Guide to the Guide to Miscellaneous Records of the Nottinghamshire Archives Office (as filmed by the AJCP)
M1617
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2019
Collection Summary
- Title
- Collections held by the Nottinghamshire Archives Office (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1723 - 1967
- Collection Number
- M1617
- Extent
- 37 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
Card index to Nottingham Borough Quarter Sessions: transportations 1723-1858;
Records of Atkeys of Nottingham Ltd., motor engineers and motor car agents; Parish records;
Turner Family private records; letters of D.H. Lawrence; papers of solicitors relating to Australia; and the papers of individuals such as Dr. Marjorie Clifton, Joyce Eddison and Dame Laura Knight.
The collection contains index cards, correspondence, meeting minutes, legal documents, receipts and other notes.
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-23 September 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)
Archival History
Material selectively filmed at Nottinghamshire Archives Office, Nottingham, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1982 (AJCP Reel: M1617). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
Nottinghamshire Archives Office, Nottingham, England
For further information see Nottinghamshire Archives Office catalogue (https://www.nawcat.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/).
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia . as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Finding Aid Note
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
William Davie(Ship); Australia: visits to; New Zealand: visits to; Gold and Goldfields: Victoria; Great Britain; Turner, R; Turner, J; Stephensen, P.R; Southeast Asia; Ross, Thomas; Quarter Sessions; Port Otago, New Zealand; Nottingham Quarter Sessions; New Zealand; Land: New South Wales; Lawrence, D.H; Knight, Dame Laura; Greenock, Scotland; Foster Family (NSW); Emigrant voyages; Convicts; Circuses; Buck Family; Bert, Joe; Bendigo, Victoria; Atkey, Sir Albert; Atkey, Lady Euphemia; Australia
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 356, p. 136
Item Descriptions
Series C.P.5.. Official Records: Papers of Edward Smith Godfrey, Clerk of the Peace, Nottinghamshire, 1806 - 1843
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
Series DD ATK. Records of Atkeys of Nottingham Ltd., 18 July 1852 - 1936
5 itemsAtkeys of Nottingham Ltd. were motor engineers and motor car agents. Filmed selectively.
Biographical / Historical
Sir Albert Reuben Atkey (1867-1947) opened a cycle repair shop in Nottingham in about 1885 and in 1897 founded the first motor trading company in Nottingham, A.R. Atkey & Company. He was Mayor of Nottingham in 1928 and held the seat of Nottingham Central in the House of Commons in 1918-22.
Correspondence of Sir Albert and Lady Atkey on their Tour of New Zealand (10 letters), 1936 (File 37)
The correspondents include E. Wratten (Auckland), Alice Toner (Auckland), A. Bonner (Auckland), A. Saxton (Wellington) and E. Day (Geraldine). There is also a letter from T. Hastie (Melbourne) on Australian duties on the import of vehicle bodies and a copy of a letter to the President of the Auckland Chamber of commerce on Anglo-New Zealand trade and duties on British goods.
Power of attorney granted to Isaac Hill (Nelson, N.Z.) to R.L. Thorpe (Nottingham) to act re intended indenture, 4 April 1868 (File City DD 3940)
Thomas Ross (Williamstown) to parents, 18 July 1852 (File City DD 16471)
Discusses the voyage to Melbourne; prices and rents; desertion of sailors and street violence.
Series DD 670. Hopkins Collection of Lawrence Material: The Letters, 21 April [1922]-30 Aug. 1929
1 itemBiographical / Historical
The novelist, short story writer and poet David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) visited Ceylon in 1922 and then spent three months in Australia, living at Thirroul south of Sydney. The Australian writer Percy Reginald Stephenson (1901-1965) met Lawrence in 1928 during the time Stephenson was managing the Fanfrolico Press in London.
Letters of D.H. Lawrence to William and Sallie Hopkin, 21 April [1922]-30 Aug 1929 (File DD 670/1)
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
Series DD 790. Papers of Dame Laura Knight
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Biographical / Historical
Laura Johnson (1877-1967) studied at the Nottingham School of Art, where she met the painter Harold Knight (1874-1961). The married in 1903. Laura Knight was the first woman to become a full member of the Royal Academy. She was fascinated by the circus and produced studies of trapeze artists, acrobats, jugglers and other performers.
Series DDH 151. Papers of Buck Family of Farndon, 19 March 1891 - 23 March 1905
6 itemsFilmed selectively.
Part of the Records of Hodgkinson and Beevar. Hodgkinson and Bevvar were solicitors of Newark.
William Buck (Patoka Station) to B.T. Pratt (Newark), 19 March 1891 (File 32)
The letter mentiones camping out catching wild horses and offers thanks for assistance to emigrate to New Zealand.
Series DDH 154. Papers of Harvey of Newark, 9 July 1880 - 22 December 1886
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
Part of the Records of Hodgkinson and Beevar. Hodgkinson and Bevvar were solicitors of Newark.
Series DDH 160. Papers of H.A. Irwin of Ireland and Collingham, 24 February 1886
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Part of the Records of Hodgkinson and Beevar. Hodgkinson and Bevvar were solicitors of Newark.
Series DDH 172. Wills, settlements and cognate papers, 27 December 1866 - 1878
6 itemsFilmed selectively.
Part of the Records of Hodgkinson and Beevar. Hodgkinson and Bevvar were solicitors of Newark.
Draft authority from Alfred Johnson of Nelson, New Zealand to J. Oldrid and T. Stafford to pay £50 to Charles Johnson, 1867 (File 130)
Deed poll and power of attorney between George Johnson of Melbourne and John A. Ewen of London, 30 October 1876 (File 135)
Nine receipts of George Johnson of Melbourne, Alfred Johnson of Nelson and others for shares under wills of parents, 1876 - 1878 (File 148)
Series DDH 177. Papers of English Family of Newark, 22 April 1897
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Part of the Records of Hodgkinson and Beevar. Hodgkinson and Bevvar were solicitors of Newark.
Series DDN. Papers of Nevile Family of Thorney Hall, Newark, 5 August 1868 - 28 October 1868
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Series DDWM 4. Papers of Foster Family, 1888 - 1893
4 itemsFilmed selectively.
Records of Williamson and Company, solicitors of Retford
Thomas P. Foster and Charles M. Foster to T. Bescoby (Retford), 1888 - 1889 (File 146-149)
The letters discuss payment of allowance to uncle; name of bank in Sydney; sends deed of conveyance; acknowledges bank draft. (4 letters.)
C.M. Foster (Ulmarra, Clarence River) to H.P. Foster, 14 January 1892 (File 150)
The letter discusses problems with brother over management of property; losses due to floods; bankruptcy of T.P. Foster; impending marriage.
Correspondence between T.P. Foster (Sydney), C.M. Foster (Ulmarra), Haig and Heppenstall, Barraud, Regge and Jupp (London) and T. Bescoby, 1892 - 1893 (File 152-162)
This correspondence concerns the receipt of portraits and documents concerning the estate of H.P. Foster and sending powers of attorney. (11 letters)