Guide to the Papers of Gregory Bateman (as filmed by the AJCP)
M1858
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Bateman, Gregory
- Title
- Papers of Gregory Bateman (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1858 - 1895
- Collection Number
- M1858
- Extent
- 2 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
Includes: letters of Gregory Bateman to his brother Rev. Stafford Bateman, written from Liverpool, Melbourne, Kerang, Bendigo and Moama. They describe Bateman's journey to Australia on board the Marco Polo in 1858, life in Australia and family news; papers relating to Bateman's death in 1895 and his estate.
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 as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1983 (AJCP Reel: M1858). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
The private residence of Mr C.J. Bateman. Devon, 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-vn746726] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Finding-aid Note
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
Australia: immigration to; Bateman, Gregory; Bateman, Stafford, Rev.; Bendigo, Victoria; Kerang, Victoria; Marco Polo (emigrant ship); Melbourne, Victoria; Moama, New South Wales
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 27, p9.
Biographical / Historical
As an Emigrant, Gregory Bateman came to Australia in 1858.
Item Descriptions
Letters of Gregory Bateman (1825-1895) to his brother, Rev. Stafford Bateman, of Newark, Nottinghamshire, and Louth, Lincolnshire (40 letters), 1858 - 1895 (File 1)
The letters were written from Liverpool, Melbourne, Kerang, Bendigo and Moama. They describe Bateman's departure for Australia in 1858, the voyage on the ship Marco Polo, impressions of Melbourne, and his life on stations and travelling in the Victoria and N.S.W. country, mainly bird-collecting. There are references to financial matters, his hopes of buying a station, a lawsuit, loneliness, droughts and family news. The last letters deal with his marriage and life as a publican in Melbourne.
There is also some correspondence between Rev. S. Bateman and Mrs G. Bateman, R.M. Fullarton (Melbourne), and Attenborough, Nunn and Smith (Melbourne) concerning Gregory Bateman's death in 1895 and his estate.