Guide to the Papers of the Martin Family (as filmed by the AJCP)
M1535-M1537
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Martin Family
- Title
- Papers of Martin Family (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1793 - 1859
- Collection Number
- M1535-M1537
- Extent
- 18 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: Papers 1793-1831 of Sir Thomas Byam Martin referring to transport of convicts to New South Wales, import of timber and hemp from New Zealand, and appointment of surgeons on convict ships; Papers 1816-1860 of Sir William Martin including journal 1816-1817 kept on voyage of HMS Alceste on a voyage to Java, China and Philippines; Journal, correspondence and letter-books 1834-1859 of Sir Henry Martin describing: service on HMS Grampus; Anglo-French relations in Tahiti; proclamation of Tahiti as a French protectorate; and affairs in Sandwich Islands. Correspondents include Queen Pomare, Sir George Seymour, A.J. Bruat and Governor Lavaud.
Conditions Governing Access
Available for Access.
Conditions Governing Use
Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the British Library. For more information visit: How I use the images I order?-The British Library [https://www.bl.uk/help/how-can-i-use-the-images-i-order].
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: M1535-M1537). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
British Library, 96 Euston Road, London. Collection reference: Add MSS 41346-41475. For further information see Martin Family at the British Library (http://hviewer.bl.uk/IamsHViewer/Default.aspx?mdark=ark:/81055/vdc_100000000056.0x0000bb).
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-vn2253406] 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
Alceste (ship); Bruat, A.J.; China; Convict Ships; Convict ships - health and medical services; Convicts; French in the Pacific; Grampus, HMS (ship); Hawaii; Hemp; Java: visits to; Lavaud, Charles F.; Martin Family; Martin, Sir Henry; Martin, Sir Thomas B., Admiral; Martin, Sir William; Martin, Sir William, Admiral; Naval officers; Philippines; Pomare, Queen of Tahiti; Royal Navy: Pacific Station; Royal Navy: voyages; Seymour, Sir George, Admiral; Surgeons; Surgeons: convict ships; Tahiti; Tahiti: annexation; Timber and timber trade: New Zealand; Transportation of convicts
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 312, p. 116.
Biographical / Historical
Admiral Sir Thomas Byam Martin (1773-1854), Comptroller of the Navy Board 1816-1831. His son Sir Henry Martin (1803-1865) commanded HMS Grampus in the Pacific 1845-1848. Another son, Admiral Sir William Martin, served on an official mission to China 1816-1817 and was Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean 1860-1863.
Item Descriptions
Series. Papers of Sir Henry Martin, 1793 - 1831
12 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M1535.
Subseries. Correspondence and papers of Sir Thomas Byam Martin, 1793 - 1831
2 itemsSubseries. Official Letter Books of Sir Thomas Byam Martin, [1816]-[1831]
6 itemsOfficial Letter Book of Sir Thomas B. Martin, Volume XLIX, [Oct 1816]-July 1819 (File Add. MS 41394)
4 itemsFilmed selectively.
Official Letter Book of Sir Thomas B. Martin, Volume L, September 1819 - June 1827 (File Add. MS 41395)
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Official Letter Book of Sir Thomas B. Martin, Volume LI, [1825]-October 1826 (File Add. MS 41396)
4 itemsFilmed selectively.
Observations by Martin on passage allowances to military officers proceeding to foreign stations, including N.S.W, [1825] (Item 54r-55v)
Martin to R.W. Hay, 6 June 1826 (Item 118r-119r)
Selection of surgeons of convict ships; complaint by Sir Thomas Brisbane that surgeons had been intriguing against authorities in N.S.W.
Official Letter Book of Sir Thomas B. Martin, Volume LII, June [1827] (File Add. MS 41397)
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Official Letter Book of Sir Thomas B. Martin, Volume LIII, January 1829 - 16 December [1830] (File Add. MS 41398)
6 itemsFilmed selectively.
Official Letter Book of Sir Thomas B. Martin, Volume LIV, [1831] (File Add. MS 41399)
Martin to Bank (Argyle) 24 February [1831]: conspiracy by convicts to seize Argyle; security measures; information sought on arsonists.
Martin to S. Phillips, 24 February [1831]: information on possible convict uprising on Argyle passed on to surgeon.
Martin to R. Darling, 24 February [1831]: purchase of New Zealand hemp or flax from N.S.W. Government.
Memorandum by Martin on emigration to colonies and possibility of emigrant ships bringing back timber and hemp from New Zealand, n.d.
Subseries Add. MS 41401. Admiralty Orders to the Navy Office, Volume LVI, 1822
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
Subseries. Miscellaneous Naval Memoranda, Volume LVII, 1817 - 1830
Series Series C. Papers of Admiral Sir William Fanshawe Martin, 4th Baronet, 7 February 1816 - 28 November 1856
2 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reels M1535-M1536.
Biographical / Historical
Admiral Sir William Fanshawe Martin, 4th Baronet (1801-1895).
Subseries Add. MS 41410. Papers (mostly printed) relating to Home and Foreign Defences, Volume LXV
7 itemsFilmed selectively.
Subseries Add. MS 41456. Journal of Sir William Fanshawe Martin, Volume CXI, 7 February 1816 - 17 August 1817
1 item
Journal kept by Martin on voyage of Alceste to China (90 f.), 7 February 1816 - 17 August 1817 (File)
The Alceste, captained by M. Maxwell, conveyed Lord Amherst on his mission to China. The journal describes visits to Rio de Janeiro (ff. 4-9), Cape of Good Hope (ff. 11-14), Java (ff. 16-19), China and Korea (ff. 22-74), and the Philippines (f. 75), the wreck of the Alceste at the Straits of Gaspar in February 1817, encounters with Malay pirates and the rescue by the East Indiaman Ternate (ff. 76-89) and the arrival at Batavia (f.90). There is an engraving of the relief of Fort Maxwell.
Series Series D. Papers of Admiral Sir Henry Byam Martin, 1834 - 1859
4 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reels M1536-M1537.
Biographical / Historical
Admiral Sir Henry Byam Martin (1803-1865).
Subseries Add. MS 41463. General correspondence of Sir Henry B. Martin, 1834 - 1855
1 item
Correspondence of Martin, Volume CXVIII (491 f.), 1834 - 1855 (File)
Folios 168-421 relate to Martin's service in the Pacific as captain of the Grampus in 1846-1847 and includes his correspondence with Admiral Sir George Seymour, A.-J. Bruat, Queen Pomare, Governor Lavaud, R. Thompson, C. Barff, and A. Simpson. The subjects include the claims of Huahine, Raiatea and Bora Bora to be independent of Tahiti, the destruction of property of British residents at Tahiti, the rights of British subjects at Hawaii (ff. 189-193), land grants made to British residents by Queen Pomare, the proclamation of Tahiti as a French Protectorate in February 1847 (f. 312), the arrest of the boatswain of the Grampus, and proposed flags for the Leeward Islands.
Subseries Add. MS 41469. Letter Book of Sir Henry B. Martin, 1845 - 1859
1 item
Letterbook of Martin, Volume CXXIV (96 ff.), 1845 - 1859 (File)
Folios 9-46 relate to Tahiti, 1846-1847. They consist of copies of Martin's letters to Sir George Seymour, Queen Pomare, G. Charter, C. Banff and J. Rodgerson. The subjects include a treaty between Britain and the Sandwich Islands (f. 11), conversations with A.-J. Bruat, the arrest of the chaplain of the Grampus, the return of Queen Pomare to Papeete, Governor Lavaud, flags for the Leeward Islands. The later papers relate to Mexico and the United States blockade.
Subseries Add. MS 41470. Letter Book of Sir Henry B. Martin, 1845 - 1847
1 item
Letterbook of Martin, Volume CXXV (155 ff.), 1845 - 1847 (File)
Folios 32-151 relate to the Pacific. They consist of copies of Martin's letters to Sir George Seymour, A.-J. Bruat, G.C. Miller, Queen Pomare, R. Thompson, and Governor Lavaud. The subjects include land grants made to British residents by Queen Pomare, compensation to British residents, the independence of the Leeward Islands, the arrest of the chaplain and boatswain of the Grampus, the arrival of Queen Pomare in Papeete in February 1847, a cruise among the Society Islands, and Martin's departure from Tahiti in July 1847.
Subseries Add. MS 41472. Journal of Sir Henry B. Martin, 17 November 1845 - 20 October 1848
1 item
Journal of Martin kept on the voyage of the Grampus, Volume CXXVII (205 ff.), 17 November 1845 - 20 October 1848 (File)
A detailed journal, including illustrations, describing the voyage and visits to Valparaiso (June 1846), Callao (July 1846), Hawaii (August 1846), Tahiti (September 1846-July 1847), Valparaiso (August 1847), Lima (October 1847), San Blas (March 1848), Valparaiso (June 1848), Rio de Janeiro (August 1848).
Folios 45-133 relate to Tahiti.