• Title
  Edmund Besley Court Kennedy correspondence and other papers, with maps, printed extracts, etc., ca. 1847-1849
• Creator
  Edmund Besley Court Kennedy, 1818-1848
• Call number
  DLSPENCER 191
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1847-1849
• Type of material
  Textual Records, Cartographic Materials
• Reference code
  949480
• Issue Copy
  Microfilm : CY 4279
  
• Physical Description
  1 box of textual material - manuscripts, maps, printed material
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Edmund Besley Court Kennedy, 1818-1848, a surveyor, arrived in Sydney, N.S.W., in 1840 and was appointed assistant surveyor in the Surveyor-General's Department. From 1840-1843 he worked under Charles Tyers in the Portland Bay area, Victoria and from 1845-1847 he travelled with Sir Thomas Mitchell's expedition to find an overland route to Port Essington, Northern Territory. However, the expedition only reached the Victoria River. In March 1847 Kennedy led an expedition back to the Victoria which he renamed the Barcoo. In April, 1848, Kennedy again set sail from Sydney on an expedition to Cape York Peninsula, landing at Rockingham Bay. After experiencing many hardships he was killed by natives there in December 1848. Kennedy's parents were Colonel Thomas Kennedy and Mary Ann Kennedy nee Smith. Mary Ann Kennedy and Elizabeth Kennedy were his sisters. Reverend John Doyle Kennedy was his brother
• Scope and Content
  A large envelope containing original manuscripts and maps and some printed matter, relating to Kennedy's Expedition; and a fine copy in original limp boards, untrimmed of William Carron's 'Narrative of an expedition undertaken under the direction of the late - E. B. Kennedy, for the exploration of the country lying between Rockingham Bay and Cape York, Sydney, 1849
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Dixson Manuscript Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Carron, William, 1821-1876
  
• Name
  Kennedy, Edmund Besley Court, 1818-1848
  
• Subject
  Dixson Library (N.S.W.)
  Surveyors--Australia.
  Explorers--Queensland
  Explorers--Australia--Correspondence.
  Queensland--Discovery and exploration--19th century.
  
• Place
  Cape York (Qld.)
  Rockingham Bay (Qld.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE19050846

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