
Date: 1862-1865
Medium: albumen print
Dimension: 10.3 x 6.6 cm
Credit Line: Gift of Elizabeth Patton, Margaret Patton and Mary Isabelle Patton, 1922
Notes: Elizabeth Innes ([1786]-1867) was the daughter of John Innes Sr. ([1746]-1841), and his wife Elizabeth ([1765]-1850). Elizabeth lived in Portland, New Brunswick and practised as a midwife, assisting 168 women in their confinement and as many as 157 women during childbirth in Saint John.

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