Mayoral family
With three Mayors in the family it is easy to understand why the ‘Land’ family are known locally as Queanbeyan’s Mayoral Family. 1
Edwin Land senior was born in 1827 at Devonshire, England and was 15 years of age when he arrived in Sydney Cove in 1842. 2
Over the following 80 years the name Edwin [...]
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