Simcox, Francis Selwyn, 1880-1967 : Elizabeth Colenso, a biography, and other accounts

The volume comprises Elizabeth Colenso (née Fairburn), a biography by her eldest granddaughter, Frances Edith Swabey which covers the years 1819-1904 (45 & 49 pages); an Account of a visit by the Turakina to the Crozet Islands, Feb 1907, by F M Simcox (6 pages); an account of the golden wedding of W H & F M Simcox, 1920, from the Otaki Mail, (3 pages); a dedication of the Simcox Memorial Window in All Saints Church, Otaki, 1930, from the Otaki Mail (3 pages); an incident in W M Simcox's life and poem entitled `Kapiti Island' (3 pages) and a reference to Stratford House at Camp Hill, Birmingham, England. There are two indexes, one for pages 1-45, the other for pages 108-122.

F S Simcox compiled this volume in stages, beginning in 1955 when his eldest sister, Edith Swabey, asked him to type Elizabeth Colenso's biography; as time passed additional projects presented which now form part of the volume: accounts of a visit to the Crozet Islands by F M Simcox, of the golden wedding of W H and F M Simcox, a dedication of a stained glass window, an incident in W M Simcox's life and information about Stratford House, Birmingham, a history of which had been written by J W Simcox.

Quantity: 1 volume(s) (134 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres.

Physical Description: Typescript (red linen)

Finding Aids: Indexed (Biography of Elizabeth Colenso, 1819-1875 on pp 45-49; 1876-1904 on pp 50-56).

Photographs of Rev B Y Ashwell's cottage at Pepepe; William Thomas Fairburn; family of W T Fairburn, 1891; William and Elizabeth Colenso; Ridley Latimer Colenso, 1880; F M Simcox, 1877; F M Colenso, 1865?, ms map of Norfolk Island and Crozet Islands