Guide to the Papers of Evelyn Pitfield Shirley Sturt (as filmed by the AJCP)
M404
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Sturt, Evelyn Pitfield Shirley
- Title
- Papers of Evelyn Pitfield Shirley Sturt (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1852 - 1960
- Collection Number
- M404
- Extent
- 6 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
Items filmed by the Australia Joint Copying Project include: Address presented to Sturt, signed by Justices of the Peace in Melbourne (n.d.); address presented to Sturt, signed by fellow Melbourne magistrates 1858; commission 14 October 1863 appointing Sturt to Major in the Victorian Volunteer Force; letters patent 4 September 1855 appointing Sturt as Resident Magistrate at Melbourne; extract of marriage entry 14 February 1852 of Sturt and Mary Frances Grylls; typescript chart showing the relationship between Evelyn and Charles Sturt.
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
Filmed at the private residence of the Hon. Mrs Mary Anna Marten, England, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1961 (AJCP Reel: M404). Original microfilm digitised as part of the NLA AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Note: The images appear from right to left on the film.
Existence and Location of Originals
The Hon. Mrs Mary Anna Marten. Dorset, England
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-vn716677] 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 2018. 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
Army and defence: Victoria; Genealogy and genealogies; Grylls, Mary F.; Marriage certificates; Melbourne, Victoria; Sturt, Charles, Capt.; Sturt, Evelyn P.S.; Victorian Volunteer Force
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 445, p174.
Biographical / Historical
Evelyn Pitfield Shirley Sturt (1816-1885), the brother of the explorer Charles Sturt, was born in Dorset, England. He was educated at Sandhurst Military College, but did not join the Army. In 1836 he emigrated to New South Wales on the Hoogly. In 1837 he was appointed commissioner of Crown lands at Yass. He resigned in 1839 and overlanded sheep and cattle from Bathurst to Adelaide. He first occupied land near Willunga, then took up a station in the Mount Gambier district. In 1849 he was appointed a police magistrate in Melbourne and in 1850 he became superintendent of the Melbourne Police. In 1853 he was re-appointed magistrate for Melbourne, a potion that he held for twenty five years. He took part in the inquiry into the Bentley Hotel affair in Ballarat (1854) and was a member of the royal commission into the Burke and Wills expedition (1861).
Sturt was dismissed as part of the Black Wednesday retrenchments in 1878. He and his wife visited England in 1878-81 and then settled in Brighton, Victoria. He died while returning from another trip to England.
