Guide to the Collections held by the Cumbria Archive Service (as filmed by the AJCP)

Mary Jane Wood (Parramatta) to Miss Scott (Penrith), 8 April 1819 (File)

Hard voyage of four months and two weeks on Maria; birth of a son; their 1600 acre property named 'Chipping'; goods from England are expensive; robberies and shortages in the colony; a good school mistress would make a fortune; the convicts; mutual friends.

Mary Jane Wood (Chipping) to Miss Scott, 20 December 1819 (File)

Her baby son; the property; stock; children's education; schools of industry; Governor Lachlan Macquarie and Elizabeth Macquarie.

Note of Mary Jane Wood, 1821 (File)

Mary Jane Wood (Chipping) to Miss Scott, 1 March 1822 (File)

Birth of another girl; her family; her poor health; servants and other employees; mutual friends and acquaintances; the new governor Sir Thomas Brisbane; her husband declined an offer to become a justice; their property.

Mary Jane Wood (Chipping) to Miss Scott, 28 February 1826 (File)

Death of Miss Scott's brother.

Mary Jane Wood (Sydney) to Miss Scott, 20 April 1826 (File)

Thanks for gift; domestic news; Capt. Lamb.

Mary Jane Wood (Chipping) to Miss Scott, 9 July 1827 (File)

Death of her brother George; hopes she and her husband will be spared until the children are old enough to take care of themselves; mutual friends and acquaintances; Governor Ralph Darling favours the military too much; attack on the property by bushrangers; lacks female friends; illness in the colony.

John Wood (Chipping) to Miss Scott, 26 July 1827 (File)

Death of Mary Wood after a week's illness; arrangements for the children.

Mary B. Wood (Sydney) to Miss Scott, 21 November 1830 (File)

Thanks for books; family news.

Mary B. Wood (Sydney) to Miss Scott, 1 July 1831 (File)

Glad she has arrived safely in England; when Mary leaves school she will go to Lowther [near Lithgow] where her father runs cattle; domestic news.

Mary B. Lowe (Sidmouth Valley, Bathurst) to Miss Scott, 14 April 1836 (File)

Her marriage to Mr Lowe; her sister Alice Wood is at school in Sydney and Joseph is at Sydney College; her brother John is at Lowther with their father; town of Sydney has improved; drought.

Mary B. Lowe (Sydney) to Miss Scott, 10 July 1837 (File)

Birth of a daughter; is spending the winter in Sydney where it is less cold; domestic news; Sir John Franklin; the new bishop.

Mary B. Lowe (Sidmouth Valley) to Miss Scott, 12 August 1839 (File)

Death of a cousin William Robinson at Demerara; births of two more children; the Church; immigrants are often worse than the convict population; severe drought.

Note on Catholic Church salaries, 1839 (File)

Mary B. Lowe (Sidmouth Valley) to Miss Scott, 29 December 1841 (File)

Recovery after a severe illness following a still birth; drought; poor quality of immigrants; a new church and minister; domestic news.

Mary B. Lowe (Sidmouth Valley) to Miss Scott, 15 January 1843 (File)

Sorry for her illness; arrival of a cousin; loss of two little expected ones; the colony could absorb an industrious peasantry; a meeting in Sydney to petition for a supply of Indian coolies; growth of Sydney; Australian Aboriginals very troublesome in distant parts of the colony; many merchants have failed.

Mary B. Lowe (Sidmouth Valley) to Miss Scott, 31 January 1845 (File)

Death of a young son and daughter; domestic news; results of the policy of Sir George Gipps; clergy; education.

Mary B. Lowe (Sidmouth Valley) to Miss Scott, 22 March 1846 (File)

Death of another child, the sixth; domestic news; Catholic converts.

Mary B. Lowe (Penrith) to Miss Scott, 1849 (File)

Death of Miss Scott's sister; Lowe and her baby now well after a dangerous birth; domestic news.

Mary B. Lowe (Sidmouth Valley) to Miss Scott, 6 July 1852 (File)

Death of a child; great increase in crime, gambling and drunkenness since gold was discovered; appointment of two Church of England ministers; domestic news.

Alexander Morison (Adelaide) to Crerar (Maryport), 7 June 1938 (File)

Inquiry regarding Thomas English; encloses extracts from 1840 Act to constitute a Municipal Corporation for the City of Adelaide.

Crerar to Alexander Morison, 29 July 1938 (File)

Thanks for material on Municipal Act; his interest in Thomas English; his claim that Maryport was the first English town to have a municipal election with a secret ballot; its relation to the practice in South Australia.

Alexander Morison to Crerar, 2 September 1938 (File)

Portraits of Robert Adair and Thomas English; forwards a paper (2pp) from the South Australian Archivist on the introduction of the ballot in South Australia for parliamentary elections; requests a copy of Crerar's article on Maryport and the ballot.

Crerar to Alexander Morrison, 19 October 1938 (File)

Would like to use his enclosure for an article.

G.H. Pitt (Adelaide) to Crerar, 25 October 1938 (File)

Thanks for reprints from Truth and West Cumberland News on papers on Maryport.

J.W. Crerar. Maryport and the ballot, [1939] (File)

8pp, typescript with ms amendments.

J.W. Crerar. Maryport and the ballot (File)

A priority claim not challenged: a son of Maryport introduced system into Australia, West Cumberland News 5 Aug. 1939. (reprint)

Alexander Morison (Adelaide) to Crerar, 5 April 1938 (File)

Sends a biographical note (2pp) on Thomas English, Mayor of Adelaide in 1862-63.

J.T. Gill (Cockermouth) to W.J. Wilson (Maryport), 27 April 1938 (File)

Thomas English married Sarah Brown at Crosscanonby on 20 June 1848.

Chart of Swan River from a survey by Capt. James Stirling, 1827 (File)

Tracing, ink on paper.

Georgiana Molloy. Journal of a voyage on the Warrior from Portsmouth to the Cape of Good Hope, 19 October 1829 - 18 January 1830 (File)

The entries are mostly brief and refer to preparations for the voyage, the departure (23 Oct. 1829), sea-sickness, high seas in the Bay of Biscay, sighting of Cape Verde Islands, landing at Porto Praya on St Jago (Santiago), sightings of ships, fellow-passengers, church services, continued illness, arrival at Table Bay, landing at Cape Town.

Georgiana Molloy (St Jago) to her mother, Elizabeth Kennedy, brothers and sisters, 23 November 1829 (File)

Voyage of Warrior from England to Cape Verde Islands. (crossed)

Extracts from letters from Swan River Western Australia, London (24pp), 1830 (File)

Extracts from letters from Swan River Western Australia, 2nd ed., London (40pp), 1830 (File)

Georgiana Molloy (Cape Town) to Elizabeth Kennedy (Rugby), 12 January 1830 (File)

Voyage of the Warrior. (crossed)

Capt. John Molloy (Cape of Good Hope) to Elizabeth Kennedy, 25 January 1830 (File)

Voyage of the Warrior. (crossed)

Georgiana Molloy (Perth) to Elizabeth Kennedy, 4 April 1830 (File)

Arrival at Swan River; impressions of the colony (crossed).

Georgiana Molloy to Elizabeth Kennedy, n.d. (File)

Disappointment with land surrounding Swan and Canning Rivers; sailed in brig Emily Taylor to south of Augusta and have taken up a grant of land; John Molloy appointed as a magistrate; birth and death of their child; local and domestic news. (crossed)

Georgiana Molloy. Journal, 24 May 1830 - 3 June 1830 (File)

The entries describe the birth of Molloy's first child, Elizabeth Mary, her ailments, measures taken by Molloy and a nurse, and the baby's death. (4pp)

Emily Bollen (Perth) to Georgiana Molloy (Augusta), 20 July 1830 (File)

Intends to return to England. (crossed)

Ellen Stirling (Perth) to Georgiana Molloy, 11 August 1830 (File)

Hopes that Molloy's little settlement thrives; their community at Perth; mutual friends; Perth has much improved. (crossed)

? (Swan River) to [Capt. John Molloy (?), 5 January 1831 (File)

Description of the area; voyage of HMS Sulphur north of Cockburn Sound; return of Governor James Stirling; discovery of good pasturage at head of Swan River; Thomas Peel.

Georgiana Molloy (Augusta) to Elizabeth Kennedy, 9 July 1831 (File)

Voyage from England; settlement at Swan River; family news. (crossed)

Georgiana Molloy to Elizabeth Kennedy, 4 December 1831 (File)

A new baby; local news. (crossed)

Georgiana Molloy (Augusta) to Elizabeth Kennedy (Cheltenham), 16 July 1832 (File)

Domestic and local news; arrival of HMS Sulphur with provisions for the near-starving settlement. (crossed)

John Molloy (Augusta) to Dalton Kennedy, 18 July 1832 (File)

Advice on his conduct of life; their infant child; life since they landed at Western Australia. (crossed)

Notes on excursion with John Bussell from Augusta to the Vasse River (6pp), 7 January 1833 - 15 January 1833 (File)

Part of a map of the Vasse District. (File)

Georgiana Molloy (Augusta) to Elizabeth Kennedy, 28 Feb. [1833] (File)

Her need of women's company; requires help on their holding.

Georgiana Molloy (Augusta) to Elizabeth Kennedy and family (Cheltenham),, 22 April 1822 (File)

Local news; goods that she would like to have shipped from England.

Georgiana Molloy (Augusta) to Elizabeth Kennedy, 29 May 1833 (File)

Local news; sends an extract from a letter from Col. Harry Smith at the Cape referring to the Governor and Ellen Stirling. (crossed)

Part of a letter, 24 July - 6 August (File)

Georgiana Molloy (Augusta) to Elizabeth Kennedy, 26 June 1834 (File)

A new baby; local news. (crossed)

Georgiana Molloy (Augusta) to Elizabeth Kennedy, 14 January 1835 (File)

The baby; John Molloy will go to England; domestic news.

Georgiana Molloy to Elizabeth Kennedy, n.d. (File)

Hopes Kennedy will come to Western Australia; local and domestic news. (crossed)

Georgiana Molloy to her brother George Kennedy (Exeter), 13 September 1835 (File)

Possibility of their mother coming to Australia. (crossed)

John Molloy to Elizabeth Kennedy, 10 October 1835 (File)

Away from home, purchasing cows and a mare; family is 'emerging from the shades of poverty'; he cannot afford to visit England and leave Georgiana in her present situation; inquires whether Kennedy plans to come out. (crossed)

Georgiana Molloy (Augusta) to Elizabeth Kennedy, 22 December 1835 (File)

The three children; family problems. (crossed)

Georgiana Molloy (Augusta) to Elizabeth Kennedy, 13 February 1837 (File)

John Molloy is at Swan River; family and local news. (crossed)

John Molloy to Elizabeth Kennedy, 2 April 1837 - 5 April 1837 (File)

Thanks for gifts; he has the largest grant of land at Geographe Bay where he will build a house and acquire stock; general news.

Stephen Magden (Melbourne) to his father Robson Magden (Alston), 22 September 1854 (File)

Passage to Australia; obtained work gardening and quarrying; plenty of work for those willing to work hard; local prices. (poor legibility)

Stephen Magden to Robson Magden, 22 September 1854 (File)

Stephen Magden (Tarrangower) to Robson Magden, 5 July 1855 (File)

Working on goldfields but without extraordinary success; local prices.

Stephen Magden (Pleasant Creek) to Robson Magden, 13 March 1839 (File)

Work on quartz reef at Pleasant Creek [near Stawell, Victoria] for last two years; local prices.

Stephen Magden (Greymouth) to his brother, 18 February 1866 (File)

Very rough country in New Zealand; plenty of gold; prices.

Samuel and Margaret White (Ipswich, Queensland) to their brother and sister, 19 November 1866 (File)

No work for four months; thinking of taking up land.

Samuel and Margaret White (Brickfields) to their brother and sister, 14 February 1867 (File)

Sam is working sinking a shaft for coal; they did not get the land they wanted.

Samuel and Margaret White (Ipswich) to their brother and sister, 19 November 1867 (File)

Local news; many people have flocked to the diggings at Maryborough.

Samuel and Margaret White (Normandy Reserve) to their brother and sister, 29 March 1869 (File)

Bad weather and caterpillars have affected cotton; local prices.

Stephen Magden to his brother, 29 September 1872 (File)

Has received no letters; has worked hard and had some illness and injury; lived with a widow but she wanted marriage so he left.

Stephen Magden to his brother, 22 April 1876 (File)

Settling down with Margaret and Samuel White; will buy some land.

Stephen Magden (Ipswich) to his brother, 22 April 1876 (File)

Seeks money left in his father's will.

Robson and Mary Urwin (Adelaide) to their uncle and aunt, 20 March 1886 (File)

Recently arrived and settled in a house and garden; impressions of Adelaide.

Lieut. Henry Roberts. A general chart exhibiting the discoveries made by Captn. James Cook in this and his preceding two voyages, with the tracks of the ships under his command, 36" x 22" (approx.), n.d. (File DCU/1/35)