Guide to the Eedy Family papers (as filmed by AJCP)

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M2049

National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record

Created: 2018

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Ann Eedy (London) to her daughter Jane Eedy (Stourbridge), November 1841 (File (1))

Family news; return of son John from China; refers to his visit to South Australia.

Capt. John Eedy (Sydney, Grafton) to his sister Jane (7 letters), 1868 - 1888 (File (2))

Sydney: recollections of last meeting at Stourbridge; visit of Duke of Edinburgh to Sydney; news of South Family at Geelong; photographs, 26 February 1868 (Item (2)/(i))

Grafton: acknowledges photograph; command of coastal steamer; bar of the Clarence River; visit of Walter Prothero to Australia; economic depression in colonies, 17 July 1868 (Item (2)/(ii))

Sydney: family news; differences in celebration of Christmas in England and Australia, 19 February 1871 (Item (2)/(iii))

Sydney: photographs of sons; growth of Sydney; family news, 3 October 1871 (Item (2)/(iv))

Sydney: lack of letters from England; recommends emigration for workingmen; wages for women; plans to establish navigation school; birth of son; dispute about estate of relative, 19 April 1873 (Item (2)/(v))

Sydney: lack of letters; navigation school; news of son John; requests copy of birth certificate (incomplete), 7 March 1877 (Item (2)/(vi))

Sydney: decline in numbers at navigation school; news of various sons; Sydney Centennial celebrations; Government House garden party; Lord Carrington, 18 August 1888 (Item (2)/(vii))

Charles Eedy (Tanna, New Hebrides) to his cousin May Riley (6 letters and 4 documents), 1926 - 1932 (File (3))

Arrival at Tanna; infrequent steamers, 21 August 1926 (Item (3)/(i))

Management of trading station; isolation; Presbyterian Mission; description of house; servants, 15 October 1927 (Item (3)/(ii))

Plans for visit to England; photographs; servants; Sir George Fuller; love of books; volcano, 3 February 1928 (Item (3)/(iii))

Labour strike in Tanna; propaganda of brother William Eedy; loneliness; construction of new house, 14 December 1929 (Item (3)/(iv))

Desruction of house in hurricane in 1929; financial matter, 5 April 1930 (Item (3)/(v))

Decision to leave New Hebrides; death of native woman; funeral ceremonies; aggression of natives; detestation of islands; slight improvement in business; dislike of Labour Governments, 8 September 1932 (Item (3)/(vi))

Business card of Capt. John Eedy, teacher of navigation, Sydney, [n.d.] (Item (1))

Obituary of Capt. John Eedy, Sydney Morning Herald, 17 July 1893 (Item (2))

Obituary of Capt. George W. Eedy, Sun (Sydney), 15 April 1921 (Item (3))

Cutting concerning Arthur M. Eedy, elected to Sydney University Senate, Daily Telegraph (Sydney), 19 November 1924 (Item (4))

Two photographs of Capt. John Eedy, Sydney, [n.d.] (File (1))

Photographs of sons of Capt. John Eedy (File (2))

Sons of Capt. John Eedy: John Eedy; William Eedy (c. 1866); Peter Eedy (April 1872); Arthur M. Eedy; George Eedy

Two photographs of unidentified woman, Sydney, n.d. (File (3))

Photograph of unidentified boy, Sydney, n.d. (File (4))

Photograph of Arthur M. Eedy, Yass, 1925 (File (5))

Photograph of May Riley, n.d. (File (6))


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