Bedfordshire Record Office - Collections relating to Australia, 1774-1892

M 821

fonds

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

432468

Microfilm : M 821. See contents list (15pp.) at Micro. Ref. Bks. 2.3/131.

microfilm reel 35 mm

(1) Bedfordshire Quarter Sessions records, 1801-1878, giving names of convicts and ages, offences, sentences and disposals. (2) Selections from Bedford Union in-letters 1837-58, mainly from the Poor Law Commission, London, and the Land and Emigration Commission, London. (3) Letters and lists 1841-46, re the property of J.C.S. McDouall and W. McDouall, in N.S.W. and N.Z. (4) Correspondence, 1818-1823, of William Wilshere as Chairman of the Bedfordshire Quarter Sessions. (5) Letters, 1774 and 1780, from Jemima, Marchioness Gray and Baroness Lucas, regarding the ship Adventure and the death of Captain Cook. (6) Letters and other papers 1793-1841, of Samuel Whitbread, M.P., re the transportation of convicts and the deposition of Governor Bligh. Correspondents include W. Roscoe, J. Jorgenson, E. Abbott, R.H. Bennett, and T.F. Palmer. (7) Document 1827, re land grants to settlers in N.S.W. and Van Diemen's Land; letter 1892, from Albert H. Culpin, re Broken Hill strike and maritime disturbances.

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
Available for reference
Australian Joint Copying Project handbook. Part 8 : Miscellaneous [M series], Entry 10, p. 20
Australian Joint Copying Project miscellaneous series M821
Microfilm copy of originals held by the Bedfordshire Record Office, County Hall, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England
Associated materials: further collections of the Bedfordshire Record Office are microfilmed at M591
Descriptive list available (15 p.)
Detailed description in 'Manuscripts in the British Isles Relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific' edited by Phyllis Mander-Jones, p. 377-8