John A Carvosso – author

Teapoy

Samuel Carvosso book, Page 161– Teapoy story

THE TEAPOY. ‘There are so many stories about this but my cousin Richard, son of Cyril R (Rod) Carvosso and grandson of Percy told me he remembered its being on the verandah of Percy’s house in Brisbane. The Museum (formerly the chapel) of the Church made an appeal for artifacts and Percy sent the Teapoy. I think there was an article in the Courier Mail about it. I did not know what a Teapoy was and as far as i know we did not know it existed. This means it must have gone home with Benjamin and Deborah and come back with Joseph Hobart Carvosso and been in the house at Gladstone when Joseph died and somehow preserved and given to William who gave it to Percy. Emma Fox, Joseph’s widow was about 21 when widowed and the children were all babies, and she went to live with her family and became the Post Mistress at Fernvale, which is now a suburb of Brisbane. No one ever talked about Joseph to us as none of the children remembered him. When Richard Carvosso saw the teapoy in Hobart he was most upset, as I was on a later date, as the beautiful wood sections were splitting and the lead liners of the sections were mostly missing, and he swears it was in good condition when on his grandfather’s verandah. The church had not looked after it.’ 

‘There is a clock in the Church which Benjamin sent back for the then new church.’

Ref. Elizabeth Carvosso