Walker family papers, 1808-1933; together with Blaxland family papers, 1780, 1797-1887

MLMSS 462

fonds

1780, 1797-1933

Textual Records, Graphic Materials

457548

3 boxes - 0.58 Meters

WALKER FAMILY:
Papers of Thomas Walker and his estate, 1808-1890, including: a notebook which contains some diary entries written in Portugal, late 1812 - early 1813, and Belgium, 1815, and various notes and lists including, 'An Inventory of Boxes, Clothes, Baggage & effects belonging to myself ... 29th November 1814'; copy of Commission of appointment as Deputy Assistant Commissary General, 1814; map of Belgium, 1815; license of occupation for grazing ground issued from Hobart Town, 29 September 1819; correspondence, 1818-1860, including letters from Lachlan Macquarie, Sir Thomas Brisbane, John Walker (his father) and Frederick Walker (his son) and copies of letters written by Thomas Walker; notebook containing 'Dates [and details] of private letters to my friends and relations' 28 December 1821 - 3 June 1824; 'Papers relative to the property called "Concord Point" now "Rhodes" formerly "Charlotte Field"' including, copy of original land grant to Frederick Meredith, 1794, copy of indenture 'Marriage Settlement of Concord by T. Walker on A.E. Walker', 28 May 1831, subdivision plan, 'Memorandum of deeds and grant relative to the Rhodes Estate, sent to the Australian Joint Stock Bank, Dec. 16th 1873'; 'A General pronouncing dictionary; showing at one view the orthography, explanation, accentuation, and pronunciation of all the purest and most approved terms in the English language, according to the present practice of the most eminent lexicographers and orators', by William Enfield, London: Printed for B. Crosby and Co., 1808, annotated on title page by Thomas Walker: 'Waterloo Mud'; 'Schedule of deeds and documents in the hands of Messrs Ritchie and Parker belonging to the estate of the late Thomas Walker' 1890 (Call No.: MLMSS 462/1)

Papers of Anna Elizabeth Walker: correspondence, 1825-1884, including letters received from her sisters Jane and Louisa Blaxland, sister-in-law Mary Walker, brother-in-law John Walker, daughter Harriott Walker, and letters from Anna Elizabeth Walker to her family; together with letters received by her daughter Gertrude Walker; her copy of her uncle Gregory Blaxland's book: 'A Journal of a tour of discovery across the Blue Mountains, New South Wales in the year 1813', 2nd ed. Sydney: Gibbs, Shallard & Co. [1870]; copy of her will, 1872 (Call No.: MLMSS 462/1)

Papers of Anna Francis Walker, 1873-1910: correspondence, including letters received from her aunt Louisa Blaxland, William Spry (on board the Royal Yacht 'Alberta' at Cowes, Isle of Wight), Oxley D. Parker; 2 copies of 'Origin of the name of Blaxland', Sydney: Turner & Henderson, 1890, 'copied and written by A.F.W. through her aunt Louisa Australia Blaxland'; manuscript copy, by an unknown person, of 'Family Traditions & Personal Recollections' (142 pages) with a note 'The following Recollections have been arranged from those written by the late Miss A.F. Walker ...' and a covering note from Alice Octavia Walker '... this work, which has been revised. I have given the works to the Editor to be published, for me in book form, all credit I have given to my Aunt Louisa Australia Blaxland of "Newington", & A.F. Walker of "Rhodes" who with great perseverance collected all the information ...', [there is another slightly different typescript version of this work located at C 195, the record for which see for a more detailed description of its contents] (Call No.: MLMSS 462/1)

Papers of Alice Octavia Walker, c.1895-1933: including correspondence with Hugh Wright (Mitchell Librarian) concerning items donated to the Library (Call No.: MLMSS 462/2)
Miscellaneous papers about Walker family genealogy and history mainly compiled by Anna Francis Walker and Alice Octavia Walker (Call No.: MLMSS 462/2)

BLAXLAND FAMILY:
Papers of John Blaxland, 1806-1844, including: copies of letters to Governors King and Bligh concerning the emigration to NSW of John and Gregory Blaxland and their families, copies of letters to John Blaxland from Arthur Hogue (husband of Harriott Blaxland's half-sister), Joseph Foveaux, Robert Peel; 'To John Blaxland Esquire on his leaving England', a poem by the Rev. H. Ford of Newington, Kent, June 1806; copy of John Blaxland's will, 19 September 1844 (Call No.: MLMSS 462/2)

Papers of Harriott Blaxland, 1780, 1806, 1829-1845, including: 'Indenture Tripartite - Settlement by Elizabeth Marquet on her daughter Harriott Marquet & her heirs', 21 December 1780; 4 pages from 1806 engagements diary; correspondence, including letters from her husband John Blaxland and her daughter Jane Blaxland, and a copy of a letter written by her to Mrs Tilden of Ifield Hall, Kent (Call No.: MLMSS 462/2)

Correspondence of Jane Elizabeth Blaxland, 1840-1842, including letter, 2 March 1840, from Carl, Freiherr von Hugel (Call No.: MLMSS 462/2)

Papers of Edward James Blaxland, 1841-1849, including 'Expenses of Newington, Luddenham, Wallumbi [Wollombi] & Gammon Plains', 1841; list of wages and rations for servants at Newington, 1845-1849; letter from his sister Harriott Mary Dowling, 1847 (Call No.: MLMSS 462/2)

Papers of Louisa Australia Blaxland, 1841-1887: correspondence, being mainly letters received, correspondents include: Ethel Blaxland, George Cuthbert Blaxland, Rebecca Blaxland, Elise Breton (niece), Henry Breton, Harriott Mary Dowling (sister), Joseph Durham (English sculptor commissioned by Louisa to create a Blaxland family memorial for St John's Church, Parramatta), Annie Hodgson, Eliza Hodgson, Elizabeth Oxley Parker, Katherine Smith, Cordelia Tilden, Harriott Walker (niece) [this letter, dated 2 January 1841 and addressed to 'My dearest Aunts' was written after
; copies of letters from Louisa to Sir Bernard Burke, 1880, and to Sir Henry Parkes, 1886; extracts of letters, 1837-1843, from Emily Manning to her parents, copied by Louisa Blaxland (letters are about the Blaxland family and Newington, and the death of Jane Blaxland in England in 1843); a manuscript copy and four printed copies of the petition of Miss Louisa Australia Blaxland to the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, 1883 (with a lock of hair); papers concerning the marble bust of her father presented to Parliament House in 1870, and the Blaxland family vault and memorial at St John's Church, Parramatta (Call No.: MLMSS 462/3)

Miscellaneous papers about Blaxland family history and genealogy mainly compiled by Louisa Australia Blaxland, Anna Francis Walker and Alice Octavia Walker, including: 'To the relatives and descendants of the late John Blaxland, Esquire' by George Blaxland of Belvedere, Kent; grant of arms and crest to John Blaxland [ancestor], 1730, extracted from the records of His Majesty's College of Arms, London, 1823, together with notes, drawings and a photoprint of the coat of arms; papers about Oxley Parker family (John Blaxland's mother's family) (Call No.: MLMSS 462/3)

Blaxland and Walker family pictures: pencil drawings of Eliza Maria Breton (nee Blaxland) and John de Marquet Blaxland; wash drawing of 'Barrow House, Somersetshire the residence of Mrs de Marquet (afterwards Mrs Andrews) 1797', annotated by Alice Octavia Walker - 'Harriott Mary Blaxland "nee de Marquet" her rightful home wrested from her by her half sister "Andrews" when Mrs Blaxland was in N.S.Wales, & could not leave her family to claim her rights'; 22 photographs, including: marble bust of John Blaxland; Louisa Australia Blaxland, 1862; silhouette of Jane, Louisa and Mary Blaxland in the 1830s; marble bust of John Walker (brother of Thomas Walker) in the Baltic Coffee Exchange, Cornhill, London; Major-General John Blaxland; Admiral Kingcombe; Captain & Mrs W.J.J. Spry; Fleet-Surgeon W. Spry; W. George Russell; 'Rhodes'- Walker family residence on the Parramatta River at Concord; 'Belvedere' - residence of George Blaxland in Kent, England (Call No.: MLMSS 462/3