Photographs from the Cory and Rogers family papers, ca. 1862-1900

PXA 1443

fonds

ca. 1862-1900

Graphic Materials, Photographs

913231

2 photographic prints - albumen - 18 x 23 cm.
1 album (50 photographic prints) - albumen - 15.5 x 11.5 cm.
1 album (30 photographic prints) - albumen - 27.5 x 22 cm.
1 album (182 photographic prints) - albumen - 31.5 x 24.5 cm.

Edward Gostwyck Cory (1797-1873), pastoralist, was born in Devonshire, England, the eldest son of John Cory, and his wife Mary, née Gostwick, and grandson of Sir William Gostwick of Willington near Bedford. Cory married Francis, née Johnson, and in 1823 sailed in the Allies with her and his father, arriving in New South Wales as free settlers on 12 September. He and his father soon received land grants at Paterson, some of the first in the lower Hunter River district, and named them Gostwyck and Cory Vale. After some five years they bought land on the Pages River near Blandford, and established Beckham station. By then most of the better grazing land of the lower Hunter had been alienated and Cory looked beyond the limits of the Nineteen Counties for additional land. About 1830, in partnership with W. H. Warland and William, a brother of Henry Dangar, he squatted on some 1300 acres (526 ha) on the Peel River

In 1832 the projected land exchange of the Australian Agricultural Co. on the Peel River threatened to displace many of the earlier squatting occupancies in the area, including that of Cory, Dangar and Warland. In an attempt to find substitute pastures, Cory and a small party set out to explore the area north of the company's Peel River grant. On this excursion, Cory discovered a track across the Moonbi Ranges, by way of a route later followed by the Great Northern Road. Further north, the party camped on an upper tributary of Carlyle's Gully, and named it Cory's Camp Creek in his honour. Cory found no suitable grazing country until he reached the tablelands of the Salisbury Waters. This area proved excellent for sheep, and Cory soon occupied large tracts of it, establishing stations at Gostwyck, Terrible Vale, and Salisbury Plains. Cory sold Gostwyck to William Dangar in 1834, and the other stations to Robert Ramsay Mackenzie in 1837. Although his connection with this area was short, his explorations of the tablelands north of Tamworth, and his discovery of a route across the Moonbis contributed to the early settlement of the New England district

Reference:
Australian Dictionary of Biography. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cory-edward-gostwyck-1922 (accessed 4 April, 2012)

Items 1-2
2 albumen prints of groups of men - One shows men atop an apparent mine shaft, the other photo has been apparently posed after a rabbit hunt (several of the men are carrying shotguns and 2 men brandish dead rabbits). Both photos are inscribed 'Eureka Stockade?' on the back

Item 3 (albumen prints)
50 portraits of males and females of all ages

Item 4 (albumen prints)
30 portraits of males and females of all ages including portraits of Frank Cory Snr of Longreach, QLD, John Black of Wallangra and Warialda, NSW, Gilbert Cory of Vacy, NSW (father of Mrs E. H. Rogers), Mr and Mrs E. H. Rogers, Gostwyck Cory of Toowoomba, QLD, Mrs G. Cory nee Ms Taylor of Clifford House, Toowoomba, QLD, Jeanette Black of Wallangra NSW, Mary Black (married John MacKenzie), Frank Cory (as a boy), son of Frank Cory Snr, R. Rogers (daughter of S. H. Rogers), Mary Rogers (daughter of E. H. Rogers, (married Claude Urban), Cecil Rogers (son of E. H. Rogers), Jenny and ? (daughters of Edward Cory), of Moree, NSW, Anthony Reynolds (as a boy, son of Frank Reynolds) of Paterson, NSW, Leslie Rogers (daughter of E. Henry Rogers, granddaughetr of Reverend E. Rogers) of St. John, Camden NSW, Another portrait of John Black, Alex Black (son of John Black), Jack Cory (as a boy, son of Gostwyck Cory)

Item 5 (albumen prints)
182 portraits of males and females of all ages and other pictures including - NSW Parliament House, Charles Cory of Longreach, QLD, Ms C. Cory, Mrs Frank Reynolds, Mr. G. Reynolds, Mr and Mrs Alfred Cory, another of Charles Cory, John Black, Mary Rogers (nee Cory), E. H. Rogers, Charles Reynolds (as a boy), Harry Reynolds (as a boy), Frank Cory, Brenda Cory (nee Brown) of Paterson NSW, Darcy Reynolds (as a boy), 2 pictures of cats, grave of Reverend E. Rogers (at St. John's Ashfield, NSW), another of E. H. Rogers, a group of men around a rowboat, interior of an unknown cathedral, exterior of an unknown castle, man with a horse, Mrs E. H. Rogers

Forms part of MLMSS 2020

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.2006 as part of the eRecords Project 2011-2012

The donor has written the names of some of the subjects of the portraits beneath the pictures