Manila folder labelled 'Bonnefin Joubert'
- Containers:
- Box 1 (MS Acc22.020)
- Component identifier:
- File 6
- Content Summary:
- This folder contains research correspondence and copies of parish register entries relating to the life of Pierre Michel Bonnefin who was born in Saint-Malo on 27 August 1787. He married in Saint-Helier, Jersey, on 7 April 1815 and had a daughter Louise 'Lise' Marie Bonnefin (born, Saint-Malo, 31 August 1815), who married Didier Numa Joubert at the Bay of Islands, on 23 November 1839 (see BMS/État Civil, Saint-Malo, Archives départementales, Ille-et-Vilaine; Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser, Monday 30 December 1839, p. 2). They were later founders of the Sydney suburb of Hunters Hill, where there is still a Bonnefin Street. The folder also contains copies of pages 44-45 of O'Reilly, P., Teissier, R., Tahitiens: répertoire bio-bibliographique de la Polynésie française, Musée de l'Homme, Paris, 1962, relating to another Pierre Bonnefin (1826–1886), also born in Saint-Malo
- Immediate source of acquisition:
- This collection was acquired from Edward Duyker in multiple instalments from 1996 to 2022.
- Subjects:
- Exploration
History
Access and use
- Parent Restrictions:
- Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1391827).
- Parent Terms of Access:
- Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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