Guide to the Collections held by the Buckinghamshire Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP)
M1667-M1671
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Buckinghamshire Record Office
- Title
- Collections held by the Buckinghamshire Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1789 - 1923
- Collection Number
- M1667-M1671
- Extent
- 39 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
Material filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project includes: calendars of prisoners 1789-1855 in Aylesbury Gaol, including many sentenced to transportation; Papers 1794-1803 of Robert Hobart, Lord Hobart, Secretary of State for War and Colonies 1801-1804, referring to: trade with East Indies and Philippines; British annexations in Moluccas; proposed settlement at Port Phillip Bay; appointments in New South Wales; and an account of the colony written by David Collins; Papers 1883-1923 of 5th Earl of Rosebery concerning his property interests in Sydney and Darwin which include letters from his Australian agents, legal papers, plans, maps and cuttings; Portion of autobiography c.1889 by Rev. John A. Greaves describing his voyage to Australia and his work as an Anglican Minister in the Hunter Valley and Sydney 1857-1866; Letter 1836 of Anne Russell in Launceston referring to difficulties of employment for emigrant women in Van Diemen's Land and Letters 1854-1855 of John Dukes in South Australia and William Dukes in Sydney.
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, 1981 (AJCP Reels: M1667-M1671). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies. Formerly the 'Buckinghamshire Record Office', County Hall, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire HP20 1UA, England.
For further information, see Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies (http://archives.buckscc.gov.uk/).
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-vn2257946] 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
Anglican Church: Australia; Australia: immigration to; Aylesbury Gaol, Buckinghamshire, England; Clergyman; Collins, David; Convicts; Darwin, Northern Territory; Dukes, John; Dukes, William; Emigrant voyages; Farquhar, R.T.; Great Britain. Colonial Office; Greaves, John A., Rev.; Hobart, Sir Robert, Lord Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire; Hunter River, New South Wales; Land: New South Wales; Land: Northern Territory; Launceston, Tasmania; Maluku Islands, Indonesia; Maps, plans and charts; New South Wales; Philippines; Politicians: Britain; Port Phillip, Victoria; Primrose, Sir Archibald P., 5th Earl of Rosebery; Prisons: England; Russell, Anne; South Australia; Sydney, New South Wales ; Tasmania: economic conditions; Trade: Dutch East Indies; Trade: Philippines; Women: employment
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 80, p.28.
Item Descriptions
Fonds. Quarter Sessions Records, 1789 - 1855
18 itemsFilmed selectively.
Series. Q/Unclassified: Chairman's Calendars of Prisoners (2 vols.), 1789 - 1804
2 itemsArchival history
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M1667
Series Q/SM. Quarter Sessions Minute Books, 1803 - 1824
14 itemsArchival history
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M1667
Fonds D/MH. Papers of the Earls of Buckinghamshire, 1796 - 1803
9 itemsSeries D/MH/H. Papers of Robert Hobart, 1796 - 1803
9 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M1668
Biographical / Historical
Robert Hobart (1760-1816), 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire (succeeded 1804) served in the British Army before being elected to the House of Commons in 1788. He also sat in the Irish Parliament (1784-97) and was Chief Secretary for Ireland (1789-94). He was governor of Madras in 1794-98. In 1798 he was summoned to the House of Lords with the title Lord Hobart. He was Secretary of State for War and the Colonies in the Addington Ministry (1801-4). The town of Hobart in Van Diemen's Land was named after Lord Hobart in 1804.
King George III, 2 January 1803 - 22 January 1803 (File War A)
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Military and Naval Commanders, 17 January 1803 - 3 March 1803 (File War C)
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
Moluccas, 19 January 1801 - 24 November 1801 (File War N)
4 itemsNew South Wales, 30 December 1801 - 19 July 1803 (File War O)
5 items
S. Thornton to Hobart, 30 December 1801 (Item)
Recommends R. Atkins be confirmed as Judge Advocate of N.S.W.
Capt. J. Hunter to Hobart, 17 November 1802 (Item)
Suggests Commissioner be sent to N.S.W. to investigate progress of colony; offers assistance.
Lord St. Vincent to Hobart, 28 December 1802 (Item)
Suitability of D. Collins for N.S.W. post; commissioning of ship to take settlers to new colony; objections to sending detachment of Marines to relieve N.S.W. Corps.
Requests for assistance, 27 October 1801 - 19 November 1802 (File War Y/Box 1)
6 itemsFilmed selectively.
Fonds D/RO. Papers of Archibald Primrose, 1873 - 1923
8 itemsBiographical / Historical
Archibald Primrose (1847-1929), 5th Earl of Rosebery (succeeded 1868), was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and became actively involved in politics in 1879. He was Foreign Secretary (1886, 1892-94), Lord President of the Council (1894-95) and Prime Minister (1895-96).
Series 5. Correspondence, plans and other papers relating to Rosebery's properties in Australia, 1873 - 1923
8 itemsArchival history
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M1668-M1671
Correspondence, 1883 - 1923 (File 5/1-14)
Correspondence between Rosebery and his agents in Britain and Australia. The Sydney agents were C.A.M. Billyard 1883-1891, W.P. Manning 1890-1892, J. Mills 1892-1893 and T. Horder 1894-1923. The correspondence concerns the purchase by Rosebery of property in Pitt Street, Hunter Street, Middle Harbour and elsewhere in Sydney and at Palmerston and Talc Head, Darwin, other investments in Australia, the building and leasing of the Athenaeum Club, Sydney, the winding up of the North Sydney Investment Company, the sale of properties, taxation and litigation. The letters of Billyard and Horder refer to visits to Queensland, Northern Territory and New Guinea, the economic situation in Australia, Federation, N.S.W. and Commonwealth politics.
Government Gazettes have not been copied.
Opinions of counsel in case of Re North Sydney Investment and Tramway Company in N.S.W. Supreme Court and related correspondence, 1894 - 1895 (File 5/15)
Fonds D/X 576. Papers of Rev. John A. Greaves, c. 1889
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M1671
Biographical / Historical
John Albert Greaves (1829-1893) graduated from Lincoln College, Oxford, and was ordained a priest in 1853. He was the curate of Bampton, Oxfordshire, before migrating to New South Wales in 1857. He was priest in the parishes of Muswellbrook (1857-59), East Maitland (1859-63) and Wollombi (1863-66) and examining chaplain to the bishop of Newcastle. He returned to England in 1866 and later spent several years in Virginia in the United States.
Autobiography, c.1889 (File)
The autobiography describes Greaves' voyage to Australia in 1857, his work as an Anglican minister at Muswellbrook, East Maitland and Wollombi, his travels in the Hunter Valley and his duties as Examining Chaplain in Sydney. He refers to the appointment of Australian bishops after his return to England in 1866.
Pages 149-222 and photograph.
Fonds D/X 685. Papers of Russell Family of Aylesbury, 1836
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M1671
Fonds D/X 709. Papers of Dukes Family of Aylesbury, 1854 - 1855
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M1671