Name (FAMILY NAME, Other Names)	BATES, Daisy May (nee Margaret Dwyer)
Date of Birth	16th October 1863
Place of Birth	Roscrea, County Tipperary, Ireland
Date of Death	18th April 1951
Place of Death	Prospect - The Sanatorium Private Hospital, 64-66 Barker Rd (now a reserve)
Place of Burial	North Road Cemetery - Plot 255B, Path 17 South
Arrived in Australia (date/ship etc.)	13 January 1883 on RMS Almora in Townsville (as Daisy May O’Dwyer, aged 20)
Addresses/Dates in Prospect Council Area	Lived the last eighteen months of her life in Prospect
Addresses/Dates outside Prospect Council Area	Moved between States, especially in WA and in SA at Ooldea, Wynbring and Pyap
Names of houses (if any)
Parents	James Edward O’Dwyer and Marguarette Hunt
Spouse(s)	(1) Edwin Henry Murrant (possibly Harry Harbord Morant (“Breaker’ Morant”) d. 1902 (2) Jack Bates d. 1935 at Mullewa District Hospital, WA (3) Ernest Clark Baglehole d. Ca. 1897 in England
Date(s) of Marriage(s)	(1) 13th March 1884 (2) 17th February 1885 (3) 10 June 1885
Place(s) of Marriage(s)	(1) Charters Towers, Queensland (2) Bathurst NSW (3) Newtown NSW
Children	Arnold Hamilton (Archibald?) Bates.  B. 26 August 1886, d. 19 February 1963 in NZ
Education	Free national School, Roscrea
Occupation(s)	Governess. Secretary. Journalist. Anthropologist. Ethnologist.  Welfare Worker
Interests/Activities	Aboriginal culture and welfare
Religion/Churches	Roman Catholic
Notes (points of interest etc.)	Anthropologist - worked extensively in Western Australia and later at Ooldea in South Australia 1920 - appointed a JP 1934 - CBE The marriages to Bates and Baglehole were bigamous She met royalty on four occasions in Australia 1901 - Perth - Duke and Duchess of York 1920 - Cook - Duke of Windsor 1934 - Ooldea - Duke of Gloucester 1945 - Adelaide - Duke and Duchess of Gloucester
Sources of information	Buried Treasures (Re-printed from Australian Dictionary of Biography with permission) Additional information provided by Mr Chris Ward (former Prospect Councillor)