Mary Roberts papers, 1810-1890

A 5336

fonds

1810-1890

936625

2 boxes of textual material

Mary Roberts, 1804-1885, daughter of Jane Muckle and Thomas Rowley, married Richard Roberts in 1837. She owned property in Phillip Street, Sydney and in 1856 sold an allotment of land on which St. Stephen's Presyterian Church was erected in 1857

Series 01: Papers concerning property in Phillip Street, Sydney, 1810-1879
Box 1
Items 1-58
a. Deeds, 1810-1875, including grants of land to R. Lack and J. Parrott, 1810, C. H. Chambers, W. Bigge and A. Newman, 1823 and Mary Roberts, 1840, town leases to J. Wild, 1823, with related assignments and deeds of transfer, and papers concerning sale of land to the Presbyterian Church 1856, leases of premises, 1861-1867 and memoranda of agreements, 1867-1875

Box 2
b. Financial papers, 1822-1879
Item 59
i. Receipts for quit rent, 1822-1845

Item 60
ii. Accounts with estate agent, 1875-1879

Items 61-62
iii. Account books recording payment of rent, 1874-1875, 1878-1879

Series 02: Miscellaneous financial papers, 1871-1885
Item 63
a. Papers regarding investment, 1872-1878, chiefly concerning mining ventures

Items 64-67
b. Bank books, 1871-1885

Items 68-73
c. Cheque butts, 1876-1882

Series 03: Estate papers, 1882-1890
Items 74-97
Includes copies of will and probate, 1882-1885, and miscellaneous papers

Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (1-151B) as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012

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