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Annabella Boswell

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42: 162: 335: 146:. She was able to be educated at Bridge Street in Sydney at Miss Evans's boarding school for a year. Her mother was Georgianna Lorn Moorshead (born Campbell) and her father was George Innes and they held land. After she left the boarding school, her parents employed governesses. Her writings survive from when she was sixteen. 153:
in an unsuccessful attempt to regain his health. Her mother sold the property at Capertee, and by 1843, they were back at Port Macquarie where her father's brother, Archibald Clunes Innes, lived. Her uncle was a successful entrepreneur using convict labour to grow food that he sold to feed the
158:. She was interested in novels and history, and she was able to borrow books from the distant Sydney Library. She began to write. Until 1848, she lived a life of sketching and writing while she assisted her uncle as he and his many servants entertained guests, including the governor. 200:. Her journals have been reprinted. Her papers and drawings are of considerable value, and they are recognised by UNESCO because of the insight they give to Australian history. Her papers that were with the Boswell family in Scotland were purchased and brought to Australia. 304: 188:. The book described Jacky and Mary, their two sons and their three wives. They were from the Capita tribe and, in a short pamphlet, she described how they spun fur and made rugs from possum skin. 395: 170: 356: 139: 41: 345: 143: 323: 306:
Recollections of Some Australian Blacks: Bathurst District, 1835-40, Port Macquarie, 1844, Hunter's River, 1850
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In 1890, she published a book which describes the lives of people she had met in the 1830s. It was titled
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in 1826. When she was about eight, she and her family moved to a cattle station they owned called
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where she married Patrick Charles Douglas Boswell, an accountant working for the
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Recollections of Some Australian Blacks: Bathurst District, 1835–40
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in Ayrshire where their fifth and last child was born.
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to it so that it can be listed with similar articles.
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In 1839, her father died after he had moved them to
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Annabella Alexandrina Campbell Boswell

Bathurst plains
Garrallan
Australian
Australian
Macquarie River
Bathurst plains
Glen Alice
Capertee
Port Macquarie
Lake Innes House

Newcastle Cathedral
Bank of New South Wales
Old Cumnock
Garrallan





"Annabella Alexandrina Boswell (1826–1914)"


"UNESCO Women in History"
"Archibald Clunes Innes (1800–1857)"
Recollections of Some Australian Blacks: Bathurst District, 1835-40, Port Macquarie, 1844, Hunter's River, 1850
Biography at ADB

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