Margaret`s Life

By carollyn.nathan

  • Margaret works as a servant in London for hardly enough money to live on.

  • Margaret caught stealing 60 shillings from her master's money bags and arrested.

  • Sentenced to 5 years' hard labour in New South Wales, a new colony.

  • Margaret arrives at Botany Bay on the Lady Juliana with 224 other female convicts.

  • Married Edward Hobbs a freed convict.

    Edward Hobbs picks Margaret to be his wife after being in the female factory for five years.

  • Gives birth to James (first of nine children).

  • A bushfire burns down the homestead.

  • three of Margaret`s children die from scarlet fever.

  • Edward drowns in a flood trying to rescue his sheep, Margaret takes over the business.

  • Margaret moves to Sydney where she lives till 92 in a grand old house.

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