Box 04-05: Fry family papers of Caroline Fraser Fry, 1888 - 1954

MLMSS 1159 ADD-ON 2076/Boxes 4-5

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1888 - 1954

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Caroline (Carrie) Fraser Fry (nee McManamey) was born in 1867, daughter of William and Jessie (nee Fraser) McManamey. She attended the Argyle School in Surry Hills, Sydney, and studied arts at Sydney University in the late 1880s. She married Arthur Fry in May 1890; they had six children, Dorothy, Dene Barrett, Alan Fraser, Hazel, Ida Wilga and James Rollo. Her brother John Fraser McManamey ran the Woodford Academy in the Blue Mountains. Carrie Fry died in Sydney in 1955.

1888 - 1954, undated; Correspondence, mainly letters received, with some drafts of letters sent; correspondents include: Arthur Fry (courtship letters, December 1889 - May 1890; letters written while touring with the governor of NSW, the Earl of Jersey, and the Post Master General, John Kidd in 1892; letters written while on a cycling tour of NSW in 1900); Edith and Katie Fry (1890); her children, Dorothy (mainly written from Batavia, 1919-1923), Alan (190_-1916), Dene (1906-1917), Hazel (1937), Rollo (1933-1944); Ellis Troughton (1917-1919); her brother Will McManamey (1921,1926,1936); Lucie M. Lidgett (1940-1947); her sister Ida McManamey (1944-1954). (Call No.: ML MSS 1159, ADD-ON 2076/BOX 4)
ca.1889 - ca.1947; Miscellaneous papers, including: 3 exercise books containing English literature notes, copied poems, and some periodic entries (1897-1903) written at the back of one of them, about the children; diary account of trip to Tasmania (1913); various items concerning Alan and Dene Fry and their military service - dog tags, badges, etc.; 'Private Accounts', notebook containing financial records (1921-1926); inventory af furniture at "Denegully". (Call No.: ML MSS 1159, ADD-ON 2076/BOX 4)
1889 - 1954; Newscuttings: Fry and McManamey families; obituaries; various (Call No.: ML MSS 1159, ADD-ON 2076/BOX 5)
1888 - 1954; Printed material, including: 'The Arthurleigh, December 1888; issued quarterly by the Senior Pupils of Argyle School, Albion Street, Surry Hills'; 'University of Sydney. Annual Commemoration, 1889. Programme of songs ...'; 'Australian gossip and story / by the "Globe Trotter". Reprinted from the Sydney Stock and Station Journal', 1895; 'British Cemeteries : La Somme', book of postcards; 'Red Tape', 5 October 1927 (contains a poem written by Arthur Fry); concert programmes; sheet music. (Call No.: ML MSS 1159, ADD-ON 2076/BOX 5)
ca.1915 - 1944; Associated McManamey family papers, mainly letters received by Ida McManamey and poems written by John Fraser McManamey. (Call No.: ML MSS 1159, ADD-ON 2076/BOX 5)

State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I letters

Private Lives: Families of N.S.W. - State Library of New South Wales (1 January, 2001 - 3 February, 2002)