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Mary Watson (folk hero)
Mary Watson (born 17 January 1860 – 1881), was an Australian folk heroine. She was 21 years old and had been married less than eighteen months when she died of thirst on No. 5 Island in the Howick Group off Cape Flattery in Far North Queensland, Australia, in 1881.〔 She, with her four-month-old baby, Ferrier, and a wounded Chinese workman, Ah Sam, had drifted for eight days and some forty miles in a cut-down ship's water tank, used for boiling sea slugs, after mainland Aborigines had attacked her absent husband's ''bêche de mer'' station on Lizard Island. Her diary describing their last days was found with their remains in 1882,〔 and Mrs Watson became an emblem of pioneer heroism for many Queenslanders.
==Early life==
Mary was born at Fiddler's Green outside St Newlyn East near Truro, Cornwall, England, on 17 January 1860,〔 the daughter of Mary Phillips and Thomas Oxnam, and migrated to Queensland with her family in 1877.〔 Having accepted a position as a governess with an hotelier's family, at eighteen Mary travelled from Maryborough to the isolated port of Cooktown, where she met and married bêche de mer fisherman Robert F. Watson in May 1880.
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