Cygnet Post and Telegraph Office

 

 

Built in 1880. Built on 9 acres and 3 roods of land granted to Francis Henry Burslem in 1855. Aged 47, he married Susan Fynes (aged 38) in Hobart, 12 October 1852. Susan Burslem died in Cygnet 9 March 1862, aged 52. Francis then married Anne Elizabeth Anderson. Two children: a daughter born in Port Cygnet, 7 January 1863, and another daughter, Elizabeth Ida Burslem, born in Hobart 6 April 1864.