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About Mary Watson
Mary Beatrice Watson, was an Australian folk heroine in Queensland. She died aged 21 on a small island of the northern Great Barrier Reef with her son and a servant, after escaping an attack on Lizard Island, where she had settled with her fisherman husband not long before. Watson's story was subsequently retold in numerous newspaper and folk accounts, including heroic poems, usually with little attention given to the Aboriginal and Chinese aspect of the events.
Everything about Mary Watson →- Born
- January 17, 1860
- Died
- 1881
- Country
- Australia