Lockyer family - 'Recollections of Fifty Years and Upwards' by Edmund Lockyer, with related papers (typed transcriptions), ca. 1815-1952

MLMSS 7471

fonds

ca. 1815-1952

442387

1 folder - 0.02 Meters
Textual Records - (typescript)

Edmund Lockyer (1784-1860) served as a soldier in India and Ceylon, rising to the rank of major, before being transferred to Sydney in 1825. One year later he was ordered to establish a settlement at King George Sound. He sold his commission in 1827 and took up a grant of land in Marulan, NSW which he named Lockyersleigh. He also built a house, Ermington, on an estate near Ryde, Sydney and, in 1838, leased a run named Cavan, on the Murrumbidgee River.

Collection includes genealogical notes on 'The Lockyers of Devon'; 'Major Edmund Lockyer' - brief biographical notes; 'Recollections of Fifty years and Upwards' by Edmund Lockyer together with 'The Kandian Campaign 1815' and 'Reminiscences of Kandy 1815'; 'Ermington, Lockyersleigh and Cavan'; 'King George's Sound'; 'Family of the late Alfred James Cummerford Reilly'.