Guide to the Guide to My life: a record of events and the experience of John Henry Chatterton (as filmed by the AJCP)
M2395
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Online Items
Vol 1, 1835 - 1854 (File)
Birth, 7 Feb 1835, at Islington; family history; early childhood and schooling; family tree; clerk in stepfather's wine and spirit business; Great exhibition, 1851; gets 'Gold fever' goes to Australia on Calcutta, 3 Oct 1852; description of ship; gales, food, weather, drunkenness amongst crew due to sale of spirits by passengers; shooting birds, fishing; ceremonies of crossing the line; Christmas celebrations; 3 Feb Kangaroo Island. 8 Feb landing at Adelaide; decided to stay after bad reports of Melbourne; description of Adelaide; working at cutting wood; working for Solomons & Co Auction Mart; attendance at North Adelaide Church; friends and acquaintances; life in different lodgings; description of Christmas adventures, Dec 1853. Letters received from home: Jan 1854 voyage to Melbourne on Rebecca; wharf clerk with De Pass Brothers - duties; became census enumerator, May 1854; journey to Bulla Bulla; meeting with surveying party; other excursions in the country on census duties...
Vol 2, 19 June 1854 - 24 January 1855 (File ff.1-96)
Voyage on Lady Bird to Launceston, description; visit to theatre; on to Hobart; expedition up Mount Wellington; return to Melbourne; visit to diggings at 'Forrest Creek' and Simpsons; description of refreshment tents; held up by bushrangers while playing cards at Graham's Refreshment Tent, 31 Aug 1854: return to Melbourne; arrival of SS Great Britain; in quarantine for small pox; voyage to England on Great Britain, 27 Oct 1854-24 Jan 1855; description of other passengers- returning diggers; playing games; weather; committee of passengers formed to keep order in lower cabin; sighting of icebergs; Christmas celebrations; landing at Liverpool.