Vernon W.E. Goodin - papers, 1824 - ca. 1919

MLMSS 7346

fonds

1824 - ca.1919

440352

2 boxes - 0.36 Meters

Vernon William Edward Goodin (1892- 1971), schoolteacher and parliamentarian, was born at Kenthurst, Sydney son of William Edward Goodin and his wife Edith. He was educated at Sydney Boys' High School and after a variety of jobs obtained a scholarship to the University of Sydney where he was awarded the degrees of Bachelor of Arts (1918) and Master of Arts (1921). He was elected as MLA in the seat of Murray for the ALP in 1925. After his expulsion from the ALP he stood as an Independent Labour Candidate for Murray in the 1927 election and was defeated. He returned to teaching after his electoral defeat.

1852; Letter from Martha Goodin to her mother, 4 Oct. 1852. This deals mainly with family news. (Call No.: MLMSS 7346/1)
1895; Letter to Mr Shaw from E.G. Horn (?), Newcastle, 8 April 1895 (Call No.: MLMSS 7346/1)
1910-1911; Merchant Seamans Certificates of Discharge (Vernon Goodin) (Call No.: MLMSS 7346/1)
1824-25,1864-65,1868; Two Farm Journals (anonymous). Contain accounts of farming and boat building probably in the Hawkesbury district. Weather, wages, prices of provisions and crops are mentioned. There are references to several families including Grono, Books, Anderson and Wiseman. The pages of the first journal (1824-25) are variously headed Remarks of (or at) Jno. Gronos house. The writer was an overseer, assigning men to work at various farms including his own, getting timber and building a boat. He may have been John Grono, as one entry dated 14 Dec. 1824 states, Mrs Grono and me went to Sydney. The second journal (1864-1868) is headed 'A Log Book' and is similar in content to the first one. An additional 12 pages, written in pencil, have been inserted. They cover the period 18 Feb. to 6 April (of 1868, dated from an entry referring to the attempted assassination of Prince Alfred in that year). (Call No.: MLMSS 7346/1)
Undated; Australianism, The Labor Party and the Unions by Vernon W. E. Goodin (annotated typscript) (Call No.: MLMSS 7346/1)
Undated; Research notes (Call No.: MLMSS 7346/1)
ca.1910-ca.1919; Album of postcards (includes views of England, Spain, South Africa, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania, the Middle East, France, New South Wales, Queensland and New Zealand) (Call No.: MLMSS 7346/2)

This collection was listed in 2004 as part of the Sesquicentenary of Responsible Government in NSW 1856-2006 Project.