Guide to the Records held by the Oxfordshire County Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP)
M1638 - M1639
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2019
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Oxfordshire County Record Office
- Title
- Collections held by the Oxfordshire County Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1775 - 1923
- Collection Number
- M1638 - M1639
- Extent
- 10 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
Calendars 1775-1853 of prisoners tried at Oxford Quarter Sessions and Assizes.
Letters 1863 concerning plan of Sarah Charles to emigrate to New Zealand on Captain Cook.
Letters 1922-1923 of Bernard and Norman Badger of Katanning, Western Australia.
Register of convicts 1815-1832 transported to Maria Island, Van Diemen's Land.
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.
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 Oxfordshire County Record Office, Oxford, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1984 (AJCP Reels:M1638-M1639). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
Oxfordshire County Record Office, County Hall, New Road, Oxford, England.
For more information see Oxfordshire County Record Office [https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/cms/public-site/collections-archives-and-records].
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2265484] 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
Assizes; Australia; Badger, Bernard; Badger, Norman; Captain Cook (ship); Charles, Sarah; Convicts; Convicts: Tasmania; Great Britain; Katanning, Western Australia; Maria Island, Tasmania; New Zealand; New Zealand: immigration to; Oxford Quarter Sessions; Oxford, England
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1984. Entry 360, p138.
Item Descriptions
Fonds. Official Records: Quarter Sessions Records, 1775 - 1853
4 items
Calendars of prisoners in Castle Gaol, Oxford, tried at Assizes, 1775 - 1844 (File QSP 1/1)
There are some gaps in the sequence. Many of the prisoners listed were sentenced to transportation. The volume also includes several broadsides on individual convicts. (1 vol.)
Calendar of prisoners for trial at Oxford Quarter Sessions and at Assizes (1 vol.), 1822 - 1840 (File QSP 1/2)
Fonds Gil. Private Records: Records deposited by Gillett Brothers Discount Co., London, 1877 - 1878
1 ItemFilmed selectively.
Biographical / Historical
The Gilletts were a Quaker family who played a prominent role in business and philanthropic activities in Banbury. Joseph Ashby Gillett (1795-1853) became a partner in Banbury New Bank in 1823 and after his death his son Charles Gillett (1830-1895) became chairman. Gilletts Bank was taken over by Barclay Bank in 1919. Edward Gillett (1833-1891) of Featherston, New Zealand, was a nephew of Joseph Gillett.
Series XV. Family Papers, 1877 - 1878
1 item
Correspondence and other papers of Charles Gillett, 1877 - 1878 (File i/9-16)
Concerning the estate of G. Scuse and a bequest to Edward Gillett of Featherstone, New Zealand, 1877-78.
The papers include a Power of Attorney from E. Gillett to B. Alphin of Banbury, bill of costs, receipts and cheques. The letters of E. Gillett refer to his purchase of a property, health and the destruction of his house by fire.
Fonds Morrell. Private Records: Records of Morrell, Peel and Gamlen, solicitors, 4 November 1887
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Fonds S1. Private Records: Records deposited by Slatter, Son and More, solicitors of Stratford upon Avon, 1863 - 1923
2 itemsFilmed selectively.