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Margaret Catchpole (14 March 1762 – 13 May 1819) was an English servant girl, chronicler, and deportee to Australia. Born in Suffolk, she worked as a servant in various houses before being convicted of stealing a horse and escaping from Ipswich Gaol.
Jan 10, 2024 · The singer's wife, Gill Catchpole, was tragically found dead at the couple's home in Gloucestershire on Friday (January 5). At an inquest into her death, held yesterday, a pathologist provisionally...
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Jan 10, 2024 · Musician James Morrison discovered his wife at their home in Whitminster, Gloucestershire, an inquest into her death has heard. Gillian Catchpole, 45, was found unresponsive at the property she...
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A Suffolk countrywoman turned Hawkesbury midwife; twice sentenced to death and twice reprieved; transported to New South Wales in 1801 and transformed after her death into a romantic literary heroine.
Catchpole, Margaret (1762–1819) English pioneer and convict who became a well-known midwife in Australia and was the subject of a play, a film, and a historical novel. Born in Nactom, Suffolk, England, on March 10, 1762; died in Richmond, Australia, on May 13, 1819; buried at St. Peter's Church, Richmond; illegitimate daughter of Elizabeth ...
Based on a true story, he wrote the book more than forty years after the events he describes. His embellishment of the facts in order to make a compelling story and thus communicate his moral purpose was questioned by many who remembered the much publicised case.
Feb 2, 2017 · Margaret Catchpole (1762-1819), convict and pioneer, was born on 14 March 1762, reputedly at Nacton, Suffolk, England, the natural daughter of Elizabeth Catchpole and a farm labourer, although the baptism of a Margaret Catchpole on the same day is recorded in the register of Hoo, near Framlingham, some fifteen miles (24 km) from Nacton.
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