Trevor C. Taplin - Transcriptions of two travel diaries of Thomas Wroot Midwood, 1847 & 1855, transcribed 1999

MLMSS 6949

fonds

1847 & 1855, transcribed 1999

404054

Microfilm : Original ms. diaries at C 344 - C 347.

1 folder - 0.01 Meters
Textual Records - (typescript)

Thomas Wroot Midwood was born near Manchester in 1815 and emigrated to Hobart Town on the 'Macclesfield' with his mother and family in 1822. In 1832 he joined the Commissary Department as a clerk and in 1840 was appointed to the Department of the Army as Deputy Assistant Commissary General. In 1847, Midwood took three months leave of absence to escort his sister Eliza to Auckland for her marriage to John Sutherland, Deputy Assistant Commissary General. Midwood was promoted to Assistant Commissary General in 1853. He served at the Seige of Sevastopol in 1855 and after various postings retired in 1864 to live with his sister Eliza on the Isle of Guernsey where he died in 1866.

3 Mar. 1847 - 15 June 1847; Transcription of Thomas Wroot Midwood's diary of a voyage on the 'William' from Van Diemens Land to Auckland and return via Sydney, Port Phillip & Launceston, 47 pp.
10 Feb. 1855 - 12 May 1855; Transcription of Thomas Wroot Midwood's diary of a voyage from Hobart Town to London on the barque 'Antipodes', 49 pp.

The original pencil ms. diaries are located in the Mitchell Library at C 344 - C 345 (1847 diary) and C 346 - C 347 (1855 diary). A microfilm copy of both diaries is located at CY 2558, frames 1-147.