Photographs and notes relating to William Bligh, ca. 1976

PXA 1503

fonds

ca. 1976

Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Photographs

908790

9 photographs - gelatin silver, colour - 21.5 x 16.5 cm or smaller
1 folder of textual material - typescripts (7 pages)

Photographs include:

1. Onchan Parish Church, Isle of Man
Marriage of Captain Bligh of the Bounty. February 10th 1781. Facsimile of register entry

2. 'Farningham Manor, Kent, where Bligh lived in his retirement with his unmarried daughters, 1976'

3. 'The Bligh Tomb at Alverstoke, Hants. At least ten Bligh internments there. Second cousins to Bligh of the Bounty. Related to Peard of the Blossom'

4. 'The Bligh Tomb, Alverstoke, Hants'

5-6. 'The Bligh Tomb in Lambeth Churchyard, London. Also interred in the tomb are his wife Elizabeth and their day old twin sons William and Henry'

7. 'Lieutenant George Peard's sea chest which he used on the voyage of the Blossom. Made originally for his father, Admiral Peard, of teak and mahogany'

8. 'Iron plate (ca. 1810) on an old bridge over the River Avon, Blandford, Dorset'

9. 'Bligh's House in Durham Place, Lambeth, London, where Bligh lived with his wife and family until his retirement, 1976'


Typescripts include:

'The Bligh Tomb at Alverstoke' by G. H. Williams (4 pages)

Bligh and Peard family history notes (3 pages)

Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of creator plus 70 years
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

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