Here’s a link to an article I recently had published on the John Oxley Library Blog:
https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/letters-caroline-landsborough
I’ll be posting some follow-up articles soon, so catch up on this one first, and then stay tuned!

“I miss you much and wish we were once more together with our little ones. I am so tired, dearest Willy. Your own loving wife Carry.”
Caroline Landsborough, to husband William Landsborough, 1869.
State Library of Queensland image
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Tags: Burketown, Caroline Landsborough, Sweers Island, William Landsborough
Sweersena was my mothers mothers fathers mother
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Sorry correction
My mothers mothers fathers mother was William landsborough daughter sweersina
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Hi Jess, thanks for leaving a comment. Do you know anything about Sweersena’s early life, or have any photos or family documents?
Regards,
Trisha
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I will find out for you
Are you related
Jess
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Hi Jess, no I’m not related. Just a curious historian!
Trisha
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