Fremantle family - Papers [M1672-1675], 1807-1860

M 1672-1675

fonds

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

432669

Microfilm : M 1672-1675

microfilm reels 35 mm

Correspondence, logs, cuttings, pamphlets and accounts of several members of the Fremantle family, and in particular Capt. Stephen Fremantle when commander of the Australian Squadron, 1855-57. His papers document the social life of naval officers in Sydney and Hobart; a cruise in the Pacific; the transfer of the Pitcairn Islanders to Norfolk Island; the defences of Sydney and Melbourne; the activities of the surveying ship H.M.S. Herald; the annexation of the Cocos Islands in 1857 and the possible annexation of Fiji; and Fremantle's disciplinary troubles on H.M.S. Juno. There are also some letters of Capt. C. Fremantle, who annexed Western Australia in 1829

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 252, p. 94-95
Australian Joint Copying Project miscellaneous series M1672-1675
Microfilm copy of originals held by the Buckinghamshire Record Office, County Hall, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Descriptive list filmed on reel M1672 (11 p.)