Guide to the Collections of the North Yorkshire Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP)
M2112 - M2115
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2019
Collection Summary
- Creator
- North Yorkshire Record Office
- Title
- Collections held by the North Yorkshire Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1785 - 12 May 1965
- Collection Number
- M2112 - M2115
- Extent
- 106 items
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Australian Joint Copying Project
- Sponsor
- The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.
Introduction
Scope and Contents
Records of Northallerton Quarter Sessions 1785-1853 and York Quarter Sessions 1827-54, including calendars of prisoners.
Papers 1867-74 of Pulleine and Cowell Families of Clifton Castle, including correspondence relating to Frederick Pulleine's sheep farm in New Zealand.
Papers 1863-65 of Sir Henry Havelock-Allen concerning his service in New Zealand and the Maori War.
Papers 1823-33 of William Gowan on colonisation in Australia.
Papers 1853-56 of Frederick and Arthington Worsley relating to shipping and New Zealand wool trade.
Correspondence 1873 of Sir John Lawson on the Tichborne case.
Correspondence 1964-65 of County Archivist concerning identification of First Fleet convicts from Yorkshire.
Conditions Governing Access
Available for Access.
Conditions Governing Use
Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.
Preferred Citation
Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.
Citation items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.
Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)
Archival History
Material selectively filmed at the North Yorkshire Record Office, Northallerton, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1988 (AJCP Reels: M2112-2115). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
North Yorkshire Record Office. Northallerton, Yorkshire, England. For further information see North Yorkshire Record Office catalogue (https://archivesunlocked.northyorks.gov.uk/CalmView/default.aspx).
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at theNational Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn774507] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Finding-aid Notes
This finding aid is a revised online version of the original finding aid prepared by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP), published by the National Library of Australia in 2019. The original AJCP finding aids were unpublished typescripts or photocopies available from libraries that held copies of the original microfilm.
Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming rather than to the date range of the Series or Files.
Subjects
Army officers; Australia; Convicts; Cowell Family; First Fleet to New South Wales; Gowan, William; Great Britain; Havelock-Allen, Sir Henry; Lawson, Sir John; New Zealand Wars; Northallerton Quarter Sessions; Pulleine Family; Pulleine, Frederick; Quarter Sessions; Tichborne case; Trade: New Zealand; Wool and woolgrowing: New Zealand; Worsley, Arthington; Worsley, Frederick; York Quarter Session; Yorkshire, England
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 351, p135.
Item Descriptions
Fonds I. BG. Board of Guardians Records, 1840 - 1843
3 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M2112.
Fonds III.Q. Court Records, 1785 - 1857
8 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reels M2112-M2113.
Series QSB. Working Paper of the Court of Quarter Sessions, January 1788 - September 1790
4 itemsSeries QSG. Quarter Sessions, 1785 - July 1857
5 itemsFilmed selectively.
Subseries. Northallerton Records, 1785 - October 1853
3 itemsSubseries. York Records, July 1827 - July 1857
2 items
Crown Calendar, 28 July 1827 - 8 July 1857 (File 1)
28 Jul 1827, 22 Mar 1828, 19 Jul 1828, 21 Mar 1829, 1 Aug 1829, 9 Jul 1831, 17 Mar 1832, 14 Jul 1832, 22 Mar 1834, 14 Mar 1834, 16 Dec 1843, 6 Mar 1852, 10 Jul 1852, 11 Dec 1852, 8 Mar 1853, 9 Jul 1853, 10 Dec 1853, 7 Mar 1854, 12 Jul 1854, 2 Dec 1854, 7 Mar 1855, 10 Jul 1855, 8 Mar 1856, 9 Jul 1856, 6 Dec 1856, 9 Mar 1857, 8 Jul 1857
28 documents.
Includes details of transportees. (175p.)
General Gaol Delivery, 19 March 1830 - 2 December 1854 (File 2)
15 documents.
19 March 1830, 9 July 1831, 12 July 1834, 11 July 1837, 12 July 1843, 8 March 1845, 6 March 1852, 10 July 1852, 11 December 1852, 8 March 1853, 9 July 1853, 10 December 1853, 7 March 1854, 12 July 1854, 2 December 1854
Includes details of transportees. (22p.)
Fonds IV.R.. Religious Records, 1843 - 1896
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M2113.
Fonds ZAW. Clifton Castle: Pulleine and Cowell Family Archive, 1867 - 1874
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M2114.
Biographical / Historical
Frederick Arthur Pulleine (1843-1908), the son of Rev. Robert Pulleine, grew up in Kirkby Wiske near Thirsk, North Yorkshire. In 1862 he migrated to the South Island of New Zealand and became a farmer in the Marlborough district. He married Lucy Butt at Blenheim in 1868 and they had seven children. By 1872 they were living in the Thames district on the North Island, where Pulleine was an auctioneer and commission agent. In 1880 the family moved to Australia and settled in Adelaide. He established a fruit drying business and was the first secretary of the South Australian School of Mines in 1889-90. He returned to New Zealand in 1906.
Series ZAW 170. Correspondence recording a New Zealand Sheep Farming Venture, 5 October 1867 - 21 October 1874
2 items
Deed of co partnership, 6 April 1868 (File)
Between Joseph D. Tetley, Richard Beaumont, Godfrey W. Beaumont, Dudley Beaumont, Digby Garforth, William M. Hammick, William W. Hawkins, Frederick A. Pulleine, and Henry Wharton, in business of sheep farmers in district of Awatere, Marlborough, New Zealand. (9p.)
Correspondence 92 letters. (294p.), 5 October 1867 - 21 October 1874 (File)
Correspondents include Frederick Pulleine, New Zealand, James Pulleine (his uncle), Clifton, various members of the Beaumont Family, New Zealand and England, Henry Wharton, Dover, J.D. Tetley, New Zealand, H. Tetley, Bedale, Coutts and Co., Sir George Grey, London.
Subjects include Frederick's dissolute character, the sheep farming venture and its failure, Tetley's abscondment from Sth. America leaving Frederick in straightened circumstances, Frederick's disagreement with R. Beaumont, liabilities of the partners and the banks.
Fonds ZBA. Peirse Family Archive, 1814
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M2114.
Series ZBA/21. Personal Papers, December 1814
1 itemSir John Poo Beresford's Naval Letters, 3 December 1814 - 21 December 1814 (File ZBA/21/9)
4 itemsFilmed selectively.
Biographical / Historical
Sir John Poo Beresford (1766-1844), 1st Baronet (created 1814), was the illegitimate son of George Beresford, 1st Marquess of Waterford. He joined the Royal Navy in 1782 and was made a lieutenant in 1790. From 1795 to 1814 he commanded ships in the West Indies, the English Channel, the North Atlantic and the North Sea. In 1814 he was made a rear-admiral. His second wife was Harriet Peirse of Bedale, Yorkshire.
Fonds ZCZ. Messrs. Edmundson and Gowland, Solicitors. Ripon Archive, 1844 - 1852
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M2114.
Agreement between Edward Other surveyor of Auckland and Thomas Henry, storekeeper of Auckland, 6 September 1844 (File ZCZ/676)
Re. piece of ground at Remnera, near Auckland purchased by Other from native chiefs.
Fonds ZDG(H). Havelock Archive, 1863 - 1865
62 itemsFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reels M2114-M2115.
Biographical / Historical
Sir Henry Marshman Havelock (1830-1897), 1st Baronet (created 1858), was the son of General Sir Henry Havelock. He enlisted in the 10th Regiment and served in Persia and India, where he was awarded the Victoria Cross in 1857. He served in New Zealand in 1864-65, where he was deputy assistant quartermaster-general under Major-General Duncan Cameron. He was promoted to the rank of major in 1864, colonel in 1868, and major-general in 1878. He left the Army in 1881. In 1880 he inherited the estate of his cousin Robert Allan on condition that he change his name to Havelock-Allan. He was a member of the House of Commons (1874-81, 1885-92).
Series ZDG(H) III 4/3. Papers of Sir Henry Havelock-Allen during his service in New Zealand, September 1863 - March 1865
62 itemsSubseries 1. Military Papers, 20 November 1863 - 16 November 1864
15 items
Statement made by Private George Linstrorn, 2nd. Battalion. 18 Royal Irish Regiment, 18 January 1864 (File)
Camp Kaihuru re. loss of bridle.
William Naylor to General Cameron, 10 April 1864 (File)
Re possibility of peace; William Thompson to Naylor: issue doesn't rest with him alone.
Consumption of oats; hay; forage issued at Te Awaruntu; distribution of transport, 1 May 1864 - 10 July 1864 (File)
Correspondence and statements, 11 November 1864 (File)
Re Havelock's servant taking a horse from the lines. 7 documents.
Subseries 2. Quarter Master General Departmental Memoranda, 2 September 1863 - 8 November 1863
9 items
Note Book, 1863 - 1865 (File 3)
Containing an intermittently kept journal of the campaign. (Blank pages not copied, 33p. )
Subseries 4. Notes by Havelock on his activities and conduct of the War, 1 November 1863 - 9 February 1865
11 itemsSubseries 5. Miscellaneous items about the Campaign, 21 March 1864 - 10 January 1865
6 itemsSubseries 6. Miscellaneous Papers, 30 October 1863 - 11 March 1865
13 itemsSubseries 7. Printed Pamphlets, September 1863 - 5 January 1865
7 items
New Zealand - its occupation and defence against native aggression by H.J.Warre. Journal of Royal United Service Institution, September 1863 (File 5)
(pp. 151-[illeg])
Fonds ZFL. Mauleverer Brown Archive, 1823 - 1833
4 itemsWilliam Gowan (1788-1857) of Arncliffe Hall, North Yorkshire, was the son of Colonel Clotworthy Gowan. In 1833, on the death of his aunt Frances Mauleverer, he assumed the name Mauleverer in lieu of Gowan. He was a member of the provisional committee of the South Australian Association (1834).
Filmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M2115.
Captain Henry Cock, Hobart to Gowan, 28 April 1823 (File ZFL/186)
Re arrival from Cape, backward state of the inhabitants, criticism of Governor Sorell. (crossed and faint)
Elizabeth Fletcher, Tadcaster to Gowan, 20 May 1833 (File ZFL/187)
Re political situation in England, requesting information on the Australian Agricultural Association and NSW for Lady Grey.
Fonds ZFW. Wyvliffe of Constable Burton Archive, 1855 - 1888
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M2115.
Biographical / Historical
Marmaduke D'Arcy Wyvill (1849-1918) of Constable Burton Hall was a member of the House of Commons (1895-1900). John Banner Price was the Deputy Assistant Commissary-General in New South Wales from 1844 to 1855.
F.F. Coxworthy, Melbourne to Secretary of State, 28 August 1855 (File)
Praising John Banner Price, Commissariat Dept. of the Army, who had served in NSW.
Correspondence of M. D'Arcy Wyville, 11 July 1885 - 5 October 1885 (File ZFW/7/5/24)
Letters, telegrams and other documents between M. D'Arcy Wyville, E K Law (Sleaford) and John B. Price (London), concerning the stealing of money by J.B.Price's son Edwin while working for Law and the decision to send him to Australia. Includes notices for 'Victoria' line of Australian clipper ships, Orient and Pacific Steam Navigation Co. and Dominion line to Canada and US. 46 documents.
Correspondence of John B. Price, 20 August 1885 - 14 November 1888 (File ZFW/7/5/27)
John B. Price, London to his son Edwin (Sydney), details of family life and comments on Edwins letters from Australia. Also includes J.B. Price to M.D'Arcy Wyville, to Wrench (City Bank, Sydney) Haviland (Sydney) and Fairbairn (Sydney) re. helping Edwin and J.B. Price's own time in Australia.
51 letters.
Fonds ZLB. Draycott Hall Archive, 1905
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M2115.
Biographical / Historical
Draycott Hall near Reeth, North Yorkshire, was the home of the Denys-Burton Family. Sir Francis Denys-Burton (1849-1922), 3rd Baronet, was the owner of the estate from 1881 to 1922.
Fonds ZNK. Zetland (Dundas) Archive, 1791 - 1816
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M2115.
Biographical / Historical
Sir Thomas Dundas (1741-1820), 2nd Baronet (succeeded 1781), 1st Baron Dundas (created 1794), was a member of the House of Commons from 1763 to 1794. Margaretta Arden (1768-1851), the wife of Charles Perceval, 2nd Baron Arden, was a natural history collector and patron of John Lewin.
Fonds ZON. Worsley of Hovingham Archive, 1853 - 1857
2 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M2115.
Biographical / Historical
Frederick Cayley Worsley (1803-1884) was the son of Reverend George Worsley. His brother Septimus Worsley was a merchant in Wellington, New Zealand. Their elder brother, Sir William Worsley (1792-1879) of Hovingham Hall, was created 1st Baronet in 1838. Arthington Worsley (1830-1861) was the son of Sir William Worsley.
Series ZON 13. Personal Papers, September 1853 - February 1857
2 itemsSubseries ZON 13/9. Papers of Frederick Cayley Worsley, February 1854 - May 1856
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Biographical / Historical
Frederick Cayley Worsley (1803-1884).
Letters from his brother Septimus in Wellington, New Zealand, 5 February 1854; 21 February 1854; 1 June 1854; 21 May 1854; 23 July 1854; 12 September 1854; 12 May 1856, 2 nd (File ZON 13/9/1 - 10)
Subjects include description of New Zealand and trips made to interior, problems of building in an earthquake zone, building a new jetty, hunting whales, sending out new settlers from England.
Subseries ZON 13/14. Papers of Arthington Worsley, September 1853 - February 1857
4 itemsFilmed selectively.
Papers relating to shipping and New Zealand wool trade, September 1853 - February 1857 (File ZON 13/14/1/1-28)
4 items
Articles of co partnership between Frederick Young, Merchant of Cornhill and Arthington Worsley (5p.), 20 September 1853 (Item 1)
Frederick Young (Torquay) to Arthington Worsley, 30 August 1854 - 3 September 1854 (Item 2-3)
Re. the business arrangement between them and lack of news from New Zealand.
Septimus Worsley (Wellington) to Arthington Worsley, 11 July 1854 - 23 February 1857 (Item 4-28)
11 July 1854, 26 August 1854, 28 August 1854, 10 January 1855, February 1855, April 1855, 10 May 1855, 18 (May)? 1855, 1 June 1855, 4 January 1856, January 1856, (7 March 1856)?, March 1856, April 1856, 23 April 1856, 29 May 1856, (and blurred copy), illegible date, 4 July 1856, August (1856), 12 December 1856, 19 December 1856, 25 December 1856, 23 February 1857
Subjects include emigration to New Zealand, activities of the provincial Government, an earthquake and re building, the firms merchant ships and what goods to send, merchants from Sydney and Melbourne are undercutting him, negotiating a Government loan.
Some letters are crossed and blurred.
Fonds ZPT. Scrope of Danby Archive, 1919
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M2115.
Biographical / Historical
Danby Hall at Thornton Steward, Wensleydale, has been owned by the Scrope Family since the sixteenth century.
Fonds ZQH. Chaytor of Croft Archive, 1812
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M2115.
Fonds ZRL. Lawson of Brough Archive, 1857 - 1873
4 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M2115.
Biographical / Historical
Brough Hall near Catterick was the home of the Lawson Family from about 1575 to 1975. In 1837 Sir William Lawson (1796-1865), 1st Baronet (created 1841), built a Roman Catholic chapel on the grounds dedicated to St Paulinus. It contains a memorial to his second son Henry Lawson who was drowned in New Zealand in 1857. His first son, Sir John Lawson (1829-1910), 2nd Baronet (succeeded 1865), attended Stonyhurst College at the same time as Roger Tichborne and was a witness in the Tichborne Case in 1873.
Series ZRL 9. Personal Papers, January 1857 - May 1873
4 itemsFilmed selectively.
Subseries ZRL 9/13. Henry Lawson, 3 January 1857
1 itemBiographical / Historical
Henry Lawson (d. 1857)
Subseries ZRL 9/14. Sir John Lawson, 2nd Batt, April 1873 - May 1873
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Biographical / Historical
Sir John Lawson, 2nd Batt (d. 1910)
Correspondence on the Tichborne case, 7 April 1873 - 28 May 1873 (File ZRL 9/14/32-47)
7 April 1873, 10 April 1873, 14 April 1873, 2 May 1873, 3 May 1873, 5 May 1873 and 6 May 1873, (subpoenas to attend court on 8th May and 12th May), Friday, 9 May 1873, 10 May 1873, 16 May 1873, 19 May 1873, 22 May 1873, 28 May 1873 (2 letters).
Fonds VI. Other Records, 1964 - 1965
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M2115.
Series CRONT 16/1. Correspondence concerning identification of First Fleet convicts from Yorkshire, December 1964 - May 1965
3 itemsBiographical / Historical
John Cobley (1914-1989) was a Sydney physician, book collector and historian. His books included The convicts 1788-1792: a study of a one-in-twenty sample (1964) and The crimes of the First Fleet convicts (1970).
Messers AT Grey and J. Cobley, Sydney to 'County Archivist', Yorkshire (File)
Includes a list of convicts tried in Yorkshire of whom they would like further details.
Correspondence regarding information on the transportees, 2 December 1964 - 12 May 1965 (File)
Correspondence between Croft-Andrew, OS Tomlinson, City Librarian, York, J.H.Glen, Town Clerk, Kingston Hill, Sir Bernard Kenyon, Wakefield, A.J. Thomson, Agent General's Office, NSW House, Messers Grey and Cobley, Sydney, Norman Higson, County Archivist, Beverley, Governor Wakefield Prison and RW Gelsthorpe, City Art Gallery and Museum, Wakefield regarding information on the transportees.
Dates include:2 December 1964, 15 December 1964, 15 December 1964, 16 December 1964, 21 December 1964, 24 December 1964, 30 December 1964, 30 December 1964, 31 December 1964, 1 January 1965, 4 January 1965, 4 January 1965, 4 January 1965, 4 January 1965, 5 January 1965, 5 January 1965, 7 January 1965, 7 January 1965, 8 January 1965, 8 January 1965, 8 January 1965, 11 January 1965, 18 January 1965, 19 January 1965, 20 January 1965, 12 May 1965.
Fonds OUTFAC 99. Yewdall Family, 1879 - 1880
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M2115.
Ann Riley, on board Olaki to New Zealand to her parents and brothers and sisters, 16 December 1879 (File OUTFAC 99/19)
Re. life on board 'our bed is three feet wide and has to hold my husband, myself and Tom', food - wish had bought more supplies with them, arrival at Port Chalmers on Christmas Eve. (9p.)