Guide to the Papers of the Roscoe Family (as filmed by the AJCP), 1899-1952

Summary

Collection number:

M1959 - M1960

Creator:

Roscoe Family

Extent:

52 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 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:

The material filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project includes: Letters 1927-28 from H. Greenfield to Edward S. Roscoe concerning living conditions in New Zealand and Rabaul; Letters 1899-1924 of John M. Gawne to his sister Katherine Roscoe containing accounts of army life in Singapore, South Africa and the Philippines; Letters 1934 of Theodora Roscoe to her mother describing South Australia and Northern Territory; Papers 1916-52 of Theodora and Edward C. Roscoe relating to Sir Thomas White, Harefield Park Hospital, conscription in Australia, Capt. E. Roscoe's expedition to Northern Territory 1934, Hermannsburg Mission, Tasmanian Indigenous Australians, and Road Transport Unit. Correspondents include W.M. Drummond, F. Albrecht and Jeannie Gunn.

Biographical / Historical:

Edward S. Roscoe (1849-1932) of Horn Hill Court, Chalfont St. Peter, was Registrar of the Admiralty from 1904 to 1932. He was the author of several books on history, biography and maritime law. He married Katherine Gawne.

Theodora Roscoe (1897-1962), the daughter of Edward and Katherine Roscoe, was a lecturer at the Harefield Park Australian Military Hospital in 1917-18. She contributed to Country Life, Time and Tide, Contemporary Review and other journals and was the author of Romances of old Buckinghamshire (1922), Market morning and other poems (1929) From the country and other poems (1936) The martinet; poems (1940), From the Chilterns; poems (1946) and St. Albans and other poems (1953). In 1917 she married her cousin Capt. E.C. Roscoe.

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-vn2288082] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Existence and Location of Originals:

Buckinghamshire Record Office. Aylesbury, England. For further information see Roscoe Family at the Buckinghamshire Record Office (http://archives.buckscc.gov.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 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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