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Title
Series 3: King family correspondence concerning the goldfields, volume 3, 1883-1897
Call number
SAFE/A 1978 (Safe 1/314)
Level of description
series
Date

1883-1897
Type of material
Textual Records
Reference code
826012
Issue Copy
Microfilm : CY 904, frames 360-796
Physical Description
0.05 metres of textual material (1 volume) - manuscript - 41 x 30 cm
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

In 1851 Philip Gidley King (1817-1904), was appointed superintendent of stock for the Australian Agricultural Co. and soon became assistant superintendent of the company's estates. In 1852 the discovery of gold in the bed of the Peel River and evidence that all the company's lands on the Peel could be auriferous induced the shareholders to form the Peel River Land and Mineral Co. in 1853. King became New South Wales manager of the new company and moved with his family to Goonoo Goonoo, south of Tamworth, where he began a line of hereditary managers of the station which lasted until the 1920s.

King was plagued by difficulties: gold prospectors flocked into the company's property at Anderson's Flat, and when gold was found in the bed of the river itself, the company's boundary being the centre line of the river, chaos resulted. Eventually the company directors issued mining licences at 10s. a month and a system of river-bed licences was devised with the Crown, the directors each receiving half the fee. The gold rush denuded King of shepherds and stockmen but he managed the estate efficiently. Mr. H.L. Cousens was an auctioneer, liverstock and property agent in the Tamworth area.

Reference:
Australian Dictionary of Biography Online edition.
http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/adbonline.htm
(accessed March, 2008)
Scope and Content
This volume contains mainly letters received and copies of letters sent by Philip Gidley King (1817-1904). Correspondents and documents include the List of persons on Peel River Co. estate, N.S.W. Dept. of Mines, Peel River Goldfields, J. McNamara, and H.L. Cousens. Newspaper clippings from the Tamworth Observor concerning Bowling Alley Point, Nundle and the Marquis of Lorne and Price’s Hill Gold Mining Co.
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Finding Aids
A detailed contents list is available with this volume -
General note

Further selected correspondence and documents in this collection are indexed in the Mitchell Library Manuscripts index card catalogue.

Safe 1/314 (A 1978) is volume 3 of the King Family Papers.
The King Family Papers consist of 9 Volumes: (Safe 1/312-320 : A 1976 - A 1980/3; D 141/1-2).
Creator/Author/Artist
King, George Bartholomew Gidley, 1846-1910
Name
Australian Agricultural Company
Peel River Land and Mineral Company
Subject
Goldfields--New South Wales.
Place
Nundle (N.S.W.)
Tamworth (N.S.W. : District)
Goonoo Goonoo (N.S.W.)
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