Manila folder labelled 'Vernicourt Declamb'

Containers:

Box 2 (MS Acc22.020)

Component identifier:

File 33

Content Summary:

Pierre Lalouette de Vernicourt [aka De Clambe] (1754—1804) arrived in Port Jackson on 14 December 1801. On 1 February 1802, he was granted 100 acres of land at Castle Hill by Governor Phillip Gidley King and assigned six convicts. The folder contains a copy of an email exchange with Dr Chris Cunneen (Australian Dictionary of Biography), 30 August 3 September 2004; copies of Lalouette de Vernicourt's 'État de Service' sent to Emeritus Professor Ivan Barko by the Service Historique de la Défense, Château de Vincennes, and then forwarded to Edward Duyker in May 2005. It also contains correspondence between Yves Roth, Alençon, and the Service Historique de la Défense, dated 16 February and 12 April 2005; a copy of Ian Nowland's, 'The Hermitage at Rogans Hill', Hills District Historical Society, 2003 [internet download]; Collingridge Rivett, 'The Baron of the Hills' (extract from an unpublished part of Time in the Hills, held by the Hills District Historical Society (no date) [internet download]; email exchange between Edward Duyker and his cousin Henri 'Loulou' Maurel, Nice, 19 22 April 2005; passenger index (supplied by Henri Maurel, Nice) listing Lalouette de Vernicourt aboard the Flamand from Lorient to the Isle de France, on 9 February 1778, and aboard the Breton, on 19 December 1786; email from Bernadette Molitor, Librarian, Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de médecine, Paris, regarding Pierre Lalouette de Vernicourt's father a distinguished anatomist who described the structure of the thyroid in 1750 (a lobe of the gland is named in his honour); emails between Edward Duyker and Graham Wilson, discussing each other's draft summaries of Lalouette de Vernicourt's life and related historical sources (17 April 2005 – 10 May 2005). The folder contains a photocopies relating to Lalouette de Vernicourt in the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, vol. i, no. 1, Saturday, 5 March 1803, p. 3 and vol. ii, no. 67, Sunday, 10 June 1804, p. 1; a copy of Chief Secretary Barry to the Government of New South Wales, 25 June 1811, enquiring about the existence of Mr. de Vernicourt alias Baron Clambe with enclosed copy of a petition by Mrs de Vernicourt, National Archives, Mauritius, RB 8, folios 171—3. Finally, the folder contains the text of Duyker's review of 'Karlene Dimbrowsky, The Mysterious Baron of Castle Hill', Explorations, ISSN 0815—6158, no. 40, June 2006 (Issued June 2008), pp. 22–7, which recounts Duyker's own research path and encounter with the life of Pierre Lalouette de Vernicourt, followed by the text of his entry on Lalouette de Vernicourt for the Dictionnaire de Biographie Mauricienne, no. 58, décembre 2006, pp. 2072–5

Immediate source of acquisition:

This collection was acquired from Edward Duyker in multiple instalments from 1996 to 2022.

Subjects:

Exploration
History

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