Georgiana Molloy Triumph and Tragedy

Georgiana Molloy Triumph and Tragedy

By Milana C

Sadly when Georgiana Kennedy was only 16 years of age her father died from falling of a horse .That was Georgiana’s first tragedy of her life.

It was 1830 and Georgiana Molloy and her husband John Molloy decided they were going to sail to Australia they went on a ship called The Warrior. They sailed the Cape of good hope

But When they were just passing the cape of good hope there were some big waves and all there supplies got washed of the boat so they had to sail to land to get some more supplies they got back on the warrior and sailed to New Holland now called Australia.

But When they arrived all the good land was taken by the aboriginals so they got told to sail to Flinders Bay but lots of there supplies got washed off the ship again so they didn’t have much supplies left.

To go to Flinders Bay they went on a smaller ship called the Emily Taylor a whaling boat. They had a few helpers on the ship with them tow off them were the Bussel boys they helped a lot along the way.

But when they were about to arrived Georgiana thought that she was going to have a baby so John Molloy Georgiana’s husband and all the helpers took Georgiana and the luggage too the beach the Bussel boys made the first tent especially for Georgiana when she was having her baby it started to rain but a few of the helpers help an umbrella over the tent and there she had her first baby Mary Elizabeth.

But Mary Elizabeth wasn't born a strong baby and after about 9 days Mary Elizabeth died that was very hard for Georgiana.

But Georgiana didn’t let that stop her great passion for botanist. A Botanist called John Mangle's asked her to send him some flower from New Holland now called Australia so Georgiana did she spent a lot of time collecting the seeds and flowers and she spent a lot of time collecting packaging and preserving the plants because the plants had to stay looking like there were alive for a very long time they are still looking alive this very day and she had to package them so they don’t get damaged and she did a very good job of that it was a very hard job she also had chores that she had to do she had lots of children as well but two of them unfortunately died early in there lives.

Georgiana Molloy Georgiana Molloy was a very successful woman she is remembered as the first successful female botanist in Western Australian People have found things that belonged to Georgiana like letters and diaries they are held at the Cumbria Archive Centre. Many new Items are available now on a computer screen anywhere in the world. The pictures of the work that Georgiana Molloy did looks like it is alive in front of you. Combining the diaries and letters they found and online souses it makes it possible to trace some of her examples from the day she collected them in the bush they now rest in herbarium. Georgiana’s live as a settler was very hard her days were filled with hard work and lots of jobs she started before dawn too late at night but she always found time for her botanist passion she found so many seeds and un discovered plants she was about thirty seven when she died.