Guide to the papers of the Booth Family (as filmed by AJCP)

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M2578

National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record

Created: 2018

Collection Summary

Creator
Booth Family
Title
Papers of the Booth Family (as filmed by the AJCP)
Date Range
1864 and 1957-1964
Collection Number
M2578
Extent
8 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

Correspondence, cuttings and souvenir programs kept by Booth and his son.

Correspondents include Major F. Synge, Lieut. Col. G. Garland, Fienne M. Colville, Thomas Horan, Phillip Booth and Sir Bernard Fergusson.

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 private residence of Mr Chris Booth, England, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1990 (AJCP Reels: M2578). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.

Existence and Location of Originals

Mr Chris Booth. Cheshire, 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-vn1067189] 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 officers; Booth Family; Booth, Henry Jackson, Lieut. Col.; Booth, Henry, Lieut. Col.; Booth, Philip; Colville, Fienne M.; Fergusson, Sir Bernard; Garland, G., Lieut. Col.; Gate Pa, New Zealand; Horan, Thomas; New Zealand Wars; Synge, F., Major

Bibliography

Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 44, p16.

Biographical / Historical

Lieut. Col. Henry Jackson Booth (b.1864) and his son Lieut. Col. Henry Booth served in the 43rd Light Infantry in New Zealand. Henry Jackson Booth was killed at the Battle of Gate Pa, Tauranga in 1864.

Item Descriptions

Letters and news cuttings re death of Lt. Col. Henry Jackson Parkin Booth at Battle of Gate Pa, Tauranga, 1864 (File A)

Includes letters from Major F Synge (Camp Tauranga, 1 May 1864); Lt. Col. G Garland (Camp Puke Wharangi, 3 May 1864); Fienne M Colville (Maketu, 25 May 1864) and Thomas Horan (Auckland, 30 Sept 1864); Col Williams (Auckland, 25 Sept 1864); Dr Manley (nd, no place, incomplete) and Thomas Pearson (Dunkeld, nd) to Mrs Booth and Charles Booth describing the battle and death of HJPB.

FH Synge (Camp Tauranga) to Col Fraser re death of HJPB, 4 May 1864 (File)

HJPB's will (File)

Picture of tomb of HJPB and note on his life (File)

, Vol 5 no. 28 pp.296-304. Samuel Mitchell and the VC on the Gate Pa at Tauranga (File)

Sketch of cemetery at Tauranga by Lt. Col. Williams RA submitted to and printed in issue, 30 July 1864 (File)

Letters, press cuttings and souvenir programme re centennary of Battle of Gate Pa, 1964 (File B)

Correspondents include: Col Philip Booth (Hay on Wye); Brigadier Sir Bernard Fergusson (Wellington) [includes message in Maori]; EJ Torrance (Tauranga); RD McCulley (Tauranga); W Ohia (Tauranga Tribal Executive).

AT Campbell (NZ House) to Col. P Booth requesting access to any records re HJPB for Prof. HR Rodwell, 15 January 1957 (File C)

Includes draft reply and list of material.


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