Armagh County Museum - extracts from the Blacker manuscripts and Raeburn manuscripts at the Armagh County Museum [M389], 18--

MAV/FM4/1720
Status: unavailable

fonds

Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, [19--]

432460

microfilm reel 35 mm

1) Blacker manuscripts. Typescript abstract entitled 'Wentworth family'. It contains recollections "of D'Arcy Wentworth and his two sons, one of who became a soldier and the other a surgeon who was convicted of highway robbery and transported to Botany Bay where his son also was a surgeon of some eminence". 2) Raeburn manuscripts. 6 p. typescript account of a voyage to Australia 1852-53. The journal, probably written by Samuel Pillow, concerns the voyage of the emigrant ship Digby. Mentions some of the Irish passengers by name and gives brief descriptions of events on board ship and on arrival in Melbourne

Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales
National Library of Australia holds microfilm master
The Pillow journal is also reproduced on reel M388
Available for reference
Australian Joint Copying Project handbook. Part 8 : Miscellaneous [M series], Entry 2, p. 17
Australian Joint Copying Project miscellaneous series M389
Microfilm copy of originals held by Armagh County Museum, Armagh, Northern Ireland
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