WESTGARTH, Margaret

Margaret was found drunk according to the Mount Alexander Mail of 19 March 1867. She was ‘an inveterate tippler’. For ‘the fiftieth time, brought up charged with being drunk and disorderly, but having been confined since Saturday evening was only fined 10s, in default one week’s imprisonment’.

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WRIGHT, Mary Fleming

Mary Fleming Wright was one of the midwives who attempted to help Margaret Hynes.   VPRS 24/PO Unit 30 Item 130 Margaret Hynes Inquest held at Ballarat on 12 Dec 1855 Jury Charles Codlin William Jacob Samuel Clapman William Stewart Benjamin Hodgson James Payne James May Jospeh Stewart x Henry Smith Luther Haymes Henry Bishop…

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