Collection 05: Hordern family papers, ca. 1810-1989

MLMSS 8789

sub-fonds

ca. 1810-1989

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Clippings

411513

0.82 metres of textual material (5 boxes)

Hugh Hordern family papers dating back to 1825 and business papers back to 1870. Collection begun by his grandfather, carried on by his father and himself. Hugh had planned to write a family history. Includes family and genealogical correspondence and records, family trees, letterbooks relating to business and family photographs.

BOX 1
Checkley family records and notes, 1956-1957

School letters and reports, 1950-1961

World War II Royal Australian Airforce records and identity cards, ca. 1943-1947

Letters from Edytha to Hugh Hordern with Hordern Brothers business records, 1954-1957

Letters relating to family tree, 1953-1956

Wills of Frances Lillie Hordern, 1950 & 1955 and 1959

Newscuttings and letters, ca. 1925, 1945-1955, including letter from Colonial Treasury NSW to Hordern Brothers Ltd Pitt Street Sydney 1899 and postcard of hole made by Zepplin’s Bomb in HB’s London, ca. 1914-1918

Letter, reports and deeds relating to Hordern Brothers Ltd and dissolution of partnership, 1921-1959

Memorandum of transfer between Edward Carr Hordern and William Albert Lette, 1923

Memorandums and Articles of Association of Hilton Trading Co. Pty. Ltd Limited with resolution to change name to Hilton Hordern Pty. Limited, ca. 1960

Notes and letters relating to Hordern Brothers, ca. 1960

Letters and legal documents relating to Hordern Brothers, 1925-1965 including deeds of pension fund between Hordern Brothers and Edward Dryland Hordern and Supplementary Trust deed between Hilton Hordern and Hugh David Carr Hordern, 1943 & 1965

BOX 2
Family history research material, genealogical information, family trees and notes mainly relating to O’Rourke family collected by Hugh Hordern, ca. 1985-1989

Photographs and photographic prints of Hordern family, no date and views of Sydney, ca. 1930

Two printing blocks of sheep, no date

BOX 3
Papers relating to Hugh Hordern and Marsden C Hordern versus Hordern Brothers with some loose papers and letters, ca. 1950-1956 (RESTRICTED)

Letters and business records of Edward Carr Hordern from Australia and England mainly relating to Hordern Brothers and correspondence with Sydney Diocese and Board of Education, 1882-1928

BOX 4
Receipt books of Hordern’s with some loose memorandums of agreement, 1887 and Eda Rebecca Hordern, 1885-1886

Hordern Brothers letters and correspondence with letters from Alfred to his brother Edward in London, 1903-1904

Mounted photographs and photographic prints ca. 1870-1954 include: members of the Hordern family Edward Dryland Hordern, Edward Carr Hordern and manager of Hordern Brothers Ltd London [ca. 1890-1900]; soldiers in Australian Imperial Expeditionary Force (AIEF), 8th Reinforcements, 6th Regiment, 2nd Light Horse Brigade [1915]; parade on Macquarie Street Sydney [ca. 1890-1920]; military encampment Duntroon Federal Capital and Lord Denman laying foundation stone in Canberra [1913]; guests at a ball in Old Exhibition Building in Prince Alfred Park [ca. 1870-1954]; boarders of North Shore Grammar school; Charlie White? as Captain in Bristol England [June 1906]

Framed photographs of River Hall 59 Hastings Road Warrawee home of Rev Hugh Hordern and Seven Hills church where John N.C. Hordern was born, ca. 1922-1928

BOX 5
Newspaper supplement the The Sun 80th Birthday of Retail Trading, 15 November 1983

Letter to Hugh Hordern, November 1953

Postcard to Hugh Hordern, November 1888

Photographs taken by Hugh Hordern of lawnmower at his home in Woodville or Wahronga, 1954

Photographic print of Edward Dryland Hordern, no date

School records and reports for Coed bel Chislehurst and Eastbourne College, 1903-1904
Notes and letters on Cowra, 1891

Photocopies of Dismore family notes, no date

Office correspondence of Hordern Brothers London, 1900-1928

Receipts for goods and services, 1886-1887

Letters to Rev G. H. Crauswick the Noble College South India and Mr Edward Carr Hordern, 1810-1910

Copy of ‘Memorandum of articles of association of Hordern Brothers Limited’ given to Hugh Hordern by his grandfather Rev John W. Hordern, ca. 1922

Letters and records of Eastbourne College, 1902-1904

Receipt book of John Hordern, 1859-1860 with loose receipts 1880

Partly restricted: Applies to MLMSS 8789/Box 3

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