• Title
  John Flood papers, comprising seven issues of the ship newspaper 'The Wild Goose', 1867, and Flood's conditional pardon, 1871
• Creator
  John Flood, 1841-1909
• Call number
  MLMSS 1542 (Safe 1/409)
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1867, 1871
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  422350
• Issue Copy
  Digitised : 2014
  
• Physical Description
  1 slip box of textual material
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  John Flood, 1841-1909, journalist and Irish patriot was convicted of treason, 1867, and transported to Western Australia on the Hougoumont. After receiving a conditional pardon, 1871, he lived mainly in Queensland, working principally as a journalist, newspaper editor or manager
• Scope and Content
  'The Wild Goose: A Collection of Ocean Waifs'. A weekly newspaper issued on board the convict ship Hougoumont; ed. by J. Flood and John Boyle O'Reilly. Vol. 1, no. 1-7, (9 Nov. - 21 Dec.), 1867
  
  Conditional pardon issued to J. Flood, 13 March 1871
• Copying Conditions
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  Out of copyright
• Finding Aids
  Read the transcription here: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2014/D24974/a9615.html
• Description source
  
  Information upgraded from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (6-446C) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
• General note
  
  Photocopy - Xerox copyflo at CY MLMSS 1542/1 - 2 (Ref.1: open access).
  Microfilm - CY 22 (frames 1 - 68: MLMSS 1542/1 - 2). Preservation microfilm made June 1973.
  Microfilm - CY 758 (frames 1 - 54: MLMSS 1542/1). Preservation microfilm made Mar. 1983 (does not include conditional pardon, 1871)
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1064134
• Creator/Author/Artist
  O'Reilly, John Boyle
  
• Name
  Flood, John, 1841-1909
  Hougoumont (Ship)
  
• Subject
  Convicts--Western Australia.
  Ship newspapers.
  Irish--Australia.
  Convict ships.
  
• Place
  Western Australia
  Queensland
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Escape! Fremantle to Freedom - Australian National Maritime Museum. Applies to: MLMSS 1542/1-2
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1024811

View Media Files

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

11.

12.

13.

14.

15.

16.

17.

18.

19.

20.

21.

22.

23.

24.

25.

26.

27.

28.

29.

30.

31.

32.

33.

34.

35.

36.

37.

38.

39.

40.

41.

42.

43.

44.

45.

46.

47.

48.

49.

50.

51.

52.

53.

54.

55.

56.

57.

58.

59.

60.

61.

62.

63.

64.

65.

66.

67.

68.

Show more