Children of Robert Saunders 2nd and Charlotte Cox

Robert and Charlotte married in 1863 in Evandale, Tasmania
Charlotte had 3 children to previous relationships.

• David William Cox 1857 - 1937 father David Collins.

Charlotte was David Collins servant. David was Raised by Charlottes parents. David married Ellen Button and died in 1937.

• John Edward Cox 1860 father Edward Scott.

John possibly also raised by his grand parents. John married Ellen Daymon lived in Evandale and died in 1923.

• Female Howell 1862-1862 father Christopher Howell

Possible child of Charlotte.

Charlotte and Robert had 10 Children with only 2 surviving into adulthood

• Female 1864,
• Eliza Kate 1865-1865 died 5 days old, twin of Robert James,
• Robert James 1865-1866 died 4 1/2 months old,
• Sarah Jane 1867-1868 died 6 months old,
• James Thomas 1870-1871 10 months old,
• Male 1871-1871 stillborn twin of Charlotte Christina,
• James Robert 1873 - 1874 18 months old,
• Edward Thomas 1875 - 1875 7 months old, died from Atrophy,

The most common and possible cause of  so many of Charlottes babies dying at an early age is due to Sexually transmitted diseases like gonorrhoea which cause failure to thrive in babies resulting in death.

Emma Eliza born 25th April 1869 5th child of Robert and Charlotte.
Emma was christened on the 7th July 1869 at St Andrews Uniting Church Evandale.
Emma lived in Evandale with her parents.
Emma's mother Charlotte died of peritonitis in August 1875 shortly after giving birth to her 13th child.

Robert, Emma's father remarried Catherine (Kate) Kincade and they moved to Mathinna, Tasmania around 1880.

In 1888 aged 18 Emma married John Gearing in Fingal, Tasmania. They lived in Mathinna and produced 8 children

• Annie Catherine 1889 - 1889 died aged 6 months
• Rose Mary Adelaide 1891 - 1979 married John Henry Williams
• James John 1893 - 1957 married Irene Crawford
• Robert Ambrose 1894 - 1910 aged 16 years
• Emma Charlotte 1896 - 1897 aged 6 months
• John Michael Lachlan 1898 -
• William Edward 1901-
• Ellen Isabel 1904 - 1981 married Charles Mackenzie

Emma Eliza Gearing died 8th April 1932 in Mathinna, Tasmania.

Charlotte Christina born 19th November 1871 to Robert and Charlotte. Charlotte was christened on the 13th February 1872 in St Andrews Uniting Church, Evandale.

Charlotte is the only surviving sibling of Emma Eliza.
Charlotte moved to Mathinna with her father, sister and step mother around 1880.

Charlotte married David Butcher in 1898, for an unknown reason David changed his surname and was also known as Mclennan and eventually Lewellyn which is what the family are known as today.
Charlotte and David lived in Cornwall, Tasmania and produced 9 children:

• Gladys May McLennan 1899
• Francis David Robert Butcher 1900
• Robert William Henry Butcher 1901
• Frances Mary Butcher 1903
• Percival David Lewellyn Butcher 1905
• Mary Edeline Butcher 1908
• William George Lewellyn 1911
• Raymond Thomas Lewellyn1914
• Ivy Lewellyn 1916

Charlotte Christina Lewellyn died in 1926, buried in St Marys, Tasmania.