Matilda Wallace

Matilda Wallace (November 1838 - 21 January 1898 née Hill), was a 19th century pioneer Australian pastoralist. Born in High Ham, Somerset, England to Sarah and George Hill, she emigrated to Australia aboard the North, a 1,238-ton sailing ship, departing Liverpool on October 31, 1858,^[1] joining members of her family in Coromandel Valley, in the Colony of South Australia. She was a twenty-year old (dairy maid) sponsored by brother, Robert Hill. Wallace and her husband Abraham were for many years frontier sheep and cattle farmers, which she documented in a memoir.