Portraits of Francis Cox and Mrs Fraser / from a pen drawing by Dick Tait

P2/518

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Graphic Materials, Clippings

893022

2 clippings - sepia on one sheet; sheet 29 x 13.8 cm, on board 41 x 20.5 cm - black and white

Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Source of identifications unknown, title taken from the card catalogue

"Dick Tait" at lower right of each image

"Francis Cox, a Whitesmith, came out, it is understood in the Second fleet, established himself as a Smith in general at Sydney Cove, about where the big wool store of Harrison Jones and Devlin is. Having left a wife and family in England he could not marry legally, but by Mrs. Fraser, 'widow of a Captain' he had a son and three daughters. The son died on the voyage to England, one of the girls married William Charles Wentworth, and then Richard Hill MLC of Bent St., the third Mr. George Bloodsworth of Sussex St.. Francis cox died in June 1831 age 85 [86 crossed through] years. Mrs Fraser died in the cottage in Bent Street, adjoining the Cliub house in 1847. The remains of Francis Cox and others in the vault in the [...?] Sandhills cemetery, Devonshire St. were removed to the Cemetery at South Head." -- inscribed on paper attached to verso