Guide to the Collections of the Warwick County Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP)
M1197
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2019
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Warwick County Record Office
- Title
- Collections held by the Warwick County Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 5 May 1829 - 23 March 1939
- Collection Number
- M1197
- Extent
- 38 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
Letter 1889 of Justice Sir Joseph Long Innes to F.A. Newdegate.
Papers 1852-1933 of Farr Family including letters of Edwin Bartlett of Ballarat and Annie Morley of Hastings, New Zealand.
Papers 1829-1872 of Dormer Family including letters of Charles Dormer describing visits to Singapore, Labuan and Manila and letters and cuttings on the Tichborne Case.
4. Papers 1865-1866 of Bree Family relating to John Gardner of Bendigo.
Diary 1882 of F. Bostock on voyage of Torrens from London to Adelaide and correspondence 1937-1939 on genealogy of Bostock and Burgess families in Australia.
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 Warwickshire County Record Office, Warwick, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1980 (AJCP Reel: M1197). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
Warwickshire County Record Office, Priory Park, Cape Road, Warwick, England.
For further information see Warwickshire County Record Office catalogue. [http://archivesunlocked.warwickshire.gov.uk/calmview/]
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-vn2253363] 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
Adelaide, South Australia: immigration to; Australia; Ballarat, Victoria; Bartlett, Edwin; Bendigo, Victoria; Bostock Family; Bostock, F.; Bree Family; Burgess Family; Dormer Family; Dormer, Charles; Emigrant voyages; Farr Family; Gardner, John; Genealogy and genealogies; Great Britain; Hastings, New Zealand; Labuan, Borneo; London, England; Long Innes, Sir Joseph, Judge; Manila, Philippines; Morley, Annie; Newdegate, F.A.; New Zealand; Tichborne case; Torrens (ship); Singapore: visits
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 479, p187. [http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-397322928]
Item Descriptions
Fonds CR 136. Newdegate of Arbury, 5 March 1889
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Biographical / Historical
Sir Francis Newdegate (1862-1936) of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton, visited India, Australia and other colonies on a world tour in 1885-1887. He was later a member of the House of Commons and governor of Tasmania (1917-1920) and Western Australia (1920-1924).
Fonds CR 198. Sitwell Family of Leamington Hastings, 4 March 1873 - 20 May 1880
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Fonds CR 394. Hyett Freer (Frier), Farr and Gwinnett Family, 21 May 1852 - 3 February 1933
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
Series 107. Correspondence, 21 May 1852 - 11 January 1921
Correspondents include: Henry Chamberlaine, Frederick Chamberlaine, E. Bartlett (Ballarat), Annie Morley (Hawkes Bay; Hastings), Miss Farr and G.H. Bartlett (Sutton Goldfields).
Subjects include: impending departure for the colonies, family and health news, life on the goldfields, desires to return to England, history of Chamberlaine family.
Also includes a portrait of Henry Bartlett.
Fonds CR 895. Dormer of Grove Park, 5 May 1829 - 1872
12 itemsFilmed selectively.
Biographical / Historical
The Dormer Family was granted the manor of Grove Park, near Warwick, in 1608. Joseph Dormer (1790-1871), 11th Baron Dormer, married Elizabeth Tichborne in 1829. She was the daughter of Sir Henry Tichborne and a cousin of Roger Tichborne, who disappeared in 1854.
Series 63. Miscellaneous Papers, 5 May 1829 - 5 July 1871
8 items
Heads of the will and codicil of Sir Henry Joseph Tichborne Bart (deceased) Appleyard, Lincolns Inn, n.d. (File)
Refers to will of 12 August 1831 and codicil of 31 August 1842.
Proposals for settlements to be made previously to the intended marriage of Joseph Thaddeus, Lord Dormer, with Miss Elizabeth Tichborne, eldest daughter of Sir Henry Joseph Tichborne Bart. Appleyard, Lincolns Inn, n.d. (File)
Copy of certificate of marriage of Joseph, Lord Dormer, and Eliza Tichborne at Tichborne House in County of Southampton, 5 May 1829 (File)
Copy of certificate of death of Joseph, Lord Dormer, at Budbrooke in County of Warwick, 5 July 1871 (File)
Fonds CR 1012. Fernbank Deeds, 6 April 1851 - 14 April 1859
6 itemsDeeds and papers of the Gibbs Family of Fernbank, Snitterfield.
Filmed selectively.
Series. Folder entitled 'Gibbs. Letters from Australia', 6 April 1851 - 14 April 1859
6 items
M.A. Hunt (Dry Creek, S. Australia) to her brother, 19 September 1852 (File)
Is glad of steam communications with England; hopes family will follow him out.
M.N. Hunt (Hope Valley, S. Australia) to her niece, 23 August 1858 (File)
Brother William Gibbs on the goldfields.
Fonds CR 1334. Bree Family of Allesley, 31 July 1835 - 15 January 1866
10 itemsFilmed selectively.
Series 75. Papers relating to John Gardner of Bendigo, Victoria, 31 July 1835 - 15 January 1866
10 items
John Gardner (Sandhurst) to [unknown], 25 January 1865 (File)
Gives names of parents, brothers, sisters, biographical details.
John Gardner to P. Cournouls (Kenilworth), 22 May 1865 (File)
Gives further details of his family to establish his identity.
Power of attorney from John Gardner to Philip Cournouls, 14 August 1865 (File)
Empowering Cournouls to cause John Knight of Arden, Warwickshire, to pay Gardner £15 owing to him under will of his grandfather.
Fonds CR 1680. Reverend Hubert Gerald Holbeche, 29 May 1848 - 23 March 1939
4 itemsFilmed selectively.
Biographical / Historical
Reverend Hubert Gerald Holbeche (1900-1976) was the vicar of Sandford St Martin in Oxfordshire. He had a strong interest in genealogy. Reverend. Thomas Bostock (1791-1876) was a Congregational minister at Haslington, Cheshire. His daughter Ellen (1817-1859) married Thomas Burgess, an ironmonger, and they migrated to South Australia in 1848. Burgess became an official at the Burra copper mine. Bostock's son Richard Bostock (1827-1876) also migrated to South Australia in 1848, but later returned to England.
Lines written by Reverend Thomas Bostock to his daughter Ellen Burgess (1817-1858) on her departure to South Australia, 29 May 1848 (File 28)
Diary of F. Bostock, 9 March - 27 June 188[illeg] (File 29)
Kept on a voyage from Adelaide to London via Cape Town on the Torrens.
Norman Burgess (Melbourne) to Gerald Holbeche (London), 23 March 1939 (File 684)
Encloses forms giving biographical data of about 80 members of the Burgess family in Australia and New Zealand.
Family tree showing descendants of Reverend Thomas Bostock, [c. 1937-1938] (File 693)
Including the descendants of his children Ellen Burgess and Richard Bostock in Australia.
Also includes correspondence between Gerald Holbeche, Tom. B. Hodgkinson and Norman Burgess (Melbourne), 1937-1938, concerning their genealogical research on the Bostock family, and also a letter from Gladys Cooper on the family of Richard Bostock, who migrated to South Australia in the 1850s.