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The man on the extreme left of the picture leaning forward on his horse
was well known Billy Lloyd. He was born at Braidwood in 1860 where his
father was mining, but came to this area while still a boy, working with teams,
hauling supplies from Grafton to Inverell then back again with loads of wool.
Later he worked on Kings Plains Station and then on Newstead Station where he was
overseer for several years. He was a splendid horseman, and bred and trained his
own race horses.
The Lamrock family descendants remember a photograph of Great Uncle
Cuthbert in exactly this same position, which was taken because of
his connection with the picture of "Bailed Up". It is possible that Tom Roberts
used more than one model if another was not available at the time,
so Cuthbert is included and it is known that he was born in 1874 in Gulgong.
He was just 21 years old when "Bailed Up" was painted and three years
later he married Lucy J. Lockrey of Brodies Plains in Inverell. |
The next man from the left, facing us and holding a hand gun, was a local
selector, who owned land close to the site of the painting.
William Alexander Frame was born in Parramatta in 1854, but arrived in
Inverell in the early part of his life and took up a selection and followed grazing
pursuits. He had one of the finest teams of horses in the North and conducted a
carrying business in the early days.
He was a splendid horseman and was the last man to run a hansom cab in the district.
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The coach driver, who helped Tom Roberts set the scene for "Bailed Up" was
a very experienced man. He was born in Nottinghamshire in England in 1832.
At the age of 8 years he sailed with his parents and two siblings on the
‘Champion’ to Australia, with the surname of Betts, which in the following
generation of mixed spellings became Bates. They lived at Gostwick Plains,
Salisbury and Kentucky working on the big stations.
As soon as Bob was old
enough he started working for the mail service on the Great Northern Road,
from Maitland to Armidale. Later he drove coaches from Murrurrundi through to the Queensland border and beyond, before the railway was
built. He was employed by Cobb & Co and experienced Thunderbolt and the
bushranger era. It was this knowledge that interested Tom Roberts when he
thought of painting "Bailed Up". |
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The model used to represent Thunderbolt, with one foot on the step of the
coach, talking to the lady passenger, was the man who hosted Tom so
generously, making the whole "Bailed Up" venture possible.
Duncan Anderson was born at Newstead in 1849, the last but one, of seven children.
How Tom Roberts met Duncan Anderson is not known, but there is no doubt that
their friendship was a long lasting one. Here the
squatter playing the bushranger is the key figure in the picture, as well
as behind the scenes. |
These young ladies who sat as models for the lady in the coach, were two of
John and Martha Kerr’s daughters. John had taken up a selection in 1870,
which he named ‘Sunny Side’. Emily, born in 1872, was the fourth child and
Lillian, born in 1876, was the sixth of thirteen. Two years after "Bailed
Up" was painted, Emily married John McManus in Bingara and Lillian, four
years later, married Frank Crosbie.
The Frame descendants know that
Emily Elizabeth also sat for Tom Roberts as
the lady passenger in the coach. She was William Frame's eighteen year old
daughter. Just as in the Caldow family, it would have been convenient for
two members of the same family to sit at the same time. |
John was born at Coghills Creek in Victoria in 1867, the second child of
Andrew and Isabel (nee Whitecross).
The whole family moved to NSW in the eighties,
where their youngest child Agnes F. C. died and was buried at Newstead in
1887, which establishes a connection with that place. Tom Roberts used
John to sit as the bushranger on the right hand side of the picture facing
in to the scene. John had many mentions in the Inverell Times as a road
contractor later on and built some of the smaller bridges in the district.
Elizabeth Caldow, nee McCallum, wife of John Caldow, who ran the Swan Vale
Hotel, is another model who sat for Tom Roberts when he painted the lady
passenger in the coach. Since her husband was used to model the last bushranger on the right
of the picture, with his back to the onlooker, it was probably a convenient
arrangement for the two to sit at the same time. |
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According to the Anderson family, Mr. Grimes was overseer when
Tom Roberts was staying at Newstead. Family history has it that Grimes was the model
for this bushranger. Since the story came from one of Duncan Anderson’s
young sons, Colin, who was actually there at the time that the picture was
being painted, it cannot be ignored. |
Traditionally, the man in shirt sleeves, rifling the goods at the back of the
coach, was thought to be Jack, Bob Bates' youngest son. In 1895,
Jack would have been barely eighteen, while the figure looks a
more mature one. Jack's older brothers, William and Charles were
also coach drivers, calling at the Oxford Hotel in Inverell, where the figures and
coach were painted. It is most probably Charles Bates who posed for this figure.
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Descendants of the Frame family claim that William J.
born in 1878, sat most likely character is the man in the tall hat facing
us at the back of the coach.
William Frame married Grace Nielsen in Glen Innes in 1912.
Standing between William Frame and Charles Bates is an unidentified
sitter and the two unidentified passengers are sitting on the side of the road. |
