Guide to the Records held by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (as filmed by the AJCP), 20 April 1798-1958

Summary

Collection number:

M387-M388, M1660-M1666

Creator:

Public Record Office, Northern Ireland

Extent:

223 items

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February-23 September 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Availability:

Available

Access conditions:

Available for research.

Background

Content Summary:

Correspondence 1851-1858 of James Getty with his family in Ballymoney, County Antrim, and friends in Kilmore and Beechworth.

Papers 1934-1958 of George Lutton of Cranfield, County Down, on family history, including letters of W. MacDiarmid of Sydney.

Copies of letters 1852-1855 of the political convict John Mitchel, written from Bothwell, Van Diemen's Land, referring to conditions in the colony and Irish affairs.

Letters 1862-1878 from Frank R. Robb of Tooma, New South Wales, and Alexander Robb to their family in County Down.

Letters 1890-1907 from William C. Quinn of Broken Hill and Kalgoorlie and Patrick Quinn of Auckland to their family in Belfast.

Journal December 1865-March 1866 of Elizabeth Anketell on a voyage from Plymouth on the Queen of Australia, including her first impressions of Melbourne.

Letters 1845-1851 of Thomas Vogan of Goulburn and Melbourne to his brother in County Armagh.

Incomplete diary June-September 1849 of the political convict John Martin on the voyage to Australia on the Mount Stewart Elphinstone.

Correspondence 1877-1886 of the Barton Family of Sydney including a letter-diary 1884 describing a voyage to Australia.

Journal July-October 1861 of Charles Elliot kept on a voyage from Liverpool to Melbourne on the Prince of the Seas.

Papers 1823-1894 of John Milliken including letters 1884-1887 from his brother James in New South Wales.

Deeds, official documents, financial papers and newspaper cuttings 1837-1843 of William Verner of Parramatta.

Papers of George Dunbar 1853-1855, including correspondence with James Farrell and George Pilkington.

Diary of a member of the crew of HMS Terror, 1839-1843.

Correspondence of William Whigham, A. Crawford and George Cochrane, 1880-1882.

Papers of the Lawrence family, 1859-1880. Includes correspondence of Sampson Lawrence, Charles Lawrence, James Loughead and John Lawrence to their families describing life on the goldfields.

Letters of Private William McDonald, 1842. Discusses voyage to Australia, the Australian landscape and its fauna and flora.

Correspondence of Francis Blackwood, Earl of Dufferin, 1874-1883. The correspondents include Sir George Bowen and J. Henniker Heaton. Discusses contruction of Australian railway system, Canadian politics and travel, visit to the United States of America and the development of a police corps.

Diary of William Bates on voyage to Melbourne on the ship Minnehaha, December 1857 - April 1858.

Diaries of Lady Craigavon while on a tour of Australia and New Zealand, September 1929 - March 1930.

Diary of Frederick Crawford kept on a trip to Australia and New Zealand, April - November 1892.

Correspondence chiefly between Alexander Crawford (Murchison, WA) and his fiancée Elizabeth Matthews (Linton, Victoria), 1881-1883.

'Mrs Flemming's Log book' on a voyage from London to Melbourne on the Fearnought, August - November 1863.

Papers of John Martin, 1849-1862 concerning transportation of the Young Irelanders, including letters of Kevin and Eva O'Doherty, William Smith O'Brien and P. Smyth.

Letters of Thomas Moore to Reverend Henry Scott, 1845-1866, discussing economic, political and church affairs in New South Wales.

Diary kept by Charles C. Greenfield on voyage on the Andares from London to New Zealand, May 1879 - February 1880.

Papers of Lord Castlereagh, 1798-1819 to the 1798 United Irishmen Rebellion, the transportation of political prisoners, military and naval affairs, trade in the East Indies, and the appointment of Lachlan Macquarie as Governor of New South Wales.

Diary of Alexander Huey, May 1809 - February 1911 England to Sydney on the Dromedary and from Sydney to New Zealand, and towards Cape Horn on the Atlanta.

Letters of James Twigg, 1891-1907, describing his voyage to Western Australia, farming. goldmining, wages and prices and the effects of Federation on the colony.

Diary of John Sayers for a voyage from Belfast to Melbourne on the steamship St Osyth, May - June 1875.

Diary of Samuel Shaw of Saintsfield on a voyage from Plymouth to Sydney, November 1877 - February 1878.

Correspondence of Captain F.C. Irwin, 1829-1849.

Log books of the clipper ships Norfolk and Arabella, 1852-1861.

Memoir and journal of Robert Cochran of Melbourne, 1852-1868.

Letters and journal of George Fletcher Moore, 1830-1849.

Related

Existence and Location of Copies:

The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn8061588] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Existence and Location of Originals:

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, 2 Titanic Boulevard, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

For further information see The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. [https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/proni]

Conditions Governing Access:

Available for Access.

Conditions Governing Use:

Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February-23 September 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

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