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What happened to Botany Bay Mary Bryant after freedom
This is sort of history and television categories but mainly history...I saw the drama on television this weekend about Mary Bryant's epic struggle in the 18th century - her crime, transportation, daring escape, recapture and ultimately freedom granted by the court to return back to her village in Cornwall . I was hoping at the end of the film they would say what became of her after she was granted her freedom. Having lost her husband & two children during the journey home, did she ever re-marry or have more children. It seems such a wretched life, I hope she found happiness in the end somehow. Does anyone know what became of her.
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When she got back, there was a lot of sympathy for her from the general public and her case was championed by James Boswell (Samuel Johnson's friend) - which strangely was never referred to in the film.
When she was freed, Boswell gave her a pension of �10 per annum and she went back to Cornwall where little was heard of her again....
I have read that she remarried although it isn't mentioned whether she had any more children. I am sure she figures in someone's family tree with Cornish ancestry. It's amazing to think how Australian settlers have flourished in a couple of hundred years. It certainly wasn't an easy environment to set up home. Thank you for all your answers.
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