Guide to the Papers of the Hassall Family (as filmed by the AJCP)
M2079
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Hassal (Family)
- Title
- Papers of the Hassall Family (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1898 - 1938
- Collection Number
- M2079
- Extent
- 5 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
Correspondence, 1901-1929, of James Hassall, Harriet Hassall, Nellie Reed and Martha Hamilton of Adelaide, with relatives in Manchester. Also legal papers 1923-1938 concerning the estate of Thomas Hassall of Ballarat.
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-1234)
Archival History
Filmed at the Greater Manchester Record Office as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1987. (AJCP reel: M2079). Original microfilm digitised as part of the NLA AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
Central Library, St Peter's Square, Manchester M2 5PD, UK. Collection reference: "GB124.E6". For further information see the Greater Manchester County Record Office. (http://www.gmlives.org.uk/)
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-vn2296876] 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.
Subjects
Adelaide, South Australia; Ballarat, Victoria.; Hamilton, Martha; Hassall Family; Hassall, Harriet; Hassall, James; Hassall, Martha; Hassall, Thomas; Hassall, William; Manchester, England; Reed, Nellie
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 211, p. 79.
Biographical / Historical
Thomas Hassall (1816-1898) was born in Acton, near London. He migrated to Victoria in 1853 and was a blacksmith, storekeeper and owner of the British Hotel in Creswick. He was an extremely wealthy man, despite losses incurred during the financial depression of the 1890s. He was unmarried, but his beneficiaries included a large number of relatives in England, Australia and New Zealand. He also left money to Wesleyan churches and charitable institutions in Ballarat and for the construction of six cottages for the use of 'sober, respectable people', to be called the 'Thomas Hassall Homes'.William Hassall (1824-1889), the brother of Thomas Hassall, was born in Acton and died in Manchester. James Hassall (1850-1918), one of the sons of William and Martha Hassall, migrated to South Australia and owned a house in Parkside in Adelaide. He and his wife Harriet (d. 1917) had six children.
Item Descriptions
Series GB 124.E6/3. Correspondence, 1901 - 1929
1 item
Correspondence with Hassall Family in Australia (18 items), 1901 - 1929 (File 3)
The correspondents are James Hassall, Harriet Hasssall, Nellie Reed and Martha Hamilton, all of Adelaide, and J. Hassall of Ardwick, writing to Elizabeth Mercer and other relatives in Manchester. They refer to the estate of their uncle Thomas Hassall of Ballarat, family news, food prices, the construction of Outer Harbour (1903), the deaths of James and Harriet Hassall (1917-1918), unemployment in Adelaide (1921), and the winding up of the estate of Thomas Hassall. There are also a lineage of William Hassall (1824-1889) and Martha Hassall (parents of James Hassall) and three photographs.
3 photographs supplied.
Series GB 124/4. Legal papers concerning estate of Thomas Hassall, 1923 - 1938
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
File of papers (43 items), 1923 - 1938 (File 1)
Correspondence of Harry Mercer with Chapman, Roberts and Beck (Manchester), including copies of letters to Nellie Reed (Adelaide) and Tom Hassall (Adelaide), papers concerning case of Ballarat Trustees Executors and Agency Co. Ltd. v. Annie Sophie McLean, financial statement of estate of T. Hassall, and family tree.