Dwyer subsequently found employment as a governess on Fanning Downs Station. She married poet and horseman Breaker Morant (Harry Morant aka Edwin Murrant) on 13 March 1884 in Charters Towers; the union lasted only a short time. Dwyer reputedly threw Morant out because he failed to pay for the wedding and stole some livestock. The marriage was not legal, as Morant was underage (he said he was twenty-one, but was only nineteen). They were never divorced. Morant biographer Nick Bleszynski suggests that Dwyer played a more important role in Morant's life than has been previously thought, and that she persuaded him to change his name from Edwin Murrant to Harry Harbord Morant.