Starkey family papers, ca 1890-ca 2000, being mainly farm diaries of 'Carrara', at Avoca, Southern Highlands, N.S.W.

MLMSS 9194/Boxes 1-4
MLMSS 9194/Box 5X

fonds

ca 1890-ca 2000

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Cartographic Materials, Photographs

845445

1 metre of textual material (4 boxes and 1 outsize box), some files contain photographs

Include journals kept by John Norman Starkey relating to his farm, Carrara, at Avoca, in the Southern Highlands, N.S.W., in the Wingecarribee Shire, including ledgers and farm diaries; and family papers and photographs, 1897-1951.

12 farm diaries, 1915-1951, giving daily weather of temperature, wind, and rain. John Starkey's work routine and duties on the farm, including deliveries, machinery maintenance, seed planting and harvesting, names of cows and number of calves, number of cows milked each day, eggs collected, visitors to the farm, and leisure activities. Volumes also include listings of books on farming and agriculture as well as other non-fiction and fictional stories. Listings of contact details of names and addresses; and, small transcriptions of quotes, sayings and poems.

DIARIES
BOX 1
1. May 25, 1915-November 26, 1917
2. November 27, 1917-November 24, 1918
3. November 25, 1918-February 24, 1922
4. November 18, 1922-October 1, 1927

BOX 2
5. October 2, 1927-February 22, 1929
6. February 23, 1929-May 22, 1933
7. May 23, 1933-July 4, 1935
8. July 5, 1935-August 14, 1937

BOX 3
9. August 24, 1937-September 25, 1939
10. September 26, 1939-December 8, 1943
11. December 9, 1943-May 4, 1949
12. May 5, 1949-May 22, 1951

BOX 4
Certificates for John Norman Starkey, Sydney Technical College (1898, 1899, 1900, 1911); St. John Ambulance.
Memorandum of Agreement and Condition & Terms of Sale of Properties (Starkey's purchase of Carrara).
Correspondence, 1940-1941; 1951.
Starkey and Baillie family histories and Family tree for the Starkey family, 1736-1983.
Farm accounts ledger, September 1914-June 1950. Includes income from dairy produce of eggs, butter and milk; vegetables and animals.
Photographs of farm, vacations, family portraits, 1897-1930.
'Echoes through the mist: a history of the Avoca district', 1988, compiled by the Avoca Bi-Centenary Committee.
Obituary for John Norman Starkey in the Moss Vale Post, April 3, 1951.

BOX 5X
Certificates for John Norman Starkey from the University of Sydney (1906); and, Dental Board of New South Wales (1930).

3 Maps: Parish of Burrawang [& Yarrunga], County of Camden, land district of Moss Vale, Cambewarra & Wingecarribee Shires, Eastern Division N.S.W. Sixth edition. Department of Lands, October 15, 1923.
Located at maps call no: Parish map - County Camden - Parish Burrawang (1923).

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