West Yorkshire Archive Service - Calderdale Central Library - Miscellaneous collections, 1838-1971

M 2772-2774

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Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, 1992

432942

Microfilm : M 2772-2774. See contents list (5pp.) at Micro. Ref. Bks. 2.3/277, vol. 21.

a. 144 p.

Items include: I. Documents from Frederick Walker, Son & Dickie, solicitors, dealing with the estate of Robert Wainhouse of Sapling Grove, Skircoat, including references to land in Wellington, Adelaide and Western Australia; leases and agreements; Rawson family documents re conveyance of land in Adelaide, 1838 to 1842 and re land in South Australia 1848 to 1852. II. Halifax Antiquarian Society - letter from Edmund Jowett (Melbourne), 1920 re Drake family genealogy. III. Loyal Georgian Society - letter of 1911 referring to world tour of Sheffield choir visiting Melbourne. IV. Miscellaneous documents. Includes labels for the display of Australian wool; correspondence from the Hirst family of Halifax consisting of Grace and Thomas Hirst's letters (at sea, New Plymouth, Taranaki, Wellington) describing life in New Zealand 1820-1896; 1921 Australian patent to W. & J. Glossop, road contractors, re improved method of dehydrating tar; documents relating to the proposed migration to Australia in 1925 of Hannah Hurd of Heptonstall as a domestic servant; Halifax Orchestral Society records giving details of matches played in England in 1899 by an Australian cricket team; Stansfeld family papers referring to conveyance of land in Nelson, New Zealand, 1850; and trade union papers of 1971 re emigration of Mrs Muriel J. Bateman to Mariangi Bay, Auckland and her pension.l cond

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 M2772-2774
Microfilm. Canberra, A.C.T. : National Library of Australia, 1992. 3 microfilm reels ; 35 mm
Microfilm copy of originals held by West Yorkshire Archive Service: Calderdale, Central Library, Northgate House, Northgate, Halifax, West Yorkshire. HX1 1UN
Descriptiv m m Sable (5 p.)