Ann Diamond (midwife)

Ann Gleeson was born in Adare, County Limerick, Ireland in about 1831.^[1] She emigrated to Melbourne, Australia in 1858.^[1]

She married Patrick Diamond on 7 December 1859, and they had two daughters, Rosanna and Mary Jane.^[1][2]

They migrated to Dunedin, New Zealand in 1862, where she ran a boarding house with her cousin, Johanna Shanahan, and friend, Mary Maloney.^[1] She learned her midwifery skills from a doctor who boarded at the house.^[1]

In 1865, Diamond, Shanahan and Maloney left for Greymouth and set up a general store and hotel in Red Jacks on the West Coast.^[1] The hotel was generally known as Diamond's Hotel.^[2][3]

She died at Red Jacks from a strangulated hernia on 22 April 1881.^[1][4]