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Margaret works as a servant in London for hardly enough money to live on.
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Margaret caught stealing 60 shillings from her master's money bags and arrested.
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Sentenced to 5 years' hard labour in New South Wales, a new colony.
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Margaret arrives at Botany Bay on the Lady Juliana with 224 other female convicts.
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Married Edward Hobbs a freed convict.
Edward Hobbs picks Margaret to be his wife after being in the female factory for five years. -
Gives birth to James (first of nine children).
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A bushfire burns down the homestead.
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three of Margaret`s children die from scarlet fever.
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Edward drowns in a flood trying to rescue his sheep, Margaret takes over the business.
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Margaret moves to Sydney where she lives till 92 in a grand old house.