When Mary Mitchell was born on 4 April 1837, in Longford, Tasmania, Australia, her father, William Mitchell, was 31 and her mother, Mary French, was 18. She married Francis Joseph Edgcumbe on 22 April 1858, in Deloraine, Tasmania, Australia. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 14 November 1927, in Wynyard, Tasmania, Australia, at the age of 90, and was buried in Wynyard, Tasmania, Australia.
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George Grey appointed Governor of South Australia.
Table Cape Post Office opened around 1856 and was renamed Wynyard in 1882.
End of transportation to Western Australia.
English and Scottish: from the vernacular pronunciation in Middle English and Older Scots of the personal name Michael . See Michelson .
English and Scottish: nickname for a big man, from Middle English michel, mechel, muchel ‘big’.
Irish (County Connacht): surname adopted as equivalent of Mulvihill .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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