Mary Watson (folk hero), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian folk heroine
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About Mary Watson (folk hero)
- Mary Watson (17 January 1860 – 1881), was an Australian folk heroine.
- She was 21 years old and had been married less than eighteen months when she died of thirst on No.
- 5 Island in the Howick Group off Cape Flattery in Far North Queensland, Australia, in 1881.
- She, with her four-month-old baby, Ferrier, and a wounded Chinese workman, Ah Sam, had drifted for eight days and some forty miles in a cut-down ship's water tank, used for boiling sea slugs, after mainland Aborigines had attacked her absent husband's bêche de mer station on Lizard Island.
- Her diary describing their last days was found with their remains in 1882, and Mrs Watson became an emblem of pioneer heroism for many Queenslanders.
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