937396
- TitleCaptain Foster Fyans reminiscences, 1810-ca. 1854
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- Call numberMAV/FM4/2278
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1810-ca. 1854 - Type of material
- Reference code937396
- Physical Description1 micofilm reel of textual material - negative
- ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
Foster Fyans arrived in Sydney in 1833, spent some time on Norfolk Island and was appointed Commandant at Moreton Bay in 1835. In 1837 he was appointed Police Magistrate and Protector of Aborigines at Geelong, Victoria, and was Commissioner of Crown Land at Portland Bay 1840-1849 - Scope and ContentDescribes his military service at Cadiz, during the Peninsular War and in India with 67th Regiment and in Sydney with 4th (King's Own) Regiment, the Moreton Bay penal settlement and the district, rescue of Eliza Fraser from the natives by John Graham, his work in the Portland Bay district and the work of Henry Smythe who planned Geelong
- Copying ConditionsApproval for reproduction required: not to be reproduced without the permission of the State Library of Victoria
- Original held byOriginal in the State Library of Victoria (MS 6939 Box 363/7)
- Description source
Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (5-244B) as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012 - General note
Filmed by the State Library of Victoria, 1964
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