Family papers

Component identifier:

Series 1

Content Summary:

The family papers contain both original documents and copies, concerning the Petherick and Jarman families, letters written by Petherick to his father in Melbourne (1870-1877) and the certificate of Companion of St Michael and St. George dated June 1916.

The documents include an abstract of title belonging to Edward Jarman (1756), the wills of George Richardson (1777) and Edward Jarman (1783) and the certificate of probate issued after the death of Mary Agatha Pethrick in 1915. Petherick's letters to his father are pasted in a note book; they commenced in 1870 when he left home for London and continued regularly until his father's death in 1877.

Xerox material was added to the collection in 1971. It includes the Petherick and Jarman family tree and biographical notes by a niece, Constance Petherick, written in 1956.

This series comprises Items 1-378.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Edward Augustus Petherick presented his collection of books, pamphlets, manuscripts, maps and pictures relating to Australia and the Pacific to the Commonwealth Parliament in 1909 as the 'Nucleus of an historical museum'. The agreement between Petherick and the Library Committee was formalized by the Petherick Act, which was passed by the Commonwealth Parliament in 1911.

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