Colonial Women in the ADB nominations
These women have been nominated for entries in the Australian Dictionary of Biography as part of its Colonial Women project
| Name | Birth surname | Birth | Death | Occupation |
Adams, Eliza | Powles | letters between Kate Weston nee Clarke and her friend Eliza Adams who left Tasmania for New Zealand in 1865; Home to Adams and Weston was always the small ‘h’ home of Tasmania. On arriving in Dunedin Eliza sent her letters ‘home’ | ||
| Adnum, Sarah | 1814 | 1878 | ironmonger | |
| Allport, Mary Morton | 1806 | 1895 | artist, naturalist | |
| Anderson, Cecilie | 1860 | ran boarding house; murderess | ||
| Anderson, Elizabeth | Bruce | c1816? | one of the first cases of mariticide in NSW (1816) | |
| Andrews, Louisa | Hall | 1849 | 1889 | notorious mother of 7 who murdered 2 husbands |
| Andrews, Katherine E. | 1915 | author | ||
| Anley, Charlotte | 1796 | 1893 | novelist, social and religious writer; Quaker | |
| Applewaite, Lucy | Langdon | 1833 | 1909 | hospital matron, public servant |
| Arbuckle, Sarah | 1834? | homemaker; farmer | ||
| Archer, Mary | Kearns | convict, settler | ||
| Aspinall, Clara | ? | ? | ? | writer |
| Austin, Honora | dressmaker | |||
| Bailey, Mary | Walker | 1792 | 1873 | opened a school for girls and boys; poet |
| Baker, Mary Ann | Bugg | 1834 | partner of bushranger Frederick Ward | |
| Balbuk, Fanny | 1840 | 1876 | ||
| Ball, Tabitha | 1919 | |||
| Ballomara, Mary Catherine | 1842 | 1851 | Aboriginal child | |
| Banks, Anastasia (Thornley | Banks | 1920s | 1906 | publican |
| Banks, Mary MacLeod | McConnell | 1914 | author | |
| Baptist De Lacy, Sister Mary John (Alicia) | De Lacy | 1799 | 1878 | pioneer religious sister; founded St Vincent's Hospital, Woolloomooloo |
| Barangaroo | Eora Aboriginal, powerful wife of Bennelong | |||
| Barkly, Lady Annie (Anne Maria) | Pratt | 1838 | second wife of Governor of Victoria; strong supporter of performing arts; lover of music and fundraiser | |
| Barkly, Lady Elizabeth Helen (Minnie) | Timins | 1820 | 1857 | wife of Governor of Victoria; socialite; painter; patroness of the theatre; philanthropist |
| Barling, Constance | 1889? | 1907? | ||
| Barlow, Nancy | Barlow | c1833 | arrived under FMCES; ran a successful school, Janefield | |
| Barnett, Ann | 1885 | workhouse girl | ||
| Barney, Elise | 1810 | 1883 | postmistress | |
| Barrington, Amy | c1858 | 1942 | school principal | |
| Bateman, Mary Ann | Benningfield | 1798 | 1866 | publican and land holder |
| Batman, Eliza (Thompson, later Sarah Willoughby) | Callaghan | 1802 | 1852 | convict who became wife of John Batman and co-ran his estates in both VDL and Vic |
| Baverstock, Florence | Blair | 1861 | 1937 | writer, journalist |
| Bawden, Elizabeth Ann | Hindmarsh | 1838 | 1896 | community worker, worked with Aborigines of mixed heritage |
| Baxter, Letitia | matron, Moreton Bay Female Factory | |||
| Baxter, Sarah (Waples) | Packer | 1770 | 1856 | publican |
| Bayly, Mary Frances (Hole) | Bayly | 1841 | 1888 | came out on FMCES scheme. governess to 6 children teaching German, French, Music, Latin and singing |
| Beatrice, Flora aka Mura Leigh? Letty H. Martin? | writer; short stories | |||
| Beattie, Mary Jane | Doak | c1837 | 1907 | milliner and dressmaker |
| Beer, Elizabeth | Offord | c1828 | 1899 | phrenologist |
| Beilby, Caroline Matilda (Becke) | Beilby | c1818 | 1894 | |
| Bell, Georgina | Ford | 1818 | 1919 | diarist |
| Benbow, Helen Lucy; aka Helen McNabb | Benbow | 1842 | author and playwright | |
| Bennett, Sarah | Ricketts | c1787 | 1860 | nurse & housekeeper |
| Bentley, Catherine | Sherwin | 1831 | 1906 | publican at Eureka |
| Benton, Susan | c1809 | 1830 | convict | |
| Berne, Georgina Dagmar | c1865 | 1900 | ||
| Berry, Eliza | 1842 | 1909 | author | |
| Berry, Harriet | Fry | 1821 | 1849 | |
| Berkley, Martha | 1813 | 1899 | see entry for Walker, Theresa | |
| Bigge, Esther | Salamon (Spencer) | c1775 | 1855 | baths proprietor – Boy Charlton Baths |
| Bignell, Margaret Annie | Blyth | 1853 | 1940 | pharmacist; activist |
| Binfield, Elinor (Archer) | Binfield | c1802 | 1876 | teacher |
| Bird, Sarah | Bird | 1763 | 1842 | publican; successful convict entrepreneur and publican |
| Blackwell, Anna ?? | Blackwell | 1816 | 1910 | journalist |
| Blitz, Julia | Myers | 1847 | 1923 | author |
| Bolton, Ann Jane | 1829 | 1906 | early graduate; artist | |
| Bon, Anne | ||||
| Boorong | aka Arabaroo | c1770s | 1820s | |
| Booth, Sarah Ann (Sarah Clarke) | c1821 | 1903 | wrote for young children | |
| Bourke, Anne (Thomson) | Bourke | diarist, hostess for governor father | ||
| Bowker, Betty | c1765 | 1870 | convict; cotton weaver | |
| Boyd, Hannah Villiers | 1807 | 1865 | author | |
| Bradshaw, Atlanta ('Attie') Hope | 1866 | 1929 | pioneer | |
| Brassey, Lady Sybil | de Vere Capell | 1858 | ||
| Brooks, Christiana | Passmore | 1835 | diarist | |
| Broughton, Sarah | 1848 | diarist | ||
| Brown, Eliza | Bussey | 1811 | 1896 | early settler, WA |
| Brown, Margaret Emily | Youngman | 1845 | 1907 | memoirist; governess |
| Brown, Susannah | Seymour | 1806 | 1883 | publican and property owner at Wagga Wagga |
| Browne, Mary Hirst (Alexander) | Browne | advocate of a national identity for Australian women | ||
| Bruford, Elizabeth, Effie and Martha | teachers and school founders | |||
| Buechele, Marlene | ? | ? | writer | |
| Bugg, Mary Ann | Brig | 1834 | 1905 | |
| Bunn, Anna Maria | Murray | 1808 | 1842 | novelist, settler, gardener |
| Burdoff, Bertha Marie | student | |||
| Burke, Biddy (Bridget) | 1831 | famine orphan; writer | ||
| Burn, Jacobina | Hunter | 1763 | 1851 | early Scottish settler |
| Bushelle, Elizabeth | Wallace | c 1819 | 1878 | prima donna and music teacher |
| Bussell, Capel | 1839 | 1924 | ||
| Bussell, Charlotte (Spicer) | 1803 | 1899 | early settler SW WA | |
| Bussell, Elizabeth (Bessie) (Ommaney) | Bussell | 1812 | ? | early settler SW WA; travelled 100 km on horseback |
| Butler, Anastasia (Hayes) | Butler | 1817 | 1892 | claimed she helped sew the Eureka flag; attended Peter Lalor when his arm was amputated; was a teacher at St Alipius |
| Byrne, Mother Mary Xavier | 1821 | 1906 | foundress of Mt Erin Convent, Wagga Wagga; first mother house of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (PBVM), established in 1876 | |
| Byrne, Sr M Xavier (Sarah) | Byrne | 1846 | 1881 | teacher; Mother Superior |
| Cadman, Elizabeth | Mortimer | c1895 | 1861 | convict; businesswoman, publican, baths proprietor and ferry owner |
| Caffyn, Kathleen ('Iota') | Hunter | 1853 | 1926 | writer |
| Cain, Mary Jane | Griffin | 1844 | 1929 | writer: Reminscences of Coonabaraban 1844-1926 |
| Caldwell, Annie (Mooney) | 1820 | 1890 | pioneer | |
| Cambell, Zora Mabel | ? | ? | novelist | |
| Cameron, Mary Ann | Beattie | 1899 | mother of Dame Mary Gilmore and John Alexander Cameron, inter alia, wife of Donald Cameron, journalist and social columnist in NSW and WA. | |
| Camfield, Anne | adopted Aboriginal girlBessy Cameron | |||
| Campbell, Clara Ellen | 1853 | 1904 | author | |
| Campbell, Marrianne "Minnie" Collison | Close | 1827 | 1903 | artist |
| Campbell, Sophia | Palmer | 1777 | 1833 | |
| Capel, Elizabeth "Bessie" | Bussell | 1812 | 1887 | youngest sister in Bussell family |
| Capps, Eliza Frances | Rice (Read) | c1814 | 1898 | matron, Immigration barracks and then long lived registry office |
| Carangarang | Eora fisherwoman, sister of Bennelong, fished with white fishermen on European boats by 1791 | |||
| Carleton, Caroline | Baynes | 1820 | 1874 | poet |
| Carmichael, Grace Elizabeth Jennings (Mullis) | Carmichael | 1867 | 1904 | nurse at Children's Hospital; author |
| Carr, Bridget (Biddy) (Slaven) | Carr | 1821 | 1891 | |
| Casey, Leonora Lucinda | Potter | 1834 | in 1861 petitioned Supreme Court for divorce from violent husband (cruelty and adultery); divorce granted | |
| Catford, Mary | Corr | c1852 | country teacher | |
| Caverhill, Jane Blackwood | Mack | writer: Reminiscences 1840s-1850s | ||
| Chads, Ellen Augusta | Morrison | 1837 | 1923 | writer, published 2 books and many short stories |
| Chambers, Elizabeth | ||||
| Chapman, Anne Hale | Wilson | 1830 | 1908 | writer |
| Charbonnet-Kellerman, Alice | 1858 | 1914 | concert pianist, composer and teacher; mother of Annette Kellerman and music teacher to Dame Nellie Melba when the latter was at PLC, Melbourne. | |
| Chester, Marian Maria | Crawford | c1810 | 1867 | singer and actor |
| Chomley, Eliza | A Beckett | 1843 | 1933 | memoirist |
| Christensen, Marie | acting matron on Stradbroke Island mission | |||
| Christiana Jane Brooks (Blomfield) | Passmore | 1802 | 1852 | working wife and mother; landowner |
| Clacy, Ellen | Norris | 1830 | 1901 | author |
| Clarke, Anna | Remans | c1807 | ? | theatrical entrepreneur |
| Clendinning, Martha | Holmes | 1853 | 1908 | shopkeeper; memoirist |
| Clerk, Nellie Sophia | Salmon | 1855 | 1907 | author |
| Cleveland, Charlotte | Barry | 1819 | 1884 | correspondent, artist |
| Clifton, Louisa (Eliot) | Clifton | 1814 | 1888 | artist and diarist; founding settler at Australind in WA |
| Clisby, Harriett | Clisby | 1830 | 1931 | journalist |
| Clouton, Kate | caught up in imposter scandal | |||
| Coates, Elizabeth | 1811 | ran established china business after death of husband | ||
| Cobham, Louisa | Huon | 1833 | 1854 | much publicised divorce case |
| Cobham, Mary | 1875 | involved in son's divorce case against daughter-in-law | ||
| Cockerill, Mary | ? | c1800 | 1818 | bushranger |
| Coghlan, Margaret | Galvin | 1862 | convict; killed husband; sentenced to death | |
| Cole, Eliza Frances | Jordan | 1911 | answered E. W. Cole’s ad in the newspaper for a wife; married in 1875 | |
| Collins, Ann (Morgan) | Collins | 1791 | 1885 | claimed to be first white baby born in Australian waters, off Sydney Heads |
| Collins, Louisa | 1849 | 1889 | poisoner and murderer; hanged in 1889 for murdering her husband in NSW | |
| Congreve, Emily | 1830 | 1896 | set up a school; author | |
| Conigrave, Sarah | Price | 1841 | author; intrepid adventurer | |
| Connolly, Olivia Mary | Knight | 1830 | 1908 | teacher; author |
| Cook, Sarah | Cook | 1839 | murdered with her daughter | |
| Cooke, Mary Ann (Nichola) | Sergeant | 1867 | school proprietor | |
| Cooksey, Catherine Brett and Sarah Moore | Cooksey | c1803/Sc1806 | C1885/S1886 | school proprietors |
| Corston, Harriet | Reid (Hibble) | c1843 | 1918 | dressmaker, boarding house keeper, hotel keeper |
| Countess of Hopetoun, Hersey | Eveleigh-De Moleyns | 1867 | shy and retiring Governor's wife | |
| Courtenay, Emma (Williams) | Courtenay | 1873 | c1895 | pregnant at 14; tried unsuccessfully to foster son out and then drowned him. |
| Cowell, Frances | Kelsey | c1834 | ran Sportsman's Inn with husband | |
| Cowl, Emily | Ferguson | c1844 | 1925 | author; wrote interesting depictions of the Aborigines from stereotypes to individualism and humanity; wrote of experiences on Australian frontier of settlement |
| Cox, Jane Maria | Brooks | 1806 | 1888 | |
| Cox, Martha Caldwell | Caldwell | 1854 | 1947 | pioneer, nurse, memoirist |
| Craddock, Jane | McCormick | co-ran a store with husband | ||
| Cribb, Fanny | Barnett | |||
| Cribb, Sophia (formerly Lett) | Brundell | c1827 | convict, successful businesswoman, publican, wife of Stafford Lett, had five children, then third wife of George Cribb (m. 1817), left him 1823, died 1827 | |
| Croaker, Charlotte Mary (Aaron) | Croaker | c1812 | 1882 | |
| Crozier, Jessie | Crozier | 1819 | 1877 | housewife; gave medical help to Aborigines |
| Currie, Jane Eliza | Wood | 1794 | ? | artist, naturalist |
| Dale, Mary Ann | ? | ? | publican and historian | |
| Daly, Harriet | Douglas | 1854 | 1927 | journalist |
| Daly, Mrs Dominic (Harriet W) | Douglas | 1854 | 1927 | author |
| Darcy, Eliza | Howard | 1835 | 1920 | housekeeper |
| Daringa | 1770 | 1795 | Eora Aboriginal; wife of Coleby who is in ADB | |
| Darling, Lady Elizabeth Iabella Caroline | Salter | supported theatre; charities; patron of Melbourne Lying-In Hospital | ||
| Davenport, Sarah | pioneer; author and digger | |||
| Davice, Hannah Maria (Clark) | Davice | 1796 | 1847 | teacher |
| Davidson, Harriet Miller | Miller | 1839 | 1883 | school principal, author |
| Davies, Eliza | Arbuckle/Ardbuckle | 1821 | 1888 | evangelist & schoolteacher |
| Davis, Annie | c1837 | governess teaching music, singing, French, German and drawing | ||
| Davis, Charlotte | Davis | 1827 | 1885 | pioneer, hotel manager, midwife |
| Davis, Elizabeth | Cadawaladyr/Davis | c1794 | author, nurse | |
| Davis, Jane ‘Desda’ | Price (Messier) | c1837 | 1890 | song lyricist writer, poet |
| Davis, Sophia Letitia | Jones | 1799 | 1850 | musician, singer and music teacher |
| Davitt, Ellen | Heseltine | 1812 | 1879 | teacher, novelist |
| Dawe, Ann (Hollingworth/Dawe) | King | ? | author | |
| Dawson, Isabella | ethnographer | |||
| Dawson, Jane (Davy) | Dawson | 1818 | property owner | |
| Dawson, Octavia | homemaker, farmer | |||
| Debney, Ellen Elizabeth | Turner | 1833 | 1870 | ran a private school, poet |
| de Falbe, Emmeline (Leslie) | Macarthur | 1828 | 1902 | writer |
| De lacy Evans, Edward | Ellen Tremaye | c1830? | 1901 | transgender person |
| de la Hoyde, Sister Mary Ignatia (Catherine) | de la Hoyde | 1804 | 1875 | first woman to make her religious rrofession in Australia |
| Deakin, Catherine (Kate) | Deakin | 1850 | 1937 | teacher and educator |
| Dearmer, Louisa | 1840 | 1870 | FMCES scheme; raised money for charity; teacher | |
| de Castilla, Mary Elizabeth | de Castilla | 1868 | 1899 | doctor |
| Dempsey, Mary Ann | ? | c1820 | 1917 | publican |
| Dempster, Jane | ? | sewing mistress | ||
| Dexter, Caroline Harper | Harper | 1819 | 1860 | feminist activist and businesswoman |
| D'Hotman, Mademoiselle Margaret | ? | refuge owner | ||
| Diamond, Anne | Keane | 1826 | 1885 | store owner |
| Dickinson, Evelyn | doctor; writer | |||
| Doak, Margaret | Kerr | c1798 | 1883 | milliner and dressmaker |
| Dobson, Emily | Lempriere | 1842 | 1934 | women activist |
| Docker, Sarah | c1803 | 1864 | diarist; pioneer Ovens River, Victoria | |
| Dornwell, Edith Emily (Raymond) | Dornwell | 1865 | 1965 | secondary school teacher |
| Dowling, Jane | c1819 | governess; member of Ladies Reception Committee | ||
| Dubost, Henrietta | Dubost | c1799 | 1869 | school proprietor |
| Dudemaine, Florentine | c1813 | 1891 | music and dance teacher; French speaker | |
| Duffield, Lydia Charlotte | 1829 | first woman mentioned in Perth Gazette to receive a land grant | ||
| Duke, Anne | Gaynor | 1838 | 1914 | helped to sew Eureka Flag |
| Dumaresq, Elizabeth Sophia (Sophy) | Butler-Danvers | aristocratic socialite | ||
| Duncan, Annie J | 1858 | ? | writer | |
| Dundas, Jane | Dundas | c1748 | 1805 | convict; later housekeeper to Governor Phillip; then Phillip Gidley King; |
| Dunkley, Lucretia | 1843 | she and her lover killed her husband | ||
| Dutruc, Louise Eulalie | ? | c1812 | 1891 | French teacher |
| Edgar, Lucy Anna | Edgar | 1838 | author | |
| Ellis, Ellen | lace transferrer | |||
| Ellis, Marie Kramer | 1853 | 1907 | popular soprano, founder of hospital in Newcastle and the RSPCA Sydney | |
| Emily Lacy, Alice Nicklin & Quetta Brown | C1873-1951, c1871-1951, c1888-1949 | survivors of the Quetta disaster in 1890. Lacy wrote an account of the voyage later in life. | ||
| Esden, Lydia | convict, caused inquiry into shipboard rape; publican | |||
| Evans, Ellen | McGarry | 1827 | ran grocery, then pub | |
| Ey, Anna Victoria | 1839 | 1917 | writer | |
| Fairfax, Mrs J (Sarah) Conigrave | Price | 1841 | 1940 | writer |
| Fallick, Annie Mercy | Gale | 1857 | 1905 | newspaper proprietor and compositor |
| Falls, Margaret | Flynn | 1830 | 1873 | newspaper proprietor |
| Fawkes, Mary | matron, Female Factory, Parramatta | |||
| Felton, Myra | Felton | 1835 | 1920 | photographic artist |
| Fennelly, Catherine | Brophy | |||
| Fenton, Elizabeth | Knox | c1804 | 1875 | writer of dramatic travel diary; New Norfolk pioneer |
| Finniss, Fanny Lipson (Morgan) | Finniss | 1836 | 1865 | daughter of first Premier of SA; first European girl born in SA |
| Fischer, Mrs Carl (Jane) Also known as Jenny | Edwards | 1834 | 1896 | journalist and school principal |
| Fitzgerald, Frances | Elmes | 1867 | 1919 | feminist; prolific author |
| Fletcher, Ada | 1927 | agricultural implement inventor | ||
| Fletcher, Eliza | Olsen | 1854 | 1877 | teacher |
| Flower, Mary Ann | school founder | |||
| Foley, Catherine | Huggins | proprietor of a theatrical troupe | ||
| Foote, Mary Ann | 1813 | 1920 | 19th Century centenarian | |
| Foott, Henrietta | Lumsden | 1822 | 1916 | painter and ran a school |
| Forster, Mrs | shopkeeper | |||
| Fotheringhame, Pattie | Lewis | 1852 | 1955 | first female journalist, writer |
| Freycinet, Rose de | Pinon | 1794 | 1832 | author, diarist |
| Friend, Mary Ann (Ford) | 1800 | 1838 | correspondent journal writer and artist | |
| Fulford, Margaret | Hindmarsh | 1848 | 1938 | pioneer |
| Fulloon, Elizabeth | d'azire ?Azaire? (Raine) (Speed) | 1780 | 1842 | matron of female factory |
| Gallagher, Kitty | ? | ex-convict drover; captain of the White Roys insurgents group | ||
| Gamble, Alfreda Hilda (Buchanan) | Gamble | 1871 | 1947 | one of two women to become the first in Australia to undertake a resident medical officer year at a general public hospital (Melbourne Hospital), despite Board's resistance |
| Gardner, Ada | 1864 | actor | ||
| Garland, Mary (Boyle) | Newland | 1929 | newspaper proprietor | |
| Gawler, Mrs George (Julia) | Russell | 1770 | c1845 | wife of Governor of SA; philanthropist |
| Gawler, Maria | Cox | 1796 | 1870 | established Sunday & Infants schools; active in charitable work |
| Geary, Honora (Nory) (Bagnall) | Geary | 1868 | convict; flax spinner | |
| Geoghehan, Louisa Agnes (Vaughan) | Geoghegan | c1843 | FMCES scheme; first governess to write about country life | |
| Gibbons, Mary Elizabeth | 1816 | 1853 | Mother Superior | |
| Gibson, Isabella | assisted migrant, needlewoman | |||
| Gilbert, Catherine formerly Hetherington | Duffy | 1838-9 | 1920 | migrated 1855, married Christopher Hetherington 1860 at Shellharbour NSW (dec. 1885), married 1892 at Lob’s Hole, NSW, John Melbourne Gilbert. Wife, housekeeper, post mistress. |
| Gilbert, Mary | Duff | 1815 | 1878 | wife of John Pascoe Fawkner’s blacksmith, James Gilbert, arrived Port Phillip 1835 and gave birth to the first child born among the settlers on the Yarra River, named John Melbourne Gilbert, in December 1835; died as a result of clothes catching fire, Talbingo, NSW. The family seems to have spent some time in the early 1870s at Young, NSW, where John’s younger brother William married. |
| Giles, Biddy | ? | ? | ferry owner on St Georges river | |
| Gill, Sarah | Jacobs | newspaper proprietor | ||
| Gillbee, Sarah | 1803 | 1882 | midwife | |
| Glasson, Hannah Truscott | Hawke | 1845 | writer | |
| Goldstein, Isabella | Hawkins | 1849 | 1916 | suffragist, temperance advocate and social reformer |
| Gooch, Gertrude | ||||
| Gore, Ann | Gore | pioneer governess FMCES | ||
| Grant, Agnes | c1840s | pupil-teacher/assistant | ||
| Gray, Elizabeth Anne "Bessie" | Graham | ? | ? | songwriter, amateur vocalist |
| Gray, Lucy Sarah | Waters | 1840 | 1879 | governess & journal writer |
| Gray, Maria Catherine (sister of Bessie) | c1827 | 1875 | songwriter, amateur vocalist | |
| Grayling, Jane | Luddon, Ludden | c1819 | 1894 | farmer |
| Green, Fanny | postmistress | |||
| Grayling, Sarah Ann | publican | |||
| Green, Mary (Davis) | Green | 1835 | 1893 | |
| Greenway, Mary | Moore | 1832 | school owner; school teacher | |
| Grossman, Jeanette | school teacher | |||
| Guerin, Theodosia | Yates (Stewart) | c1815 | 1904 | actor |
| Gullett, Lucinda | 1900 | journalist, philanthropist | ||
| Gurney, Louisa Jane | Gurney | 1852 | 1937 | founder of Kambala school with Mademoiselle Soubeiran |
| Hall, Elizabeth | school teacher | |||
| Hall, Louisa (Andrews) | Hall | c1859 | 1889 | poisoned two husbands |
| Ham, Alice (Mary Alice Ham) ('Hafra') | 1854 | 1928 | teacher and author | |
| Hamilton, Clara | Scottish singer | |||
| Hamilton, Jane | Brown | c1827 | school principal | |
| Hamilton, Lady (Teresa Felicia) | Reynolds | 1852 | 1932 | translater; founded Hamilton Literary Society |
| Hamilton, Octavia | ? | ? | singer, entertainer | |
| Handcock, Jane (Thorn) | Handcock | 1820 | 1883 | |
| Hanmer, Sarah | McCullough | 1821 | 1867 | actor |
| Harding, Lucy (Hogan) | Harding | c1811 | dressmaker | |
| Hardwicke, Elizabeth | Doig | c1836 | 1901 | novelist and poet |
| Hassell, Ethel | Clifton | 1857 | 1933 | anthropologist |
| Haviland, E.S. (Ellen Sydney) | Bridson | 1858 | ? | author |
| Hawkins, Elizabeth | C1784 | 1875 | first family of free settlers to cross Blue Mts, Bathurst pioneer | |
| Hay, Agnes Gosse | Gosse | 1838 | 1909 | writer (Afterglow memories 1905) |
| Hayes, Anastasia (Butler) | Hayes | 1818 | 1892 | teacher |
| Hayes, Elizabeth | Baker | business owner | ||
| Heawood, Caroline Maria (Löfven) | Heawood | C1841 | assisted with FMCES | |
| Hegerty, Margaret | servant | |||
| Henry, Juliet | 1898 | wife of artist Lucien Henry, an ADB entry in which Juliette is briefly mentioned. But Juliette had led an adventurous life prior to arriving in Sydney in 1874. | ||
| Henrys, Catherine (Jemmy the Rover) | 1805 | 1855 | convict | |
| Hensley, Emily | school proprietor | |||
| Henty, Evelyn A (Starkey) | Henty | 1863 | ? | author |
| Henty, Jane (Mrs Stephen George) | 1817 | author | ||
| Higgs, Lucy | school principal | |||
| Hill, Fidelia Savage Thornton Hill | Monkhouse | 1790 | 1854 | poet |
| Hill, Rosamund & Florence | philanthropists | |||
| Hiller, Christiane | Petschel | 1840 | ? | writer |
| Hinckesman, Maria Theresa | c1803 | 1853 | pianist, singer, composer | |
| Hindmarsh, Mary (Milner) | Hindmarsh | 1817 | 1887 | artist, draughtswoman, painter |
| Ho Ah Mei, Sarah | Foster | 1844 | possibly the only 19th century woman to have divorced two husbands; milliner | |
| Hodge, Eliza Baldwin | Baldwin | 1860 | 1949 | author |
| Hoffmann, Pauline | 1837 | 1917 | wrote 'Memoirs' | |
| Holmes, Susannah (Kable) | 1755 | 1825 | convict pioneer | |
| Hordern, Ann | Woodhead | c1791 | 1871 | co-established Mrs Hordern's Haberdashery, NSW |
| Hoskins, Rachel | Cryer | established a seminary | ||
| Hoskins, Sarah | c1819 | established a seminary with her step-mother Rachel | ||
| Hoskisson, Sarah | Prigg | 1772 | 1827 | |
| Hotham, Jane Lady | Hood | c1817 | Governor's wife | |
| Hudspeth, Lucy | 1865 | author | ||
| Humphreys, Eliza Margaret | 1860 | 1938 | author | |
| Hurford, Bridget (Larkin) | first woman to be hanged in WA | |||
| Hutchinson, Mary | 1810 | 1880 | factory matron | |
| Hyland, Inez K | Hyland | 1863 | 1892 | author |
| Hynes, Bridget | Nolan | 1831 | 1910 | housekeeper |
| Innett, Ann (later Robinson) | 1757 | 1820 | ||
| Ireland, Ellen | 1838 | 1888 | governess and letter writer | |
| Jadis, Edith (Lautour) | Jadis | 1843 | ? | FMCES scheme; governess |
| Jenkins, Jemima | Pitt (Forrest) | 1783 | 1842 | landowner |
| Jenvey, Mary | teacher | |||
| Jervois, Lady Lucy | Norsworthy | founded aYoung Women's Institute; active incharity work | ||
| Johnson, Mary | ||||
| Johnston, Margaret | Howden | 1833 | 1888 | Ballarat camper; kept diary |
| Jones, Ann | Kennedy | 1833 | publican of Glenrowan Inn | |
| Jones, Mary Ann (Lynch) | 1818 | 1876 | improved quality of lives for self and children | |
| Jones, Mrs D G | 1880 | newspaper proprietor | ||
| Joojeebal/Doodyeep | Balbuk's mother Noongar woman in early colony | |||
| Judson, Jane Priscilla (Aikenhead) | Judson | 1814 | 1890 | |
| Kelly, Isabella Mary | 1809 | 1897 | grazier | |
| Kelly/Byrne Magaret/Mary | Kelly | |||
| Kennedy, Mary | ? | ? | ||
| Kerr, Rebecca | Kerr | 1816 | 1884 | milliner and dressmaker |
| King, Agnes | matron/superintendent | |||
| King, Betty | 1768 | 1858 | landowner | |
| Kirkham, Elizabeth Pennington ('Kyra Keith' | Bayly | 1853 | 1901 | author |
| Kong Meng, Annie | socialite | |||
| Kreusler, Marrianne | Reuter | 1811 | 1892 | entomologist |
| Kundaibark | healer of Biripi People | |||
| Kurubarabulu | Botany woman, became well-known to settlers; wife of Bennelong; later wife of Caruey; later abducted by Collinjong | |||
| La Trobe, Sophie | Montmollin | 1810 | 1854 | governor's wife |
| Lackey, Margaret (Reardon) | Lackey | 1818 | 1890 | |
| Lambert, Kathleen ('Lyth') | c1830 | c1900 | writer; governess in Sydney and Hunter Valey | |
| Lady Elizabeth Loch (Lizzie, Lizey) | Villiers | 1841 | idolised as Governor of Victoria's wife; patron of music and arts; philanthropist; believer in equal rights | |
| Le Patourel, Isabelle Sarah Tempest | Durham | 1856 | 1933 | journalist |
| Leakey, Caroline Woolmer ('Oline Keese') | 1827 | 1881 | ||
| Leathem, Marion | Large | 1842 | 1919 | newspaper proprietor |
| Lee, Emma ‘Madame’ | Cooke | ? | ? | theatrical entrepreneur |
| Lee, Madame Zinga | tightrope walker, dancer and clairvoyant | |||
| Lee, Sarah | Wallis | 1791 | 1856 | author |
| Levy, Julia | Solomon | 1826 | 1914 | benefactor, community worker |
| Lewin, Frances Sescadorowna Susannah (Somerville) aka Sesca Somerville | Lewin | 1861 | 1946 | author |
| Lewin, Jane | key member of the FMCES (Female Emigration Class Society) | |||
| Lewis, Rosa (aka Rosa Dunn) | c1840 | 1920 | leading Shakespearean actor; wrote a novel | |
| Liston, Ellen | Liston | 1838 | 1885 | writer, governess, horserider, bushwoman |
| Little, Mary Ann | Little | ? | 1877 | tailoress |
| Lockett, Jeannie | Beattie | 1890 | 1847 | teacher, author |
| Logan, Letitia | O'Beirne | commandant's wife | ||
| Logan, Maria | 1808 | 1886 | pianist and music teacher | |
| Lord, Mary | Hyde | 1770 | 1864 | convict, businesswoman, married emancipist trader Simeon Lord – probably ran his businesses with him – continued to manage them after his death, one of the wealthiest people in the colony |
| Lowe, Annie | 1834 | 1910 | ||
| Lucas, Mary Ann | Branfoot | c1826 | 1900 | community worker, matron |
| Luddon, Jane (Grayling) | c1819 | 1894 | nurserymaid | |
| Lungley, Edith Amelia | 1876 | 1939 | stain glass designer; went onto fame in London | |
| McCann Annie M.D. | 1838 | 1924 | poet | |
| Macarthur-Onslow, Elizabeth | Macarthur | 1840 | 1911 | property owner |
| McConnel, Mary | Macleod | 1824 | 1910 | author; Presbyterian Calvinist |
| MacDonagh, Dora (Honora McMahon) | MacDonagh | 1869 | 1908 | assisted immigrant; milliner |
| Macdonald, Josephine Venables Liardet | 1830 | 1929 | only in Australia for 10 years but opened a servant's registry office in St Kilda in 1859 when Mrs Venables then moved to New Zealand in 1864 | |
| Macfaull, Elizabeth | newspaper proprietor | |||
| MacFaull, Mrs | Government Printer | |||
| MacGregor, Janie | author and pioneer | |||
| Mackay, Mary | c1844 | 1920 | teacher | |
| Macleay, Fanny (Frances Leonora) (Harington) | Macleay | 1793 | 1896 | charity organiser; botanical artist and naturalist |
| Macnamara, Ritta | Moniz | 1835 | 1925 | butcher |
| Macpherson, Mrs Allan (Emma) | Blake | 1833 | 1915 | writer |
| MacPherson, Rachel V. | home economics lecturer | |||
| Macro, Sarah (Bunce) | Macro | |||
| Magarey, Edith May | 1865 | 1896 | author | |
| Mahony, Eliza Sarah | Reid | 1824 | 1914 | author |
| Maiden, Jane | Davis | 1815 | 1891 | convict, married James Maiden, convict, pastoralist (Maiden’s Punt, now Moama, NSW) |
| Majeroni, Guilia | Tessero | 1848 | 1903 | formed theatre company with husband; novelist |
| Mallett, Caroline (Cara) (Mrs TW Edgeworth David) | Mallett | 1856 | at age 26 appointed as new principal of Hurlstone Training College, Sydney | |
| Manners-Sutton, Lady Georgiana (Viscontess Canterbury) | Tompson | 1818 | governor of Victoria's wife | |
| Marbron, Myra | ? | ? | compiled an anthology of Aust. Poets | |
| Marchioness of Normanby, Laura | Russell | 1817 | governor of Victoria's wife; an invalid with a heart condition | |
| Marr, Elizabeth | Needham | 1762 | 1825 | first fleeter. Had the patronage of the Macarthurs |
| Marsden, Eliza/Elizabeth | Fristan | 1773 | ? | |
| Marsden, Mary | matron on convict ship | |||
| Marsh, Rosetta (Rosata) | Terry, Marsh or Madden, née Pracey | 1858 | innkeeper | |
| Massy, Annie Christie | Scott | 1864 | 1900 | boarding school proprietor and newspaper owner |
| Masters, Sarah | 1859 | guilty of infanticide | ||
| Mathew, Sarah | Mathew | c1805 | 1890 | governess |
| Mathinna (Mary) | 1835 | 1852 | adopted by Governor Franklin and wife | |
| Matora | wife of Bungaree; lived around Kirribilli on the North Shore; buried at Rose Bay | |||
| Maule, Rachael (Barham) | Maule | c1814 | 1892 | property owner |
| May, Elizabeth | 1867 | entrepreneur, draper | ||
| McCabe, Eleanore | 1793 | |||
| McCauley, Mary | supervisor, Gaol Hill Female Factory | |||
| McConnel, Mary | Macleod | 1830 | 1910 | pioneer, socialite and philanthropist |
| McDonald, Mary | c1748 | convict, chequered life as settler, Field of Mars, efforts to get daughter to join her | ||
| Macdonnell, Lady Blanche Anne | Skurray | wife of Governor of SA. | ||
| McEwin, Agnes | 1858 | 1942 | author | |
| McGregor, Sarah | convict | |||
| McKell, Katherine | 1851 | writer | ||
| McLauchlan, Mary | 1830 | convict | ||
| Macleay, Fanny (Frances Leonora) (Harington) | Macleay | 1793 | 1836 | writer and artist; philanthropist |
| McManus, Mary A | author; proud Queenslander | |||
| McMaugh, Mary (Vaughan) | McMaugh | 1820s? | pioneer, author, ran property after husband's death | |
| McNaughton, Catharine Annie | Nottage | 1850 | 1925 | poet |
| MacPherson, Mrs Allan (Emma) | c1817 | 1861 | journal writer, pioneer Minnamurra NSW | |
| Merchant, Bridget | Meaney | ? | 1902 | |
| Merson, Mary Jane | Row | c1827-8 | 1904 | wrote temperance tales |
| Mickle, Margaret | Lyall | c1830 | 1900 | writer |
| Miller, Maggie L | 1876 | 1917 | author | |
| Miller, Margaret and Catherine | teachers | |||
| Millett, Mrs Edward | artist, draughtswoman, painter, writer | |||
| Millington, Martha | 1843 | convict,; servant | ||
| Mills, Ethel | ? | ? | writer of short stories; contributor to the Bulletin | |
| Minogue, Mrs Catherine | ? | publican | ||
| Mitchell, Sarah | Mitchell | c1811 | ? | midwife and boarding house keeper |
| Molesworthy, Henrietta | 1823 | petitioned for judicial separation on grounds of cruelty (1864) | ||
| Monk, Mary Pittman | emigrant ship matron | |||
| Montefiore, Caroline Levi | 1856 | 1932 | short fiction writer | |
| Mooney, Mary | Mooney | 1843 | 1894 | businesswoman |
| Moore, Flora Macdonald | Harris | 1832 | 1910 | actor |
| Moore, Margaret | Moore | c1811 | 1879 | school teacher |
| Morgan, Laura | first female doctor to practice in Victoria | |||
| Moriarty, Mary | c1834 | affluent landowners | ||
| Murray, Lady (Agnes) | Edwards | school principal (Springfield College) | ||
| Murphy, Agnes G | 1865 | 1931 | writer | |
| Murray, Elizabeth Alicia | Poitier | 1820 | 1877 | novelist |
| Murray, Mrs D'Arcy Wentworth Latahrop | author | |||
| Musgrave, Sarah | White | 1830 | 1915 | writer |
| Muspratt, Eliza | Lorriman | 1818 | 1869 | bookseller |
| Nagelle, Cécile | FMCES; correspondent; taught in private school in Angaston | |||
| Neale, Agnes (Caroline Agnes) | Leane | 1849 | 1892 | author |
| Neale, Mary Ann | midwife | |||
| Needle, Martha | Charles | 1863 | 1894 | mass murderer |
| New, Jane | ||||
| Ngilgie | c1840 | 1910 | Aboriginal woman, worked with the Bussells | |
| Nichols, Rosanna Julian | Abrahams | 1787 | 1837 | high society, Sydney |
| Nicol, Janet | Nicol | 1822 | 1903 | pioneer |
| Nihel, Mary Dymphana (Cudmore) | Nihel | c1811 | 1893 | |
| Nihill, Sarah Jane | 1826 | 1915 | writer | |
| Nixon, Charlotte | milliner | |||
| Nixon, Jane | 1816 | servant; later established a flourmill | ||
| Norris, Theresa | Cottrill (Burridge) | c1817 | 1878 | shopkeeper, ginger beer manufacturer |
| Norton, Mary Charlotte | Berry | 1844 | 1918 | |
| O'Brien, Ellen | c1815 | 1887 | dairywoman | |
| O'Connor, Elizabeth | Boyle | 1838 | school teacher | |
| O'Connor, Janet | Dods | 1827 | 1895 | school principal |
| O'Doherty, Mary Eva | Kelly | 1829 | 1910 | poet and balladist |
| O'Donohue, Margaret | c1850 | domestic servant and prostitute; murderess; given 21 years and served 14. | ||
| O'Gorman, Edith (Mrs Auffray) | 1842 | 1919 | American ‘escaped nun’; toured New Zealand and Australia 1886-7, causing considerable uproar and filling a great deal of newsprint. A precursor to the ‘escaped nun’ of our own, Brigid Partridge (Sister Ligouri), who is in the ADB | |
| O'Leary, Elizabeth (Sloman) | O'Leary | child maid, worked at Female Factory; turnkey | ||
| O'Neill, Augusta (Evangelina Augusta) | Grey | c1846 | c1936 | author |
| Palmer, Emma | Outtrim | c1834 | 1918 | publican, Temperance, mayor’s wife, president of womanhood suffrage league |
| Palmer-Archer, Laura Maude | O'Ferrall | 1864 | 1929 | Writer |
| Parker, Mrs Henry H | McIntyre | 1840 | Author | |
| Parkes, Menie (Clarinda) | 1839 | 1915 | School proprietor; poet | |
| Parry, Isabella | Stanley | c1800 | 1839 | Letter writer, Port Stephens settler |
| Paten, Catherine Ann | Pain | 1826 | 1871 | belt stitcher |
| Paterson, Alice F (wrote as Solus) | Gome | 1849 | Author | |
| Paterson, Elizabeth | c1760 | 1825 | a founder and worker for Orphan Institute, Sydney | |
| Paty, Dorothy English | 1805 | 1836 | natural history painter of some renown; lived in Newcastle NSW | |
| Patyegarang | Eora Aboriginal, taught Aboriginal customs and language to Lieutenant William Dawes (who is in ADB) | |||
| Pawsey, Marianne | Cavell (Watson) | c1807 | 1897 | servants registry office |
| Payne, Polly | 1854 | nntrepreneur; dressmaker | ||
| Pearce, Margaret | Potbury | c1833 | 1922 | dressmaker, schoolteacher, |
| Pears, Martha | Nankivell | matron | ||
| Pearson, Edith Lucille (E.L.P.) | Butler | 1852 | 1892 | children's fiction writer |
| Penfold, Mary | Holt | 1820 | 1896 | vigneron & winemaker. Unacknowledged role in establishing and co-owning internationally famous Penfolds Winery at Magill in South Australia |
| Perry, Sarah Susannah | Hollett | 1827 | 1856 | poet |
| Peter, Mary | Bent | 1811 | 1884 | early settler of Wagga Wagga, widowed at 24 (1835) when first husband died, ‘although illiterate and uneducated, she had a great knowledge and understanding about stock, and her male employees deferred to her opinion’; re-married John Peter 1837 |
| Peterson, Mary Louisa Ann | McRoberts | 1847 | 1918 | author |
| Phillips, Ada | Crawcour | 1863 | 1964 | founder of Reform Judaism in Australia |
| Phillips/Beck, Elizabeth | Goodenough | c1814 | 1858 | publican |
| Pike, Tabitha | school principal | |||
| Piper, Mathilde | 1826 | 1905 | ||
| Piper, Mary Anne | Shears | |||
| Pitt, Mary | 1743 | 1815 | ||
| Ponder, Josephine 'Madame' | ? (Durand) | ? | 1872 | milliner |
| Popham, Eliza (Cranston) | Popham | c1818 | publican | |
| Porter, Mrs G R (Sarah) | Ricardo | 1791 | 1862 | author |
| Potbury, Margaret (Pearce) | Potbury | 1833 | 1922 | milliner; memoirist |
| Praed, Rosa Caroline | 1851 | 1935 | Australian-born writer | |
| Prendergast, Mary Ann (McCoy) | Prendergast | 1839 | 1917 | |
| Priddy, Elizabeth (Henley) | Priddy | governess; head nurse at orphan school; staymaker | ||
| Prince, Eliza Isabella (Cowper) | Prince | c1814 | 1880 | governess; married surgeon Henry Cowper, Qld's first medical practitioner |
| Prinsep, Elisabeth | Acworth | 1804 | 1885 | early settler and writer |
| Punshon, Mary | 1898 | shopowner | ||
| Purcell, Frances | Lepherd | 1862 | 1935 | writer |
| Putland, Mary | Bligh | governor father’s hostess, unconventional | ||
| Ramsay-Laye, Elizabeth | Ramsay | 1832 | 1932 | wrote of social life in Australia |
| Randall, Eliza Drake | Wickes | 1821 | 1902 | author; memoirist |
| Ranken, Janet | Hutchinson | c1796 | 1883 | traveller over Blue Mts; Bathurst pioneer |
| Read, Eliza | Hoskins | 1824 | 1905 | dancing teacher |
| Remans, Anne Theresa (Clarke) | Remans | actor, singer | ||
| Richardson, Mary | Bailey | postmistress | ||
| Richmond, Lily | c1863 | 1899 | novelist | |
| Riddell, Mary Ann Sibella | Stephen | 1826 | 1890 | author |
| Robson, Mary Ann | Rossiter | 1821 | 1903 | milliner and dressmaker |
| Roland, Sarah Anne Charlotte Amy | Phillips | ? | ? | children's fiction writer |
| Rose, Sarah Ann (Pearson & Bruce) | Rose | 1852 | convicted laundress; landowner | |
| Rose-Soley, Agnes ('Rose de Boheme) | 1847 | writer | ||
| Rosman, Aice Matilda Bowyer | Varley | 1857 | 1931 | author |
| Rowe, Elizabeth | Stretch | established Brookside Reformatory | ||
| Rowlands, Elizabeth | 1827 | 1914 | writer | |
| Rudelhoff, Dinah (Murray) | Rudelhoff | actor; theatre manager | ||
| Rumsby, Anne | 1802 | 1850 | convict, settler | |
| Ruse, Elizabeth | Parry/Perry | 1766 | 1836 | convict, first female farmer |
| Russell, Frances Emily | Robey | 1846 | 1899 | author |
| Ruttle, Jane (Dowling) | 1816 | |||
| Ryan, Ellen | c1851 | 1920 | publican and entrepreneur | |
| Rye, Maria | 1829 | 1903 | social reformer | |
| Sanders, Jane | c1830 | pioneer Quaker woman; memoirist | ||
| Scahill, Winifred (Hallam) | c1818 | 1901 | landowner | |
| Scarlett, Margaret (Tart) | Scarlett | 1865 | 1916 | school teacher |
| Scott, Elizabeth | ? | c1840 | 1863 | publican |
| Scott, Hannah (Bloomfield) | laundress; teacher at orphan school | |||
| Scott, Harriet | 1830 | 1907 | foremost natural science painter in NSW | |
| Scott, Helena | Calcott | 1832 | see sister Harriet's entry | |
| Scott, Maria ('Mist') | ? | 1899 | ||
| Selby, Penelope | Earles | 1811 | 1852 | correspondent |
| Sellers, Maud | school principal | |||
| Sempill, Susanna L | 1853 | 1919 | poet | |
| Seymour, Mary (Dean) | Seymour | 1876 | sensational 'Dean' case in the 1890s | |
| Share, Jane | Berry | ? | 1876 | |
| Sharp, Lily Louisa/Lili King/Madame Rafalewski/ ‘Australian Nightingale’ | Sharp | 1876 | 1964 | perhaps just out of period? Prize winning singer of 1890s, toured within Australia; she then toured world with musician husband in first decade of twentieth century. |
| Shaw, Elizabeth | Cooper | 1794 | 1897 | early settler and pastoralist |
| Shelly, Margaret | c1819 | 1895 | marriage witness | |
| Shenton, Mercy | Heal | newspaper proprietor | ||
| Shurwell, Sarah (Payne) | Shurwell | 1796 | 1840 | convict, nurse, publican |
| Short, Harriet | Williams | imprisoned for infanticide of illegitimate child | ||
| Short, Millicent (or Millecent) Clara | Phillips | 1803 | 1900 | wife of Bishop of Adelaide |
| Sibley, Marie 'Madame' | Element (O'Connor) | 1894 | phrenologist | |
| Silvester, Eliza (Tegg) | Silvester | 1811 | nursemaid, shopwoman | |
| Sims, Mary Anne; Jane Doyle; Charlotte Johnson | Coss | |||
| Smallshaw, Mary | 1794 | 1830 | Welsh silk throwster | |
| Smithard, Ellen | Morrisey | c1828 | ||
| Smith, Mary Theresa ‘Polly’ Roberts | Smith | 1843 | 1924 | publican with extras |
| Snowden, Mildred (Demaine) | Snowden | 1860 | writer | |
| Sohier, Ellen 'Madame' | Williams | 1871 | waxworks | |
| Spencer, Mary Anna (later McManus) | 1844 | 1933 | pioneer; hard and lonely life on a remote Queensland property; memoirist | |
| Spicer, Charlotte | Bussell | 1803 | 1887 | correspondent, property manager |
| St Remy Madame de | ? | ? | ? | midwife and lecturer |
| Stanger, Sophia | ? | ? | correspondent | |
| Staniforth, Amy Susannah | c1790 | 1868 | quilter and poet | |
| Staude, Mrs Thekla | Polish pioneer | |||
| Stanley, Charlotte Tilney ('Effie') | 1836 | 1894 | writer | |
| Stanley, Eliza | Clayton | 1811 | 1901 | correspondent |
| Stanley, Effie (Charlotte) | Tilney | 1836 | 1894 | set up 'Young Ladies' Seminary' with her sister; Sunday school teacher; novelist |
| Stark, Mary Helena | c1850 | 1891 | teacher | |
| Stawell, Mary Frances Elizabeth | Greene | 1830 | 1921 | writer |
| Stephan, Johanna Wilhelme | Labudda | 1863 | 1926 | midwife - had 22 children |
| Stirling, Amie Livingstone | 1880 | 1945 | writer: Memories of an Australian Childhood 1880-1900 | |
| Stone, Eugenia | author | |||
| Storrie, Agnes Louisa (Kettlewell) | Storrie | 1864 | 1936 | author, columnist and diarist |
| Strobo, Charity (Cherry Begley) also Gillett | Begley | c1805 | 1850 | matron; straw-bonnet maker |
| Styles, Emma | Styles | 1844 | 1886 | librarian, poet |
| Sullivan, Mary | c1829 | 1852 | child killer | |
| Sullivan, Mary Matilda | 1839 | 1895 | school mistress/owner of Burradoo Park school for young ladies; widow of the late Captain Sullivan, of Burradoo Park | |
| Swaine, Harriett (Cowper) | c1808 | 1869 | governess | |
| Sykes, Myra | Wilcock | convict | ||
| Sylvester, Mary | ? | c1788 | 1862 | salt manufacturer |
| Synnot, Barbara Argentina | Todd | 1866 | 1958 | author |
| Synnot, Jane | Synnot | 1822 | 1912 | matriarch, Victorian Western District |
| Taafe, Bridget | ? | ? | working woman | |
| Tait, Katie and Mary Brady | school proprietors | |||
| Talbot, Thorpe (Frances Ellen Ward) | Talbot | 1850 | 1923 | author |
| Tapp, Jane | c1813 | housemaid | ||
| Tanner, Mrs Hester Hannah | Viveash | 1801 | 1846 | Top of social hierarchy |
| Taplin, Louise | 1855 | 1901 | matron of Infants Home, Ashfield (Sydney),1886-1901 | |
| Taylor, Elizabeth | abortionist accused of murdering many woman | |||
| Taylor, Maria Maudelina | Hill | c1814 | 1841 | vocalist and actor |
| Templeman, Janet | 1786 | 1857 | grazier | |
| Terry, Rosetta | Pracey | 1770 | 1858 | businesswoman, property owner, publican |
| Thomas, Mary | Harris | 1787 | 1875 | diarist, poet |
| Thompson, Barbara | Crawford | c1831 | ||
| Thompson, Isola Florence | 1861 | 1915 | teacher | |
| Thompson-Hooper, Cecilia (Davis) | Thompson-Hooper | c1819 | 1905 | schoolmistress |
| Thomson, Ellen (Wood) | Lynch | 1846 | 1887 | adulterer and murderess |
| Thomson, Mirian Mary | Noake | 1830 | 1842 | poet |
| Thorpe, Mary | Thorpe | 1828 | domestic servant; wife of first Chinese to be married in the colony in 1847 | |
| Thorne, Elizabeth Anne | Bisdee | 1821 | 1910 | writer |
| Thornton, Sarah | ? | 1827 | convict shopkeeper, homemaker | |
| Thrower, Mrs W I (Mary Anne Theresa) | Kean | c1841 | 1901 | novelist |
| Tickner, Georgina Maria (Bones) | Tickner | 1848 | 1919 | writer |
| Tighe, Eliza Cordelia (Hyde) | c1891 | appointed matron on ship | ||
| Timmins, Emily | Timmins | 1854 | 1919 | |
| Tisdall, Lucy | Weekes | teacher | ||
| Toomey, Maria (Bent) | Toomey | c1820 | 1890 | |
| Tranmer, Ellie (Ellen Eliza) | Cowgill | c1860 | writer and school teacher | |
| Tremaye, Ellen (Edward de Lacy Evans) | ||||
| Tripp, Elizabeth (Leigh) | Leigh | 1809 | teacher | |
| Tuck, Mrs | ? | ? | correspondent | |
| Turner, Lilian | Burwell | 1867 | 1956 | author; interested in women's rights |
| Twynam, Emily | Bolton | 1845 | 1910 | woodcarving, tapestry and sketching, botanical drawing |
| Tyler, Mary Ann | Brooksbank | 1840 | 1914 | writer |
| Venables, Josephine | Liardet | 1830 | ran a female servants' registry office; dressmaker | |
| Vidal, Mary Theresa | Johnson | 1815 | 1873 | writer |
| Vieusseux, Julie | Matthieu | 1820 | school proprietor; portrait painter | |
| Viveash, Ellen Martha | ? | 1909 | medical, nursing care for family | |
| Vosper, Laura | Woodward | ? | ? | music teacher, singer, pianist |
| Walker, Sarah Benson | Mather | 1812 | 1893 | writer |
| Walker, Theresa | 1807 | 1876 | artist | |
| Wallace, Elizabeth (Bushell) | Wallace | 1820 | 1878 | actor |
| Wallace, Matilda Elliot | Hill | 1838 | 1898 | pioneer woman, memoirist; wrote booklet Twelve Years Life in Australia (1859-1871) |
| Walsh, Ann (Smith) | 1839 | drunkard, in violent relationship; murdered husband; adept at producing witnesses although undefended at trial; sent to Moreton Bay Penal Settlement and died there. | ||
| Walsh, Eliza (Smith | Walsh | C1889 | farmer; fought for right of a woman to own land | |
| Walsh, Sister Mary de Sales | 1866 | 1892 | died 1892 of consumption at the age of 26, after her two brothers, Fathers Dennis and Andrew Walsh, had died of the same disease. Educated at Rathfarnham Convent, Dublin, she came to Australia and spent more than six years at Mt Erin. | |
| Walshe, Bridget (Bee) | Walshe | 1855 | 1901 | activist in Irish causes; fund raiser for vulnerable communities |
| Waples, Sarah | Baxter (Packer) | c1869 | 1859 | publican, shopkeeper, boarding house keeper |
| Ward, Eliza | young apprentice | |||
| Warraweer | sister of Bennelong, wife of Gnunga-gnunga (Collins), gave birth in Sydney assisted by Aboriginal and white women; friend of David Collins | |||
| Waterhouse, Jessie Mabel; aka Jessie Mabel Smythe | Laurie | 1851 | 1928 | author |
| Watson, Annie Fraser | teacher | |||
| Watson, Mrs | pioneer | |||
| Watson, Susannah | Bidy | 1794 | 1877 | stoleto feed family; in gaol, in more trouble and transported |
| Watts, Jane Isabella | Giles | 1824 | 1894 | author |
| Way, Emily | Boston | c1840 | 1898 | milliner dressmaker and draper |
| Webb, Sarah | Webb | c1821 | FMCES Governess; ran a school for children in Bendigo | |
| Weekes, Clara | pupil-teacher | |||
| Weekes, Cora Anna | ? | ? | ? | conwoman |
| Weedons, Harriet | saleswoman | |||
| Welch, Sarah Ellen | 1851 | 1914 | wrote religious and moral fiction and novellas. | |
| Wells, Louisa Clarke | Elrington | 1845 | ? | dressmaker, prostitute |
| Wentworth, Sarah | Cox | 1806 | 1880 | chatelaine of Vaucluse House |
| Westgarth, Sophia Esther (Heussler) | Westgarth | c1835 | 1900 | autobiographer |
| White, Amelia | ||||
| White, Frances | White | c1812? | 1869 | boarding house keeper |
| White, Margaret | c1829 | 1894 | housewife and needlewoman | |
| Whitfield, Caroline | teacher | |||
| Whitfield, Eleanor (Madeline)(Wood) | Whitfield | teacher | ||
| Whitington, Lucretia Sturt | Smallpiece | 1840 | 1918 | poet |
| Whyte, Elizabeth and Ellen | school owners | |||
| Whyte, Jane | school assistant | |||
| Whyte, Margaret | first woman doctor to hold a post on hospital staff at the Women's Hospital in 1892 | |||
| Wild, Mary | letter writer, Camden settler | |||
| Williams, Emma | c1870 | c1895 | prostitute and child killer | |
| Williams, Isabella | 1839 | 1878 | servant, single mother, farmer | |
| Williams, Mother Xavier (Eliza) | Williams | 1800 | 1892 | Mother Superior of the Tasmanian Sisters of Charity; opened St Joseph's Orphanage |
| Williams, Mrs W M (Miss Reid of Ratho) | Reid | visited prisons and was interested in conditions of women generally | ||
| Wilson, Charlotte Amy | Robinson | 1834 | 1901 | baths proprietor, registry office |
| Wilson, Mrs James Glenny (Anne Glenny Wilson) | Adams | 1848 | 1930 | author; verse and novelist |
| Withers, Anastasia | Splain | ? | ||
| Woman from the Cowpastures Tribe | ||||
| Wood, Susan Nugent | Lapham | 1836 | 1880 | author |
| Woolcock, Elizabeth | Oliver | 1848 | 1873 | in 1873 only woman to be executed in SA |
| Wright, Charlotte May Mackenzie | Mackenzie | 1855 | 1929 | pioneer and memoirist |
| Wright, Elizabeth | ? | ? | publican | |
| Wright, Laura Pauline | ? | 1819 | 1894 | early settler and writer |
| Wyatt, Julia | Mathews | 1808 | 1898 | supported charities, contributed in press on social issues, essayist |
| Wyly, Isabella Alice (Scott) | Wyly | C1833 | 1915 | servant, owner of drapery |
| Wynford, Lady Edith Anne Best | Marsh | c1848 | autobiographer | |
| Yeates, Mary | Driscoll/O'Driscoll | 1860s | Irish orphan emigrant 1830s | |
| Young, Lady Augusta Sophia | Marryat | 1828 | 1913 | active in philanthropy as Governor of Tasmania's wife; also involved in Colonial Ladies Committees |
| Young, Ellen | Warboys | 1810 | 1872 | 'Ballarat Poetess' |