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Miscellaneous material, including correspondence, relating to the children of Frances & Anna Maria Cotton
Depositied in the University of Tasmania Archives in 1987 by E. Frances Cotton
May be consulted for research
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Son of Francis Cotton and Anna Maria Cotton. Husband of Margaret Connell and father of Augustine Cotton; George Fordyce Story Cotton; Emily Elizabeth Cotton; Fanny Cotton; Charles Edward Cotton; Margaret Cotton; Agnes Cotton; Female Cotton and Clement Connell Cotton.
Brother of Henry Cotton; Francis Cotton; Anna Maria Mather; Thomas Cotton; Mary May; Suzanne Cotton; John Cotton; Frances Cotton; James Backhouse Cotton; Tilney Cotton; Edward Octavius Cotton; Joseph Cotton and Rachael Salmon.
Appointed Superintendent of Police for the Glamorgan municipality 1864-1870
For more information see :
Voices from the Orphan School: Margaret Connell & St Columba Falls by Dianne Snowden
Tasmanian Ancestry, V35 (2) Sept 2015 p.77
https://www.tasfhs.org/downloads/Volume35Number2_2014.pdf
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George Cotton - Superintendent of Police Glamorgan, 1870. Draft petition concerning a witness in case of R. v Baynon, the witness being a servant of the warden of Longford, from G. Cotton who was appointed Superintendent of Police in the Municipality of Glamorgan in 1864. Also copy of character of George Cotton by John Mitchell: a good detective and unsurpassed as bushman (16
Dec. 1870). Also letter from Mrs Webb to Mrs Cotton (21.10.1973) about George Cotton of George's River (Pyengana) and notes by Mrs Cotton.
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Letter from Mrs. Webb to Mrs. Cotton dated 21 October 1973 about George Cotton of George's River (Pyengana)
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John Cotton (1832-1915) of "Earlham" Rheban, son of Frances and Anna Maria Cotton of "Kelvedon" married 1865 Mary Ann Wills (1827- 1915). Father of Edith Consuelio Blyth; Howard Gurney Cotton and Harold Tennyson Cotton
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School drawing book belonging to John Cotton at Hofwyl House [School]
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John Cotton (1832-1915) of "Earlham" Rheban, son of Frances and Anna Maria Cotton of "Kelvedon" married 1865 Mary Ann Wills (1827- 1915). Father of Edith Consuelio Blyth; Howard Gurney Cotton and Harold Tennyson Cotton
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Summons dated 16 October 1874. To John Cotton of Spring Bay to answer the charge by Henry George Quodling.
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John Cotton (1832-1915) of "Earlham" Rheban, son of Frances and Anna Maria Cotton of "Kelvedon" married 1865 Mary Ann Wills (1827- 1915). Father of Edith Consuelio Blyth; Howard Gurney Cotton and Harold Tennyson Cotton
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Printed booklet titled "Hymns in Prose"
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Son of Frances and Anna Maria Cotton of Kelvedon. Born 18 July 1834 at Great Swan Point, Tasmania. Died 1 January 1906 in Ohio, USA
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Letter dated 1863 from Robert Ransome of Ransome & Co., Ipswich U.K.: regarding a reaping machine and J.B.C.'s idea of
alternate sliding motion to cutters already tried, recommends American Eagle mowing machine.
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Son of Frances and Anna Maria Cotton of Kelvedon. Born 18 July 1834 at Great Swan Point, Tasmania. Died 1 January 1906 in Ohio, USA
Anna Maria (nee Tilney) Cotton daughter of John Shelton Tilney of Chelmsford, shopkeeper, and his wife Susannah. Wife of Francis Cotton.
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Letter from Anna Maria Cotton to son James dated 27 March 1869, Afraid he was exhausting himself, Meeting, minutes, Edward, ceiling paper.
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Son of Frances and Anna Maria Cotton of Kelvedon. Born 18 July 1834 at Great Swan Point, Tasmania. Died 1 January 1906 in Ohio, USA
Born Kelvedon, Great Swanport, April 23, 1838. Son of Francis and Anna Maria Cotton. Husband of Helen Elizabeth Grueber. Died November 12, 1913 aged 75. Buried at Kelvedon.
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Letters from Edward Octavius Cotton to his brother James dated 1882 - 1883, regarding, family, Yearly Meeting (21.5.82), Schoutens, family, death of Capt. King (21.5.82), Mother and Father's deaths and will (1883), instrument with angled mirror, love to Hannah Hall.
Mary Cotton was born on 23 December 1827 in Shoreditch, Greater, London. Died 20 May 1886 at Sandford, Tasmania. Daughter of Frances and Anna Maria cotton, sister of James Backhouse Cotton. Married William May of Sandford where they established an orchard
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Letters to James Backhouse Cotton from his sister "Molma" [Mary May] dated 17 February, 1878. Regarding J.B.C.'s annual visit, children Lewis and Alfred, wheat stack, William, R.W. Douglas, Mathers, Friends.
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Letter to James Backhouse Cotton from his niece Helen McLeod dated 5 April 1878. Meeting, brother gone to Diamantina, Queensland.
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Letter to James Backhouse Cotton from Alma Rachel Cotton daughter of Francis and Helen (McLeod) Cotton, 'Belmont' to her uncle James Cotton, Tasmania 1877 thanking him for a desk and talking about herself and Ethel taking dinner to Arthur and Ernest who are clearing the gorse.
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Joseph Benson Mather (1814-1890) was the eldest son of Robert and Ann Mather who settled in Tasmania in 1822. He joined his father in his drapery and hosiery business in 1836 and later established his own business as a merchant tailor and importer in Liverpool Street, Hobart, taking his son, Joseph Francis, into partnership as J.B. Mather & Son in 1874. One of their contracts was to supply police uniforms. J.B. Mather also managed the East Coast Steam Navigation Co. in Hobart 1854-57. J.B.Mather was for many years Clerk to the Hobart Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. He spent most of the year 1840 in Sydney visiting and helping Sydney Friends on a visit of "concern" and on his return also travelled around
Tasmania visiting country Friends. In 1841 he obtained consent from Francis Cotton of Kelvedon, near Swansea, to "corresponding with his daughter with an intention to an union in marriage" and the following year he married Anna Maria Cotton. They had six children: Joseph Francis (1844-1925), Anna Maria (1846-1900), Esther Ann (1849-1957) who married C.H. Robey, Maria Louisa (1851 -1857), Emma Elizabeth (1853-1939) and Frances Josephine (1855-1856) but Joseph's wife and the youngest little daughter died in 1856. Joseph Mather was lonely after her death, as he recorded in his diary, but he cared devotedly for his children, reading to them every night, except when they went to stay with their Cotton grandparents at Kelvedon for country air, and nursing them when they were ill. He nursed little Louisa day and night in 1857 until she died in his arms.
For more information see http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mather-joseph-francis-7514
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Letters to James Backhouse Cotton from Joseph Benson Mather, brother-in-law dated 1877, 1881, and 1882. Regarding Isaac Sharp's visit, Melbourne Annual Meeting (1877); sending a certificate by San Francisco mail as J.B.C. had his stolen with his clothes (29.9.81 ), his return to Kelvedon, death of mother.
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Son of Frances and Anna Maria Cotton of Kelvedon. Born 18 July 1834 at Great Swan Point, Tasmania. Died 1 January 1906 in Ohio, USA
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Letter to James Backhouse Cotton from William Benson dated 20 December 1877 from Melbourne. Regarding wool prices and freight, railways, Friends
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Letter to James Backhouse Cotton from Joseph Crosfield, London, dated 12 August 1873.
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Letter to James Backhouse Cotton from Abraham Davy; Narellan N.S.W. dated 17 October 1872
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Son of Frances and Anna Maria Cotton of Kelvedon. Born 18 July 1834 at Great Swan Point, Tasmania. Died 1 January 1906 in Ohio, USA
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Letter to James Backhouse Cotton from J.I. Dymond, Sydney dated 10 April 187. Regarding Trusteeship of Meeting House, Devonshire St.
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Son of Frances and Anna Maria Cotton of Kelvedon. Born 18 July 1834 at Great Swan Point, Tasmania. Died 1 January 1906 in Ohio, USA
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Letter to James Backhouse Cotton from J.H. Gray, Balclutha dated 3 March 1883. Addressed to "Bro. Cotton": J.B.C.'s visit to New Zealand, Christian love to J.B.C. and Hannah Hall.
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Son of Frances and Anna Maria Cotton of Kelvedon. Born 18 July 1834 at Great Swan Point, Tasmania. Died 1 January 1906 in Ohio, USA
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Letter to James Backhouse Cotton from Charles Kingston dated 2 December 1874. Spiritual (letter torn)
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Naturalist, School teacher, Nurseryman, Artist, Draughtsman, Farmer, Teacher. Born 3 February 1812 in Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK, died 18 June 1893 in Mount Barker, South Australia. Frederick Mackie toured the Australian colonies in 1852-1855, keeping detailed diaries. He returned to South Australia in November 1855 and after marrying Rachel Ann May they moved to Hobart Town Tasmania in 1856 on board the Wellington and briefly (1856-1861) opened a co-educational school. He eventually returned to South Australia and remained there until his death.
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Letter to James Backhouse Cotton from Frederick Mackie, Mount Barker, South Australia, dated 7 October 1873.
Spiritual, Tilney Cotton beginning to prosper, Lucy Coleman
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Ann Mather (1786-1831) was the daughter of Rev. Joseph Benson (1749-1821), a prominent Methodist minister and friend of John Wesley. She married Robert Mather (c1782-1855)
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Letters to James Backhouse Cotton from Ann Mather (wife of R.A. Mather) dated 23 April 1875 regarding the death of her daughter Sarah
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Son of Frances and Anna Maria Cotton of Kelvedon. Born 18 July 1834 at Great Swan Point, Tasmania. Died 1 January 1906 in Ohio, USA
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Letters to James Backhouse Cotton from Joseph J. Neave dated 1871 and 1877
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Son of Frances and Anna Maria Cotton of Kelvedon. Born 18 July 1834 at Great Swan Point, Tasmania. Died 1 January 1906 in Ohio, USA
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Letter to James Backhouse Cotton from William Patterson, Half Moon Bay, dated 3 September 1883. Visit of members of Society of Friends [?Canada]
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Henry Propsting (1810-1901) Transported to Van Diemen's Land in 1831 for the theft of two tame geese, Henry became a successful Tasmanian merchant and grazier, an alderman of the City of Hobart and father of twenty-six children. A regular attender of the Congregational Church changed his religious views to the Society of Friends, through the preaching of James Backhouse and George Washington Walker, who travelled through Tasmania during the thirties at the same time he became a "total abstainer,"
He was one of the original subscribers to the old High School, now the University building
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Letter to James Backhouse Cotton from Henry Propsting, dated 26 May 1874. Thanks for photograph, spiritual.
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Son of Frances and Anna Maria Cotton of Kelvedon. Born 18 July 1834 at Great Swan Point, Tasmania. Died 1 January 1906 in Ohio, USA
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Letter to James Backhouse Cotton from Edward Sayce, Hawthorn, Victoria, dated 9 February 1878. regarding the death of wife, Deborah Ann, memorial card enclosed
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Sharp, Isaac (1806–1897), missionary, elder son of Isaac Sharp of Brighton, Sussex, and his first wife, Mary Likeman, was born in Brighton on 4 July 1806. His father had joined the Society of Friends upon his marriage, and at eleven the son was sent to a Quaker school at Earl's Colne, Essex. At twenty-four he went to Darlington as private secretary to Joseph Pease, succeeding afterwards to the management of the Pease estate near Middlesbrough. In February 1839, he married Hannah Procter; they had two daughters before her death, four years after the marriage.
For more information see : https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/25209
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Letter to James Backhouse Cotton from Isaac Sharp, dated 21 April 1878. South Africa (Spiritual text card enclosed)
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Born 11 Dec 1857 in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom. Son of Daniel Sutton and Susannah Butler. Brother of John Henry Sutton, Albert Edward Sutton and Stephen William Sutton. Husband of Rebecca Annie (Gray) Sutton — married 11 Mar 1876 in Palmerston North, Wellington, New Zealand. Father of Thomas Buswell Sutton, Robert Buswell Sutton, Joseph Sydney Sutton, Horace Neve Sutton, David Barclay Sutton and Darien Neave Sutton. Died 9 Jun 1925 at age 67 in Castlecliff, Wanganui, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand
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Letters to James Backhouse Cotton from Thomas Sutton, Palmerston, New Zealand, dated 1881. Sorry to have missed seeing J.B.C. on his way to America with Hannah Hall, family, Society of Friends, asks J.B.C. when in England to visit his mother at Banbury.
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Son of Frances and Anna Maria Cotton of Kelvedon. Born 18 July 1834 at Great Swan Point, Tasmania. Died 1 January 1906 in Ohio, USA
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Letter to James Backhouse Cotton from Joseph Walton, New Zealand, dated 16 March 1882.
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Son of Frances and Anna Maria Cotton of Kelvedon. Born 18 July 1834 at Great Swan Point, Tasmania. Died 1 January 1906 in Ohio, USA
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Letter to James Backhouse Cotton from Alfred Wright, Wakefield, United Kingdom. dated 13 November 1876. J.J. Neave about to sail, Friends
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Son of Frances and Anna Maria Cotton of Kelvedon. Born 18 July 1834 at Great Swan Point, Tasmania. Died 1 January 1906 in Ohio, USA
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Letter to James Backhouse Cotton from unidentified person, signature erased, from 309 Cotley St., dated 25 Mach 1871
Spiritual
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Son of Frances and Anna Maria Cotton of Kelvedon. Born 18 July 1834 at Great Swan Point, Tasmania. Died 1 January 1906 in Ohio, USA
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Accounts and miscellaneous documents of James Backhouse Cotton dated 1845 to 1880. Hobart Savings Bank: bank book 1858-83; letter of credit Union Bank of Australia 1880; Extract from Robert Lindsey's letter for J.B.C. with his parents love, 1854; poem; drawing of tree for Father's birthday 6.10.1845.
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Joseph Cotton, son of Francis Cotton. Married Isabella, daughter of Adam Jackson of Williamswood near Ross in 1875
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Letters from Isabella (Jackson) Cotton to her husband Joseph Cotton
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Joseph Cotton, son of Francis Cotton. Married Isabella, daughter of Adam Jackson of Williamswood near Ross in 1875
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Invitation from Adam Jackson, Williamswood to Joseph Cotton dated 3 Sept. 1874 to come and stay to discuss proposed marriage to daughter.
Joseph Cotton, son of Francis Cotton. Married Isabella, daughter of Adam Jackson of Williamswood near Ross in 1875
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Letters from Helen P. (Nellie) Jackson, sister of Isabella to Joseph Cotton dated 1874 & 1875
Joseph Cotton, son of Francis Cotton. Married Isabella, daughter of Adam Jackson of Williamswood near Ross in 1875
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Letter from Maggie Mather to Uncle Joseph dated 8 December 1874. regarding the purchase of workbasket, and "wishing you both every happiness"
Son of Frances and Anna Maria Cotton of Kelvedon. Born 18 July 1834 at Great Swan Point, Tasmania. Died 1 January 1906 in Ohio, USA
Joseph Cotton, son of Francis Cotton. Married Isabella, daughter of Adam Jackson of Williamswood near Ross in 1875
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Letters James B. Cotton to brother Joseph, dated 1884 & 1885.
From Albury: Kelvedon, new boundary, J.B.C.'s call to preach Gospel, "Hannah Hall still going from place to place and leaving an unmixed blessing", English Friends accused H.H. of being "a Hickite", "Patti" Lyne (6.8.84); From Belmont County, 0 [Ontario, Canada]: winter weather, temperatures much below freezing, eggs freeze and crack, working on Hannah Hall's "great journal", made a "bread
worker".
Son of Frances and Anna Maria Cotton of Kelvedon. Born 18 July 1834 at Great Swan Point, Tasmania. Died 1 January 1906 in Ohio, USA
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One leather writing case embossed gold lettering " J.B. Cotton from his nephews and nieces"
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Copy of Rachel Salmon's Will, dated 1933.Property in trust for three stepdaughters Emma Elizabeth Campbell, Alicia Maria New and Mary Ann Louisa Robinson, bequests to Friends School and nephews and nieces; ms instructions on distribution of household goods to friends.
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East Bay Canal 1900. Note of successful tender.
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Note (ms.} about J.R. Green, A short history of the English people, London (1878)
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Poems written by girl about 16 - 17 years old at Collegiate School, many referring to teacher Miss Wise, and girls: Elinor Anne, Nellie, Constance, Kitty etc.
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Undated short-hand copy of E.B. Browning's "Cowper's Grave"
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News cuttings regarding John Walker, Tenby view, "the microphone" (1878), "experiences in Tasmania" letter from Mr Speadborough ND, "Ramble on the old Huon track" ND etc; shipping time tables, Tas. Steam Navigation Co. 1877, Union S.S. Co. of N.Z. 1883, Wellington N.Z. tramways 1882; child's drawings; book mark.
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Undated music: ms extracts from "Lilli Lilli" and "Auld lang syne", marked ms. W.Barlow
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Ivory knob and spring fitting