Guide to the Guide to Bunbury Family Papers (as filmed by the AJCP)

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M1909-M1911

National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record

Created: 2018

Collection Summary

Creator: Bunbury Family
Title: Bunbury Family Papers (as filmed by the AJCP)
Date Range: 1824 - 1872
Collection Number: M1909-M1911
Extent: 12 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 collection contain 12 groups of correspondence: 1. Letters of Capt. Richard Hanmer Bunbury to his wife Sarah Bunbury, 1840-1857 (41 letters); 2. Letters of Capt. Richard Hanmer Bunbury to his father Sir Henry Bunbury, 1840-1850 (52 letters); 3. Letters of Capt. Richard Hanmer Bunbury to his step-mother Lady Bunbury, 1840-1844 (5 letters); 4. Letters of Capt. Richard Hanmer Bunbury to his father-in-law R. C. Sconce, 1839-1840 (7 letters); 5. Letters of Capt. Richard Hanmer Bunbury to George Repton, 1842-1843 (3 letters); 6. Letters of Sarah Bunbury to her father R. C. Sconce 1840-1846 (54 letters); 7. letters of Sara Bunbury to her mother and to Sir Henry and Lady Bunbury, 1840-1850 (8 letters); 8. Letter of Hanmer and Sarah Bunbury, 1840-1843 (18 letters); 9. Letters of Rev. R.K. Sconce to R. Hanmer Bunbury, 1844-1846 (4 letters); 10. Miscellaneous letters to R. Hanmer Bunbury, 1824-1856 (7 letters); 11. Miscellaneous letters to Sarah Bunbury, 1843-1870 (17 letters); 12. Miscellaneous documents, including bapmistal certificate of Bunbury.

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-23 September 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Archival History

Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1984 (AJCP Reel: M1909-M1911). Original microfilm digitised as part of the NLA AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.

Existence and Location of Originals

Argyll Etkin Ltd., 55 New Bond Street, London.

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-vn667466] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Photocopies of the papers are held at the National Library of Australia: Manuscript Reference no: MS 8098 (https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1574404).

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.

Advisory Statement

Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this Finding Aid contains material and descriptive information which may be considered culturally sensitive and may cause distress, including names and images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people now deceased. This Finding Aid contains terms that reflect authors' views or those of the historical period, but which may not be considered appropriate today. While the information may not reflect current understanding, it is provided in an historical context.

Subjects

Bunbury Family; Bunbury, Louisa, Lady; Bunbury, Richard H., Capt.; Bunbury, Sarah; Bunbury, Sir Henry, 7th Baronet; Emigrant voyages; Exploration: land; Exploration: Victoria; Repton, George; Sconce, Robert K., Rev.; Victoria; Victoria: immigration to; Victoria: Indigneous Australians

Bibliography

Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 81, p. 28.

Biographical / Historical

Captain Richard Hanmer Bunbury (1813-1857), youngest son of Lt. General Sir Henry Bunbury (1778-1860), 7th Baronet, author of works on military history. Served in Royal Navy. In 1838 married Sarah Susanna Sconce, daughter of Robert Sconce, Chief Commissary of Navy at Malta. Bunbury and his wife, togther with Robert K. Sconce (later Anglican minister at St. Andrew's, Sydney) and his wife, emigrated to Port Phillip on the Argyle, arriving in March 1841. Bunbury was appointed a magistrate in 1841, Superintendent of Water Police at Williamstown in 1842 and Harbour Master at Williamstown in 1844. He returned to England in 1857.

Item Descriptions

Letters of R. Hanmer Bunbury to his wife Sarah Bunbury (41 letters), 1840 - 1857 (File 1)

Most of the letters were written when either Bunbury or his wife were visiting Sydney. They refer to preparations for their departure from England, family matters, friends, travels in Victoria, Government House at Parramatta, meetings with Sir Charles Fitzroy, the Wynyard Family and Bishop W.G. Broughton, church affairs, C.J. La Trobe, growth of Williamstown, Victorian gold discoveries, gold sales, robberies in Melbourne, journeys to goldfields, visit of Sarah Bunbury to England in 1852, shipping, increase in population and social problems, sale of properties, railway construction, recall of C.J. La Trobe, preachers, and the departure of the Bunburys from Australia in 1857.

Archival History

Originally filmed on AJCP reel M1909.

Letters of R. Hanmer Bunbury to his father Sir Henry Bunbury (52 letters), 1840 - 1850 (File 2)

The letters deal with the voyage to Australia in 1841, impressions of Melbourne, C.J. La Trobe, purchases of land and stock, family news, explorations in Victoria conflict with indigenous Australians, financial matters, flora and fauna, property at Mt. William, Sir George Gipps, farming, appointment as Superintendent of Water Police at Williamstown in 1842, B. Boyd, servants, crime, sale of property, daily routine, work as magistrate, fishing, shipping at Pt Phillip, prices, bushrangers, closure of banks, Bishop W.G. Broughton, kangaroos, appointment as Harbour Master in 1844, land regulations, proposed separation of Pt. Phillip from N.S.W., explorations in Grampians, horse races, balls, plans of returning to England, gold discoveries, Rev. R. Sconce, migration of labourers from Van Diemen's Land, Bishop C. Perry, 1851 Great Exhibition.

Archival History

Originally filmed on AJCP reel M1910.

Letters of R. Hanmer Bunbury to his step-mother Lady Bunbury (5 letters), 1840 - 1844 (File 3)

The letters describe the voyage to Australia, first impressions of Melbourne, bushrangers, C.J. La Trobe, economic conditions, and family news.

Archival History

Originally filmed on AJCP reel M1910.

Letters of R. Hanmer Bunbury to his father-in-law R.C. Sconce (7 letters), 1839 - 1840 (File 4)

The letters refer to the voyage to Australia impressions of Melbourne, and business matters.

Archival History

Originally filmed on AJCP reel M1910.

Letters of R. Hanmer Bunbury to George Repton (3 letters), 1842 - 1843 (File 5)

The letters refer to business matters and to his appointment as Superintendent of Water Police at Williamstown.

Archival History

Originally filmed on AJCP reel M1910.

Letters of Sarah Bunbury to her father R.C. Sconce (54 letters), 1840 - 1846 (File 6)

The letters deal with the voyage to Australia, C.J. La Trobe, family news, Rev. R. Sconce, Bishop W.G. Broughton, prices, economic conditions in Melbourne, farming, bushrangers, landscape, sharks, flora and fauna, shipping, Bunbury's appointment as Superintendent of Water Police, Georgiana McCrae, Sir George and Lady Gipps, plan of house at Williamstown, Oxford Movement, visit of H.M.S. Beagle and Fly, conflict with aborigines, social events, dismissal of Judge J. Willis in 1843, visits of Lady Franklin, thoughts of returning to England, shipwrecks, travels in Victoria, servants, land regulations, and her visit to Sydney in 1846.