20 drawings : graphite ; 29 x 45 cm + 1 photograph
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Notes:
The Coates family of Durham County had been established at Smelt House since at least 1700, if not before. The house's name appears connected to iron mining that had long been going on the area. Rachel Coates married Joseph Jowitt Fryer in 1836. The Fryer home was called Holly Bank and was located in Rastrick, Yorkshire. Joseph Fryer died while still relatively young, after which Rachel and her five children moved back to Smelt House. Thereafter, the blended Coates and Fryer families resided at Smelt House, with the home passing into the hands of the Fryers in the late nineteenth century. Smelt House remained in the Fryer family until the 1950s, when it was sold. The youngest of Rachel and Joseph Fryer's children, their daughter Rachel Ann, married E.B. Mounsey (the son of John Mounsey and Lucy Backhouse) in 1878.
Subject Terms:
Fryer family. | Coates family. | Coates, Sarah, 1810-1840. | Coates, Rachel, 1806-1852. | Smelt House (Howden-le-Wear, Durham) | Holly Bank (Rastrick, West Yorkshire) | Durham (England : County) -- Pictorial works. | West Yorkshire (England) -- Pictorial works. | Country homes -- Great Britain.