Guide to the Guide to Collections held by the East Sussex Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP)
M816-M819
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Collection Summary
- Creator
- East Sussex Record Office
- Title
- Collections held by the East Sussex Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1668 - 1934
- Collection Number
- M816-M819
- Extent
- 32 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 material filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project includes: Quarter Sessions and Rye records relating to the costs of transportation; register of emigrations; promotional material relating to emigration to Australia; manuscripts; newspaper clippings; journals, photographs, correspondence and addresses.
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.
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
Material selectively filmed at the East Sussex Record Office as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1971 (AJCP Reels: M816-M819). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
East Sussex Record Office; The Maltings, Castle Precincts, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1YT, England.
For further information see the East Sussex Record Office (http://www.thekeep.info/collections/).
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-vn333883] 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.
The Collection, Series and File identifiers used in the finding aid were as used at the time of copying.
Subjects
Ashbumham parish, England; Balala, New South Wales; Board of Guardians; Campion, Sir William R.; Conservative and Unionist Central Office; Convicts; East Sussex Quarter Sessions; Eastbourne, England; Elliot, T.F.; Emigration and immigration; Gibbons, L.; Governors and Governors General: Western Australia; Great Britain. Colonial Land and Emigration Commission; Great Britain. Colonial Office; Guildford, Western Australia; Hartfield Parish, England; Isle of Pines, New Caledonia; Lucknow, New South Wales; Moise, Helen M.E.; Morning Herald (London), newspaper; Photographs: Western Australia; Quarter Sessions; Rye Corporation, England; Scone, New South Wales; Sussex Quarter Sessions; Toc H; Tourle, Thomas; Wentworth Goldfields Pty Co Ltd, New South Wales; Western Australia; Western Australia: politics and government; Western Australian Secession Delegation
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 153, p. 55.
Item Descriptions
Fonds QCR. Quarter Sessions records, 1835 - 1878
3 itemsThe documents filmed comprise quarterly or six-monthly returns, and reports on the returns, of the amounts paid by the treasurers of the Sussex Eastern and Western Divisions on the conveyance of prisoners under sentence of transportation. The returns list the individual convicts, showing where and when they were tried, where they were conveyed to, and the expenses incurred. The convicts were generally conveyed from the Lewes House of Correction (Eastern Division) or the Petworth House of Correction (Western Division). In the earlier years they might be sent to a number of destinations, such as Portsmouth, Pentonville Prison, or a hulk at Gosport, but after about 1845 they were always sent to Millbank Prison, London.
Series QCR/1/EW6. Expenses of criminal prosecutions and transport of convicts (loose documents), 1835 - 1878
3 itemsArchival history
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M816
Loose Documents, 1835 - 1844 (File)
17 items
Lord John Russell (Home Office) to the chairman of the Sussex Quarter Sessions, 12 October 1835 (Item)
Respecting expenses of prosecutions. (printed circular letter)
Lord John Russell to chairman of the Sussex Quarter Sessions, 30 October 1835 (Item)
Returns of rates and allowances in criminal prosecutions for 1835, together with a list of the allowances.
Francis Baring (Treasury) to Clerk of the Peace, 11 March 1836 (Item)
Requests names and residences of treasurers to enable Treasury Commissioners to pay the account of criminal prosecutions.
A. G. S. Spearman (Treasury) to George Hoper, 23 August 1836 (Item)
Directions of form in which accounts are to be presented. (extract)
A. G. S. Spearman (Treasury) to W. V. Langridge, 27 January 1838 (Item)
Offence for which each prisoner was tried to be inserted in the accounts.
C. Trevelyan (Treasury). Note respecting making out of expenses for conveying convicts, [27 Oct. 1845] (Item)
H. Waddington (Home Office) to Clerk of the Peace, 14 January 1853 (Item)
Accounts of expenses of criminal prosecutions and removal of convicts in future to be sent to the Treasury.
W. H. Stephenson (Treasury) to Clerk of the Peace, 17 September 1853 (Item)
Directions on form in which returns are to be made for expenses of criminal prosecutions and maintenance of prisoners. (printed circular letter)
County of Sussex. Eastern Division. Return of amount paid by the Treasurer for expenses of criminal prosecutions, 20 May 1835 (Item)
County of Sussex. Eastern Division. Expenses of criminal prosecutions between period when last return closed and 31 Dec. 1835 (Item)
County of Sussex. Western Division. Return of expenses of the conveyance of prisoners to the depots for convicts, July 1835 - September 1835 (Item)
West Sussex. Return of expenses of criminal prosecutions for July Quarter Sessions and Summer Assize, 1835 (Item)
Fonds RYE. Rye Corporation, 1835 - 1852
2 itemsBiographical / Historical
The ancient town of Rye was granted the rights of an independent borough under its charter of 1289, with its own appointed mayor and chosen jurats (magistrates).
Series RYE/54. Returns of expenses of criminal prosecutions and transportation, 1836 - 1851
3 itemsArchival history
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M817
Series RYE/55. Circulars and papers on expenses of criminal prosecutions and transportation, 1847 - 1868
5 itemsArchival history
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M817
Fonds G. Boards of Guardians records
1 itemsSeries G13. Eastbourne Union, 1835 - 1930
1 itemsArchival history
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M817
Fonds PER233. Parish of Ashburnham
3 itemsArchival history
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M817
Fonds PAR360. Parish of Hartfield
1 item
Series. Colonial Office. Information respecting the Australian colonies, 18 July 1831
Printed forms to be returned to the Colonial Office: 'Persons desirous of entering into agreements for their conveyance to the colonies by the Commissioners of Emigration'.
General
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M817
Fonds ASH. Ashburnham Family Papers, 1893
1 itemArchives of the Ashburnham Family of Ashburnham Place, near Battle, 1048-1984.
Fonds FRE. Frewen Family Papers, 1668
1 itemArchives of the Frewen Family of Brickwall in Northiam, 1291-1922.
Fonds. Tourle Family Papers, 1846
1 itemFonds. Danny Manuscripts: papers of Sir William Campion, 1924 - 1934
19 itemsRecords of families associated with Danny Park, Hurstpierpoint, 1341-1933.
Biographical / Historical
The Campion Family has owned Danny since 1725. Sir William Robert Campion (1870-1951) represented Lewes in the House of Commons from 1910 to 1924. He served in France during World War I and was awarded the DSO. He was knighted in 1924 and in the same year was appointed Governor of Western Australia, a post he held until 1931.
Series. Journals, 1924 - 1931
Archival history
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M817
Journal, 28 May 1926 - 21 May 1930 (File MS 2193)
This volume contains number of loose items, such as the 1928 Melbourne Cup Week program and a few letters.
Journal, 22 May 1930 (File MS 2194)
The daily entries are brief and written in note form. The journal begins with Campion's voyage from England and arrival in Perth (28 Oct. 1924) and continues until his final departure (8 June 1931). The entries refer to the weather, meetings of the Executive Council, deputations, receptions, meetings, visits to hospitals, schools and factories, concerts, sporting events, the activities of Toc H and the Boy Scout movement, the selection of Rhodes Scholars, reviews of death sentences, overseas visitors (such as L. S. Amery and Lord Baden-Powell), tours of country districts including two tours of the north of the State (June 1926, July 1927), visits to farm schools, group settlements and stations, visits to the eastern States, including the opening of Parliament in Canberra (May 1927), visits to Perth by Lord Stonehaven and S. M. Bruce (Sept. 1926) and the Duke and Duchess of York (May 1927), Campion's visit to England (Jan.-May 1929), the defeat of the Collier Government (April 1930) and occasional overseas events (such as the 1926 general strike in Britain). The legibility varies, as the ink in some entries has faded.
Series. Government House Visitors Books, 1924 - 1931
Archival history
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M817-818
Series. Miscellaneous Papers, 1924 - 1934
Archival history
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M818- M819
Address of welcome from pupils at Loreto Convent on the occasion of Lady Campion's first visit to the college, [1924] (File MS 2207)
Correspondence in connection with Campion's activities as State President of Toc H, 1926 - 1929 (File MS 2208)
The correspondence documents in detail discussions and disputes about the organisation of Toc H in Australia, relations between the State branches and with the organisation in Britain, financial matters, meetings of the Federal Council, relations with the Roman Catholic Church and the Adult Deaf and Dumb Society of New South Wales, and the visit of D. Cleland and H. Crotty to Britain in 1926-27. The correspondents include Campion, Rev. P. B. 'Tubby' Clayton (the founder of Toc H), Rev. E. J. Davidson (Sydney), Bishop Horace Crotty (Bathurst), Ray Baxter (Melbourne), Lord Somers (Melbourne) and Donald Cleland (Perth). In addition to letters, there are agenda papers, reports, newspaper cuttings and programs of the annual birthday festivals held in Newcastle (1927), Melbourne (1928) and Perth (1929).
Copies of cables, telegrams and letters received on the occasion of the third Birthday Festival of Toc H Australia held at Perth, 13 May 1929 - 18 May 1929 (File MS 2209)
Typescript copies of letters, cables and telegrams sent to Donald Cleland, the secretary of the Western Australian branch of Toc H, from branches and individuals in Australia and from branches in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria, Ceylon and India.
Memories of Toc H Western Australia, a book of photographs presented to Campion on his departure from Western Australia (File MS 2210)
Souvenir of the opening of Munster House, the new premises of the Underwood Business College, 26 March 1930 (File MS 2213)
Address from the Mayor and Councillors of Perth on the termination of Campion's term of office, 1931 (File MS 2214)
Address from the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Western Australia on Campion's departure, 1931 (File MS 2215)
Address from the Amateur Dramatic and Musical Comedy Societies of Perth on Campion's departure, 1931 (File MS 2216)