Margaret`s Life By carollyn.nathan Feb 18, 1787 Margaret works as a servant in London for hardly enough money to live on. Feb 18, 1789 Margaret caught stealing 60 shillings from her master's money bags and arrested. Mar 18, 1789 Sentenced to 5 years' hard labour in New South Wales, a new colony. Feb 18, 1790 Margaret arrives at Botany Bay on the Lady Juliana with 224 other female convicts. Feb 18, 1795 Married Edward Hobbs a freed convict. Edward Hobbs picks Margaret to be his wife after being in the female factory for five years. Feb 18, 1799 Gives birth to James (first of nine children). Feb 18, 1806 A bushfire burns down the homestead. Feb 18, 1817 three of Margaret`s children die from scarlet fever. Feb 18, 1825 Edward drowns in a flood trying to rescue his sheep, Margaret takes over the business. Feb 18, 1835 Margaret moves to Sydney where she lives till 92 in a grand old house.