Series 6: King family miscellaneous papers, meteorological tables, newspaper cuttings, land sale documents, volume 6, 1817-1908

SAFE/D 141/1 (Safe 1/317)

series

1817-1908

Textual Records, Design Drawings, Graphic Materials

826021

Microfilm : CY 2730, frames 19-194
Microfilm : CY 1358, frames 39-213

0.05 metres of textual material (1 volume) - manuscripts and design drawings

Phillip Parker King was appointed resident commissioner of the Australian Agricultural Co. for ten eventful years in its history. His son Philip Gidley King (1817-1904) was appointed in 1851 to 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.

Reference:

Australian Dictionary of Biography Online edition.
http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/adbonline.htm
(accessed March, 2008)

This volume contains meteorological tables kept by Captain P.P. King from 1817-1823, newspaper cuttings concerning L. Leichhardt, estate plans and prospectus for various properties including Coomoo Coomoo, St. Mary’s, Tamworth, Winderradean estate, and Garrawilla estate.

Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

A detailed contents list is available with this volume -

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

Safe 1/317 (D 141/1) is volume 6 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).