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Mary Watson's diary for 1881, including the loose pages written before her death and found in the tank in which she, her baby and her servant Ah Sam had escaped from the Aborigines. Included are photographs of the loose pages, two newspaper cuttings and genealogical papers for Mary Watson and her parents.

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Libraries Australia

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Watson, Mary, 1860-1881

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Mary Watson, nee Phillips, was born on 17 January 1860 at Fiddler's Green, Newlyn, in Cornwall, the natural daughter of Mary Phillips and Thomas Oxnam. The family emigrated to Australia in 1877, living first at Maryborough. When the family moved to Rockhampton, Mary decided to go to Brisbane in answer to an advertisement for the position of a governess to the two children of a Mr Bouel. Bouel owned a hotel in Cooktown and Mary was also asked to play the piano at Bouel's hotel. There...

Watson, Mary Beatrice.

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Mary Beatrice Oxnam married Captain Robert Watson in 1880. He was engaged in beche-de-mer fishing and in September 1881 left Mrs Watson with their baby and Chinese servants on Lizard Island. During his absence Mrs Watson was attacked by Aborigines and escaped in an iron tank used for boiling beche-de-mer. The bodies of Mrs Watson, her baby and the Chinese servant were found and later buried in Cooktown. From the description of Papers. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225817...