Henchman family further papers

MLMSS 11208/Boxes 1-7
MLMSS 11208/Boxes 8X-9X

fonds

approximately 1800-1994, predominant 1900-1990

Textual Records, Photographs, Ephemera, Clippings, Objects

9605414

2.39 metres of textual material (7 boxes and 2 outsize) including photographs

Hereward John Humfry Henchman was the grandson of William Henchman and Jane Mcilraish Wallace who emigrated to Australia from England in 1878. He was admitted to the NSW Bar in 1929 and in 1968 was appointed a Judge of all District Courts in NSW.
He married Nancy White in 1934. Nancy was a member of the Sydney Symphony Orchestral Subscribers' Committee.

In 1939, his sister, Gwynneth Wallace Henchman, married Lieutenant-Commander Varnum Cochran Southworth. She worked for the English-Speaking Union in Washington DC from 1953-1982. She was appointed MBE in 1969 for services rendered to Anglo-American relations.

Comprises papers relating to the families of Hereward John Humfry Henchman, QC (1904-1994), Nancy Henchman (nee White), and the Sydney Symphony Orchestral Subscribers' Committee.

Box 1: Sydney Symphony Orchestral Subscribers' Committee meeting minutes 1957-1973, 1977-1979, 1981-1982, 1984-1985; Annual reports 1965-1970, 1973-1980, 1983-1984; Presidents 1958-1980; Committee members lists; press clippings; correspondence.

Box 2: Sydney Symphony Orchestral Subscribers' Committee correspondence and notes; letters received by Hereward Humfry Henchman 1917-1918; account book of Hubert James Hungerford Henchman 1922-1924; last will and testament of Hereward John Humfry Henchman 1987; correspondence.

Box 3: Nancy Henchman diary (1927); papers relating to the 1994 memorial service for Hereward John Humfry Henchman; photographs; newspaper clippings.

Box 4: Photographs; correspondence; notes; press clippings; leather pouch belonging to Hereward Humfry Henchman during Word War I containing photographs, papers and a lock of hair.

Box 5: Farewell album 0f papers and photographs relating to Gwynneth Southworth's (nee Henchman) retirement and work with the Washington Branch of the English-Speaking Union, .

Box 6: Correspondence between Nancy White, her family and others during her time spent as a missionary in Papua New Guinea from 1948 to 1967. There is also a series of Newsletters produced by White and mailed out to a list of interested people.

Box 7: Diaries (1948-1968) kept by Nancy White during her missionary service in Papua New Guinea; copy of White's memoir "Sharing the Climb" including a longer, unedited version; "From Papua with Love" by Blanche Biggs, a co-worker in Papua New Guinea

Box 8X: Family portraits, letter and crest relating to the Henchman family; Testamurs and certificates including Member of the Order of the British Empire awarded to Gwynneth Southworth (nee Henchman), 1969

Box 9X: Framed portraits of William and Jane Henchman; photographs of J.J. Goller and Mrs Goller, Jane Henchman; large framed porrtait of H.H. Henchman with his son H.J.H. Henchman, frame carved by his sister Mabel Henchman; Testamurs and certificates of appointment; manuscript family tree commencing 1835 with John and Agnes Henchman; photograph of William Henchman's house, Rockhampton ca 1900.

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