Guide to the Collections held by the Essex Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP), 1782-01-1903-09-28; 1964-1966

Summary

Collection number:

M838 - M840

Creator:

Essex Record Office

Extent:

41 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:

Quarter Sessions Records:

Minor functions, miscellaneous: drafts of Orders of Quarter Sessions for transportation May 1845-June 1853, showing name, crime and sentence of each convict.

Clerk of the Peace. Parliamentary returns; returns of transportation orders 1844-1853, giving name, age, crime and sentence of each convict; expenses of prosecutions and of conveying convicts sentenced to transportation.

Process Books of Indictments 1782-1866: 11 volumes giving a note of every indictment session by session supplying name, abode and occupation of defendant, offence, plea, verdict and sentence. With each volume there is an index of defendants.

Private Records:

Documents 1868-1897 relating to the estate of John Vaughan of Hotham Creek, Pimpara, Queensland.

Documents 1848-1862 relating to Charles Perry, Bishop of Melbourne, and his family.

Letters 1882-1898 from Col. Benjamin A. Branfill, Nelson, New Zealand, to T.L. Wilson.

Thesis by M.H. Dunwell: 'True Patriots from Essex: An Investigation into Transportation of Convicts from the County of Essex to New South Wales during the Period 1787-1809, with Particular Reference to Transportees of the First Fleet' (1966).

Hanslip Ward and Co. (solicitors) deposit: letter 1844 of J.S.T. Dowbiggin of Hobart to Miss Cocker concerning religion and education.

Letter 1830 of Dr Edward Hawkins, Oriel College, Oxford, to Christopher C. Parker referring to emigration as a means of alleviating agricultural distress.

Legal documents, correspondence and newspaper cutting 1839-1860, in the Petre Family papers, referring to land in Wellington and Nelson, New Zealand.

Sperling Family correspondence 1810, 1816, referring to William Bligh.

Power of attorney 1876 to Owen Kemp from George T. Kemp, Richmond River, New South Wales.

Letters 1866-1903 to Rose Robertson of South Australia, later Mrs John Player Frowd.

Passport 1896 of Herbert W. L. Way to travel on the Continent and in the Philippine Islands.

Documents 1899 of Alexander Wallace, concerning various hardwood company interests in Western Australia, and letter from his son Arthur C. Wallace, Deniliquin, New South Wales.

Letters 1848 from William Kingston to George Warburton concerning emigration.

Letter 1850 from H. Caslake, Union House, to Rev. J. Bullock about emigrants from Radwinter.

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-vn583703] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Existence and Location of Originals:

Essex Record Office, Wharf Road, Chelmsford, England.

For more information see: Catalogue at the Essex Record Office. [http://seax.essexcc.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

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