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Matilda Ann Smith (Cowen)

Also Known As: "aunty til aboriginal"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Hobart, Tasmania (Cert), Australia
Death: March 13, 1919 (71)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Immediate Family:

Biological daughter of Thomas Wilken Cowen, Convict "Julianna" 1820 and Mary, {Australian Aboriginal}
Adopted daughter of Mary Bleeze - Cowen, Convict "America" 1831
Wife of William Smith and William George Smith
Mother of William Thomas Smith; Alfred Henry Smith; Ada Matilda Smith; Eva Florence Ecclestone; Charles James Smith and 4 others
Sister of Mary Ann Bones; Joseph Cowen; Richard Cowen; Thomas George Cowen; Sarah Ann Nichols and 2 others
Half sister of Charles Bleeze, Free Settler "America" 1831

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Matilda Ann Smith's Timeline

1847
October 6, 1847
Hobart, Tasmania (Cert), Australia

TAS Birth Record
Name:
Cowen, Matilda Anne
Record Type:
Births
Gender:
Female
Father:
Cowen, Thomas
Mother:
Cowen, Mary
Date of birth:
06 Oct 1847
Registered:
Hobart
Registration year:
1848
Record ID:
NAME_INDEXES:1090109
Resource:
RGD32/1/3/ no 3263

NOTE: There is some evidence / conjecture / oral history that some of the children listed as the children of Thomas COWEN and Mary WALKER were
Thomas's biological children with an Aboriginal woman named Mary OR
aboriginal children adopted by Thomas or Mary OR
aboriginal children stolen from their families and raised as children of Thomas and Mary

October 6, 1847
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
1872
July 11, 1872
Cygnet, TAS, Australia
1874
June 17, 1874
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
1876
January 4, 1876
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
1877
October 26, 1877
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
1879
September 7, 1879
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
1881
April 11, 1881
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
1883
February 3, 1883
Launceston, Tasmania (Cert), Australia

Tasmania Birth Record
Name:
Smith, Frederick Walter
Record Type:
Births
Gender:
Male
Father:
Smith, William
Mother:
Cowen, Matilda Ann
Date of birth:
03 Feb 1883
Registered:
Launceston
Registration year:
1883
Record ID:
NAME_INDEXES:1123403
Resource:
RGD33/1/62 no 2749