William Cox
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Shepherd’s life 181, 201
Cost of living 153
Cottage, the (Mulgoa) 106, 140, 209, 217, 260, 270, 272, 274
Courts Martial 68, 72–4
Cow pastures, the 63–4
Cox, Alfred 149, 157, 153, 161, 171, 268
‘Reminiscences’ 142, 157, 261–3, 265, 267
Cox, Anna – see Blachford
Cox, Anne, sister 74
Cox, Charles 39, 69, 263
Cox, Edgar 261, 290, 291
Land 261
Marries Andrewina Piper 261
Cox, Edward 16, 63, 77, 84, 105, 105, 137, 140, 145, 150, 154, 209, 260, 271, 272, 276
Magistrate and Legislative Councillor 273
Cox, Edward King 275
Cox, Eliza (Bell) 275
Cox, Elizabeth (Sloper Piper) 263, 265–6, 273
Cox, Frederick 31, 39
Cox, Francis Edmund 37
Cox, George 30, 39, 77, 140, 143, 144, 150, 205–7, 209, 213, 215, 244, 252, 260–1, 262, 265, 271–2
at Bathurst 147, 228, 230
Character of 275–6
During recession 144, 276
Letters of 273, 274
Marriage 275
Proposed for Council 248, 267
and Tenant farmers 149, 259
Winemaker 246, 274, 276
Cox, George Henry 154, 259, 275
Cox, Henry 37, 99, 206, 209, 260, 270–1
Cox, James 33, 38, 69, 70, 76, 92, 179, 212, 216, 260, 268–70
Acquires land 268
Character 268
Criticized by Bigge 268
Death 269
Magistrates 268
Marries Eliza Collins 269
Member of Legislative Council/Assembly 269
Cox, Dr James Charles 275
Cox, Jane, mother 14, 17
Cox, Jane Maria (Brooks) 217, 265, 271–3
Cox, Philip 190, 272–3
Cox, Rebecca (Upjohn)
During bankruptcy 66, 70–1, 75
Birth 25
at Brush Farm 57,
at Clarendon 90, 102, 105–6, 134, 145, 151, 154, 265, 268
Child rearing 18, 30, 32
Drowned 81, 91, 143, 147, 200
Fortitude 66, 71, 261
Generosity 154
Illnesses 38, 39
Land for sons 63, 106, 271
as Leading citizen 24, 76, 152
Marriage 24, 26
On Minerva 38, 39
New life in NSW 31, 34
No portrait of 24
Social life 152, 154
Tomb 147
Cox, Sir Richard 15, 72
Cox, Robert, father 14
Cox, Robert Harvey, brother 16
Cox, Thomas 18, 262, 278
Cox, William Jnr 33, 38, 69, 70, 155, 191, 210, 212, 241, 260
Army service 254
Death 267
as Landed gentleman 263, 266
and Legislative Council 237, 248
Magistrate 267
Marriage 263
Pretensions 254, 261, 264
Cox, William Snr
and Aborigines 10, 139, 220, 252
Employing Aborigines 159, 229
Agricultural improvements 112, 201, 259
and Agricultural Society 10, 243–6, 252
Ancestry 15, 17
Army, joins regulars 28–9, 31
Army, militia 17, 27, 28–9
Army rank, actual 74
Bank of Australia shareholder 274
Birth 13
Birthday (50th) 102, 111
‘Captain Cox’ liberty 193
Children, baptized 30
Coat of arms 15
Complaints against 149, 162, 193
Complaints to Bigge 8, 178
Commandant at Bathurst 7, 133, 135–8, 173–4
Convicts, views on / understanding of 7, 160, 184, 189, 198–9
Convicts, assigned to 89, 149, 156, 162, 169, 171,
Convicts, relationship with 147–8
Criticized by Bigge 170, 178, 181–2
Death 255, 259, 261
Dynasty and descendants 78, 233, 258–9, 278
and Emancipists 195, 232
Evidence to Bigge 162, 195
Exploratory missions from Bathurst 134, 162, 169, 173
as Farmer 7, 55 – see also Brush Farm and
Clarendon
as Government contractor 90–2, 96, 150, 172, 185, 188, 203, 210, 233
Humanity and liberal views 36, 37, 40, 232, 251
Illness 141, 154, 212, 236, 251, 280
Journal on Blue Mountains road 96–112, 114–34
Land grants and purchases 53–9, 69, 132–3, 138, 179, 220, 213, 255, 259
Magistrate 11, 17, 62, 83, 139, 161, 194, 197, 240, 252
Magistrate at Bathurst 146
Sentencing as magistrate 178–80, 183
on Minerva 38, 40–50
Morality of 58, 259
O’Connell Street house 84, 262
Paymaster, NSW Corps 7, 33, 50, 67, 73, 75
and Petitions 247–8
Philanthropy 232
Recommendations/praise of 7, 193
Rehabilitation of 77–9
Remarriage 215
Son, Francis Edmund, unrecorded 31, 39
as Squatter
Commandant at Bathurst 133, 135, 138, 146, 148, 173
Tomb 87
Trades at Rio 48
1797 visit to colony 32, 56
Will 138
as young officer 31
Cox’s River 9, 94, 108, 111, 119, 123–5
Crime
Classic view of 88–9, 184, 195
Positivist approach to 88, 184
Punishment 89, 163, 166, 181, 184
Cudgegong River and settlement 132, 197
Cunningham 197, 231
Currency lads and Lasses – see Emancipists
Dabee 209
Damousi, Joy 46, 191
Darling, Governor 150, 202, 206, 208–9, 210, 242, 251, 255
Davidson, Walter 63
Dawe family 33–4
Depression of 1840s in NSW 276
Devizes 22, 26–7, 29, 57
Ditcheat 33
Dorset 20–1, 32, 235, 258
Dundas 59
Earle, Augustus 100
East India Company 12, 42, 242
Eden, Sir Frederick Morton 22–3, 29
Education of children 155–7, 171
Elizabeth Farm 55, 191
Emancipations 99, 100, 133, 169, 170, 192, 194
Emancipists 77, 79, 140, 194, 212, 237, 239, 243, 246–7, 249, 256
Status 78, 83
Farming 67, 79, 93, 241
Further crimes 195, 213
Native-born children 232, 234, 238, 247
Emu Ford 108, 110, 112, 122,
Emu Plains 94, 97, 101–2, 118, 121, 246
Emu Valley 129
Enlightenment, the 21, 158
Evans, George 54, 93, 104, 114, 111, 120–1, 129, 133
Exclusives 78, 194, 196, 212, 232–58
Executive Council 208
Fairfield, Richmond 84, 143, 255
Family enterprise (Cox) 78, 135–60, 179–80, 207, 215, 238
Field, Mr Justice 244–5
Fenn-Kemp, Anthony 68, 203
Female Factory, Parramatta 86, 167, 191–2
Fernhill, NSW, 72, 144, 150, 209, 265, 272, 274
Fern Hill, Dorset 115–6, 250
Fish River 116, 120, 123–5, 128–31
Flinders, Matthew 69
Flogging 61, 63
Forbes, Sir Francis 184, 212, 237, 247, 273
Foveaux, Major Joseph 60
Frazer, Charles 173–4
Freemasons 73
Friendship, the 40, 45
Fulton, Revd Henry 43, 85–6, 106, 156
Gammack, Dr Alexander 261–2
Gipps, Governor 213, 236–7, 267, 274
Glenroy 124, 127
Glenmore 144, 261, 270,
275
Goderich, Viscount 23, 148, 203, 211–2, 233–4, 255
Gold rush at Gulgong 247, 259
Gorman, storekeeper 101, 104, 117, 120, 122, 177–8
Goulburn, Major Frederick 149, 150, 164, 206, 241
Government House
Parramatta 53–4
Green Hills (Windsor) 90
Grammar schools
Queen Elizabeth I, Wimborne 14, 17, 18, 155
Salisbury 34, 38, 70
Great Dividing Range 93
Great Western Highway 97, 110, 124
Green Hills (Windsor) 79, 82, 90
Greenway, Francis 86, 92, 265
Grose, Major 53, 62, 63, 67, 92, 194
Grose River 89
Guntawang 206
Harris, Alexander 157
Hartley 94
Hawkesbury 10, 21, 24, 61, 69, 70, 75, 83, 88, 97, 139, 155, 161, 163, 186, 192, 195
Fertility exhausted 93
Settlers 67, 76, 79, 84, 92–3, 151
River/floods 89, 90, 101, 151, 187, 187–8, 195, 240
Hereford farm, Bathurst 132, 202, 214
Hickson, Edna 12, 275
Hillsborough, ship 40, 41
Hobartville, 144, 191, 255, 264, 265
Holt, Joseph 7, 36, 36–7, 43–5, 47–50, 53, 58, 64
as Farm manager 32, 54, 56, 59–61, 66, 69, 78, 140, 152, 154, 158, 190
Hughes, Robert 39
Hunter, Governor 63, 89, 92, 183
Hunter Valley and settlers 236–7, 249, 255, 257, 260
Immigrant workers 234–5, 237–8
Improvements, farming and civic 20, 203
Indulgences – see Pardons, Emancipation, Tickets of leave
Jamison, Dr 64
Jamison Sir John 65, 84, 91, 140, 141, 147, 153, 159, 171, 188, 205, 214, 232, 239, 241, 244, 246, 248, 252, 256–7, 266, 272
Johnson, Revd Richard 58
Justices of the Peace (JPs), English 23 – see also Magistrates
Kangaroos 117–8, 128,
Karskens, Grace 51, 83, 231,
King, Governor 56–8, 62, 64, 66–7, 68, 69, 74–5, 92, 152, 263
King, Mrs 152–3
King, Sergeant James 78, 102, 145, 274
King’s Table Land 110
King’s School 156–7
Kociumbas, Jan 228, 230
Lachlan River 134, 162, 169, 172, 177
Land ownership
by Cox’s sons 105, 179, 210, 260
Importance of 20, 55, 137, 180, 233
Landed gentry 12, 13, 28, 57, 64, 78, 134, 155, 159, 181, 215, 232–58, 267
Next generation of 260
Residences of 260
Lang, Gideon Scott 236
Lang, James Dunmore 243
Launceston, Tasmania 72, 216
Lawson, William Snr 13, 78, 93–4, 133, 137, 140, 226, 228–9, 200–3, 206, 209–10, 244
as Superintendent at Bathurst 146
Lawson, Nelson 206, 211
Lawson’s Sugarloaf 125
Laycock, quartermaster 35, 59, 63
Legislative Council/Assembly 11, 251, 236–7, 248, 252
Leroux, Lieutenant George Wilson 215, 217
Lett River 119, 123–4
Lewin, John 113, 135
Lewis, Richard 98–100, 103–5, 107, 109, 110, 118, 122–3, 126, 127, 146, 176–7
Lively, brig 39
Linden 106–7
Liverpool, Lord 137, 203
Liverpool Plains 210, 213
London Gazette 7, 28
London Missionary Society
Lord, Simeon 66, 70, 78, 85, 194, 242, 249, 252, 254
Macarthurs
Elizabeth 53, 55–6, 151–2, 265
Family 8, 148, 235, 238, 257
Hannibal 144, 159, 238, 244, 267
James 148, 234, 238, 242, 254–5, 267
James, 1837 treatise on NSW 259
John 11, 13, 32, 35, 50–1, 52, 53, 55, 57, 60, 63–4, 72, 78, 139, 140, 147, 152, 159, 186, 188, 203, 205, 214, 250
Mackaness, Sheriff 247
Macquarie, Lachlan 7, 31, 51, 55, 62–3, 75–6, 79, 80, 81, 92, 94, 98–100, 102, 109, 117, 131, 135, 147, 150, 1671, 165, 174, 180–3, 190, 193–4, 202–3, 205, 233, 242, 251
as Patron of Cox 108, 146
Anniversary dinner 81, 83
and Rehabilitation of convicts 78, 87–8
and Mountain road 97, 110, 112
Tours of Inspection/journals 89, 91, 200
Macquarie, Elizabeth 80, 84, 90–1, 154, 272
Macquarie River 94, 110, 129, 131–2, 172–3
Macquarie towns 69, 77, 81, 89, 90–1, 154, 185, 203
Magistrates / JPs, NSW 24, 78, 88, 167, 193
Malversation (of funds) 73
Marsden, Revd Samuel 54, 55, 66, 78, 87, 90, 138–40, 167, 171, 194, 197, 203, 205, 215, 239, 244–6
Martial Law 229, 246
McLeay, Alexander 157, 171, 210, 257
Memoirs of William Cox JP 11, 12, 28, 49, 61, 143–144, 145, 200, 202, 278
Mileham, Dr 90–1, 146, 164
Minerva, transport 8, 33–4, 36–50, 52, 270
Mutiny on 46, 48
Molesworth Committee 148, 183–4
Morisset, Major 226–7
Mount Blaxland 97, 111, 119, 120–1, 124–7
Mount Victoria 97, 108, 110
Mount York 9, 94, 96, 112, 114, 116, 121
Cox monument 114, 132
Mudgee 139, 149, 200, 205–7, 210–1, 213, 215, 224, 226, 259–60, 271, 275–7
Mudie, ‘Major’ James 237, 252–3
Mulgoa 16, 63, 84, 104, 119, 139, 231, 209, 235, 246, 260, 271
St Thomas Church and Coxes 154, 273, 276
Mulgrave Place 69
Munna 205–6
Musters 207
Napoleonic Wars 13, 169, 187–8, 204, 236, 263
National Trust of Australia at Clarendon 270
Naval Officer, the 54, 214, 216
Nepean River 89, 94, 97, 101, 110, 117, 119, 125, 127, 231, 246
Newcastle (Coal River) 164, 166, 193
New Zealand 261–2
Nineteen Counties 136, 208
Nombie 260
Norfolk Island 43, 69, 156, 166
Ovens, Major, Colonial Secretary 208
Overseers – see Supervisors
Oxley, John 134, 138, 140, 145, 158, 161, 172–4, 176, 179, 186, 208, 210
Pardons 99, 133, 184, 192–3
Parramatta 17, 50, 51, 53–5, 66, 76, 84, 97, 127, 138, 146, 244, 246
Pastoralists 181–2, 198, 200, 215, 232, 234, 254, 257, 268
Paternalism 165–6, 174
Patronage 203–4
Paterson, Lieutenant Colonel 59, 60, 62, 69, 73, 76, 154
Peron 59, 60
Petitions/memorials 152, 174, 193, 212, 241, 247–8, 252, 271
Piper, John 13, 54, 69, 70–2, 74, 78, 155, 202, 214, 244, 261, 272–3
Piper, Elizabeth 217
Piper, Robert Sloper 263
Phillip, Governor 39, 53, 62, 97–8, 218–9, 182
Pitt Amphitheatre 111
Pitt, William 90, 111
Pitt Town 89, 90
Platypus 130
Point Piper 54, 214
Ponds, The 53
Poole, Dorset 13, 15
Port Dalrymple 216, 268
Portland, Duke of 62, 89, 183–4
Portland Head settlers 165
Price, John Washington 36–50
Primogeniture 139, 207, 267
Prince Regent’s Glen 111
Pulpit Rock 110
Pure Merinos 160, 202, 212–3, 232–3, 247–8, 252, 255, 273
RAAF 11, 144
Rawdon, Yorkshire
Rawdon, NSW 209, 271, 273
Redfern, William 85, 159, 242
Regentville 84, 155, 246
Richmond, NSW 81, 84, 89, 97, 143, 156, 241, 246, 255
Ritchie, John 174–5, 185, 195
Rocks, the 51
Rose Hill 53
Ryl
stone 209
St John’s Alley, Devizes 26
St John’s Church, Devizes 26
St Matthews church, Windsor 86, 87, 145, 172
Salkeld, commander 43–4, 46–7
Scurvy 103
Sheep 21–2, 158–9, 224, 198, 201–2, 205, 268
Sidmouth Valley 129, 130–1
South Creek 69, 79
Springwood 103, 138
Squatters 213, 233, 235–6, 253, 256, 260
Stanley, Lord 274
Supervisors/overseers 147
Sydney Gazette 67, 70, 75, 79, 81, 83, 91, 227–8, 230, 217, 241, 251–2
Sydney, Lord 39
Sydney, (Port Jackson) 32, 35, 38–9, 49, 51–2, 52, 74, 186, 216
Talbragar 211
Task work 147, 189
Terry, Samuel 78
Therry, Revd Roger, 165
Thompson, Andrew 77, 79, 83, 85, 90, 194
Threlkeld, Revd L. E. 227–8
Tickets of leave 84, 99, 133, 162, 164, 169, 170, 173–4, 184, 191, 199, 266
Essential for pool of labour 203
Tindall, labourer 99, 125–6
Toongabbie 61
Townshend, Viscount ‘Turnip’ 186
Trial by jury 196, 242, 248, 251
Upjohn family 19, 23–5, 29
Vale of Clwyd 119
Wakefield, Edward Gibbon 148, 211, 277
Watch and clock making 12, 16, 19, 25, 27, 29, 32, 56
Weatherboard Inn 108, 113
Wellington, Duke of 80, 263
Wentworth, D’Arcy 13, 54, 66, 74, 85, 141, 171, 191, 203, 205, 216
Wentworth, W. C. 71, 85, 93–4, 242, 247–50, 252, 256–7, 273
1819 account of the colony 156, 204
‘A new Britannia’ 249, 256
Wentworth Falls (Weatherboard) 107–8, 113
Wentworth’s Sugarloaf 125
Westmoreland, County of (Bathurst) 200
Wicks, Agnes (convict servant) 191
Wilberforce, town 89, 90
Wilberforce, William 90
Wimborne, Dorset 13, 13–5, 17, 26
Winbourne, NSW 72, 144, 261–2, 272, 275
Windsor, NSW 82, 89, 90, 96–7, 131, 155, 163, 166–7, 266
Court house 91, 92, 203
Rectory 67, 87
Wollondilly River 115
Women’s rights 108
Women’s roles 140
Wyndham, George of Dalwood 236
York, Duke of 62, 72–3