biography
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Catchpole, Margaret
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1773–1841)
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| biography:
| Australian pioneer, born near Ipswich, Suffolk, E England, UK. She was servant to the Cobbold family of brewers in Ipswich. Twice sentenced to death, for stealing a horse and for escaping from Ipswich jail, she was transported to New South Wales, Australia, in 1801. She later managed a farm, ran a store, acted as midwife, and settled in Sydney (1828–41). Her letters home, and to the Cobbold family in Suffolk, formed the basis of Richard Cobbold's book about her (1845), and provide a valuable account of early 19th-c life in the new colony. |
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