Guide to the Collections held by the Staffordshire Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP)

Correspondence concerning the Queensland Land Company, 1865 - 1867 (File 6/4/7)

Letters (1865-67) received by Lord Hatherton from Edward Cropper (Penshurst, Kent) and R.A. Gutteridge (Queensland Co. Ltd, London). The deal with the purchase of shares in the Queensland Land Company, financial arrangements, reports from Australia on Inniskillen, Northampton Downs and Barcoo Plains properties and proposed meetings. There is also an account of the Queensland Company (June 1867)...

Correspondence with Lord Hatherton, 1894 - 1895 (File 5/38)

Letters from Algernon Littleton in Tasmania to his parents Lord and Lady Hatherton. They were written in Frankford, Westbury and Launceston and relate to Littleton's work with the Tasmanian Gold Mining Company, his interest in farming, the Tasmanian economy, the possibility of moving to Victoria or New Zealand and news from home. There is also a letter from Charles Tenison (Hobart) about the Manley pedigree and the visit of Algernon Littleton. (7 letters, one incomplete)

Documents of Lord Henry Percy, 1867 (File 5/11)

Letters (1867) to Lord Henry Percy concerning the refusal of a pension for the widow of Lieut. Colonel Hassard, 57th Regiment, who was killed in New Zealand. The correspondents include R.J. Farren (Colchester), Sir Edward Lugard (War Office) and W.F. Forster.

Case papers concerning Joseph Knight Barnett of Concord, New South Wales, with a copy of his will. (3 documents), 1875 - 1885 (File 9/3)

Papers of the administration of estates of George Pauton of Sydney, New South Wales (5 documents), 1908 - 1909 (File)

Powers of attorney granted to A.M. Manby by Charles Woodward and Frank Woodward, will of Frank Woodward, and general release by Amelia Woodward (4 documents), 1894 - 1895 (File)

Letters from Frank Woodward (East Eyreton, New Zealand) to A.M. Manby, 1890 - 1905 (File Bundle 1)

These letters mostly comprise requests for money, with occasional references to illnesses and his work as a farm labourer. There are also letters from Ernest E. Papprill, solicitor (Kaiapoi) and E. Woodward (Croydon, England), money transfers, receipts and a cheque. (31 letters and documents)

Letters from Frank Woodward (Easy Eyreton) to A.M. Manby and his sister, Lizzie Woodward, 1907 - 1909 (File Bundle 2)

Referring to his need for money and his illnesses. There are also letters from Woodward's employer G.H. Martin (East Eyreton), E. Woodward and N. Kennaway (New Zealand High Commission, London), money transfers and a receipt. (14 letters and documents)

Ensign Robert Dale. Report to the Surveyor-General of Western Australia of a journey in the Swan River Valley, with observations on topography, vegetation, soils, Indigenous Australians, 31 August 1830 (File 10)

William Palmer. Remarks suggested by a visit to the Female Factory, Parramatta, 1836 (File 11)

William Palmer. Remarks occasioned by a visit to the principal felons' gaol, Sydney, on 15 March 1837, with recommendations for a new system (File 12)

Supplement to the Tasmanian and Austral-Asiatic Review, 30 October 1829 (File 7/6)

Contains a report of the court martial of Lieut. Carew, 63rd Regiment, for allowing a ship to be seized by convicts.

Panoramic view of King George's Sound, Swan River Colony, engraved by Robert Havell from a drawing of Lieut. Robert Dale (aquatint), 1834 (File 10/21)

Letters to Benjamin Whitehouse, 1900 (File 3/8)

Letters to Benjamin W. Whitehouse (Sedgley) concerning an accident in a mine shaft at Broken Hill in which Charles Blake was killed and a note from the New South Wales Police Department on the death of Charles H. Whitehouse, the son of Benjamin Whitehouse. (4 letters)

Letters to Charles Whitehouse, 1882 - 1898 (File 6/1)

Letters to Charles Whitehouse in Australia from his mother Susannah M. Whitehouse (Sedgley). (3 letters)

Papers concerning Queensland Government inscribed stock, 1901 (Item 25)

Letters from Rev. W.F. France (Society for the Propagation of the Gospel) to the Bishop of Auckland and Rev. L. Lambert (Stafford) on supplying a boat to New Zealand (2 letters), 1931 (File 1)

Pamphlets by Rev. Lionel Lambert on the Stafford felt of missionary boats (2 items), n.d. (File 2)

Photographs of Borneo and Sarawak and the missionary boat St Mary Stafford, c. 1920-1940 (File 3)

There is also a photograph of a Melanesian boat.

Photographs of William G. Cowie, Bishop of Auckland and Primate of New Zealand. (3 items) (File)

Lord Thurlow to Lord Stafford, 3 September 1790 (Item 3)

Disputes with Spain over rights in the Yucatan and fishing rights in the South Seas; war with France. (incomplete)

Grey to Lord Stafford, 11 May 1806 (Item 36)

Advocates purchase for the nation of South Sea curiosities in sale of the Leverian Museum.

John Moore (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge) to Lord Dartmouth, 23 January 1776 (File 342)

Sends letter from Sir Harry Trelawney to Rev. T. Broughton on failure to baptise the Tahitian Omai.

'Thoughts on our trade with the Spaniards and Dutch in the East Indies', n.d. (File 249)

G.L. Scott to Lord Dartmouth, 28 February 1772 (File 12)

The North-West Passage; encloses letter from Cramond; publication of Samuel Engel.

Beat Taval (London) to Lord Dartmouth, 27 August 1774 (File 13)

The inevitability of war with Spain; necessity of a new passage to the East Indies and China (in French).

John Hanson. Observations on the failure to find a North West Passage and advisability of searching for a North East Passage, 18 January 1774 (File 14)

R. Valltravers (London) to Lord Dartmouth, 30 November 1773 (File 15)

North West Passage; need to reach the South Sea by the Mer Glaciale (in French and English).

Henry Botham (Benturin Plantation) to Court of Directors, East India Company, 17 June 1777 (File (369B))

Conditions for agriculture in state of Padang; Dutch sugar plantations in Java.

Henry Botham (Fort Marlborough) to Lord Dartmouth discussing the capture of Padang, 12 October 1781 (File (381))

Resident at Malacca. Abstract of the receipts and disbursements at Malacca as per cash accounts of the Receiver of Revenues, 1 May 1799-30 April 1800, 11 Aug. 1800 (File (469))

R. Dawson (Sydney) to Lord Dartmouth, 25 September 1852 (File 25/55)

A debt incurred by his nephew in England; coal mining in West Bromwich; life in the colony for children; standard of morals in Australia; the curse of gold discoveries; advantages of Chinese labour; land acquired near Newcastle; sand encroaching on Sydney and Newcastle.