Mary Ann Black

Mary Ann Black
Born(1801-10-01)1 October 1801
George St., Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died11 July 1861(1861-07-11) (aged 59)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Other namesMary Ann de Mestre
SpouseProsper de Mestre (1789–1844)
Children10 children:

Prosper Jean
(Prosper John)
de Mestre
(1821–1863)
Andre Cotteral
de Mestre
(1823–1917)
Helen Mary Williams
nee de Mestre
(1825–1907)
Sarah Louisa Wason
nee de Mestre
(1827–?)
Melanie Isabella Lovegrove
nee de Mestre
(1829–1925)
Etienne Livingstone
de Mestre
(1832–1916)
Mary Ann Hart
nee de Mestre
(1834–1925)
Katherine Dorothy Ramsay
nee de Mestre
(1836–1905)
Louisa Jane Hutchison
nee de Mestre
(1839–?)

Annette Marland Slade
nee de Mestre (1841–1936)
Parent(s)Captain John Black (1778–1802)
& Mary Hyde
(1779–1864)

Mary Ann de Mestre (née Black; 1 October 1801 – 11 July 1861) was the wife of Prosper de Mestre (1789–1844) a French-Australian Sydney businessman in the early 19th century; and the mother of Etienne Livingstone de Mestre (1832–1916) the trainer of the racehorse Archer who won the first and second Melbourne Cups in 1861 and 1862, and an Australian horse trainer. It was on her 1,300-acre (5.3 km2) property of "Terara" on the Shoalhaven River near Nowra on the South Coast of New South Wales that Etienne established a horse stud, stable and racecourse.