Robert Cottrell

Cottrell, his wife and four children moved to Adelaide by the brig Phantom, accompanied by brother-in-law John Ledsam (1785–1856), in June 1847.

[5] He was member for East Adelaide in the South Australian House of Assembly April 1868 – February 1875, and was an advocate of protection.

[6] He purchased a farm "Brook Cottage", Woodforde, near Magill around 1865, where they lived, and later moved to a much larger property at Urania, some 9 miles (14 km) from Maitland, South Australia.

His eldest son George Thomas Cottrell joined the second ("relief") party of B. T. Finniss's surveying expedition to Adam Bay in the Northern Territory as a labourer,[7] leaving Port Adelaide on 29 October 1864.

He brought with him six rabbits, a gift of land agent Samuel Pearce,[8] later his father-in-law, but there is no record of their being released, and they certainly failed to "be fruitful and multiply".