Anna Dawbin

Anna Maria Dawbin née Anna Maria Hadden (24 November 1816 – 22 November 1905) was a British Australian diarist.

Life Dawbin was born in Exeter in 1816 to Elizabeth and William Frederick Hadden. Her father was an army officer.

In 1834 she sailed for Van Diemen's Land as the new wife of Andrew Baxter who was in charge of transported convicts. It was on 24 September 1834 that she started her first of 32 diaries that are extant, although it is clear that she had always kept a diary up to that point. She arrived aboard the Augusta Jessie and she and Andrew lived in Hobart Town and Launceston. Her husband was an officer in the 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot and she established herself in Australian society. Her diary records that she was very "friendly" with Richard Dry who was to be Premier of Tasmania.