Love this photo. A beauty from The Australasian newspaper (16 Sep 1899, page 27) on Trove.
Jessie Maud Low was born in Penola, South Australia on August 24, 1881. This lovely lass, of Scottish parents, was Australia’s first lady Piper. At the time, she was the only one.
Jessie was a twin to her sister Maggie May, born to their parents, Peter Low (1844-1926) and Margaret Park (1845-1919). Margaret was quite well known from her first marriage (1862) to Adam Lindsay Gordon, the poet (1833-1870). Their only child, Annie Lindsay (1867), died at 10 months. Margaret’s marriage to Peter Low (1873) produced their first set of twins, William Park and Ellispit Joann (1874), followed by Peter Lindsay (1876), David Alexander (1878), then the next twins mentioned above, and lastly was Bradshaw Gordon (1885).
On April 24, 1911, Jessie was married to Arnold Edmund Hughes (1888-1942). They had a daughter, Eileen May (1913-1984?) and a son, Murray Edmund (1914-1973). Jessie passed away in October 1966 and is buried with her husband at the Murray Bridge Cemetery (Eighth Drive, Grave 357) in Murray Bridge, S.A.
