Guide to the Collections held by the Surrey Record Office, Guildford Branch (as filmed by the AJCP)
M1840
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2019
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Surrey Record Office. Guildford Muniment Room
- Title
- Collections held by the Surrey Record Office, Guildford Muniment Room (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1854 - 1941
- Collection Number
- M1840
- Extent
- 60 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
Papers 1888-1905 of Sir William Hillier Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow, Governor of New Zealand 1889-1892. Subjects include: Maoris; Federation of Australia; Chinese crisis in New South Wales; defences of New Zealand and Australia; and New Zealand birds. Correspondents include Queen Victoria, Lord Knutsford, Richard Seddon and J. Chamberlain. Also papers of his son Sir Richard Onslow including an account of a visit to Australia and New Zealand 1889-1890.
Letters 1922-1941 of Arthur and Fred Gammon of Kaikohe, New Zealand, to Harold Gammon referring to conditions of soldiers' settlement farm and impact of the Great Depression.
Papers 1854-1865 of Martin Ware comprising letters from former boys of Ragged Schools and Shoeblack Society referring to Australian churches, life at the Ovens River diggings, Maori War, work on railways in Queensland, and Australian Aborigines. Also journal of Martin S. Ware kept on journey to North America, Fiji, Australia and New Zealand 1911-1912.
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.
This microfilm is to be used for reference and research only. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce any of the papers should seek the permission of the appropriate copyright owners through the Senior Archivist, Surrey History Centre, Goldsworth Road, Woking, Surrey.
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 Guildford Muniment Room, Surrey Record Office, Castle Arch, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1983 (AJCP Reels:M1840). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
This collection was originally held by the Guildford Muniment Room, Castle Arch, Guildford, England. However, since the records were filmed the Surrey History Centre replaced the Guildford Muniment Room, the Surrey Record Office and the Surrey Local Studies Library.
Existence and Location of Originals
Surrey History Centre, Goldsworth Road, Woking, Surrey, England.
For more information see the Surrey Record Office. [https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/culture-and-leisure/history-centre]
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-vn746688] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Related Materials
The records of the Surrey Record Office (M1834-M1839) have been listed and filmed seperately. [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2269170]
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.
Advisory Statement
Australian Aboriginal, Maori and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this Finding Aid contains material and descriptive information which may be considered culturally sensitive and may cause distress, including names and images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people now deceased. This Finding Aid contains terms that reflect authors' views or those of the historical period, but which may not be considered appropriate today. While the information may not reflect current understanding, it is provided in an historical context.
Subjects
Australia; Australia: Church Building; Australia: defence; Australia: Federation; Australia: visits to; Chamberlain, Joseph; Chinese in Australia; Fiji; Gammon, Arthur; Gammon, Fred; Gammon, Harold; Gold and Goldfields: Victoria; Great Britain; Holland, Sir Henry T., 1st Viscount Knutsford; Indigenous Australians; Kaikohe, New Zealand; Maori; New Zealand; New Zealand: Birds; New Zealand: defence; New Zealand: economic conditions; New Zealand: farms and farming ; New Zealand: flora and fauna; New Zealand: Governors and Govenors General; New Zealand: visits to; New Zealand Wars; North America; Onslow, Sir Richard; Onslow, William H., 4th Earl; Ovens River, Victoria; Ragged Schools and Shoeblack Society; Railways: Queensland; Seddon, Richard; Victoria, Queen of Great Britain; Ware, Martin; Ware, Martin S.
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 451, p177. [http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-397322928]
Item Descriptions
Fonds 173. Onslow Manuscripts, 1887 - 4 July 1906
51 itemsPapers of Onslow Family of Clandon Park, Guildford.
Biographical / Historical
Sir William Hillier Onslow (1853-1911), 4th Earl of Onslow (succeeded 1870), Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Colonies 1887-1888, Parliamentary Secretary to Board of Trade 1888, Governor of New Zealand 1889-1892, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for India 1895-1900, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Colonies 1900-1903.
Sir Richard William Alan Onslow (1876-1945), 5th Earl of Onslow (succeeded 1911), served in Diplomatic Service and Foreign Office 1901-1914.
Series 173/1. 5th Earl of Onslow. History of the Onslow Family. (typescript)
1 itemsFilmed selectively.
Series 173/3-26. Correspondence of the 5th Earl of Onslow, 1887 - 1907
34 itemsFilmed selectively.
Correspondence, 1887 - 1892 (File 173/6)
Items include:
Onslow. Native New Zealand birds (4pp, printed). [25 December 1891]
Notes on New Zealand birds, Including part of memorandum by Sir Walter Buller on vanishing species of birds.
Queen Victoria to Onslow. Thanks for letter; attachment of New Zealand people to Queen rather than dynasty. [7 August 1891]
Queen Victoria to Onslow. Thanks for letter; Maoris a fine race; behaviour of Opposition in Parliament. [31 July 1890]
Correspondence on claim of Rear Admiral Lord Charles Scott, Commander-in-Chief of the Australian Station, to title of 'His Excellency' in official correspondence with Governor and Ministry of N.S.W., (8p., printed) [1890]
Correspondence on federation of Australia, (36p., printed) [1889-1890]
Private notes of Lord Carrington on Chinese crisis in N.S.W., (26p., printed) [1888]
Notes on 1887 Colonial Conference and increase of Australian Squadron. (3p., typescript).
Notes on 1887 Colonial Conference. (14p., typescript)
R. Seddon (Wellington) to Onslow, 23 March 1892 (File 3)
Hopes Onslow will retain Hon. Colonelcy of Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry.
J. Chamberlain to Onslow, 20 April 1896 (File 31)
Recommendation by Onslow of honour for Sir Francis Bell.
Lord Roberts to Military Secretary, 2 October 1901 (File 87)
Delay in filling Australian Command due entirely to Australian Government.
E.A. Altham (War Office). Colonial troops for Imperial service in War, (9p., printed), 25 November 1901 (File 12)
Sir Alfred Milner (Johannesburg) to Onslow, 10 September 1902 (File 24)
Land settlement in South Africa; value of Australian and New Zealand experiences.
Onslow to J. Chamberlain, [1902]-12-13 (File 30)
Offer of Governorship of western Australia to Sir Frederick Lugard; Governor of South Australia; South African affairs. (copy)
Onslow to J. Chamberlain, [1902]-12-20 (File 31)
Colonial Office affairs; Governorship of Western Australia.
Papers on Canterbury Acclimatisation Society (Christchurch) and importation of game into New Zealand, (12p.), 1904 (File 4-10)
Series 173/26. Miscellaneous Papers, 12 November 1888 - 23 January 1905
7 itemsFilmed selectively.
Lord Knutsford to Onslow, 18 July [n.y.] (File 48)
Onslow's request for colonial governorship; New Zealand proposes to cut down governors' salaries.
Lord Wolseley to Onslow, 22 October 1891 (File 54)
Appointment of Captain. Fox to command New Zealand forces.
Series 173/28. Letters to Lord Onslow, 14 May 1887 - 19 November 1891
7 itemsFilmed selectively.
Lord Knutsford to Onslow, [1891]-10-13 (File 9)
Offers Governorship of Queensland; New Guinea problem; success could lead to Governship of N.S.W. or Victoria.
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach to Onslow, 25 October 1888 (File 11)
Governorship of New Zealand; Onslow's work at Board of Trade; recommends J. Fortescue as private secretary.
Sir Henry Holland to Onslow, 14 May 1887 (File 13)
Proposes K.C.M.G. for Onslow for his work for Colonial Conference.
Fonds 1274. Papers of Gammon Family of Guildford, 1922 - 1941
1 item
Series 1274/54. Letters from Arthur and Fred Gammon (Kaikohe, New Zealand) to Harold Gammon (Guildford), 1922 - 1941
The letters, which mostly date from 1928-1933, describe conditions on a soldier's settlement farm, referring to wool sales, stock, bank interest, financial problems, impact of Great Depression, World War II, and general family news. (14 letters)
Fonds RB 1228. Papers of Ware Family of Farnham, 1854 - 1 April 1912
7 itemsBiographical / Historical
Martin Ware (1818-1902), London lawyer, active member of Ragged School Union, Ragged School Shoe Black Committee, Reformatory and Refuge Union, Bible Society and other philanthropic and religious organizations. His son Martin S. Ware (b. 1872) was Warden of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Director of Religious Education in the Diocese of Winchester.
Series Box 5 Bundle 1. Letters to K. Ware from former boys of Ragged Schools and Shoeblack Society, 1854 - 1 April 1912
7 itemsFilmed selectively.
R. Herbert (Kiama, N.S.W.) to Ware, 30 January 1858 (File)
Voyage to Australia; Sydney 'most dangerous place to morals and spiritual well-being'; purchase of property at Kiama; churches.
C. Restieaux (Clutha, Lyttelton) to Ware, 1857 - 1864 (File)
Voyage to New Zealand; family news; financial affairs; churches near Christchurch; life at diggings; wages; work on Evening Mail; introduces friends; marriage; trade depression; losses in fires; Shoeblack Society; Illustrated London News; Maoris. (22 letters)
Series Box 6. Journal of Reverend Martin S. Ware of a journey to Newfoundland, Canada, California, Fiji, Australia and New Zealand, (typescript), 25 October 1911 - 1 April 1912
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Journal (Extract), 25 October 1911 - 1 April 1912 (File pp.71-170)
The journal describes journeys in Fiji and the people, villages, houses, dances and countryside; life in the Australian bush near Dubbo, including church services, aboriginal camps, kangaroos, and the summer heat; the Blue Mountains; travels in the North Island of New Zealand, fishing, church services, railways, meeting with Sir Joseph Ward; descriptions of Melbourne, Camperdown, Adelaide, Perth; voyage home to England.