• Title
  Joseph Henry Barsden - volume containing autobiographical account of events 1799-1816, compiled ca. 1836, diary Aug.-Nov. 1836, and financial accounts of the Kelso Inn, 1835-1836; together with transcriptions by Alan L. Brown, ca. 197-
• Creator
  Joseph Henry Barsden, 1799-1873
• Call number
  MLMSS 7279/Box 1X
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1835-1836, 197-
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  201993
• Issue Copy
  Microfilm : CY 4345A, frames 1-178 (MLMSS 7279). Transcriptions occupy frames 69-178.
  
• Physical Description
  0.16 metres of textual material (1 volume in outsize box)
  Textual Records - (manuscript)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Joseph Henry Barsden was born in Horsham, Sussex, in 1799. He left England as an infant with his convict mother on the ship 'Speedy'. After his mother died on the voyage, he was left an orphan. Barsden went to sea at the age of 13. After several years in Eimeo in the Society Islands, he eventually returned to Sydney where, in 1821, he married Mary Ann Blackman. In the 1830s he kept a store and the Kelso Inn at Kelso near Bathurst. He died at Kelso in 1873.
• Scope and Content
  ca. 1836; Autobiographical account of events 1799 to 1816. Barsden recounts that after arriving in Sydney as an orphan in 1800 he was befriended by Governor Philip Gidley King and Mrs. Anna Josepha King, and later by William and Elizabeth Paterson. He includes observations about people and society of the time, especially those connected with Government House, Parramatta. Aged 13, he ran away to sea serving on the Brig Active, then the Brig Trial on a voyage to Tasmania and Macquarie Island. The account describes his impressions of places visited including Port Dalrymple and Hobart. In 1814 he left for the Pacific on the schooner Endeavour, visiting New Zealand and Tahiti. After a stay on the island of Eimeo (now Moorea, Society Islands) near Tahiti he married the daughter of a chief and took part in the battle which restored Pomare II as ruler of the Society Islands. At the end of 1815 he joined a voyage to Tonga, Fiji, Batavia, Manila, Macao, Kamchatka, San Francisco, Valparaiso and Hawaii. He returned to Eimeo. Barsden writes a detailed account of customs on Eimeo and neighbouring islands. The account breaks off in 1816. (Call No.: MLMSS 7279 )
  23 Aug.-18 Nov. 1836; Diary of Barsden's daily life and business affairs in Kelso and on a visit to Sydney.
  1 July 1835-31 Dec. 1836; Financial accounts of the Kelso Inn.
  ca. 197-; Transcriptions of Barsden's autobiographical account and diary made by Alan L. Brown, together with research notes by Alan L. Brown
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 824192
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Brown, Alan L
  
• Name
  Bligh, William, 1754-1817
  King, Anna Josepha, 1765-1844
  King, Philip Gidley, 1758-1808
  O'Connell, Mary, Lady, 1783-1864
  Paterson, Elizabeth, 1770?-1839
  Paterson, William, 1755-1810
  
• Subject
  Diaries.
  Pacific Area--Discovery and exploration.
  Pacific Islanders.
  Sailors--Diaries.
  Tahiti--Description and travel.
  Voyages and travels.
  
• Place
  Kelso (N.S.W.)
  Macquarie Island (Antarctica)
  Moorea (French Polynesia)
  Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island).
  Tasmania
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1615568

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