Gospelz in Fonografi [Gospel according to St. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John], written in shorthand and in an unidentified language, by I. S. Stocks, 1858, with biographical material relating to the Stocks and Warden families, compiled by Eunice (Graham) Warden, 2007

MLMSS 7831

fonds

1858, 2007

826039

0.02 metres of textual material (1 volume and notes in folder)

Isaac Stone Stocks was born ca. 1823 at Rye, Surrey, England. He arrived in Sydney, ca. 1847, with his wife Caroline, nee Easton. A member of the Primitive Methodist Church, Stocks is variously described in official documents as a writer, clerk, tutor and schoolmaster. He lived in Glebe and in the Parramatta area. In 1858 he transcribed in shorthand the Gospel of Matthew. Members of Stocks' family were well known identities in the Newcastle area, particularly in Methodist Church circles. His son, Jesse Marchant Stocks, married Louisa King, a member of a prominent family of shipbuilders in Newcastle. Eunice Warden is the widow of Isaac Stone Stocks' great-grandson, Victor Warden, from whom she inherited the transcription.

From the Estate of Victor Warden, late husband of Eunice Warden

Small bound, unpaginated and handwritten volume of possibly an early form of copybook Pitman's shorthand.

Inscribed date "1.8.58" on page following manuscript title page