Catchpole, Margaret (1762-1819)

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Convict, Midwife and Nurse; convict; diarist/letter writer; domestic servant; emancipist; midwife; nurse (general); store/shopkeeper
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CATCHPOLE, MARGARET (1762-1819), convict and pioneer, was born on 14 March 1762, reputedly at Nacton, Suffolk, England, the natural daughter of Elizabeth Catchpole and a farm labourer, although the baptism of a Margaret Catchpole on the same day is recorded in the register of Hoo, near Framlingham, some fifteen miles (24 km) from Nacton. Her early life was spent on the farms where her father worked and she became a skilled horsewoman. She had little formal education, working as a servant for various families until she was employed as under-nurse and under-cook by Mrs John Cobbold, wife of an Ipswich brewer. Here she was more a member of the family than a servant, and was three times responsible for saving the lives of the children in her care; here too she learnt to read and write.

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Margaret Catchpole was sentenced to transport for life, and arrived in Sydney in December 1801. She worked as a cook in the house of the commissary, John Palmer, and later as a midwife and nurse. She was granted an absolute pardon in 1814.

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Australian Dictionary of Biography Online

Australian Women's Register

  1. 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology
    Radi, Heather
    [1988]
    Published: Women's Redress Press
  2. Catchpole, Margaret (1762-1819)Australian Dictionary of Biography Online : Catchpole, Margaret (1762-1819)
    Lynravn, Joan
    [2006]
    Published: Australian National University
    Series: http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010200b.htm

Resources by Margaret Catchpole (6)

  1. Margaret Catchpole papers
    Catchpole, Margaret, 1762-1819
    [ Unpublished : 1900-1999 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 21.334)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 21.334)

  2. Papers
    Catchpole, Margaret, 1762-1819
    [ Unpublished : 1797-1917 ]
    At 2 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 20.18)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 20.18)

  3. Collection of papers relating to Margaret Catchpole [M944]
    Foakes-Jackson, F. J. (Frederick John), 1855-1941
    [ Unpublished : 1950 ]
    At 6 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 18.953)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 18.953)

  4. Letters
    Catchpole, Margaret, 1762-1819
    [ Unpublished : 1802-1811 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 14.138)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 14.138)

  5. A Suffolk lass - Margaret Catchpole
    Catchpole, Margaret, 1762-1819
    [ Sound : 1962 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 7.326)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 7.326)

  6. Homespun heroine : portrait of Margaret Catchpole / Harold R. Lingwood
    Lingwood, Harold R
    [ Unpublished : 1970-1991 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 7.105)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 7.105)

Resources about Margaret Catchpole (29)

  1. The history of Margaret Catchpole : a suffolk girl / by Richard Cobbold
    Cobbold, Richard, 1797-1877
    [ Book : 1800-1985 ]
    read online at Open Library/Internet Archive
    View online
    At 40 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 29.121)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 29.121)

  2. Margaret Catchpole : the girl from Wolfkettel / George Goldsmith Carter
    Carter, George Goldsmith
    [ Book : 1949 ]
    At 12 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 24.429)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 24.429)

  3. The true story of Margaret Catchpole / by G.B. Barton
    Barton, G. B. (George Burnett), 1836-1901
    [ Book, Published : 1897-1924 ]
    At 27 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 21.941)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 21.941)

  4. Margaret Catchpole / written by Nance Donkin ; illustrated by Edwina Bell
    Donkin, Nance
    [ Book : 1974 ]
    At 36 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 21.81)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 21.81)

  5. Scapegallows / Carol Birch
    Birch, Carol, 1951-
    [ Book, Audio book : 2007-2008 ]
    At 58 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 21.688)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 21.688)

  6. Margaret Catchpole papers
    Catchpole, Margaret, 1762-1819
    [ Unpublished : 1900-1999 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 21.225)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 21.225)

  7. [Biographical cuttings on Margaret Catchpole, daughter of Jonathon & Elizabeth Catchpole, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals]
    [ Published : 1900-1990 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 20.326)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 20.326)

  8. Papers
    Catchpole, Margaret, 1762-1819
    [ Unpublished : 1797-1917 ]
    At 2 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 19.695)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 19.695)

  9. Collection of papers relating to Margaret Catchpole [M944]
    Foakes-Jackson, F. J. (Frederick John), 1855-1941
    [ Unpublished : 1950 ]
    At 6 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 19.111)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 19.111)

  10. The extraordinary Margaret Catchpole / Ruth Manning-Sanders
    Manning-Sanders, Ruth, 1895-
    [ Book : 1966 ]
    At 10 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 17.836)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 17.836)

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  1. 'Lik a ladey'. -Margaret Catchpole, convict servant-
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    [ Article : 1988 ]
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    Representing Convicts: New Perspectives on Convict Forced Labour Migration
    [ Article : 1997 ]
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  3. MARGARET CATCHPOLE
    CANN-HUGHES, T.
    [ Article : 1885 ]
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  4. MARGARET CATCHPOLE
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    [ Article : 1885 ]
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  1. Website: Australian Women's Archives Project
    www.womenaustralia.info
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  3. Website: Culture.gov.au : Australia's culture portal : connecting Australian culture online
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    • ... Dictionary of Biography ) CATCHPOLE, MARGARET (1762-1819), convict and pioneer, was born on 14 March 1762...
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  1. Margaret Catchpole...from 'Beginnings of Christianity Fol. 11'
    Foakes-Jackson, F.J
    [ Book : 1900 ]
    At RAHS Library
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  2. The door in the air and other stories / Margaret Mahy ; illustrated by Diana Catchpole
    Mahy, Margaret, 1936-
    [ Book : 1988-1999 ]
    At 28 libraries
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  3. The history of Margaret Catchpole
    Cobbold, Richard, 1797-1877
    [ Book : 1923 ]
    At 2 libraries
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  4. The pictorial adventures of Margaret Catchpole, the great female horse-thief
    Cobbold, Richard, 1797-1877
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    read online at Hathi Trust
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    This resource may be of limited relevance to your query (score: 0.186)

  1. [Margaret Catchpole (play) : programs and related material collected by the National Library of Australia]
    [ Published : 1900 ]
    At National Library
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  2. Cry on the wind : the story of Margaret Catchpole / by Eleanor Witcombe
    Witcombe, Eleanor
    [ Unpublished : 1900 ]
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  3. Collections held by the Ipswich Branch of the Suffolk Record Office relating to Australia and the Pacific [M941-943]
    National Library of Australia
    [ Unpublished : 1950 ]
    At 5 libraries
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  1. [Interview with William Catchpole] [interviewed by Margaret Hamilton]
    Catchpole, William J
    [ Sound : 1989 ]
    At WA State Library
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  2. The romantic story of Margaret Catchpole
    National Film and Sound Archive (Australia)
    [ Video : 1911-1989 ]
    At 2 libraries
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  3. The man in the yellow doublet / Arturo Pérez-Reverte ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
    Pérez-Reverte, Arturo
    [ Book, Audio book : 2003-2010 ]
    At 53 libraries
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  4. [Interviews recorded at Alverstoke and with the Clifton family] [conducted by members of the Bunbury Oral History Group]
    Clifton, Mary
    [ Sound : 1997 ]
    At WA State Library
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  1. Margaret Catchpole.
    Windsor and Richmond Gazette (NSW : 1888 - 1921) Saturday 29 September 1894 p 8 Article
    ... Margaret Catchpole. AN elderly gentleman, just now on a visit to Windsor, asserts that it ts not correct that Margaret garet Catchpole was buried in the Richmond Church-yard. He is well-acquainted ... occupies a prominent position in society. Margaret Catchpole married a Hawkesbury settler, and resided ... 200 words
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  2. "MARGARET CATCHPOLE,"
    Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954) Saturday 29 November 1924 p 12 Article
    ... "MARGARET CATCHPOLE," "The True Story, of Margaret Cathch- di pole,' by G. B. Barton, gives a new version of the fascinating story of Margaret Catchpole, the Suffolk vil lage girl who was convicted of horse stealing, and afterwards transported to Australia, and whoso love affairs make such ... 153 words
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  3. Margaret Catchpole.
    Windsor and Richmond Gazette (NSW : 1888 - 1921) Saturday 16 October 1897 p 8 Article
    ... Margaret Catchpole. A SYDNEY correspondent writes:-"Glad :-" Glad to see you reprinting some of Mr. G. B. Barton's interesting screed on Margaret Catchpole-the Woman of Mystery-of doubtful ... play " Margaret Catchpole" in the suburb in which I lived. '. How strange," said he, " Why I met a ... 357 words
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