Mary Braidwood Mowle

English born Australian diarist

Mary Braidwood Mowle (1827–1857) was a diarist in 19th-century New South Wales.

She was born on 3 August 1827 at Durham, England and arrived in Sydney with her parents on 24 June 1836.

She began writing a diary in 1850 while living on a farm with her husband near where Canberra was later founded, and continued her diary entries after she moved to Eden.

Mowle died in Balmain, Sydney on 15 September 1857,^[1] due to complications from the birth of her sixth child two weeks previously.

Her diaries were preserved and are considered valuable as they provide a female perspective on life in regional Australia at this time.

References

^ "Family Notices". The Sydney Morning Herald. Vol. XXXVIII, no. 6036. New South Wales, Australia. 10 October 1857. p. 6. Retrieved 5 September 2018 – via National Library of Australia.

Clarke, Patricia (2005). "Mowle, Mary Braidwood (1827–1857)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 14 December 2008.