Guide to the Collections held by the Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch (as filmed by the AJCP), 16 September 1740-1962

Summary

Collection number:

M941-M943

Creator:

Suffolk Record Office. Ipswich Branch

Extent:

116 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 reference.

Background

Content Summary:

Various papers relating to transportation to Australia including papers for Susanna Hunt, Martha Giles, Jane Newson.

Address from Mayor of Ipswich to Queen Kafiolani of Hawaii, June 1887.

Account book, orders, correspondence, deeds of charitable gifts and loan details of churchwardens raising money for emigration of parishioners, 1836-1852.

Lecture given by Reverend Dudley on 'The Martyrs of the South Sea Islands', 1878.

Notices and papers advertising emigration ships to Australia, 1840s.

Log book of the ship Merope (Captain George Parkyns) on a voyage to India, China, the Sandwich Islands and California, March 1825 – January. 1827.

Sketches, coastal profiles and maps of the east coast of China, Pescadores Islands and different parts of Formosa, drawn on the voyage of the Merope, 1824.

Address to Lord Stradbroke expressing regret at termination of his office as governor of Victoria, March 1926.

Diary, July – September 1924, kept by Lord Stradbroke on an overland journey by car from Adelaide to Charlotte Waters, Hermannnsburg Mission, Alice Springs, Tennant Creek and Darwin.

Papers including petitions and accounts relating to emigration for the relief of the poor.

Papers relating to James Lowe,convicted of murder and transported to Australia, 1847.

Papers of the Lorraine Family, 1851-1912. Includes: Newspapers cuttings,William Lorraine's account of his life since leaving England and serving in the Indian Navy (1859), Diary describing voyage on Lord Warden (1877), financial accounts and inventory of effects of William Loraine, correspondence about life in Australia, establishment of a sheep station and the Imperial Navy.

Log book and Journals kept on HMS Centurion on its voyage round the world, September 1740 - June 1744.

Collected notes and journal of Admiral Frederick Doughty during his time on HMS Portland (1851-1854), his visit to Pitcairn Island and Easter Island (1852), HMS Magpie and an account of his early life in Suffolk and travels in Europe.

Correspondence of Greenup Family, 1834-1866. Subjects include: family news, plans to emigrate to Australia, death of Richard Greenup after being stabbed by a criminal lunatic, emigration to Australia.

Wills of Louisa and Matilda Framlingham, 1845-1852.

Papers about Margaret Catchpole, who was transported to Sydney in 1801, collected by Harold Lingwood.

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-vn2239226] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Existence and Location of Originals:

Suffolk Record Office - Ispwich Branch, Gatacre Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, England.

For more information see Suffolk Record Office. [https://www.suffolkarchives.co.uk/]

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

Contact:

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