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Mary Margaret Wright (1903–1993)

Mary Margaret Wright

Mary Margaret Wright, née McAdam, later Lamm (1903-1993) community activist, feminist, Communist and Socialist Birth: 14 August 1903 at Sydney, New South Wales, daughter of native-born parents Thomas Francis McAdam (1867-1948), haberdasher & IWW sympathiser, and Susan Antonia, née Williamson (1875-1931?). Marriages: (1) 1921 at Sydney to John Theodore Lamm (1889-1931), a seaman, later joiner, born at Gabbstad, Gotenborg, Sweden. They had four sons and one daughter. (2) 23 January 1941 at the...

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