Guide to the Collections held by the Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch (as filmed by the AJCP)

Bastardy maintenance order, 10 May 1833 (File G8/22)

Order to John Hull, labourer of Polstead, to pay 5 shillings for maintenance of bastard child of Sarah Stow, wife of William Stow, now under sentence of transportation.

Certificate of death of Stephen Henry Daniels, 1942 - 1962 (Item)

With four statements of dividends of New South Wales 4 percent stock.

Removal order, 1 September 1814 (File G5/202)

Order to churchwardens and overseers of parish of Gravesend, Kent, to remove Martha Giles, wife of Isaac Giles, under sentence of transportation, to parish of St Matthew's, Ipswich.

Draft Instructions, 6 May 1833 (Item L1/45)

Draft instructions concerning receipts of dividends on old South Sea annuities standing in the names of respective ministers of parish of St Mary Elms.

Notice for the parish of Thrandeston to raise money for emigration, 1836 (Item)

Loan, 9 October 1852 (Item G12/1)

Loan of £200 and interest from Public Works Loan Commissioners to churchwardens and overseers of parish of Yaxley for defraying expenses of parishioners who had emigrated to new colonies

Order from Guardians of the Poor, 28 March 1844 (Item G9/1)

Order from Guardians of the Poor to churchwardens and overseers authorising rate to raise sums of £14 to defray emigration of poor persons.

Order from Guardians of the Poor, 22 November 1850 (Item G9/2)

Order from Guardians of the Poor to churchwardens and overseers authorising rate to raise sum of £10 to be expended for the emigration of Charles Ruddock.

Deed of gift, 15 January 1889 (Item L3/1)

Deed of gift of £363.12.9 from Frances Lawton (Needham Market), William Lawton (George Town, Tasmania) and Sarah Kempley (London) to rector and churchwardens of parish of Eye for purchase of £2.15.0 per cent Consolidated Stock in trust for the poor of the parish of Eye to be known as Lawton charity.

Account book, 1889 - 1915 (Item L3/2)

Reverend Donald Campbell (Eye). 'Lawton Gift' account with London and Provincial Bank Ltd.

John Swetman (Gravesend) to Parry (Hope Assurance Office), 12 August [1831] (Item G6/3)

Requests payment of £50 to Mr Bishop.

Receipt for £30 from G. Bishop for passage money for Susan and Theophila Gooch from London to Swan River Colony, 17 August 1831 (Item G6/4)

Note of money received and paid out on account of Mr Gooch (Item G6/5)

[Unknown] to R. Jennings: refers to Gooch, payments, 3 October [n.y.] (Item G8/2)

Entry for baptism of Valentine Thomas Blomfield, son of Thomas and Mary Blomfield, 18 February 1793 (Item)

Printed bond for money raised by rate for purposes of emigration, 24 May 1837 (Item 2)

Printed bond on poor rates for purposes of emigration, n.d. (Item 4)

Printed forms for notice of meeting, resolution for borrowing money, and certificate to Poor Law Commissioners for adoption of emigration scheme, n.d. (Item 6)

Marshall and Co., emigration agents, Cornhill, London. Prospectus for emigration to Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India (printed), 1844 (Item 10)

Blything Union. Order of the Poor Law Commission to make rate to open an Emigration Fund account, 1844 (Item 6-7)

With a bank receipt for £75.

Notice of Messrs. Carter and Bonus (London), c. 1843 (Item 8)

Seeking young women as emigrants to Australia (printed).

Notice of Messrs. Carter and bonus, in conjunction with Messrs. John Gore and Co. and Robert Brooks, 1843 - 1844 (Item 9)

Giving dates of sailings of emigrant ships, with details of provisions supplied, wages for selected trades in Sydney and Port Phillip. (printed).

Blything Union. Printed emigration circular, with 5 names added in manuscript, 1844 (Item 10)

Harry White (Blything Union) to churchwardens and overseers of Halesworth, 5 February 1845 (Item 26)

Application by George Curtis for assistance to join his father in Australia.

[Benjamin Nuyman?] (Halesworth) to Harry White, 20 February 1845 (Item 27)

Vestry meeting resolved that no expenses of George Curtis should be paid from poor rate.

Circulars from Poor Law Commission, 1836 (Item)

Concerning expenditure of the poor rate and accounts to be kept by overseers.

Accounts for Blything Union: showing expenditure, 1831-1834; 1838-1841 (Item)

Report of Halesworth Finance Committee on examination of accounts of several officers of the parish, 1844 - 1845 (Item)

Blything Union. Notice of meeting to consent to raising money for emigration purposes (printed), 1845 (Item 2)

Memorandum concerning emigration of George Fisher, his wife and two children, and a bastard child of his wife, to Van Diemen's Land, 25 April 1836 (Item)

Petition in support of emigration for the relief of the poor (copy), c.1830 (Item 5/3)

Petition from three hundreds of Newport Bucks to House of Commons in support of emigration for the relief of the poor (copy)

Captain George Harris. Observations on the introduction and cultivation in Ireland of New Zealand flax, phormium tenax, and other fibrous plants as substitutes for hemp and flax (printed, 2pp), 5 January 1833 (Item 7/2)

Society for Reform of Colonial Government. The aims of the Society (printed), n.d. (Item 13/12)

Thomas Welch (Cheltenham) to Lord Stradbroke, 30 December 1845 (Item 15/10)

His hopes of appointment as judge at Port Phillip.

S. Walcott (Colonial Land and Emigration Office) to Blything Board of Guardians, 16 March 1847 (Item 18/16)

Emigration of young single women with children.

Society for Promoting the Amendment of the Law. Report of the committee on colonial and navigational laws, as to the colonial judgeships, with respect to the removal of the judges, London (11pp), 1847 (Item 18/24)

Agent General for Queensland, London. Handbill concerning emigration to Queensland, n.d. (Item 23/22)

Devitt and Moore, London. Two handbills for Devitt and Moore's Australian Line, 8 June 1896 (Item 23/24)

Devitt and Moore, London. Two handbills for Devitt and Moore's Australian Line, ocean training ships for officers and premiums for midshipmen and apprentices, with a covering letter to Lady Stradbroke

Notice of the Committee for Promoting Emigration of Females to the Australian Colonies (printed), 1836 (Item 4/1)

Advertisement for ship Camden embarking from Gravesend for Sydney (printed), 18 February [1836] (Item 4/2)

John Marshall. Scheme for victualling female emigrants on the voyage to Australia (printed), n.d. (Item 4/3)

John Marshall, agent to the Emigration Committee. Scheme for victualling female emigrants on the voyage to Australia (printed)

Papers presented to the House of Commons Emigration Committee, 4 March 1836 (Item 4/4)

Concerning emigration to the Australian colonies (12pp).

Poster announcing departure of ship Amelia Thomson leaving Gravesend for Van Diemen's Land, 28 April 1836 (Item 4/5)

Circular: wages in Van Diemen's Land, February 1836 (Item 4/6)

Circular from Emigration Department, Colonial Office, concerning wages in Van Diemen's Land

Extracts from letters from John Sullivan, surgeon superintendent on emigrant ship Canton, 6 October 1835 (Item 4/7)

addressed to chairman of the Emigration Committee

John Marshall (Australian Emigration Office) to Lord Stradbroke, 25 February 1836 (Item 4/8)

Particulars of ship Launceston to be despatched to Van Diemen's Land.

Circular from Silver and Co. (London and Liverpool), 9 August 1848 (Item 8)

With list of clothes and other necessities for emigrants to Australia and New Zealand.

Robert Logsdon (London) to Lady Stradbroke, 20 April 1874 (Item 18)

Publication of report on emigration to foreign countries.

Sir Charles FitzRoy (Sydney) to Lord Stradbroke, 1 April 1847 (Item)

Report of Sir Alfred Stephen on trial of Lowe.

James Lowe (Hobart) to Lord Stradbroke: seeks his liberty, 15 December 1849 (Item)

Testimonials of character of James Lowe, March 1849 - April 1849 (Item)

Cutting from Sydney Morning Herald on trial of James Lowe for shooting with intent to murder, 11 March 1846 (Item)

Sir Alfred Stephen to Colonial Secretary: trial of James Lowe and sentence of 15 years transportation, 30 August 1847 (Item)

James Lowe (Hobart) to Lord Stradbroke, 20 August 1849 (Item)

James Lowe (Hobart) to Captain McLean, 16 November 1849 (Item)

Requests a certificate stating that Lowe had never been tried or convicted for an offence since his arrival in New South Wales in 1838, except for case in 1846, as Colonial Secretary had claimed he was convicted on three occasions.

James Lowe (Hobart) to Lord Stradbroke: possible restitution, 28 January 1850 (Item)

Cover for letter addressed to James Lowe, 12 January 1850 (Item)

Sun News-Pictorial (Melbourne), 8 March 1926 (Item)

With articles and photographs on departure of Lord and Lady Stradbroke from Melbourne.

Will of Louisa Edwards of Framlingham, Suffolk, 14 August 1845 (File 3/39)

Including bequest of £2000 to her brother Thomas Valentine Bloomfield of Denham Court, New South Wales.

Will of Matilda Stanford of Framlingham, Suffolk, 26 January 1852 (File 3/40)

Including a bequest of £300 to her brother Thomas Valentine Bloomfield of Denham Court, New South Wales.

Note: The baptismal record of Thomas Valentine Bloomfield is listed on page 7.