Gordon and Lesslie family papers

MLMSS 11667

fonds

1803-2008

Textual Records, Ephemera, Clippings, Photographs, Nonmusical Sound Recordings

873577

0.5 metres of textual material (3 boxes) includes photographs and 2 CD-Rom

Comprises papers and family history research relating to Thomas Gordon and descendants across the Gordon and Lesslie families.

Box 1
Thomas Gordon’s will 1828
Correspondence regarding Lord Hobart’s permission to proceed as settlers 1803
Correspondence regarding Gordon’s illicit still 1806
Booklet regarding St Georges Hanover Square
Early settlers in Richmond bi-centenary memorial trees ephemera
Charles Gordon’s will 1846 and probate 1863
Photograph of Charles Gordon and Mary Brown
Botany cemetery correspondence regarding Charles Gordon’s headstone 1972
Descendants of Thomas Gordon family tree
Documents relating Charles Gordon in New Zealand
Charles Gordon’s Double Bay property – allotment 1835-1836 and receipts 1835-1836
National trust ephemera 1989
Newspaper clippings
Paddington property - transcribed correspondence
Pitt and Bathurst Street property – correspondence with Colonial Secretary 1834, 1839
William Moffitt indenture and lease 1839
Family history manuscript ‘Settlers game…’ by Graham Stutchbury 1982

Box 2
Bills of sale 1846
British registry certificate 1841
Correspondence 1855, 1890, 1907
Hepzibah Lesslie probate 1900
Anna Maria Lesslie probate 1914
Dunbar Town Clerk correspondence 1929
Photographs
Will 1914 and probate 1916 of William Charles Lesslie
Will of Jane Lesslie 1930
Location plan 19 Lindsay Street Burwood
Covenants to transfer title 1882
Newspaper clippings
Report on St James Presbyterian Church Burwood 1899
Australian National Gallery correspondence 1992
Biographical notes relating to William Wallace Lesslie, Robert Allan Lesslie, and Charles Gordon Lesslie
Ronald Bruce Lesslie birth 1893 and death certificates 1953
Doris Winifred Lesslie probate 1965, birth 1899 and death certificates 1965
Marriage certificate of Ronald and Doris 1922


Box 3
Correspondence relating to Dunbar 1929
Receipts 1952, 1954
Leslie/Lesslie and Lesslie/Gordon family tree 1993
CD-ROM relating to Robert Leslie of Kininvie, Robert Leslie of Banff, Australian Lesslie families
CD-ROM Leslies - Scotland, Lesslies - Double Bay, Lesslies - "Braemer" Burwood
‘Master mariner of Banff’ by Robert Leslie 2008
Correspondence with Aberdeen and North East Scotland Family History society 1991
Correspondence regarding creation of family tree 1995, 1998, 2002
Document on the translation of family tree
Transcription of correspondence 1820
‘Charles Gordon pioneer of Australia & New Zealand’ by Russell John Lesslie
The family of Leslie

Includes photocopies.

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