Guide to the Guide to Bunbury Family Papers (as filmed by the AJCP)
M1909-M1911
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
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Letters of R. Hanmer Bunbury to his wife Sarah Bunbury (41 letters), 1840 - 1857 (File 1)
Most of the letters were written when either Bunbury or his wife were visiting Sydney. They refer to preparations for their departure from England, family matters, friends, travels in Victoria, Government House at Parramatta, meetings with Sir Charles Fitzroy, the Wynyard Family and Bishop W.G. Broughton, church affairs, C.J. La Trobe, growth of Williamstown, Victorian gold discoveries, gold sales, robberies in Melbourne, journeys to goldfields, visit of Sarah Bunbury to England in 1852, shipping, increase in population and social problems, sale of properties, railway construction, recall of C.J. La Trobe, preachers, and the departure of the Bunburys from Australia in 1857.
Letters of R. Hanmer Bunbury to his father Sir Henry Bunbury (52 letters), 1840 - 1850 (File 2)
The letters deal with the voyage to Australia in 1841, impressions of Melbourne, C.J. La Trobe, purchases of land and stock, family news, explorations in Victoria conflict with indigenous Australians, financial matters, flora and fauna, property at Mt. William, Sir George Gipps, farming, appointment as Superintendent of Water Police at Williamstown in 1842, B. Boyd, servants, crime, sale of property, daily routine, work as magistrate, fishing, shipping at Pt Phillip, prices, bushrangers, closure of banks, Bishop W.G. Broughton, kangaroos, appointment as Harbour Master in 1844, land regulations, proposed separation of Pt. Phillip from N.S.W., explorations in Grampians, horse races, balls, plans of returning to England, gold discoveries, Rev. R. Sconce, migration of labourers from Van Diemen's Land, Bishop C. Perry, 1851 Great Exhibition.
Letters of R. Hanmer Bunbury to his step-mother Lady Bunbury (5 letters), 1840 - 1844 (File 3)
The letters describe the voyage to Australia, first impressions of Melbourne, bushrangers, C.J. La Trobe, economic conditions, and family news.
Letters of R. Hanmer Bunbury to his father-in-law R.C. Sconce (7 letters), 1839 - 1840 (File 4)
The letters refer to the voyage to Australia impressions of Melbourne, and business matters.
Letters of R. Hanmer Bunbury to George Repton (3 letters), 1842 - 1843 (File 5)
The letters refer to business matters and to his appointment as Superintendent of Water Police at Williamstown.
Letters of Sarah Bunbury to her father R.C. Sconce (54 letters), 1840 - 1846 (File 6)
The letters deal with the voyage to Australia, C.J. La Trobe, family news, Rev. R. Sconce, Bishop W.G. Broughton, prices, economic conditions in Melbourne, farming, bushrangers, landscape, sharks, flora and fauna, shipping, Bunbury's appointment as Superintendent of Water Police, Georgiana McCrae, Sir George and Lady Gipps, plan of house at Williamstown, Oxford Movement, visit of H.M.S. Beagle and Fly, conflict with aborigines, social events, dismissal of Judge J. Willis in 1843, visits of Lady Franklin, thoughts of returning to England, shipwrecks, travels in Victoria, servants, land regulations, and her visit to Sydney in 1846.
Letters of Sarah Bunbury to her mother and to Sir Henry and Lady Bunbury (8 letters), 1841 - 1850 (File 7)
The letters refer to family news, properties, prices and wages, Rev. R. Sconce, visit to Sydney and separation of Victoria from N.S.W.
Letters of Hanmer and Sarah Bunbury (18 letters), 1840 - 1843 (File 8)
Written in Malta, the letters contain occasional references to the activities of the Bunburys in Australia.
Letters of Rev. R.K. Sconce to R. Hanmer Bunbury (4 letters), 1844 - 1846 (File 9)
Written in Sydney, the letters deal mainly with business matters and also the erection of a parsonage and the education question.
Miscellaneous letters to R. Hanmer Bunbury (7 letters), 1824 - 1856 (File 10)
Letters of Sir Henry Bunbury, H. E. Bunbury, C. Fox, J. Henderson, E.H. Bunbury and Sir William Denison referring to the deaths of Bunbury's mother in 1824 and R. Sconce in 1846, naval matters, a legacy, plants, and Bunbury's voyage to England in 1857.
Miscellaneous letters to Sarah Bunbury (16 letters), 1843 - 1870 (File 11)
Letters of Georgiana McCrae, Lady Bourchier, Mary Repton, Harriet Sconce, Sarah Clarke, Charles Bunbury and others. Mainly undated and dealing with family and personal matters.
Miscellaneous documents, 1841 - 1872 (File 12)
The documents include the baptismal certificate of Robert F.A. Bunbury (1841), will of R.H. Bunbury (1852), warrant placing R.H. Bunbury a captain on the retired list (1856), will of Sarah Bunbury (1872), passports of Sarah Bunbury (1870, 1872), list of their children, and a poem by a steam boiler, addressed to the united flocks and herds of New South Wales.