Her mother was Georgianna Lorn Moorshead (born Campbell) and her father was George Innes and they held land.

Her mother sold the property at Capertee, and by 1843, they were back at Port Macquarie[1] where her father's brother, Archibald Clunes Innes, lived.

[1] 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.

On 17 June 1856, she was in Newcastle Cathedral where she married Patrick Charles Douglas Boswell, an accountant working for the Bank of New South Wales.

They were from the Capita tribe and, in a short pamphlet, she described how they spun fur and made rugs from possum skin.