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Baker, Mary Ann (1834 - 1905)

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Bushranger

Born: 1834 Berrico, New South Wales, Australia. Died: 1905 Mudgee, New South Wales, Australia.

Mary Ann Baker was the daughter of Charlotte, an Aboriginal woman, and James Brigg, a convict shepherd. It was Baker who helped the notorious Captain Thunderbolt (Fred Ward) to escape imprisonment on Cockatoo Island, and who accompanied him in his outlaw life in northern New South Wales.

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See also

Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au. [ Details... ]
Radi, Heather (ed.), 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Women's Redress Press, Sydney, 1988, 258 pp. (Also available at http://www.200australianwomen.com/) [ Details... ]

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Prepared by: Barbara Lemon
Created: 25 September 2008
Modified: 27 October 2008

Published by National Foundation for Australian Women on Australian Women's Archives Project Web Site
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Updated: 23 December 2008
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