Roy Hamilton Goddard 'Captain Thomas Raine of the Surry, 1795-1860' proof corrections and additions by C. Price Conigrave, editor of the Royal Australian Historical Society's journal, 1939-1940

MLMSS 2152

fonds

1939-1940

915891

1 folder of textual material - typescript and carbon typescript with manuscript proof corrections and additions

Thomas Raine, 1793-1860, made several voyages to Australia, 1814-1823, mainly on the convict ship, Surry. He established the first whaling station on the New South Wales Coast at Twofold Bay in 1818. With David Ramsay, he founded the Sydney firm of Raine and Ramsey, general merchants, ship owners and agents, in 1824. In 1832, he built Rainham at Bathurst and established Boree Station and engaged in wheat and dairy farming

Appendices include an abstract of the log of the Surry, 4 April 1820-2 June 1822, copies of correspondence between Raine and others, copy of a report by Raine to Edward Wollstonecraft, 1822 on Macquarie Island and a list of arrivals and departures in New South Wales recording the ship, Surry, 27 July 1814-9 August 1836

First read before A.N.Z.A.A.S. meeting, Canberra, 1939, and later published in the Royal Australian Historical Society Journal, volume 26, part 4, 1940

Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (5-357 C) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011