• Title
  Croke, Vena - papers of James and Ada Wiseman, 1912-1944
• Creator
  Vena Croke
• Call number
  MLMSS 6756
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1912-1944
• Type of material
  Textual Records, Photographs
• Reference code
  402609
• Issue Copy
  Microfilm : CY 4038 (MLMSS 6756/1); CY 4039 (MLMSS 6756/2); CY 4040 (MLMSS 6756/3); CY 4041 (MLMSS 6756/4)
  
• Physical Description
  0.72 Meters of textual material (4 boxes) - typescipt, printed
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  James Wiseman, itinerant shearer and Australian Workers' Union representative, married Ada Rymills in Goulburn on 17 December 1913. Their children, Avis, Vena, and Gaffney George were born in 1914, 1916 and 1918 respectively. James worked in shearing sheds all over New South Wales and was often away from Goulburn for long periods. Ada lived in Goulburn and worked mainly in hotels. When they were separated they wrote to each other every two or three days
• Scope and Content
  1912-1925; letters of Ada Rymills [later Wiseman] to James Wiseman (8 folders) (Call No.: MLMSS 6756/1)
  1912-1922; letters of James to Ada Rymills [later Wiseman] (5 folders) (Call No.: MLMSS 6756/2)
  Fragments, undated letters James to Ada Wiseman (1 folder)
  Fragments, undated letters Ada to James Wiseman (2 folders) (Call No.: MLMSS 6756/3)
  1913-1921; letters to James Wiseman from other shearers and one from his mother
  1916-1944; letters to Ada Wiseman from her children and from her mother-in law
  1916-1929; miscellaneous papers mainly concerning Australian Workers' Union; invoices; Shearer's Agreement; shearers' tallies, photograph of Vena, Ada, Avis and Gaffney Wiseman c1929 (Call No.: MLMSS 6756/4)
• System of arrangement
  Correspondence of James Wiseman and Ada Wiseman has been arranged in separate chronological sequences. Some undated correspondence has been dated by internal evidence and filed in appropriate parts of the two sequences.
• General note
  
  Two letters, 1917 and 1924, Ada to James Wiseman, and the photograph at MLMSS 6756/4 were received and added to these papers after microfilming
  Digital order no:a126043
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Wiseman, Ada, -1989
  Wiseman, James
  
• Name
  Australian Workers Union. New South Wales Branch
  
• Subject
  Bartenders--New South Wales--Goulburn.
  New South Wales--Bartenders--Correspondence.
  New South Wales--Sheep shearers (Persons)--Correspondence.
  New South Wales--Social life and customs--1901-1945.
  Sheep shearers (Persons).
  Wiseman, Ada, -1989
  Wiseman, James
  
• Place
  Goulburn (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Private Lives: Families of N.S.W. - State Library of New South Wales (1 January, 2001 - 3 February, 2002)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3143798

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