Guide to the Papers of the Pedley Family (as filmed by the AJCP)
M1857
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Pedley (Family)
- Title
- Papers of the Pedley Family (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1856 - 1911
- Collection Number
- M1857
- Extent
- 9 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
The papers comprise genealogical papers 1872, and letters of William, Thomas and Edward Pedley, and other members of the family in Victoria and South Australia.
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
Filmed at the private residence of Mrs Margaret Fair, England, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1983 (AJCP Reel:M1857). Original microfilm digitised as part of the NLA AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
The private residence of Mrs Margaret Fair. Chester, 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-vn2269208] 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
Genealogy and genealogies; Pedley Family; Pedley, Edward; Pedley, Thomas; Pedley, William; South Australia; Victoria
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 365, p139.
Biographical / Historical
William Pedley (1836-1902) was the son of Edward Pedley (1804-1876), a farmer of Sandbach, Cheshire. He migrated to Adelaide in 1857 and worked as a shearer, farm labourer and road worker.Two of William Pedley's cousins also migrated to Australia. Thomas Pedley (b. 1827) and Edward Pedley (b. 1823) were the sons of Richard Pedley, the brother of Edward Pedley. Thomas Pedley lived in Melbourne, while Edward Pedley lived in Williamstown, Victoria. Edward worked in the Victorian Railways for many years. He had a son, George, and two daughters, Nellie and Kate. Kate was a schoolteacher.
Item Descriptions
Series. Volume 1, 1856 - 1864
5 items
Genealogical Papers (File 1)
Family trees of Pedley Family 1690-1900 compiled by Edward Pedley (1872), and Ada Hitchen and a record of family of Hannah Platt.
Letters of William Pedley, 1856 - 1857 (File 2)
Letters of William Pedley to members of his family concerning preparations for his departure from Liverpool, conditions on the emigrant ship and his life in Adelaide working on a farm and quarrying stones for a main road (9 letters).
Letters of Edward Pedley, 1857 - 1863 (File 3)
Letters of Edward Pedley (Sandbach, Cheshire) to his son William Pedley concerning family news, local events, economic conditions in England, farming, prices, Indian Mutiny, American Civil War, conditions on emigrant ship, William's experiences in Australia, emigration of tradesmen to Australia, cultivation of cotton in Queensland, and William's doubts about remaining in Australia. (27 letters).
Series. Volume 11, 1875 - 1906
4 items
Letter of Thomas Pedley, 1875 (File 5)
Letter of Thomas Pedley (Melbourne) to his uncle Thomas Pedley, 6 September 1875 concerning cost of living, wages and employment in Australia.
Letters of Edward and Katie Pedley, 1875 - 1887 (File 6)
Letters of Edward Pedley (Williamstown, Victoria) and his daughter Katie to their unclde Thomas Pedley concerning family news, purchase of land, crops, changes at Williamstown, free trade and protection, receipt of seeds, visits to Sydney and Portland, Chinese labourers, work on railways, rabbit problem, concern about penal settlement in New Caledonia, and plans for irrigation in Victoria. (20 letters).