McCracken family - Papers [M1976], 1841-1918

M 1976

fonds

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

432803

Microfilm : M 1976

microfilm reel 35 mm

Robert McCracken (1815-1885) and brother Peter McCracken emigrated to Melbourne 1841, establishing a brewery. Their brother Alexander married his cousin Jane and emigrated to Australia, establishing a dairy and then a wheat farm near Melbourne

1. Letters of Robert McCracken, [1841], describing voyage to Australia on Nimrod. 2. Journal of Alexander McCracken, 1849 Jan.-Apr. describing voyage to Australia on the William Hyde to Adelaide. 3. Letters of Alexander McCracken, 1849-57 to family in Scotland from Plymouth, Port Adelaide, Melbourne and his farm at Saltwater Creek. Describe voyage, Adelaide, establishment of dairy in Melbourne, wheat sales, economic conditions, gold rushes, convicts, etc. 4. Letters of Jane McCracken, 1849-57 to family in Scotland from London, Plymouth, Port Adelaide, Melbourne and Saltwater Creek. Refer to voyage, landscape, Aborigines, prices, impressions of colonial life, church affairs, news from goldfields, etc. 5. Miscellaneous papers including correspondence, 1865-84; obituary of Robert McCracken, son of Alexander and Jane McCracken, 1918; and article on Peter McCracken (1818-1892)

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 miscellaneous series M1976
Microfilm copy of originals held in private ownership
Descriptive list available (2 p.)