Guide to the Papers of the Bourner Family (as filmed by the AJCP)
M2349
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Online Items
Series A. Why Sotto Voce?: brief encounters with the lives of the Carpenter family of Coventry and Foleshill, by Sheila Bourner 101p, 1988
Concerns Charles Carpenter (1801-1887), his early life as weaver and butcher in Coventry; his arrest on charge of breaking and entering; trial, sentencing and transportation to Van Diemen's Land. Includes: Physical description of Carpenter, Hobart, 1832; Will of William Carpenter. (pp.50-101)
Series B. A Small Oversight, by Sheila Bourner 19p, 1988
Concerning the death of Lavinia Kerrison and subsequent trial and transportation of Charlotte Yaxley (1841) and marriage to Charles Carpenter. Includes: press cuttings from Norwich Mercury re inquest and trial, 1841; C Yaxley's convict record and physical description; broadsheets concerning the case.
Series C. Letters and photographs from Australian relations
Letters from Lilian Robinson (formerly Lever, nee Carpenter) (Dromana, Vic; Macedon, Vic; Ashburton, Vic.), 1951 - 1971 (File)
To family re visit back to England; family news. 10 letters. (also transcripts).
Letters from Winifred Birchall (nee Carpenter) (Melbourne) to family, 1960 - 1961 (File)
Re family news; visit to England; voyage back to Australia. 7 letters. (also transcripts)
Letters from Jean Lever (daughter-in-law of Lilian Robinson) (Blackburn, Vic; Melbourne; Dromana; Ringwood; Gold Coast) to family, 1951 - 1983 (File)
re visit to England; return voyage encountering monsoon; economic problems in 1950's; family news; removal to senior citizen's village; her son's crocodile farm at Rockhampton. (26 letters)...