Children of John Shelton Cotton Ellen Elizabeth Amos Tasmania Australia 1880s

John Shelton COTTON
was born in Barrington (20km South of Devonport), Tasmania, Australia

Ellen Elizabeth AMOS
was born in 1859 in Cranbrook, Glamorgan, Tasmania, Australia

JOHN & ELLEN married in the residence of her father, Adam Amos of Glen Heriot, Great Swan River (an estate of 2560 acres)

Their children, all born in places in Tasmania, were:

1883 - 1964 Lawrence Shelton Cotton
- Lawrence died in Hobart aged 81

1884 - 1948 Raymond 'Gordon' Cotton
- Gordon married Eleanor Annabella 'Annie' REID of Horton, Tasmania, Australia in 1905 in Irishtown, Tasmania
- Gordon died aged 63 in Smoerset Tasmania and is buried in Irishtown

1886 - 1974 Kenneth Henry Cotton
- married Mavis Mary STEBBINGS in 1921 at Launeston, Tasmania
- Kenneth died aged 87 in Launceston

1888 - 1958 Wilfred Cotton
- Wilfred died aged 69 in New Town Hospital, Tasmania

1889 - 1962 Clarence Cotton
- Clarence moved to New Zealand
- he settled in Masterton
- he married Ila Annie Rayner at the home of her parents, Thomas Ings RAYNER & Annie HARRIS at 14 Worksop rd Masterton in 1921
- (the mothers of Thomas Rayner & Annie Harris were sisters)
- he married Ila's sister, Dorothoy Emma Rayner in 1931
- Clarence died aged 73 in Masterton and is buried in Archer St

1891 - 1963 Elizabeth 'Bessie' Cotton
- Elizabeth died aged 71 in the Burnie Hospital, Tasmania

1896 - 1966 Roy Cotton
- Roy married Mary Frances Monica ABEL in 1926
- he died aged 80 in Devonport, Tasmania

1899 - 1902 Lewis Cotton
- Lewis died aged about 2 in Sheffield, Tasmania