1. Georgiana Molloy was an early settler in Western Australia, who is remembered as one of the first botanical collectors in the colony.
19 Facts About Georgiana Molloy
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Georgiana Molloy was born Georgiana Kennedy in Cumberland on 23 May 1805.
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Georgiana Molloy became deeply religious, unusually so, even for the educated classes.
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Georgiana Molloy became distant from her own family in both sentiment and geography when she went to stay in Scotland with the Dunlop family at Keppoch House, near Helensburgh.
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Until 1836, Georgiana Molloy's life was one of great hardship, typical of early settlers in Western Australia but unfamiliar to one of her social class in England.
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Georgiana Molloy lost her first child shortly after birth and later her only son drowned in a well.
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Georgiana Molloy was vigorous in body, mind and soul and applied herself to the subsistence life.
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Mangles broke up Georgiana Molloy's collections, sending seeds to a number of horticulturists and botanists throughout England.
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In 1839 the Georgiana Molloy family moved to the Busselton district.
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Georgiana Molloy was visited by botanists Ludwig Preiss in 1839 and Drummond in 1842.
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Georgiana Molloy continued to collect seed, making use of the knowledge of the local Indigenous Australians, and she taught herself the rudiments of botany from books sent to her by Mangles.
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Georgiana Molloy suffered bouts of ill health after each of her pregnancies.
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Georgiana Molloy was bed-ridden from December 1842 until her death in April the following year during the Australian summer.
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On hearing of her death, George Wailes, a horticulturist who had been most successful in growing from Georgiana Molloy's seeds, wrote to Mangles:.
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Georgiana Molloy was recognised for her contributions to the description of the Western Australian flora.
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Georgiana Molloy's specimens are held at the University of Cambridge Herbarium, The Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, the Herbarium of the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, and the Herbarium of the University of Montpellier.
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Georgiana Molloy has a school named after her in the Busselton suburb of Yalyalup.
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Georgiana Molloy wrote a number of diaries and many letters which have provided a unique personal narrative.
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Georgiana Molloy was added to the Anglican Church of Australia 1995 calendar, where her name appears on 8 April, as a "pioneer church leader and botanist from Western Australia".