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.

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Australian Dictionary of Biography

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Wikipedia

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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.

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National Library of Australia

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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.

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Western Australia Now and Then

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