Georgiana Trial and Tribulations

Georgiana molly's trials and tribulations, triumphs and tragedies. By Laura!

Huge waves crashed onto the row boats washing some cargo [ food and animals] over-board.

As they arrived on the shores of the swan river colony Georgiana Molloy was due to have a baby so she was given the first tent.

The wood from the trees was harder than the wood back in England so it took a long time to chop down. Some of the tools that the men had brought from England were soon destroyed as there weren’t as hard trees in England.

9 days after Georgiana Molloy had her 1st child born in a tent the child died.

Georgiana Molloy had 7 children.

Georgiana and John Molloy were devastated when their only son, John, drowned in a well at the age of 19 months.

Georgiana Molloy died in great discomfort after spending the last three months of her life in her bedroom.

Georgiana Molloy’s triumphs • Firstly Georgiana Molloy today is remembered as the 1st internationally successful female botanist in Western Australia and maybe in the whole of Australia!

• Secondly some of Georgiana Molloy’s letters and diaries have survived, held at the Cumbria Archive Centre in Carlisle UK and the JS Battye Library in Perth WA. • Thirdly Georgiana Molloy was recognized when collector and botanist Captain James Mangles Royal Navy asked her to send him native specimens of indigenous Western Australian plants.

• Finally The beautiful, graceful pink Barona molloyae [`ae’ is it’s named after a female] now bears her name Molloy.

• I think Georgiana was successful and her life was a triumph!