Documents

Lot 4007    Session 13 (2.30pm Thursday 26 March)    Documents

Estimate $200
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MARRIAGE LICENSE AND FACULTY, issued by William, Bishop of Newcastle under the signature of Geo. E. C. Stiles B.A. on 28 March 1871 for the impending marriage of Rowland John Traill, M.D., J.P., of Collaroy, widower and Emma Louisa L. Woodhouse, widow, of Llangollen Cassilis, with Bishop of Newcastles' paper seal impression affixed; Trust document, Sydney, dated June 22nd 1875, an original and another marked 'copy' and both signed by Henry Mort and J D Macansh, the first also by a witness, acknowledging that 25 shares of capital stock of the Bank of New South Wales standing in their names were paid for in the amount of one thousand pounds by the Bank of New South Wales in recognition of the services of the late General Manager, Robert Woodhouse and that these shares are held in trust for and all dividends are to be paid to Mrs Emma Traill, formerly Mrs Emma Woodhouse, the widow of the late Robert Woodhouse and shall be appropriated on her death as her last will and testament directs; another undated handwritten indenture of six pages in anticipation of the forthcoming marriage of Emma Louisa Laverock Traill and Henry Mort in respect of various shares and their future disposition after the marriage is solemnized, unsigned but with provision for signatures of Emma Louisa Laverock Traill, John Windeyer and Arthur Irby Traill on the one part and Henry Mort on the second part. The first with some loss of colour from paper, creases, splits and some paper loss, otherwise very good, the rest with folds and some foxing otherwise fine. (4)

William Tyrrell (1807-1879) was the first Anglican Bishop of Newcastle, NSW, being appointed in 1847 and after sailing from England took up the position in 1848.

Dr Rowland Traill (1814-1873) obtained his Doctor of Medicine degree at the University of Edinburgh. He emigrated to NSW about 1839 commencing a medical practice in the Clarence River District. However, he soon turned his attention to farming and farm management gaining a reputation as one of the most capable managers in the colony. He became a partner of Collaroy sheep station and had another own sheep station called Llangollen at Cassiles which is in the Upper Hunter Shire.

Henry Mort (1818-1900) was a woolbroker, auctioneer, pastoralist, businessman and MLC in NSW. He married the widow Emma Louise Laverock Traill in c1877. He had been a director and adviser to the wool-broking firm of Goldsbrough, Mort & Co Limited and was director of several other large companies. Upon his death in 1900 he bequeathed three thousand pounds towards the erection of All Saints' Church at Woollahra.

John D Macansh was also a pastoralist, businessman and an MLC in Queensland.

Together with a biography of Dr Rowland John Traill.