William Cox

by Richard Cox

  Census of New South Wales, 1822, 1828.

  Colonial Secretary Index 1788–1825 in Mitchell Library. References after 1826, not printed, State Records, Kingswood, NSW.

  Cunningham, Peter, Surgeon R.N., Two Years in New South Wales, Henry Colburn, London, 1827.

  Eden, Sir Frederick Morton, The State of the Poor, 3 vols, J. Davis, London, 1797.

  Historical Records of Australia, Series 1, 3.

  Historical Records of New South Wales, vols v, vi.

  Holt, Joseph, Memoirs of Joseph Holt, ed. T. Crofton Croker, vol. 2, Henry Colburn, London, 1838.

  Lang, Gideon Scott, Land and Labour in Australia, Melbourne, 1845.

  London Gazette, 1795–1809, National Archives, Kew, London.

  Macarthur, James, New South Wales, its Present State and Future Prospects, D. Walther, London, 1837.

  Marsden, Samuel, Statement chiefly relating to the Formation and Abandonment of a Mission to the Aboriginals of New South Wales, R. Howe, Government Printer, Sydney, 1828.

  Marshall, William, On the Landed Property of England: an elementary and practical treatise, concerning the purchase, the improvement and the management of Landed Estates, G. and W. Nicol, G. and J. Robinson, R. Faulder, Longman and Rees, Cadell and Davies, and J. Hatchard, London, 1804.

  Pickering, William, A Guide to Wimborne Minster, Pickering, London, 1830

  Royal Kalenders 1784, 1789, 1793, National Archives, Kew.

  Wentworth, William Charles, Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and in Van Diemen’s Land, printed for G. & W. B. Whittaker, London, 1819.

  White’s Directory of Christchurch, White’s, Christchurch, 1859.

  Newspapers and Newsletters

  Sydney Gazette, 1803–28.

  Hobart Gazette, 1818–21.

  News from the State Records of New South Wales, 2010–11.

  2. Primary Printed Sources Later Reprinted

  Bannister, Saxe, late Attorney General in New South Wales, Humane Policy or Justice to the Aborigines of New

  Settlements, London 1838, republished by Dawsons of Pall Mall, London, 1968.

  Cobbett, William, Selections from William Cobbett’s Illustrated Rural Rides, 1826–1832, ed. Christopher Norris, Webb and Bower, London, 1984.

  General Muster and Land and Stock Muster of New South Wales 1822, ed. Carol Baxter, Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record, North Sydney, 1988.

  Cox, George, George Cox of Mulgoa and Mudgee: Letters to his Sons 1846–49, with notes by Edna Hickson, privately printed, 1980.

  Cox, William, Memoirs of William Cox J.P., William Brooks and Co., Sydney, 1901. Facsimile reprint, Library of Australian History, North Sydney, 1979.

  Mudie, James, The Felonry of New South Wales, 1837, ed. Walter Stone, Angus & Robertson, London, 1995

  Report from the Select Committee on Transportation, 1838, together with the Minutes of Evidence, Appendix and Index, House of Commons, British Parliamentary Papers, 14 July 1837, facsimile edition, Irish University Press, Shannon. Proceedings, Chronological Series, 1968.

  The Universal British Directory of Trade, Commerce and Manufacture, sold by C. Stalker, London, 5 vols, 1791–98.

  Threlkeld, L. E., Australian Reminiscences and Papers of L. E. Threlkeld, Missionary to the Aborigines 1824–1859, ed. Niel Gunson, Aboriginal Studies No. 4, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra, 1974.

  3. Unpublished Primary Sources

  Banks, Sir Joseph, Banks Papers, Mitchell Library, Sydney, vol. 22.

  Bigge, John Thomas, Appendices to the Parliamentary Commissioners Report, CO 201/120, CO 201/121, CO 201/1123, Bonwick Transcripts, Boxes 5, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 24, 25, 26, 28, Mitchell Library, Sydney.

  Bonwick Transcripts of New South Wales official correspondence.

  Campbell, John Thomas, ‘Report of the Governor’s Tour of Inspection’, April 1815, Colonial Secretary Index, reel 6038, SZ 159.

  Certificate of William Cox’s Army Commission, ML Mss 6079, Mitchell Library, Sydney.

  Courts Martial Records, 1806–09, National Archives, Kew, WO 71/145,212.

  Cox, Alfred, ‘Family Reminiscences, 1884’, transcribed by Bryan Cox, New Zealand, 1997.

  Cox, George, correspondence, 1846–67, ML Mss 1150.

  Cox, George, ‘A Journal kept by Mr George Cox on his late Tour to Northward and Eastward of “Bathurst”’, 1821, transcribed 28.3.1974, National Library of Australia, Canberra, NLA ref M71224.

  Cox, George Henry Frederick, ‘A History of Mudgee’, unpublished, written 1909 or 1910, typed copy in Mudgee Library, NSW.

  Cox, William, ‘Last Will and Testament of William Cox of Fairfield, Windsor’, 21 December 1836, typed copy and photocopy made by Thelma and Matthew Birrell, undated, Priest’s House Museum, Wimborne, Dorset.

  Macquarie, Lachlan, ‘Journal of a Tour in the newly Discovered Country, 25 April – 19 May 1815’, ML reel CY 33, A 779.

  Macquarie, Lachlan, ‘Journal of a Tour of Inspection 1810–1811’, Mitchell Library, CY reel 302, A 778.

  New South Wales Corps, correspondence, WO 4/486, National Archives, Kew, London.

  Piper Papers, vols 2 and 3, 1832, Mitchell Library ref A255, 256.

  Price, John Washington, ‘A Journal kept on board the Minerva Transport from Ireland to New South Wales’, British Library, Mss 13380.

  Registry of Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths, Dorset History Centre, Dorchester, England.

  Various documents re William Cox stored in three envelopes, ML, Ac 42/1-3. These include bills of exchange and W. C. Wentworth’s counsel’s opinion of 9 August 1832.

  Wiltshire Historical Records, County Records and Parish Records, Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England.

  Youll, Anne, letter of 11 December 1903 from Balham, London, to Winfred Cox at Cann River, Orbost, Victoria, ML Mss 6731.

  4. Unpublished Secondary Manuscripts

  Cox, David, ‘Historian’s Report 1986’, William Cox Fellowship, privately distributed by David Cox, Blackheath, NSW.

  ‘Cox, of Clarendon, N. S. Wales’, 35 pages unpublished and unsigned typescript, giving family genealogy 1400 to approx 1900, copy held by Priest’s House Museum, Wimborne, Dorset.

  5. Printed Secondary Sources (Books, Chapters, Articles)

  Books

  Atkinson, Alan, Camden, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1988.

  Atkinson, Alan, The Europeans in Australia, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, vol. 1, 1997, vol. 2, 2004.

  Australian Council of National Trusts, Historic Homesteads of Australia, vol. 1, Cassell Australia, Stanmore, NSW, 1969.

  Australian Historical Statistics, ed. Wray Vamplew, Fairfax, Syme &Wilson, Broadway, NSW, 1987.

  Barkley-Jack, Jan, Hawkesbury Settlement Revealed: A New Look at Australia’s Third Mainland Settlement 1793– 1802, Rosenberg, Kenthurst, NSW, 2009.

  Bassett, Marnie, The Governor’s Lady, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1956.

  Bateson, Charles, The Convict Ships 1787–1868, Brown, Son and Ferguson, London, 1969.

  Beamish, Derek, Dockerill, John, and Hillier, John, The Pride of Poole 1688–1851, Poole Historical Trust, Poole, Dorset, 1988.

  Bettey, J. H., Rural Life in Wessex 1500–1900, Moonraker Press, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, 1977.

  Blainey, Geoffrey, A Land Half Won, Macmillan, South Yarra, Victoria, 1980.

  Bowd, D. G., Macquarie Country: A History of the Hawkesbury, Library of Australian History, Sydney, 1994.

  Broadbent, James, Elizabeth Farm, Historic Houses Trust of NSW, Glebe, NSW, 1995.

  Broadbent, James, The Australian Colonial House, Hordern Rare Books, Sydney, 1997.

  Brooke, Alan, and Brandon, David, Bound for Botany Bay: British Convict Voyages to Australia, National Archives, Kew, 2000.

  Cameron, Roderick, Australian History and Horizons, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1971.

  Clark, C. M. H., A History of Australia, vol. 1, Melbourn
e University Press, Carlton, 1962; vol. 2, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1968; vol. 3, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1973.

  Clayton, Anthony, The British Officer, Pearson Longman, London, 2006.

  Clemons, G. M. W., Historic Homesteads of Australia, Cassell Australia, 1969.

  Clendinnen, Inga, Dancing with Strangers, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2003.

  Clune, Frank, Bound for Botany Bay: Narrative of a Voyage in 1798 Aboard the Death Ship Hillsborough, Angus & Robertson, Sydney 1965.

  Concise History of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oxford, vol. 1, 1992.

  Connor, John, The Australian Frontier Wars, 1788–1838, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2002.

  Cox, Cornelia, and Rose, Life at Clarendon (nineteenth-century account), National Trust of Australia (Tasmania), 1988.

  Cox, Philip, and Stacey, Wesley, The Australian Homestead, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1972.

  Cunningham, Chris, The Blue Mountains Rediscovered: Beyond the Myths of Early Australian Exploration, Kangaroo Press, East Roseville, NSW, 1996.

  Daniels, Kay, Convict Women, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1998.

  Darwin, John, The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World System, 1830–1970, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009.

  de Serville, Paul, Port Phillip Gentlemen, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1980.

  Draper, Jo, The Georgians, Dovecote Press, Wimborne, Dorset, 1998.

  Ellis, M. H., Lachlan Macquarie, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, rev. ed., 1972.

  Fletcher, Brian, Colonial Australia Before 1850, Nelson, London, 1976.

  Fletcher, Brian, Landed Enterprise and Penal Society: A History of Farming and Grazing in New South Wales Before 1821, Sydney University Press, Sydney, 1976.

  Fletcher, Brian, Ralph Darling, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1984.

  Gascoigne, John, The Enlightenment and the Origins of European Australia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002.

  Grey, Jeffery, A Military History of Australia 1788–1870, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990.

  Hampson, Norman, The Enlightenment, Penguin, London, 1990.

  Hillier, John, Ebb Tide at Poole 1815–1851, Poole Historical Trust, Poole, Dorset, 1985.

  Hirst, J. B., Convict Society and its Enemies, Allen & Unwin, North Sydney, 1983.

  Hughes, Robert, The Fatal Shore, Knopf, New York, 1987.

  Jeans, D. N., An Historical Geography of New South Wales to 1901, Reed Education, Sydney, 1972.

  Jordanova, Ludmilla, History in Practice, 2nd ed., Hodder Education, London, 2006.

  Karskens, Grace, The Colony, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2009

  Kass, Terry, Liston, Carol, and McClymont, John, Parramatta: A Past Revealed, Parramatta City Council, Parramatta, 1996.

  King, Hazel, Richard Bourke, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1971.

  Kociumbas, Jan, Oxford History of Australia, vol. 2, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996.

  Leeson, Eric, William Cox – a Short Biography, privately published, Wimborne, Dorset, 2008.

  Light, Richard Upjohn, A Study in Ancestry, 2 vols, privately printed, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1990.

  McBurney, Yvonne, and Cox, David, The Road to Bathurst, Education Material Aid, Strathfield, NSW, 1988.

  MacLaughlin, Eugene, and others, Criminological Perspectives, 2nd ed., Sage Publications, London, 2003.

  Mant, Gilbert, The Big Show, Horowitz Publications, North Sydney, 1972.

  Mowle, Percy Conrad, A Genealogical History of the Pioneering Families of Australia, 5th ed., Rigby, Adelaide, 1978.

  Mulgoa Progress Association, Mulgoa! Mulgoa! Where is That?, privately printed, 1988.

  Mumby, Lionel, How Much is That Worth?, Phillimore Books, Chichester, 1989.

  Nicholas, Stephen, and Shergold, Peter R., eds, Convict Workers: Re-Interpreting Australia’s Past, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988.

  Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004.

  Oxley, Deborah, Convict Maids: The Forced Migration of Women to Australia, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1996.

  Payne, Donald, Dorset Harbours, Christopher Johnson, London, 1953.

  Popham, David, The Book of Wimborne, Barracuda Books, Buckingham, 1983.

  Ritchie, John, Lachlan Macquarie, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1986.

  Ritchie, John, Profit and Punishment, Heinemann, Melbourne, 1970.

  Ritchie, John, The Evidence to the Bigge Reports: New South Wales Under Governor Macquarie, vol. 1, The Oral Evidence, Heinemann, Melbourne, 1971.

  Roberts, Stephen, The Squatting Age in Australia 1835–1847, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1935.

  Robson, L. L., The Convict Settlers of Australia, 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1994.

  Roe, Michael, The Quest for Authority in Eastern Australia 1835–1851, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1965.

  Rolls, Eric, A Million Wild Acres, Penguin Australia, Ringwood, Victoria, 1984.

  Rudé, George, Protest and Punishment: The Story of the Social and Political Protestors Transported to Australia 1788–1868, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1978.

  Selzer, Anita, Governors’ Wives in Colonial Australia, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 2002.

  Shaw, A. G. L., Convicts and the Colonies, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1977.

  Smith, Babette, A Cargo of Women: Susannah Watson and the Convicts of the Princess Royal, rev. ed., Rosenberg, Dural, NSW, 2005.

  Spiers, Hugh, Landscape Art and the Blue Mountains, Alternative Publishing Co-operative Ltd, Chippendale, NSW, 1981.

  Steven, Margaret, John Macarthur, Great Australians series, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1988.

  Thompson, F. M. L., English Landed Society in the Nineteenth Century, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1963.

  Walker, William, Old Hawkesbury Celebrities: William Cox of Clarendon and Family, printed by C. M. Davies, Windsor, NSW, 1896.

  Ware, Sydney, Who Was Who on the Liverpool Plains, 1841, Colonial Museum, Mudgee, December 1998.

  Waterhouse, Richard, Private Pleasures, Public Leisure: A History of Australian Popular Culture Since 1788, Longmans Australia, South Melbourne, 1995.

  Waterhouse, Richard, The Vision Splendid: A Social and Cultural History of Rural Australia, Curtin University Books, Fremantle, 2005.

  Watkins, Susan, Jane Austen’s Town and Country Style, Thames & Hudson, London, 1990.

  Watson, Frederick, ‘Introduction’, Historical Records of Australia, Series I, vol. vii, pp. i–xiii.

  White, Allen, The Chain Makers: A History of the Watch Fusee Chain Makers, published by the author, Wick Lane, Christchurch, Hants, 1967.

  Wyndham. The Hon. H. A., A Family History 1688-1837, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1950.

  Yarker, Gwen, Georgian Faces: Portrait of County, Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, Dorchester, 2010.

  Young, John, Wiltshire Watch and Clockmakers, Sedgehill Publishing, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, 2006

  Journal Articles and Chapters in Edited Books

  Atkinson, Alan, ‘Master and Servant at Camden Park’, The Push From the Bush, no. 6, May 1980, pp. 42–60.

  Atkinson, Alan, ‘The Parliament in the Jerusalem Warehouse’, The Push From the Bush, no. 12, June 1982, pp. 76–98.

  Blair, Sandra J., ‘The Revolt at Castle Forbes: A Catalyst to Emancipist Emigrant Confrontation’, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol. 64, pt 2, September 1978, pp. 89–107.

  Bolton, G. C., ‘The Idea of a Colonial Gentry’, Historical Studies, vol. 13, no. 5, October 1968, pp. 307–28.

  Borch, Merete, ‘Rethinking the Origins of Terra Nullius’, Australian Historical Studies, vol. 32, no. 117, October 2001, pp. 222–39.

  Broome, Richard, ‘Aboriginal Workers on South Eastern Frontiers’, Australian Historical Studies, vol. 26, no. 103, October 1994, pp. 202–15.

  Carisbrooke, Donald, ‘The Influence of the “Gentleme
n Settlers” in Australia in 1838’, The Push From the Bush, no. 11, November 1981, pp. 23–35.

  Damousi, Joy, ‘Chaos and Order: Gender, Space and Sexuality on Convict Ships’, Australian Historical Studies, vol. 26, no. 104, April 1995, pp. 351–72.

  Dickinson, H. T., ‘Democracy’, in The Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776–1832, ed. Iain McCalman, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999.

  Dyster, Barrie, ‘The Fate of Colonial Conservatism on the Eve of the Gold Rush’, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, December 1968, vol. 4, September 1980, pp. 329–55.

  Dyster, Barrie, ‘Public Employment and Assignment to Private Masters’, in Convict Workers, ed. Stephen Nicholas, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988, Chapter 9.

  Fink, David and Averill, ‘Harlequin of the Hunter – “Major” James Mudie of Castle Forbes’, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol. 54, pt 4, December 1968, pp. 368–86.

  Fletcher, Brian H., ‘The Hawkesbury Settlers and the Rum Rebellion’, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol. 54, pt 3, September 1968, pp. 217–37.

  Gascoigne, John, ‘Empire’, in The Oxford Companion to The Romantic Age: British Culture 1776–1832, ed. Iain McCalman, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999, p. 56.

  Garton, Stephen, ‘The Convict Origins Debate: Historians and the Problem of the “Criminal Class”’, ed. Stephen Garton, Reading 5, Australia and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, vol. 94, 1991, pp. 66–82.

  Gilchrist, Catie, ‘“This Relic of the Cities of the Plain”: Penal Flogging, Convict Morality and the Colonial Imagination’, Journal of Australian Colonial History, vol. 9, 2007, pp. 1-28.

  McGillivery, Angus, ‘From Sods to Seed-Beds: Cultivating a Familiar Field at Port Jackson’, Journal of Australian Colonial History, vol. 5, 2004, pp. 1–29.

  McSween, Angus, ‘Some Lawson Letters 1819–1824’, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol. 50, pt 3, August 1964, pp. 231–39.

  Nichol, W., ‘Ideology and the Convict System in New South Wales, 1788–1820’, Australian Historical Studies, vol. 22, no. 86, April 1986, pp. 1–20.

  Parsons, T. G., ‘Does the Bigge Report Follow From the Evidence?’, Historical Studies, vol. 15, no. 58, April 1972, pp. 268–75.