Georgiana Molloy Tragedy and Triumph

GEORGIANA MOLLOY TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH

by Anna Hutchison

When she was sixteen Her father sadly died on short notice on a horse and fell off. His name was David Kennedy. He died in 1819 and he was only 53 and was born in 1766

EMILY TAYLOR

The boat that the early Settlers got was the Emily Taylor. When they arrived in flinders bay it was 1831.

When they arrived in flinders bay the waves were crashing and it was very rough.

When she arrived all she saw was trees and bush land. There was lots of Miskito's, flies and bugs.

When they arrived they had to start making there tents and gardens.

They got the first tents because they were about to have a baby. not long after Georgiana had her first baby but did not succeed unfortunately her baby died 9 days after birth.

In Augusta when they arrived There was flies, tics, mosquito's, fly's and bugs.

This is the picture of who got on the Emily Taylor in 1830

TRIUMPH

Her first triumph was when she found a good spot for Growing plants,

1831 she found a flower known as the Little blue flower when her 1st baby died she But blue flowers over her.

I would like to tell you about Georgiana Molloy’s triumphs Firstly Georgiana Molloy decently had a triumph life. Georgiana Molloy is remembered as the first internationally successful female botanist in Western Australia and known as international botanist in 1830 as an early settler.

Secondly Some diaries have also survived, held at the Cumbria Archive Centre in Carlisle UK and the JS Battye Library in Perth WA which is a big triumph because it was hard to keep specimens and get a flower named after you as you are a female.

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Thirdly: James Mangles also sent her seeds to successful nurserymen including George Loddiges, known for the orchids he grew in a huge hothouse in England.

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Captain James Mangles Royal Navy asked her to send him specimens of Western Australian indigenous plants. She was only collecting for James Mangles for the last six years of her life and taught herself the necessary skills from books.

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Specimens from two of her collections, including Type specimens, are archived in Kew Herbarium.

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Fourthly: Georgiana has also been on the internet in Wikipedia and also found very interesting for children.

In Georgiana Molloy’s last years, she was referred to in several botanical and horticultural publications, including three mentions in the 'Notices of new plants.

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Fifthly: Although there were requests for plants to be named for her before and just after she died, she did not receive formal recognition as a botanist. The graceful, pink Boronia molloyae now it is known as her plant she is named after.

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Finally: Biodiversity Heritage Library are making digital images of sources previously only available as microfilm or hard copy. Not only are many new items available now on a computer screen anywhere in the world, allowing you to look closely at a picture or photograph and transcribe from an original document, but also the sources are searchable.