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Francis Cotton (1801-1883), Quaker and settler, was born on 6 October 1801 in London, where he had some early education before attending Ackworth School. After an apprenticeship to a builder, he set up his own business. When 19 he was disowned for marrying outside the Society of Friends, Anna Maria Tilney, a former Friend from Kelvedon, Essex. Rheumatic fever, London fogs and visions of brighter prospects for a growing family induced him to sail in 1828 for New South Wales in the Mary with an old friend, Dr George Story. The voyage was prolonged by the loss of a mast, and when the ship put in to Hobart Town the party decided to remain. For more information see http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cotton-francis-1924
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Thomas Lloyd Gellibrand was born on 20th September 1820 at Cripplegate, Middlesex, England. He was the eldest of the nine children of Joseph Tice Gellibrand and his wife Anne Isabella née Kerby. Died 9 November 1874 - Hobart, Tasmania. He arrived in V.D.L. with his family per the Hibernia to in Hobart Town in March 1824. He married Isabella Brown on 1st December 1860 in All Saints Church of England, Hobart, Tasmania. They had seven children. In 1861 he was listed as occupying 5,000 acres in the parish of Clifton, Tasmania.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gellibrand-14
Photograph https://www.parliament.tas.gov.au/history/members/gellibrandt15.html
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Depositied in the University of Tasmania Archives in 1987 by E. Frances Cotton
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Letter to Francis Cotton from Thomas Lloyd Gellibrand offering Grange Farm on the same terms as agreed with Charles Swanston, ie 4000 pounds at 5%, Tasmania, 27th May, 1850.
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