May Brown

May Brown

May Brown (24 May 1875 - c.1939) was a flamboyant Northern Territory miner, publican and pioneer, who became well known her role in developing the wolfram (tungsten) mining industry in Australia. She was known as "The Wolfram Queen".Brown was born in Sydney on 24 May 1875, the sixth of seven children. She was the daughter of Charles James Wheedon, and his wife Mary, nee Chiodette.She married amateur boxing champion George Seale, who was well known for running the Sydney Gymnastics Club in Castlereagh Street in Sydney. Seale died in 190 and six months later Brown married Northern Territory wolfram miner James Burns and moved with him to the Northern Territory. They had one son George Seal Junior. Wikipedia

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