Guide to the Collections held by the Lancashire Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP), 26 March 1782-02 December 1960

 

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Summary

Collection number:
M2800 - M2802
Creator:
Lancashire Record Office
Extent:
56 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:

Calendars of prisoners and transportation documents 1782-83, 1805-47 held at Lancaster Castle and the Houses of Correction at Preston, Salford and Liverpool, giving details of names, ages, crimes, sentences and including a list of convicts under sentence of transportation.

Diary 1840 of F. Smythe kept on a voyage from Gravesend to Sydney referring to other passengers, entertainments on board, and sighting of other ships. The diary ends 200 miles out from Sydney.

Assize papers 1819-42 containing orders for commutation of death sentences to transportation.

Papers 1834-40 of Joseph Pedder describing a journey from Liverpool to Batavia. Subjects include life on board the unnamed ship, description of Funchal, life in Java and the journey home on the Christina.

Papers 1909-45 of R.J.A. Berry of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Melbourne. Subjects include: cricket in Australia; education congress in Melbourne 1912; reform of Melbourne University; Berry's proposal for a new medical school and his lectures on neolithic man; imperialism; Australian politics; the human brain; and mental defectives.

Papers 1894-48 of Thomas Floyd, including letters of Mrs Colin King in Penang and Bukit Mertajam.

Records 1948-50 of Platt Bros Co, textile machineries of Oldham, referring to Australian orders.

Correspondence 1812-16 relating to the trial and transportation of Thomas Holden of Bolton.

Letters 1840-58 of stepbrothers Richard Taylor and Simon Brown, transported to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land. Subjects include Taylor's employment in the General Hospital in Sydney, description of Sydney, and Brown's employment in the service of a grazier in Van Diemen's Land.

Letters 1840-46 of a convict Richard Boothman describing life on the hulk Justicia and in Van Diemen's Land.

Access and use

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:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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