Guide to the Collections held by Cheshire Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP)
M845-M847
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
- Title
- Collections held by Cheshire Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1802 - 1939
- Collection Number
- M845-M847
- Extent
- 21 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
Quarter Sessions Records: Orders by Quarter Sessions and Chester Sessions for transportation of convicts 1749, 1803-1829; Orders by Secretary of State for transportation of convicts to hulks 1802-1840; reports and returns of convicts transported and under sentence of transportation 1802-1856; circulars and correspondence on the transportation of convicts 1802-1851; convict lists sent to the Commissioners of County Rates, 11 March 1835.
Genealogical notes and letters of the Whittell Family and the Woolfield Family of Papatoetoe, New Zealand.
Stanley of Alderley: Family correspondence: journal by Owen Stanley's mother, Catherine; correspondence, including 24 letters 1846-1849 to Capt. Owen Stanley concerning family matters; correspondence 1847-1853 of Charles Edward Stanley and his wife Elizabeth; letters from T.H. Huxley relating to J. MacGillivray's Narrative of the Voyage of HMS Rattlesnake; letters 1834-c.1843 from Catherine Stanley to Louisa Dorothea Stanley; correspondence 1844-1849 of Catherine Stanley Vaughan.
Wilson of Sandbach collection: petition 1849 by passengers on the emigrant ship Cheapside; journals 1849-1851 of John Ayre, surgeon on the Cheapside and Duchess of Northumberland; hotel bills and accounts for photographic equipment purchased by T.N. Wilson during a journey to Australia and New Zealand in 1889. Ayre's journals contain descriptions of conditions aboard emigrant ships, details of treatment of the sick, and relations between passengers.
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-987654321 )
Existence and Location of Originals
Cheshire Record Office, Cheshire, England.
For further information see Cheshire Record Office (http://archives.cheshire.gov.uk/home.aspx).
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-vn1856097] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
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.
Archival history
Material selectively filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1971 (AJCP Reels: M845-M847). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
The Australian Joint Copying Project microfilmed selected records at both the Chester City Record Office (reel M848) and the Cheshire Record Office (reels M845-847). In 2000 the two record offices amalgamated to form the Cheshire Archives and Local Studies. Its current address (2017) is Duke Street, Chester CH1 1RL.
Subject
Australia; Ayre, John; Cheapside, emigrant ship; Cheshire Quarter Sessions; Commissioners of County Rates; Convict ships; Convicts; Duchess of Northumberland, emigrant ship; Emigrant voyages; Genealogy and genealogies; Huxley, Thomas H.; MacGillivray, John; Medicine; New Zealand; Papatoetoe, New Zealand; Quarter Sessions; Rattlesnake, HMS (ship); Royal Navy: exploration and surveys; Royal Navy: voyages; Stanley Family; Stanley, Catherine; Stanley, Charles E.; Stanley, Elizabeth; Stanley, Louisa D.; Stanley, Owen, Capt.; Surgeons; Surgeons: emigrant ships; Vaughan, Catherine S.; Whittell Family; Wilson, T.N.; Woolfield Family
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 96, p. 33-34
Item Descriptions
Fonds ZQ. Chester Quarter Sessions, 1802 - 1856
5 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reels M845-M846.
Series. Orders by Quarter Sessions and Chester Sessions for transportation of convicts, 1803 - 1829
Orders from the Clerk of the Peace or the clerk of the Crown to the constable of Chester castle, the Sheriff of the County of Chester and the Justices of the Peace of the County of Chester stating that the convicts named were to be transported to New South Wales.
4 bundles: 1803-1818, 1821-1822, 1825-1826, 1829.
Series. Orders by the Secretary of State for transportation of convicts to the hulks, 1802 - 1840
Orders signed by the Home Secretary to the Sheriff of the County of Chester directing that convicts in Chester Gaol under sentence of transportation be transferred to the hulks. The convicts are named in the margin of the orders. The hulks were at Portsmouth, Langstone Harbour, Woolwich or Chatham.
4 bundles: 1802-1821, 1822-1829, 1831-1835, 1836-1840
Series. Reports and returns of convicts transported and under sentence of transportation, 1802 - 1856
The records comprise receipts for convicts from Chester received on board the hulks, lists of convicts despatched from Chester Gaol with details of their physical appearance, age, occupation, character and behaviour, copies of surgeons' certificates, and returns of convicts at Chester Gaol under sentence of transportation.
6 bundles: 1802-1806, 1810-1818, 1819-1821, 1822-1827, 1835-1836, 1843-1856.
Fonds DBE. Bennett Collection, 1858 - 1939
2 itemsNotebooks and papers of J.H.E. Bennett (d. 1956) of Heswall, including pedigrees and general notes on many Cheshire families.Filmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M847.
Series DBE 15. Genealogical notes and correspondence concerning the Whittell Family of Chester, London and Australia, 1905 - 1939
The notes are based on parish registers, directories, electoral rolls, probate records, and birth, death and marriage registers at Somerset House. Members of the family included Henry Whittell (1809-1865), who emigrated to New South Wales in 1838, and his descendants.
Series DBE 29. Genealogical notes and correspondence concerning the Woolfield Family of Birmingham and Papatoetoe, New Zealand, 1858 - 1928
The members of the family included Samuel Woolfield (d. 1880) who emigrated to New Zealand, and his descendants. The correspondence includes letters from T.R. Woolfield (Papatoetoe) to Bennett, 1901-1928.
Fonds DSA. Stanley Family of Alderley, 1812 - 1850
5 itemsAlderley Hall near the village of Nether Alderley, Cheshire, was purchased by Sir Thomas Stanley, who was created a baronet in 1660. Sir John Stanley, the 7th Baronet, was created Baron Stanley of Alderley in 1839. His brother Edward Stanley (1779-1849) was rector of Alderley for 32 years before becoming Bishop of Norwich in 1837. His son Owen Stanley (1813-1850) served in the Royal Navy under Phillip Parker King and Sir John Franklin and commanded HMS Rattlesnake on its surveying expedition to northern Australia and New Guinea in 1846-1850. His other sons were Charles Stanley (1819-1849), private secretary to Sir William Denison in Van Diemen's Land in 1846-1849, and Arthur Stanley (1815-1881), the Dean of Westminster Abbey.
Filmed selectively.
General
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M847.
Series 75. Journal of Catherine Stanley, 1812 - 1820
The journal records events in the childhoods of her children, Owen, Mary, Arthur and Charles Stanley.
Series 79. Letters of Catherine Stanley to Owen Stanley (24 letters), 1847 - 1850
The letters, written to Captain Owen Stanley in Australia, contain family news and refer to the affairs of the Diocese of Norwich, political events, travels in England, the voyage of HMS Rattlesnake, news of Charles Stanley and his death in Hobart in 1849, meetings with Sir Edward Parry, revolutions in Europe in 1848, and the receipt of letters from Owen. There are also letters from her daughter Mary Stanley to Owen Stanley.
Series 92. Correspondence of Charles Stanley and his wife Elizabeth Stanley, May 1847 - February 1853
3 items
Elizabeth Stanley (Hobart) to Catherine Stanley, 12 May 1847 (Item)
Lack of news from England; illness of Sir William Denison; social events.
Capt. P.P. King (Parramatta) to Elizabeth Stanley, 19 October 1852 (Item)
Arrival of Dr Wolley, friend of Arthur Stanley, at Sydney University; exclusion of theological instruction at the University; views of W.C. Wentworth; social consequences of gold discoveries; difficulty of finding servants; death of his sister Anna Maria Macarthur and her daughter Anna Wickham; conflict between Sir William Denison and the Legislative Council in Tasmania; the publication of the Voyage of the Rattlesnake; T.H. Huxley.
T.H. Huxley to Elizabeth Stanley, January 1853 - February 1853 (Item)
Huxley's high opinion of J. MacGillivray's Voyage of the Rattlesnake; favourable reviews; Huxley's quest for an academic appointment; book by O. Brierley; Huxley's review of MacGillivray's book; his quarrel with the publisher John Murray. (5 letters)
Series 341/1. Letters from Catherine Stanley to her niece Louisa Stanley, November 1834-October [1843]
2 itemsFonds DWS. Wilson Family of Sandbach, 1849 - 1889
4 itemsFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M847.
Journal of John Ayre, surgeon on the barque Duchess of Northumberland, on a voyage from Sydney to Calcutta, 16 May 1851 - December 1851 (File 19)
The journal is chronologically confusing: it contains earlier entries on medical cases on a voyage from Port Phillip to England in 1850 and is interspersed with reports on disciplinary and medical cases.
Hotel and club bills and receipts accumulated by M. Wilson and his wife on a voyage round the world in 1889 (File 21/4)
Bills and other accounts from hotels and clubs in Sydney, Jenolan Caves, Mount Victoria, Tamworth, Newcastle, Melbourne, Healesville, Marysville, Adelaide, Toowoomba, Auckland, Napier, Nelson, Dunedin, Christchurch and Batavia.
Filmed selectively.