GEORGIANA MOLLOY TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDIES RUBY E
When Georgiana was only 16 her father (David Kennedy) died when he got kicked of a horse at their family home.
It was 1830 and Georgiana Molloy was heading to the Swan River Colony on the warrior when they arrived there was no good land so they got on the Emily Taylor an sailed down to Flinders bay When they were sailing down to flinders bay it got really rough and lots of their belongings got washed off the boat so the had a brief stop at cape town to get some more supplies then they sailed down to Flinders Bay
When they got to the shore of Flinders Bay it was really rough and they had trouble getting all of the supplies and people off the boat the Bussel boys had an idea to make rafts to get everything and everyone off the boat.
When they got on the beach Georgiana got the first tent that was set up because she felt like she was going to have a baby when they arrived at the beach they were terribly annoyed by all of the tics , fly's , flees, mosquitos and other pests like that.
A couple of days after they arrived Georgiana had a baby but it was a very weak baby so after about 9 days it died. She decided to call the baby Mary Elizabeth after her 2 sisters because she missed them so much even though she didn’t really like them much.
Georgiana found this purple in the bush when she was exploring and it was the first flower she found in the Australian bush so she put it on Mary Elizabeth`s grave
GEORGIANA MOLLOY TRIUMPHS Georgiana Molloy was remembered as the first international female botanist in Western Australia. Two of Georgiana`s collections are planted in the Cambridge University Herbarium and in Kew Herbarium.
Some of her letters and diaries also survived and are held at Cumbria Archive Centre in Carlisle UK and the JS Battye Library in Perth WA. Lots of new pictures and information are available anywhere in the world on a computer screen. For most of Georgiana`s 13 years at the swan river colony she was either looking after a baby or farm working for food or just any other job from before dawn to late night but she still found time for her passion of botany. After her 7th baby was born she died still desperately longing to collect and send the specimen back to Europe. Georgiana was only 37 when she died.