Additional Information
Special Achievements
- One of the first women in Western Australia to be made a Justice of the Peace.
Additional Information
- Settled near Mt Welcome in 1864. Her son, James, found the gold bearing stone which started the Pilbara goldfield in 1887.
- Emma looked after the sick and delivered babies.
- Trusted by the Aboriginals she nursed and vaccinated many in a smallpox epidemic in 1866. She was a mother of 11 children.
Resources
Link - Withnell, Emma Mary (1842–1928)
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Link - Emma Withnell
Wikipedia
References
- Battye, J. S. (James Sykes). (1985). The cyclopedia of Western Australia: an historical and commercial review, descriptive and biographical facts, figures and illustrations: an epitome of progress. Carlisle, W.A.: Hesperian Press.
Link - EMMA MARY WITHNELL
National Library of Australia
References
- De Vries, Susanna. (2010). The Complete Book of Heroic Australian Women: Twenty-one Pioneering Women Whose Stories Changed History. Pymble, New South Wales: HarperCollins.
- Chapter 2: Emma Mary Withnell 1842-1928
- Weightman, Llyrus. (no date). Emma Withnell Mother of the North-West. Australian Heritage, 36-40.
- Dunn, John. (2008, May). Mother of the north-west. Outback, page numbers unknown.
- Martin, Thea. Pioneer “Mother of North-West”. newspaper unknown. date unknown:page unknown.
Link - EMMA MARY WITHNELL 1842 - 1928
Western Australia Now and Then
Document - Emma Withnell NPWHF file
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Document - Emma Withnell NPWHF file
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