Guide to the Collections held by the Cornwall County Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP)
M1897
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Cornwall County Record Office
- Title
- Collections held by the Cornwall County Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1844 - 1925
- Collection Number
- M1897
- Extent
- 37 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 Australia Joint Copying Project includes: journals of voyages from Melbourne to America, Plymouth to Melbourne and Adelaide to Gravesend; correspondence and legal documents of families including the Victor Family, the Adams Family, the Carlyon Family; emigration lists; mining records; memoirs of Hannah Glasson and papers relating to the Bonython Family.
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, 1982 (AJCP Reels: M1897). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
Cornwall County Record Office; Old County Hall, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 3AY England.
For more information see Cornwall Record Office online catalogue (http://crocat.cornwall.gov.uk/DServe/searchpage.htm)
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-vn2283490] 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 identifiers used in this finding aid were accurate at the time of filming.
Subjects
Adelaide, South Australia; Australia; Ballarat, Victoria; Bonython, Sir J. Langdon; Bundrett & Co; Cann, F.C.; Glasson, Hannah; Gold and Goldfields: Australia; Gold and Goldfields: New Zealand; Gold and Goldfields: Victoria; Hancock, Richard; Matthews, Peter; Medlyn, Thomas; New Zealand; South Australia; Victor Family; Victor, Richard
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 113, p. 41.
Item Descriptions
Fonds AD 482. Papers of Victor Family, 1872 - 1925
11 itemsFilmed selectively.
Conveyance of land and property in Cornwall from John Victor of Victoria to Thomas Victor of Paul, 25 May 1872 (File 44)
8 letters from Richard Victor (Adelaide) to Jenkin, October 1902 - October 1903 (File 52/1-8)
Power of attorney; purchase of property at Mousehole; Chancery business.
Newman and Harris (Adelaide) to E.S.P. Haynes (London), 9 June 1925 (File 64)
£100 paid to Mrs Whestler; headstone erected on grave of Richard Victor.
Letters of administration of Principal Probate Registry concerning estate of Richard Victor of South Australia granted to Eleanor Cary, 2 September 1925 (File 67)
Fonds AD 514. Papers purchased at sale of W. H. Lane and Son, Penzance, 1852 - 1862
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Fonds DD CN. Papers of Carlyon Family of Tregrehan, St. Blazey, 1850 - 1853
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
Fonds DD BRA 1678. Papers presented by Bundrett and Co. of Lincolns Inn, 1862 - 1906
11 itemsFilmed selectively.
Notification by Principal Probate Registry of death at Richard Hancock of Adelaide (died 22 Sept. 1864) and letters of administration granted to T. F. M. Cartwright, 16 November 1905 (File 7)
J. Pascoe (Glen Osmond) to W. Hancock, 26 September 1864 (File 11)
Account of death of R. Hancock in accident at stone quarries; sends newspaper report.
Fonds DDX/26. Mining records deposited by W. E. Sevier, 1917 - 1920
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Folder of papers of F. C. Cann, 1917 - 1920 (File DDX/26/5)
The selectively filmed papers include letters to Cann from A. F. Maclaren and F. W. Horne (Sydney) concerning returns, payment of miners, and goldfield on West coast of New Zealand; a printed report by C. H. Wray on Koorboora Mines, 1 Oct 1919; and a typescript report by Cann to Burma Queensland Co. Ltd., 27 March 1920.
Fonds DDX/393. Records of Farnfield and Nicholls, solicitors, of Gillingham, Dorset, 1859 - 1862
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Fonds FS 3/1043. Memoirs of Mrs Hannah Glasson, 1922
1 itemTypescript memoirs of Hannah Glasson of Glen Innes, N.S.W., 1922. They describe her early life in America, farming, emigration to Australia via England in 1860, life at Cornish settlements at Pendarves, River Waipa and later in New Zealand and effects of World War I.
Fonds FS 3/1139. Diary of Richard Perry of Crowan, 1873 - 1876
2 itemsIncludes:
Journal kept on steamship Northumberland on voyage from Plymouth to Melbourne and Adelaide (1873).
Journal kept on Lady Jocelyn on voyage from Adelaide to Gravesend (1876).
Fonds [AJCP 15]. Papers held in Cornwall County Library, Old County Hall, Truro, 1894 - 1913
3 items
Series [1]. A copy of H. F. Burke. History of the family of Bonython of Bonython. (London, 1901), 1894 - 1913
Includes: 5 letters from J. Langdon Bonython (Adelaide) to Evelyn Rashleigh, 1894, 1903, 1911-13: History of Bonython Family; purchase of Bonython house and property in Cornwall; South Australian farming; Federal politics.
Newspaper cuttings relating to visit of Lord and Lady Denman to Adelaide, July 1912.
Photographs of Bonython houses Carlew and Carminow and of a group including Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson in front of Carminow.