Talk:Rubyanna, Queensland
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What's in a name?[edit]
While it's a delightful story that the locality was named after his wife Rubyanna, John Charlton Thompson doesn't appear to have married anyone called Rubyanna. Rubyanna does appear as a place name in the South Sea Islands in 1859 (see [1]). Given that Kanakas were imported from the Pacific Islands to work on the sugarcane plantations, I am tempted to think that the name Rubyanna may be linked to the place in the islands. Kerry (talk) 08:00, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
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