Mary Elizabeth Field

Mary Elizabeth Field
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1840 – 1923 83 years

Born 3 September 1840 in Narellan, New South WalesDied 1923, aged 83

Methodist - converted at twelve in a camp meeting on the Hunter River, and a lifelong member of the Methodist Church on the Manning.

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BirthResidence

1840s
Born 3 September 1840

Narellan, New South Wales, Australia

Born at the Cowpastures, in the Camden district - the old name for the country about Camden and Narellan, where her parents were living when her mother died two years later.

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Death of mother Sarah Jane Watson 9 September 1842 aged 2

Narellan, New South Wales, Australiaaged 28
1880s
Death of father John Field 10 June 1887 aged 46

St Leonards, New South Wales, Australiaaged 76
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Residence

Oxley Island, New South Wales, Australia

Oxley Island and Jones' Island on the Manning River: she came there from the Hunter with her parents when the island 'was then all wild bush', married there, and was still attending a Methodist class on Jones' Island as a young woman.

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Religion

Methodist - converted at twelve in a camp meeting on the Hunter River, and a lifelong member of the Methodist Church on the Manning.

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1920s
Died 1923 aged 83

Registered in the Taree district in 1923, NSW 18890/1923; her obituary followed in The Methodist on 5 January 1924. The historical index publishes the year only, so no day or month is known, and no place is recorded because a registration district is not a place of death.

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