Duncan, Elizabeth Jane (later Mrs Morrell) (1865 - 1949)

Born WA 6 November 1865, died in Geraldton, WA, 19 May 1949,

Born in WA, one of eight children, to pioneering settlers Thomas Duncan (c.1823-1878) and Isabella Jane née Pearson (c.1844-1940).

Elizabeth collected MEL specimens in the vicinity of the family property at Greenough River, 1883.

In 1888, she married a farmer, Reuben Edwin Morrell (c.1855-1919), at Greenough, and they had eight children.

Elizabeth died in 1949 in Geraldton aged 84.

Source: extracted from: Maroske, Sara and Vaughan, Alison (2014) 'Ferdinand Mueller's female plant collectors: a biographical register', Muelleria Vol.32 [consult for source references]
Portrait Photo: as Mrs Morrell, 1930, from above, from State Library of WA.