Biographical entry: Wood, Robert Thomas (1845 - 1879)
- Born
- 1845
- Died
- 1879
Summary
Papers, 1857-1879. Robert Wood married Catherine M. Stockwell in 1879. Catherine was the daughter of James Stockwell a solicitor of Bowen. The records relate to both families.
A. Miscellanea, 1857-1879. Relating to the Wood and Stockwell families, chiefly James Stockwell. They include:
Chronological notes regarding James Stockwell family.
Correspondence from the Colonial Secretary's Office and Crown Law Office, Brisbane, to James Stockwell, 26 February 186-, 19 November 18-, 28 June 1878, 4 July 1878, relating to Stockwell's appointments to legal positions in Queensland, including his appointment to Bowen, handwritten, four items.
Declaration of consent to the marriage of Catherine Matilda Stockwell, being under twenty-one years of age, signed by James Stockwell, father, n.d., one item. Total of 8 pages.
B. Manuscript novel. 'Bush and Town or Twelve Months in Northern Queensland', ca.1865, by Robert Thomas Wood, writing as Frederick Smythe, pp.506. Drawn substantially from fact, the novel includes a description of life on a cattle station, and was written as the author states: "to depict life as it is in the intertropical districts of the colony, the tone of society and the amusements indulged to relieve a rather monotonous existence." One box. MITCHELL: ML.MSS.1433.