John Bligh Suttor family papers

MLMSS 11241/Boxes 1-5
MLMSS 11241/Box 6X
R 2388

fonds

1820-1903

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Coins

9663934

0.9 metres of textual material (5 boxes, 1 outsize box) includes photographs
5 coins

MLMSS 11241
This collection contains correspondence from three generations of the Suttor and Bowler families. Majority of the collection is the papers of John Bligh Suttor Jnr (known as Jock) (1859-1925). There is some correspondence from/to his wife Emma Isabel Parker Suttor née Bullough (1862-1953) and from John Jnr and Emma’s three children (John Bligh Suttor (known as Bligh) (1883-1960), Isabel Pearl Marjorie Suttor (1886-1953), Phyllis Augusta Bligh Suttor (1888-1980)), primarily in the 1880s. There is also correspondence to/from Jock’s parents, John Bligh Suttor Snr (1809-1886) and Julia Frances Nina Suttor, née Bowler (1829-1901), including from John Jnr's siblings; and, Julia’s parents, Frances Mary Jane Bowler, née Raitt (1806–1872) and Captain John Bowler (1793–1874).

Box 1
John Bligh Suttor Jnr Diaries 1883-1888
Report by the Commissioner for Railways 1885
Templeton’s Workshop Companion 1866
Galbraith and Haughton’s Manual of Plane Trigonometry 1869

Box 2
Cheque books and account books for John Bligh Suttor Jnr City Bank 1880-1900; NSW Railways Free Passes, pocket book; mounted photograph with title scratched off, dated ‘17/3/1881’ (shows surveyors in a field); New Year’s greeting from Western Australian Railways to the Divisional Engineer Railways Bathurst for 1903; rolled surveys completed by Suttor; Bathurst Almanac 1886.

Box 3
Correspondence to and from Frances Mary Jane Bowler (née Raitt), c.1820s-1860s. Received in Belfast, Malta and Bathurst. Correspondents includes Maud Douglas Mackenzie (granddaughter)
Correspondence from Julia Nina Sofala Suttor (sister of John Jnr, 1851-1917), c.1850s-1860s, sent from Westbourne
Correspondence from Hylton Raitt Suttor (brother of John Jnr, 1849-1915), c.1850s-1860s, sent from Westbourne
Correspondence to Julia Frances Nina Suttor, including baptism and birth certificate of John Bligh Suttor Jnr, c.1860s-1880s
John Bligh Suttor Jnr Folder 1, correspondence 1870s-1890s
John Bligh Suttor Jnr Folder 2, correspondence majority 1880s, 1870s-1900, includes file on Mount Boppy Silver Mining Company (1893)

Box 4
John Bligh Suttor Jnr Folder 3, correspondence 1880-1890s, correspondents include William Dymock
John Bligh Suttor Jnr Folder 4, correspondence 1885-1887, includes assurance policy for Mrs E. J. Suttor dated 5 May 1885
John Bligh Suttor Jnr Folder 5 and 6, correspondence related to his work as a railway engineer. Correspondents include Colonel Kenneth Mackay and Sir John See, 1899-1903

Box 5
John Bligh Suttor Jnr Folder 7, correspondence and papers, including invitation to the wedding of Louisa Severne to Norman L Suttor 1887 and John Bligh Suttor elector’s rights license 1901
John Bligh Suttor Jnr Folder 8, papers and correspondence re history of gold discovery in NSW, 1888-1889
John Bligh Suttor Jnr Folder 9, correspondence 1880s-1903, including letter to Edward Charles Merewether(?), letter of appointment to Commercial Agent in the East, 1903. Also includes unidentified organic object.
Marriage Settlement of John Bligh Suttor to W H Suttor, trustee for Emma Isabella Parker Bullough 12 December 1882

Box 6X
Ten large format letterbook style lists titled 'Aborigines of Australia: Vocabulary of words having the same meaning in different parts of Australia'.

COINS:

R 2388

Commemorative coin. Obverse: ‘To Commemorate The Jubilee Of The Reign of Queen Victoria 1887’
Reverse: ‘God Save The Queen. Born May 1819, Crowned June 1838, Married 1840.

Penny (Queen Victoria), 1867 (contains hole)

Cent (Queen Victoria), 1861

Shilling (Queen Victoria), 1872

Farthing (King George IV), 1826

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