Maria Lock
Aboriginal Australian landowner / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Maria Lock, also known as Maria Locke, (c. 1805[1] – 6 June 1878) was an Aboriginal Australian landowner in the Darug area of Western Sydney. Lock is significant in Australian history due to her educational achievements, having the first legally recognised marriage between a settler and an Aboriginal person, and later for being a landowner in early colonial times.
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Born | c. 1808 |
Died | 6 June 1878 Windsor, New South Wales, Australia |
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