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Mrs Laycock 1826

By
Richard Read Junior
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a1528573 / DG P1/2]
(Dixson Galleries)

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Read Junior, Richard

Colonial artist (1796–1862) who arrived in Sydney as a free settler in 1819. 

State Library of New South Wales

Bark huts and country estates

In their drive to establish country estates and thriving industries in the Cooks River valley during the nineteenth century, European settlers exploited the water, timber and fertile soils of the Cooks River with little appreciation of the impact of their 'improvements'

Women

Laycock, Hannah

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Wife of quartermaster Thomas Laycock who received her own land grants at present day Kingsgrove in 1804.