Guide to the Collections of the Bristol Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP)

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M1919

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Created: 2018

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Fonds 09862. Bristol Corporation of the Poor: Deeds of St. Peter's Hospital, 1833

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Contracts for the passage of paupers to Van Diemen's Land and N.S.W. (5 documents), 1833 (File 6)

Fonds 07889. Papers of George Chick, 1858 - 1861

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Correspondence between G. Chick (Bristol) and James B. Gibbs (Avoca, Victoria and Adelaide), 1858 - 1861 (File 7-11)

Gibbs' gratitude to Chick for paying passage; success at goldfields; mutual friends; inquiries by Chick about Gibbs' family; death of Gibbs' mother and money left to him in her will. (5 Letters).

Fonds 12161. Papers of Player Family, 1869 - 1879

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Will (14 January 1869) and probate (11 March 1869) of Henry J. Player storekeeper of Mansfield, Victoria (File 19)

Copy of death certificate of Henry J. Player, 27 December 1878 (File 20)

Power of attorney from H.H. Kitchen and G. Powell, executors of will of H.J. Player, to E. Player of Bristol (draft), 1879 (File 21)

Fonds 14152. Papers deposited by Lloyd, Burch, Inskip & Co., solicitors of Bristol, 1847

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E.G. Masey (Paterson River, N.S.W.) to E. Masey (Bristol), 25 December 1847 (File 30)

Thanks for presents; trouble mustering cattle; purchase of horses; journeys to Lake Macquarie; clothes required; collection of skins.

Fonds 14581. Papers of Haynes Family, 1897

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Series HA/MI. Miscellaneous, November 1897

Certificate of competence as engine driver granted by Board of Examiners for Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia, to Richard Murray, 25 November 1897 (File 8)

Fonds 17563. Roslyn (Red Lodge) MSS, 1835

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Colonisation Commissioners for South Australia. Regulations for disposal of land, preliminary sales of land and emigration of labourers. (4pp., printed), 14 July 1835 (File 10)

Fonds 19839. Documents of Churchus, Gregory and Pitt Families, 1840 - 1849

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Daniel R. Long (Plymouth) to I. Pitt (Cirencester), 14 June 1840 (File 26)

Voyage from London to Plymouth on Himalaya; amusements on ship; provisions; impending departure for Pt. Phillip.

Daniel R. Long (Melbourne) to Elizabeth Long (Witney), 25 December 1841 (File 27)

Difficulties of trade; market glutted with English goods; bursting of land boom; climate; growth of Melbourne; avaricious character of people; retreat of Indigenous Australians; Doctor Howitt and Captain Cole; family news.

Susannah M. Long (Melbourne) to aunt Caroline, 6 May 1849 (File 28)

Faint memories of English relatives; climate; house; people leaving for Californian gold fields; believes prospectors will soon be coming to Port Phillip as father is certain there is great quantity of gold in interior.

Fonds 20535. Papers of Prideaux Family, 1861

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Bill of exchange issued by Union Bank of Australia at Napier, New Zealand, in favour of Francis G. Prideaux, 15 June 1861 (File 365)

Fonds 29747. Records of Frank Keevil and Sons, cabinet makers of Bath

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Description of standard lights made by Frank Keevil and Sons for Christ Church Cathedral, Ballarat. (typescript, 1p.), n.d. (File 4.i)

Fonds 30100. Journal of S.S. Great Britain, 1852

Journal kept by a steerage passenger on a voyage of S.S. Great Britain to Melbourne, 1852 (File)

Fonds 31224. Papers of Clement, Phitheon and Chandler Families, 1848 - 1879

Series 13. Correspondence, August 1848 - June 1879

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Eliza Chandler (Bristol) to John Chandler (Sydney), 8 August 1848 (File 50)

Departure of John from England; friends in Australia; opening of preparatory school in Islington.

John Clement (Glen Innes, N.S.W.) to Lydia Chandler, 14 September 1866 (File 58)

Photographs; Austro-Prussian War; horse-racing in Australia; family news.

John Clement to Eliza Chandler, 29 April 1867 (File 59)

Indigenous Australians; Church in Australia; Fenians; Governor E.J. Eyre; departure of gold diggers.

John Clement to Eliza Chandler, 9 August 1867 (File 60)

Gold digging prospects; Franco-Prussian hostility; T. Peabody; expects store will soon be closed.

John Clement (Armidale) to Lydia Chandler, 3 May 1868 (File 61)

Recollections of London; photographs; Fenianism spreading to Australia; attempted assasination of Duke of Edinburgh.

John Clement to Eliza and George Clement, 5 July 1868 (File 62)

Visit of Duke of Edinburgh to Australia; Abyssinian expedition; earthquake in Australia and Sandwich Islands.

H. Currie (Inverell) to George Clement, 13 October 1876 (File 63)

Injury of J. Clement in riding accident.

H. Currie to George Clement, 25 February 1878 (File 64)

Sudden death of J. Clement.

H. Currie to George Clement, 16 June 1879 (File 65)

Estate of J. Clement.

Fonds 36792. Papers of Acraman Family, 1907

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Probate copy of will (4 May 1905) of John Acraman of Adelaide (photocopy), 5 July 1907 (File 9)

Extract on John Acraman from The pastoral pioneers of South Australia. (photocopy) (File 11)


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