Emma Lambrick
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Emma Jane Lambrick née Dillon (4 August 1822 – October 1846) was an early resident of Port Essington in the Northern Territory of Australia who died there in relation to maternal death.[1]
Lambrick was the daughter of Lieutenant Dillon, of the Royal Navy, and his wife Susan and was born at Perranarworthal in Cornwall.[2] On 24 November 1842 she married Lieutenant George Lambrick at Budock Water and, in August 1843 their first daughter Emma was born.[1]
In 1844 George Lambrick was placed in charge of the military guard of a convict ship, the Cadet, where they were to deliver convicts to Hobart before travelling onwards to Port Essington to serve under Captain John McArthur. Lambrick was given permission to accompany her husband on the journey and join him at the settlement. The ship sailed in April 1844 and there were several other women onboard who were to accompany their husbands to Port Essington, one of these women was Esther Norman who suffered a stillbirth while at sea and died herself weeks later.[1]
Lambrick herself was pregnant while at sea and was reported, by her husband, as being "in the most delicate state of health". She would give birth to George Lambrick Jnr, when they were on their way up the Western Australian coast, in October 1844 who was recorded to have been a sickly child.[1]
