Cirrus@Austlit

'Mary Braidwood Mowle (1827-1857), diarist, was born on 3 August 1827 at Durham, England, first child of Scottish-born naval surgeon Thomas Braidwood Wilson and his wife Jane, née Thompson. Mary arrived in Sydney on 24 June 1836 in the Strathfieldsaye, in which her father made his ninth and final voyage as surgeon superintendent in convict ships. Her mother died following childbirth in 1838. On her father's land grant at Braidwood Mary was brought up as the daughter of a large landowner. When she visited Sydney, she was regarded as the 'nicest' girl in society circles.' (Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography online)