Margaret Beale

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Arriving in Australia with her younger children, Beale joined her husband (and elder children) in Tasmania before moving to Melbourne. In Hobart Town she had advertised her services as an art teacher specialising in drawing.
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teacher, lived at Mount Mellick, Ireland, after her marriage to the Quaker Joseph Beale. With her younger children, she joined Joseph and their two eldest sons in Tasmania in 1856, arriving at Launceston in the Eagle on 13 February. The family soon moved from their farm at Illaroo, outside Launceston, to Hobart Town where Margaret set up a school at the Friends Meeting House (next door to their home), where she advertised in the Mercury of 11 June 1856, drawing was taught. In 1857 the family moved to Melbourne; her husband died there in June.

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1992
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2011

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References [<ExternalResource: Nicholls, M. (ed.) (1973), 'Traveller under Concern', Hobart, Tas.>, <ExternalResource: (1856), Hobart, Tas. : Mercury, 06-11.>]