When Mary Agnes Wollaston was born on 15 July 1830, in West Wickham, Cambridgeshire, England, her father, John Ramsden Wollaston, was 39 and her mother, Mary Amelia Gledstanes, was 39. She married James Strain on 17 October 1844, in Bunbury, Western Australia, Australia. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She died on 7 February 1914, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, at the age of 83, and was buried in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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George Grey explores Western Australia.
Non-convict European settlement of the Brisbane region commenced in 1838
Brisbane was chosen as Queensland's capital when the state separated from New South Wales. Proclaimed a municipality
English (Warwickshire): habitational name from Wollaston (Northamptonshire), Wollaston in Old Swinford (Worcestershire), or Woollaston in Bradley (Staffordshire). The placenames derive from the Old English personal name Wulflāf (genitive Wulflāfes) + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. There may have been some confusion with Woolston .
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