Caroline Leddiard was the daughter of Thomas Leddiard, a London merchant, and his wife Anne Parker.

She married Robert Thomson in London, on 28 December 1813, at St James Church, Piccadilly. They had 12 children:-

Charles Leddiard Thomson 1814
Marianne Amelia Thomson 6 December 1815
David Thomson 24 December 1816
Eleanor Frances 20 October 1817
Alfred 1818
Adelaide 7 July 1819
Henry 1820
Laura Morland 6 January 1822
Francis George 1825
Isabella 1826
Robert 1827
Horace 1828

Robert Thomson brought his family to Western Australia in 1829, most of them in the "Atwick". He brought about £2,400 worth of goods and equipment, and selected 1100 acres on the Swan River at Bassendean. He later moved to Rottnest Island, where he lived until 1838, and then returned to the mainland when the island was turned into an Aboriginal penal settlement.

Caroline died in Mandurah on 2 November 1863.

Peter Mitchell (email: bickley@arach.net.au) has written a short biography of Robert and Caroline Thomson, which remains unpublished. It is intended to make this available on the Net at some later date.

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