MOLLOY, GEORGIANA (1805-1843), amateur botanist, was born on 23 May 1805 near
Carlisle, Cumberland, England, one of the five children of David and Mary Kennedy
of Crosby Lodge. Both parents came of old Border families. In August 1829 she was
married to Captain John Molloy and in October they sailed with their household
possessions and eight servants to the new colony in Western Australia. After six
weeks at Swan River they decided to settle some 200 miles (322 km) farther south
at Augusta at the opening of the Blackwood River on Flinders Bay, where her
husband was appointed resident magistrate. Two other families with their servants
accompanied them. Augusta lay in heavily timbered country and the settlement's
early pioneering was lonely and hard. Three daughters and a son were born to Mrs
Molloy, but the eldest daughter died at birth and the son at nineteen months, in
tragic circumstances. In 1836 most of the settlers began to leave Augusta to look
for land easier to develop. The Molloys themselves left in 1839 and moved to the
Vasse River, sixty miles (97 km) northward, where a homestead, Fair Lawn, was
built, and two more daughters were born.
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Molloy emigrated to Western Australia from England in 1830 and settled in Augusta. She collected and despatched seeds of local native plants to J. Mangles FRS who passed them to collectors in the UK. She was known for her detailed botanical descriptions.
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Georgiana Molloy emigrated to Western Australia from England in 1830 and settled in Augusta. She collected and despatched seeds of local native plants to J. Mangles FRS who passed them to collectors in the UK. She was known for her detailed botanical descriptions.
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