Georgiana Molloy
GEORGIANA MOLLOY
Georgiana molloy had a good life she lived in a much bigger house then us . Georgiana molloy first tragedy was her dad died how is David Kennedy. He died on a horse Georgiana molloy was very angry and sad. It was her first tragedy.
It was 1830 and Georgiana molloy was traveling to the swan river coolly on the warrior some of her things fell of they hate to stop to get more stuff like sheep dogs cats horses food and water and ALL you need four half a year .
Georgiana molloy was traveling in the warrior in hash rocky waves some of her stuff fell of .
Georgiana Molloy arrived at the beach and Georgiana Molloy thinks she is going to have a baby.
Georgiana molloy got a baby in the tent at the beach. There were flies and the baby was not well she named it after her sisters Mary and Elizabeth. Remember she lived in a much bigger house then us it is cold in England it is hot in Australia
orgiana molloy had a tragedy her baby died she was so sad she put a blue flower on it.
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She is remembered as the first female botanist in western Australia.
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Specimens from two of her collections, including Type specimens, are archived in Kew Herbarium and Cambridge
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University herbarium. Some of her letters and some diaries have also survived held at the Cumbria archive center in Carlisle up and
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Library in the JS Battye Perth WA
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many new items available now on a computer screen anywhere in the world
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The botanical work of Georgiana Molloy comes to life vividly through the images that are now available.
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Combining the content of her diaries/letters with online sources makes it possible to trace some of her specimens from the day she collected them in the bush, through their journey from collector to collector, and on to their current resting place in a herbarium Georgiana life as
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a settler was one of hardship and tragedy, and for most of her 13 years in the colony she was nursing a baby.
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Her days were filled with farm work and domestic jobs from before dawn until late at night she
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always found time for her botanical passion. A medical condition meant that she
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risked her life with the birth of each baby and soon after her seventh child was born she died
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still desperately longing to successfully collect and send the seeds of Nuytsia floribunda and Kingia
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australis to Mangles. She was 37.