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Ann Diamond (midwife)

Ann Diamond (; – 22 April 1881) was a New Zealand hotelkeeper, storekeeper and midwife.

Biography

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

She married Patrick Diamond on 7 December 1859, and they had two daughters, Rosanna and Mary Jane.

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

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

She died at Red Jacks from a strangulated hernia on 22 April 1881.

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