Before travelling for a visit, please call the correctional centre to confirm your visit and visiting time. Mary the sauropod was named in honour of Dr Mary Wade, a former Curator of Palaeontology at Queensland Museum, now living at Hughenden. In some way or another Dr Wade has been involved in nearly every major dinosaur discovery that has taken place in western Queensland over the last 30 years. Many of the sauropod finds made in the Winton District, including Elliot, would never have come to light if it were not for her efforts. Dr. Wade retired from the museum in 1993 and moved to Western Queensland, assisting in the development of fossil centres in Richmond and Hughenden. She had many friends in the region, and continued to promote new finds of fossil material through theses contacts.
- According to the family history, Mary had 21 children and their descendants number in the thousands.
- Mary Wade was transported to New South Wales at the age of 11 in 1789.
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- Her research saw her involved in the organization, supervision and excavation of over 3000 dinosaur footprints in Lark Quarry in the Tully Ranges.
- Nobody advised me to go, and nobody told me; but the woman that took the cap off her head, that little one, robbed her of every thing she had; and Mrs. Matthews took the cap off the little one's head, and said she would ask the gentlewoman. I know Mrs. Matthews; she did not advise me to tell the woman in Charles-street. When I came home from my labour, on Friday, I enquired for my child, and a boy told me he sent her to the Treasury for a bottle of water; that was the 5th of this month. I came home at half after five; I live inCharles-street, Westminster; the child was not at home.
This led her to describe a completely new group of fossil molluscs. At Christmastime in 1789, ten year old convict Mary Wade was facing an uncertain future. Today, she is recognized as one of Australia’s founding mothers. We want it to contain the stories of family members, where we can share information, and one giant Family Tree that includes as many of Mary's descendants as want to claim their heritage. Today, quite a few of us keep in touch and share family trees through Genes Reunited and Ancestry.com.
A man goes to the next town over to live out a forbidden fantasy. Once you try these flavors, you may discover you develop a taste for them. - It is the other girl that induces her out, when my back is turned, to go a begging with her. mary wade brought her up to go a begging; all the butchers know me well. - They told me the child lived in Charles-street, at the shoemaker's; and there is but one shoemaker's in Charles-street.
Mary was one of fifty women fed bread and water in a cell that had neither beds nor lavatories. However, once aboard The Lady Juliana, her situation improved. All convicts were reasonably fed and given warm beds. Only five women and two children died during the eleven month voyage and the condition of those who arrived in the colony in 1790, had improved.
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She was one of a boatload of female convicts sent on the Lady Juliana to the fledgling colony of New South Wales in July 1789. In what was one of the longest recorded convict voyages Mary finally arrived in Sydney Cove as a 14 year old in June 1790 having spent more than 10 months at sea. Rapidly developing an affinity for the Queensland Outback, she established many local contacts and through teir assistancew collected new dinosaur remains in the Winton district.
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Mary Wade was transported to New South Wales at the age of 11 in 1789. She had been found guilty of highway robbery and sentenced to death by hanging at her trial. However, as was often the case in such trials, her death sentence was commuted to transportation to the penal colony of New South Wales for life.
They are all the things that she lost that night. In the way you carry on that business, it is a very dangerous one to the publick; your house may become the repository of all the stolen goods in the town. - I have known the little one a twelvemonth, and the other about ten months.
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I went to the pawnbroker's that night, and saw the frock. I was getting things ready for washing, and I took a light down to the wash-house, that joins to the privy; there were two children, one ran by me. I went into the yard to see if there was any water, and I heard a child cry, and I went into the privy, and there I saw a child stripped of her frock, tippet, and a cap.
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She also excavated specimens of the giant pliosaur Kronosarurs, and relocated the site and collected the remains of Australia's only Jurassic sauropod Rhoetosaurus, lost since the 1920's. Late in the 1970's and 1980's Dr. Wade continued to recover remains of dinosaurs, describing in detail the anatomy of these giant creatures of the ancient inland sea of western Queensland. During the next few years, she explored areas of western Queensland , studying the fossil remains of early nautiloid molluscs.
Dr. Wade knew how to use her science for the broader community and demonstrated that academic rigour applied to important pure science can have long-lasting benefits for communities throughout the state. Her scientific legacy is wide and varied and reflects an academic rigour applied to a very wide group of fossils. During that time she made a major contribution to the knowledge of the strange fossils of jellyfish and other problematic remaiuns, which had been found in the Ediacara Hills in the Flinders Ranges. Mary Julia Wade was born in South Australia and soennt her early childhood with her parents, Chris and Nora, and brother Bill on a grazing property in the northeast of South Australia.
Mary Wade is considered to be one of Australias founding mothers who at the time of her death had 300 descendants. One of her most famous descendants is former Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd! You can learn more about Mary Wade in Canberra at The National Library of Australia.