Guide to the Records of the Armagh County Museum (as filmed by the AJCP)

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M389

National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record

Created: 2018

Collection Summary

Title
Extracts of the Armagh County Museum (as filmed by the AJCP)
Date Range
11 December 1852 - 29 April 1853
Collection Number
M389
Extent
2 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

1) Raeburn manuscripts. 6 p. Typescript account of a voyage to Australia 1852-53. The journal, probably written by Samuel Pillow, concerns the voyage of the emigrant ship Digby. Mentions some of the Irish passengers by name and gives brief descriptions of events on board ship and on arrival in Melbourne.

2) Blacker manuscripts. Typescript abstract entitled 'Wentworth family'. It contains recollections "of D'Arcy Wentworth and his two sons, one of who became a soldier and the other a surgeon who was convicted of highway robbery and transported to Botany Bay where his son also was a surgeon of some eminence".

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 Armagh County Museum and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the Armagh County Museum and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Raeburn Manuscript, 11 December 1852- 29 April 1853, Armagh County Museum (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-742474721)

Archival History

Filmed at the Armagh County Museum as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1961 (AJCP Reel:M389). Original microfilm digitised as part of the NLA AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.

Existence and Location of Originals

Armagh County Museum, Armagh

For more information see Armagh County Museum (https://visitarmagh.com/places-to-explore/armagh-county-museum/).

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-vn652935] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Finding Aid Note

This finding aid is a revised online version of the original finding aid prepared by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP), published in 2018 by the National Library of Australia. 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

Digby (ship); Emigrant voyages; Melbourne, Victoria.: immigration to; Pillow, Samuel; Surgeons; Wentworth Family; Wentworth, D'Arcy; Wentworth, William C.

Bibliography

Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 10, p. 26

Item Descriptions

Series. Raeburn manuscript (6p.), 11 December 1852 - 29 April 1853

1 item

Account of a voyage from Belfast to Liverpool on the steamer Tynwald and from Liverpool to Melbourne on the Digby, 11 December 1852 – 1829 April 1853 (typescript, 6pp)

The writer was probably Samuel Pillow of Mullabane, Armagh. The account mostly comprises short entries referring to the weather, sightings of Spain, Madeira, Cape Otway and other ships, entertainment on the ship, conflict between passengers, one of whom was convicted of beating his wife, and the arrival in Melbourne. Some of the Irish passengers on the ship are listed.

Series. Blacker manuscript, (n.d.)

1 item

Notes on the Wentworth Family of Portadown (typescript, 2pp), n.d. (File)

The writer of the document came from Portadown, County Armagh, and knew many of the soldiers recruited there by the 5th Dragoon Guards. He describes two sons of D'Arcy Wentworth, an innkeeper of Portadown. One was an officer in the Dragoon Guards, while the other was transported to New South Wales.

Biographical / Historical

William Blacker (1777-1855) of Carrickblacker, was a lieutenant-colonel in the Armagh Militia and the Seagoe Yeomanry and Vice-Treasurer of Ireland in 1817-1829.

D'Arcy Wentworth (d. 1827) was charged with highway robbery on three occasions in 1787-89, but was acquitted on each occasion. He sailed to New South Wales in 1790 and was one of the leading figures in the colony. He was the father of William Charles Wentworth.


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