Guide to the Collections of the Bristol Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP)

Contracts for the passage of paupers to Van Diemen's Land and N.S.W. (5 documents), 1833 (File 6)

Correspondence between G. Chick (Bristol) and James B. Gibbs (Avoca, Victoria and Adelaide), 1858 - 1861 (File 7-11)

Gibbs' gratitude to Chick for paying passage; success at goldfields; mutual friends; inquiries by Chick about Gibbs' family; death of Gibbs' mother and money left to him in her will. (5 Letters).

Will (14 January 1869) and probate (11 March 1869) of Henry J. Player storekeeper of Mansfield, Victoria (File 19)

Copy of death certificate of Henry J. Player, 27 December 1878 (File 20)

Power of attorney from H.H. Kitchen and G. Powell, executors of will of H.J. Player, to E. Player of Bristol (draft), 1879 (File 21)

E.G. Masey (Paterson River, N.S.W.) to E. Masey (Bristol), 25 December 1847 (File 30)

Thanks for presents; trouble mustering cattle; purchase of horses; journeys to Lake Macquarie; clothes required; collection of skins.

Colonisation Commissioners for South Australia. Regulations for disposal of land, preliminary sales of land and emigration of labourers. (4pp., printed), 14 July 1835 (File 10)

Daniel R. Long (Plymouth) to I. Pitt (Cirencester), 14 June 1840 (File 26)

Voyage from London to Plymouth on Himalaya; amusements on ship; provisions; impending departure for Pt. Phillip.

Daniel R. Long (Melbourne) to Elizabeth Long (Witney), 25 December 1841 (File 27)

Difficulties of trade; market glutted with English goods; bursting of land boom; climate; growth of Melbourne; avaricious character of people; retreat of Indigenous Australians; Doctor Howitt and Captain Cole; family news.

Susannah M. Long (Melbourne) to aunt Caroline, 6 May 1849 (File 28)

Faint memories of English relatives; climate; house; people leaving for Californian gold fields; believes prospectors will soon be coming to Port Phillip as father is certain there is great quantity of gold in interior.

Bill of exchange issued by Union Bank of Australia at Napier, New Zealand, in favour of Francis G. Prideaux, 15 June 1861 (File 365)

Description of standard lights made by Frank Keevil and Sons for Christ Church Cathedral, Ballarat. (typescript, 1p.), n.d. (File 4.i)

Journal kept by a steerage passenger on a voyage of S.S. Great Britain to Melbourne, 1852 (File)

Probate copy of will (4 May 1905) of John Acraman of Adelaide (photocopy), 5 July 1907 (File 9)

Extract on John Acraman from The pastoral pioneers of South Australia. (photocopy) (File 11)