her conviction and to recommend her release on the grounds that the charges had been poorly phrased and did not use the necessary terminology to convict her under the Vagrancy Act. Another conviction, in 1867, for being in possession of stolen goods was overturned when a concerned magistrate looked into her case and discovered that a shop assistant could identify her as having purchased some of the goods. Death Most Thunderbolt books claim that Bugg died at the Goulburn River in November 1867, however this was a woman named Louisa Mason (alias Yellow Long), wife of Robert Michael Mason of Rouchel near Scone. Mary Ann fell pregnant again a few weeks after Louisa Mason's death, but she and Ward separated a short time later. Their son Frederick Wordsworth Ward was born at Carroll in August 1868. In the aftermath, Mary Ann settled again with John Burrows and had another four children who survived infancy: Ada Gertrude (1870), Ida Margaret (1874), George Herbert (1880). Burrows died prior to 1900 and Mary Ann found work as a nurse to support herself, before dying on 22 April 1905 at Mudgee. Her son Frederick took after his birth father, becoming a groom and later a horse-trainer; he died unmarried as Frederick Wordsworth Burrows in 1937. Representations in media Natasha Wanganeen plays Bugg in Drunk History Australia, a 2020 Network 10 TV series. “Maryanne Bugg” is the last of many hundreds of poems in Les Murray’s “Collected Poems” (third edition, Black Inc., 2018). Murray (d 2019) is considered one of the foremost poets in English of his time. References Sources Further reading 1834 births 1905 deaths Australian people of English descent Bushrangers Indigenous Australian bushrangers