Guide to the Papers of the Pickering Family (as filmed by AJCP)
M1579
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Online Items
Letter from J.S. Pickering in Australia (Source of the River Light, Somerhill) to his family in England, 1850 (File 4)
Description of life in Australia, starting a farm about 75 miles from Adelaide and 25 miles from the Burra mines, the expected market for the farm produce.
Letter from John Pickering to his parents, 1851 (File 5)
His wife and child have still to join him in Australia.
Letter from John Pickering, Salisbury, South Australia, to his parents, 23 July 1853 (File 6)
Still waiting to be joined by his wife and child as the Family Colonisation Society have kept back part of the money.
Letter from John Pickering, now described as brickmaker of Salisbury, to his parents, 7 August 1854 (File 7)
A chapel has been built at Salisbury and is expecting a missionary.
Letter from John Pickering to his parents, 25 December 1855 (File 8)
Has now moved to Somer Hill Farm, Head of the Light, near Sadleworth, South Australia: much discussion of farming matters.
Letter from John Pickering to his parents, 15 September 1856 (File 9)
Still at Somer Hill Farm: chiefly farming matters.
Letter from John Pickering to his parents, 30 April 1860 (File 12)
Describes his children: has built a house and is keeping a grain store and butchery, but intends it to be a public house 'as soon as the diggers come back with the gold'.