Jameson was born to Robert and Barbara Jamieson on 30 June 1864 at Cruisdale, Sandness on the Mainland of Shetland.

Despite living hundreds of miles from London she created a banner with Orkney artist Stanley Cursiter which she carried in national processions, including the Women's Coronation Procession on 21 June 1911, with a Miss Courtenay[2] (niece of Orcadian Women's Suffrage Society chair Mary Anne Baikie).

[4][better source needed] During the First World War she served on Shetland's school board and led it temporarily.

Men would meet at her home, Twageos House, to perform sword dances to local music.

[1] Wrote an award-winning play in Shetland dialect “da dooble sprin” (sic) in a contest in Inverness (Aberdeen P + J 28th February 1935) Published a short book on the Suffrage Movement “Sketch of votes for women movement” In 1935 she was still suffering with asthma and she left the islands where she had spent her life, to emigrate to New Zealand in the hope of gaining some respite.