Ann Diamond (midwife)

Ann Diamond (née Gleeson; c. 1831 – 22 April 1881) was a New Zealand hotelkeeper, storekeeper and midwife.

Ann Gleeson was born in Adare, County Limerick, Ireland in about 1831.

[1] She married Patrick Diamond on 7 December 1859, and they had two daughters, Rosanna and Mary Jane.

[1][2] They migrated to Dunedin, New Zealand in 1862, where she ran a boarding house with her cousin, Johanna Shanahan, and friend, Mary Maloney.

[1] In 1865, Diamond, Shanahan and Maloney left for Greymouth and set up a general store and hotel in Red Jacks on the West Coast.