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In
1832 Isaac's father John Fry owned
a house and land in the parish of East Brent, Somerset.
The house referred to here could quite possibly be the same house,
which appears in this very old family photograph.
The photo is of a charming old-English farmhouse. A family story has it that it once belonged to the Frys back in
England. Perhaps the house in the photo is the same house in which Isaac was born in 1824. The house no doubt was built many years before. I suspect the family occupied the property and the house for at least several generations perhaps even more. |
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Fry Family Christening Bowl |
This is a photo of the
Christening Bowl given to Eliza Fry by her mother Fanny Quire. It was
given to Eliza just
before she emigrated to Australia in 1859.
Fanny was
close to seventy when she gave the bowl to her daughter as a parting
gift. Fanny was born
Fanny Fisher about 1790 in Burnham, Somerset. She died in Edith Mead,
Somerset in 1879, age 89. |
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Page one of Isaac's letter to the Lands Department in Melbourne in 1880
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Page 2 of Isaac's letter
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