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Letitia Mawson (Thorogood)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: St.Pauls, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Death: August 26, 1894 (76)
Germantown, VIC, Australia
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Joseph Thorogood and Mary Ann Thorogood
Wife of William Mawson
Mother of Mary Ann Beechey; Benjamin Mawson and Margaret Matilda Baensch
Sister of Thomas Thorogood; Edith Betts; John Thorogood; Elizabeth Baker; Joseph William Thorogood, infant and 1 other

Managed by: Gary Tucker
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About Letitia Mawson

Birth: June 4 1818 -St Pauls, Bedfordshire, England

Death: Aug 6 1894 - Germantown, Victoria, Australia

Parents: Joseph Thorogood, Mary Thorogood

Husband:William Mawson

Children:Margaret Mawson, Margaret Matilda Baensch (born Mawson), Benjamin Mawson, Mary Ann Beechey (born Mawson)

Siblings: Joseph William Thorogood, Elizabeth Thorogood, Edith Betts (born Thorogood), John Thorogood, Joseph William Thoroughgood, Thomas Thorogood, George Thorogood

Her husband,William Mawson (one of 224 convicts aboard the barque "Strathfieldsay") sailed from Plymouth,UK on 2 Aug.1831 to arrive at Hobart Town on 15Nov.1831.

Permitted to marry Letitia Thorogood ( 10Jan. 1833, arrived as a free settler with her 4 siblings and mother by the barque "Frances Charlotte" at Hobart Town to be re-united with father.)

on 29Mar.1837 in St.Luke's Church, Bothwell, Van Diemen's Land. Originally, William was sentenced to death for horse stealing on 17Nov.1830.

Commuted to transported for life on 19Mar.1831. My apologies for the map, but this is showing the areas of southern Victoria (Indented Heads, Germantown, Freshwater Creek, Murroon, ....... where the Thorogood, Mawson, Betts, and Baker families have special sites. -

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Letitia Mawson's Timeline

1818
June 4, 1818
St.Pauls, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom
1835
February 8, 1835
Bothwell, Tasmania, Australia
1840
June 30, 1840
Bothwell, Tasmania, Australia
1867
February 1, 1867
Germantown, Victoria, Australia
1894
August 26, 1894
Age 76
Germantown, VIC, Australia