Reverend John Ramsden Wollaston papers, 1840-1856

A 1328

fonds

1840-1856

954259

Microfilm : CY 1265, frames 1-281 (A 1328/vol. 4)
Microfilm : CY 1265, frames 282 - 347 (A 1328/vol. 5)
Microfilm : CY 1287, frames 1-282, 283-671, 672-1011 (A 1328/vols. 1 - 3)

5 volumes of textual material - manuscript and typescript

VOLUME 01
Typescript copies
Contents:
Historical introduction: The church in Western Australia, the first 12 years, 1829-1841;
Memoir of Thomas Hobbes Scott, First Archdeacon of New South Wales;
Biographical sketch of John Ramsden Wollaston;
A description of John Ramsden Wollaston: an extract from the diary of M.B. Hale, Archdeacon of Adelaide, 1848;
Journal of Wollaston's voyage to the Swan River settlement, 1840-1841

VOLUME 02
Typescript copies
Contents:
Journal of Wollaston's first three years in Western Australia, 1841-1844

VOLUME 03
Typescript copies
Contents:
Albany journal, 1848;
Bishop Short's letters to ..., 1848;
Journal of Wollaston's 1st Archidiaconal Tour, 1850;
Bishop Short's letter to ..., 1850;
Correspondence re Memorial to Early Grey, 1850;
Report on Native Institution, 1851;
Journal of Wollaston's 2nd tour, 1853 (Official and Private);
Report on Native Institution, 1855;
Albany Parish Return, 1855;
Journal of Wollaston's 5th tour, 1856;
Inscription on tablet in St. John's Church Albany, 1856

VOLUME 04
Original manuscripts
Journal, 11 May 1841-10 January 1844

VOLUME 05
Wollaston's private journal of 3rd archidiaconal visitation (manuscript copy by Sophia Wollaston), 1853;
Wollaston's journal of 5th visitation (original manuscript), 1856

Information transferred from Short Catalogue (typed) as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012

Wollaston arrived in Western Australia in 1841, became first Archdeacon of Western Australia in 1849 and in that capacity made five visitations

Keyword subjects:
Church of England -- Western Australia -- Clergy
Church of England -- Western Australia -- History
Visitations, Ecclesiastical