Series 01: Milson family further papers, 1848-ca. 2000

MLMSS 7948/Box 1

series

1848-ca. 2000

887858

0.15 meters of textual material (1 box)

Stewart Milson of Milsons Point, Sydney was a station manager aged 27 when he applied for a commission in the 4th Battalion, 1st Infantry Brigade, 1 Sept. 1914 and embarked on Transport A14 Euripides, 20 Oct. 1914. He was appointed Commander of B Coy, 4th Battalion 1 Jan. 1915 at Gallipoli, where he was wounded, 26 Apr. 1915. He received special mention for acts of conspicuous gallantry 30 June 1915 and was killed in action, 6-8 Aug. 1915

This contents list is based on the list provided by Mrs Lyndall Russell

BOX 1

Folder 1: Partial Milson family tree

Folder 2: Information on David and Eleanor Kilpack, First and Second Fleet convicts. Includes photocopies of Old Bailey reports on the trial of David Kilpack.

Folder 3: Research notes on Carter’s Barracks, transcribed from official sources by Lyndall Russell

Folder 4: Correspondence concerning Andrew Murray’s family connection with Sir Walter Scott. Includes Scott family tree and letters to Betts family members, mostly concerning Andrew Murray, 1962-1966

Folder 5: Photocopies of early Milson family documents and letters as well as notes and transcripts of records relating to James Milson and Robert Campbell, created by Lyndell Russell. Includes Arthur James Milson’s Italian birth certificate (1854), typed transcript of 'A page from history’ by R. H. Goddard about Captain Thomas Raine. This document refers to the burial of typhoid victims on James Milson’s land

Folder 6: Documents relating to Kirkconnell Station, the Milson family property between Lithgow and Bathurst, including invoices and receipts to James Milson Jnr and Arthur Milson, 1902 and document about Kirkconnell Afforestation Camp

Folder 7: Documents relating to Stewart Milson, killed at Galipoli, including his World War 1 service record, letters from Stewart Milson to his sister Marjorie and mother Eustatia Milson, and Kings College Magazine, listing Stewart Milson in the Roll of Honour

Folder 8: Documents relating to Marjorie Milson, including school reports from Kambala and Neutral Bay College, 1908-1909; diaries, 1908-1926; miscellaneous letters received by Marjorie Milson; autograph book and children’s game books; wedding invitation and present list for marriage of Marjorie Milson and Francis Clarke Thompson, 1925

Folder 9: Miscellaneous documents relating to the Milson Family, including invitation to meet His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, 1920, miscellaneous invoices and notes

Folder 10: Newscuttings relating to the Milson Family

Folder 11: Photocopies of G.V.F. Mann’s Municipality of North Sydney : history and progress from the earliest settlement 1788-1938

Folder 12: Miscellaneous printed material including:

The cookmaid’s complete guide… by a Lady, inscribed on inside front cover: ‘E. S. Murray: Elizabeth Sophia Murray January 1848. The gift of her father A. Murray’

Short forms of prayer, &c., for several occasions, printed for Mrs Murray, Geo-St., Parramatta, ca. 1867

Catalogue of an exhibition of paintings by the Rt. Hon. Sir Winston Churchill, 1958

State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I letters