Guide to the Papers of the Bourner Family (as filmed by the AJCP)
M2349
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Collection Summary
- Title
- Papers of the Bourner Family (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1951 - 1988
- Collection Number
- M2349
- Extent
- 10 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
The papers include manuscripts by Sheila Bourner concerning Charles Carpenter, his early life, transportation to Van Diemen's Land in 1832, his marriage to Charlotte Yaxley, and letters and photographs from Australian relations Alan Wass, Lilian Robinson and Winifred Birchall.
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 Mrs S. Bourner, England, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1989 (AJCP Reel: M2349). Original microfilm digitised as part of the NLA AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
Private residence of Mrs Sheila Bourner. Somerset, 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-vn2298989] 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
Birchall, Winifred; Bourner Family; Bourner, Sheila; Carpenter, Charles; Convicts: Tasmania; Genealogy and genealogies; Photographs; Robinson, Lilian; Wass, Alan; Yaxley, Charlotte
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 46, p.16.
Biographical / Historical
Mrs Sheila Bourner (nee Carpenter) submitted three entries into the Historical Association's Australian Bicentenary Competition, 'Australia's Past In Front Of You'. They were based on her researches into her family history, which had uncovered a great-great grandfather, Charles Carperter (1801-1887), who had been transported in 1832, and also involved two aunts who had migrated to Australia in the 1920's. Mrs Bourner generously allowed the AJCP to film her discoveries regarding Charles Carpenter (1801-1887) and a series of letters from her aunts and cousins to relations in England.
Item Descriptions
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)
Also includes: Lizzie Morgan story by Jean Lever, 2p and carbon copy of letter from Lilian Robinson re visit to England, c.1951. (Plus undated cards and incomplete letters).