Smith family - correspondence, 4 November 1830-29 July 1917, with genealogical notes concerning the Smith and Street families, ca.1970

MLMSS 1907

fonds

1830 - 1917, ca.1970

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs

422662

1 volume of textual material and 3 photographs - manuscript, typescript, carbon typescript, photographs

Thomas Smith, 1795-1842, merchant, arrived in Sydney in 1830 to join his brother in the firm Smith Bros. His son, Thomas Whistler Smith, 1824-1859, businessman and banker, joined Smith Bros. as a clerk when he was 9. On 29 June 1847 he married Sarah Maria Street, whose brother, John Rendell Street, 1832-1891, married his youngest sister, Anna Maria Smith in 1883. In 1859 T.W. Smith went to London to open the first office there of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney

1830-1917; Correspondence includes letters from Thomas Smith to his parents, 1830; correspondence of Thomas Whistler Smith with his family, including his letter to John Rendell Street, 1859, relating to the opening of the branch of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, and letter from Thomas Sutcliffe Mort to J.R. Street regarding the memorial to Thomas Whistler Smith, 1860; letter from Rev. Webster Whistler to his daughter Penelope and her husband Thomas Smith, 15 January 1832, follows letter of 4 November 1830
ca.1970; Genealogical notes concerning the Smith and Street families compiled by Sir Kenneth Street

3 photographs

Information upgraded from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (6-631 C) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011

Pictorial material transferred from Pic.Acc.3676 as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012

This collection was listed in 2005 as part of the Sesquicentenary of Responsible Government in NSW 1856-2006 Project.