Guide to the Collections held by Cheshire Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP), 1802-1939

Summary

Collection number:

M845-M847

Creator:

Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Extent:

21 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-987654321 )

Availability:

Available

Access conditions:

Available for reference.

Background

Content Summary:

Quarter Sessions Records: Orders by Quarter Sessions and Chester Sessions for transportation of convicts 1749, 1803-1829; Orders by Secretary of State for transportation of convicts to hulks 1802-1840; reports and returns of convicts transported and under sentence of transportation 1802-1856; circulars and correspondence on the transportation of convicts 1802-1851; convict lists sent to the Commissioners of County Rates, 11 March 1835.

Genealogical notes and letters of the Whittell Family and the Woolfield Family of Papatoetoe, New Zealand.

Stanley of Alderley: Family correspondence: journal by Owen Stanley's mother, Catherine; correspondence, including 24 letters 1846-1849 to Capt. Owen Stanley concerning family matters; correspondence 1847-1853 of Charles Edward Stanley and his wife Elizabeth; letters from T.H. Huxley relating to J. MacGillivray's Narrative of the Voyage of HMS Rattlesnake; letters 1834-c.1843 from Catherine Stanley to Louisa Dorothea Stanley; correspondence 1844-1849 of Catherine Stanley Vaughan.

Wilson of Sandbach collection: petition 1849 by passengers on the emigrant ship Cheapside; journals 1849-1851 of John Ayre, surgeon on the Cheapside and Duchess of Northumberland; hotel bills and accounts for photographic equipment purchased by T.N. Wilson during a journey to Australia and New Zealand in 1889. Ayre's journals contain descriptions of conditions aboard emigrant ships, details of treatment of the sick, and relations between passengers.

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-vn1856097] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Existence and Location of Originals:

Cheshire Record Office, Cheshire, England.

For further information see Cheshire Record Office (http://archives.cheshire.gov.uk/home.aspx).

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-987654321 )

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

Contact:

Contact us