Maria Lock

Maria Lock
Bornc. 1808
Hawkesbury River, New South Wales, Australia
Died6 June 1878
Windsor, New South Wales, Australia

Maria Lock, also known as Maria Locke, (c. 1805 – 6 June 1878) was an Aboriginal Australian landowner in the Darug area of Western Sydney. Lock is significant in Australian history due to her educational achievements, having the first legally recognised marriage between a settler and an Aboriginal person, and later for being a landowner in early colonial times.

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