Thomas Braidwood Wilson
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Thomas Braidwood Wilson FRGS (1792 - 1843). Born in Kirknewton, East Calder, Lothian, Scotland he was the son of James, and Catherine Boag OR Boak. He was a Doctor of Medicine, which he gained from Edinburgh University. He married Jane Thomson of Durham, England, in 1826 at St Oswalds in Durham. In 1833 he was granted a fellowship of the Royal Geographical Society.
He emigrated to Australia with his wife and daughter Mary Braidwood Wilson (b. 1827), and son James Braidwood Wilson was born (1833) at sea en route. He died in 1843 in Australia. His wife and family fell on hard times and his daughter Mary Braidwood Wilson kept a diary, of her life after his death, and during her marriage to Stewart Marjoribanks Mowle. The diary is now in the Australian National Archives and extracts have been printed in a book "The diaries of Mary Braidwood Mowle" which is seen as a clear record of early expatriate life in Australia.
Mary Braidwood Wilson Mowle died in 1857, and her Widower, Stewart Marjoribanks Mowle was later appointed the first Usher of Black Rod in the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1883.
