Guide to the Guide to Records held by the Hampshire Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP)
M1912
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Hampshire Record Office
- Title
- Records held by the Hampshire Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1834 - 1959
- Collection Number
- M1912
- Extent
- 26 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
Records 1834-1959 of parishes of Hartley Westpall and Rockbourne. Subjects include church matters in Australia and emigrants from Rockbourne to Sydney on the James in 1834.
Papers 1862-90 relating to the estate of Algernon Lempriere, including property in Queensland.
Letters of Lord and Lady Selborne relating to their visit to Jakarta, Bandung and Singapore in 1937.
Letters of Gerard Bonham-Carter describing his visit to Australia and New Zealand in 1926-27.
Papers 1842-51 of Alexander Waddell referring to his visit to Melbourne in 1851.
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
Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1984. (AJCP reel M1912). Original microfilm digitised as part of the NLA AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
Hampshire Record Office. Sussex Street, Winchester SO23 8TH, England
For further information see Hampshire Record Office (http://www3.hants.gov.uk/archives.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-vn2283518] 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
Bandung, Indonesia; Bonham-Carter, Gerard; Hartley Westpall parish, England; James (Ship); Land: Queensland; Lempnere, Algernon; New Zealand: visits to; Palmer, Sir William, 2nd Earl of Selborne; Palmer, Sophia, Countess of Selborne; Queensland; Rockbourne parish, England; Singapore: visits to; Sydney, NSW: immigration to; Waddell, Alexander
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 208, p78.
Item Descriptions
Fonds 24 M67. Hartley Wespall, 1836 - 1959
4 itemsFilmed selectively.
Bishop W.G. Broughton (Sydney) to Rev. J. Keate and Rev. E. Coleridge, 1836 - 1844 (File PI 2/[1])
Arrival in Sydney; establishment of Bishopric and new churches; King's School, Parramatta; maintenance of parochial schools; Sir Richard Bourke; James Macarthur; strength of Roman Catholic Church in N.S.W.; theological library; Judge Burton. (6 letters, typescript copies).
Bishop G.A. Selwyn (Aneityum) to Rev. J. Keate, 19 August 1849 (File PI 2/[2])
Visit to New Hebrides; establishment of Melanesian Mission. (typescript copy)
Fonds 4 M52. Papers of Lempriere Family of the Channel Islands and Hampshire, 1862 - 1890
4 itemsFilmed selectively.
Biographical / Historical
Thomas James Lempriere (1796-1852) migrated to Van Diemen's Land in 1823 and worked in the Commissariat Department. He was appointed assistant commissary general in 1844 and coroner in 1846. Algernon Lempriere (d. 1874) was a cousin of George Herbert, the first premier of Queensland (1859-66). He was private secretary to the governor of Queensland, Sir George Bowen, in 1866-68.
Declaration of trust by Robert G.W. Herbert of Brisbane as to sum of £5,000 advanced by Algernon Lempriere of Pelham, Hampshire, for sheepfarming in Queensland, 19 December 1862 (File 257)
Documents concerning estate of Algernon Lempriere (8 documents), 1876 - 1890 (File 342)
They includes powers of attorney from Ellen Lempriere and Harriet Lempriere to R. Little and C. Browne (Brisbane), 1876-77, powers of attorney from Ellen Lempriere and Harriet Lempriere to H.E. Ruthning (Brisbane) concerning property in Queensland, 1888, and declarations by Harriet Lempriere and Harry R. Lempriere, 1888-90.
Fonds 43 M66. Records deposited by Kingsclere and Whitechurch Rural District Council, 1906
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Fonds 9M 68. Papers of Lord and Lady Selbourne, 1937
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Biographical / Historical
William Waldegrave Palmer (1859-1942), 2nd Earl Selborne (succeeded 1895) was First Lord of the Admiralty (1900-5), High Commissioner for Southern Africa (1905-10) and President of the Board of Agriculture (1915-16). In 1883 he married Maud Cecil (1858-1950), the daughter of Lord Salisbury.
Fonds 94 M72. Papers of Bonham-Carter Family of Adhurst St. Mary, c.1840-1927
5 itemsFilmed selectively.
Biographical / Historical
Gerard Bonham Carter (1865-1956) was the son of a barrister, Henry Bonham Carter, and the brother of Sir Maurice Bonham Carter, who was private secretary to the prime minister, H.H. Asquith (1910-16) and later a Liberal politician. Gerard was the owner of Lower Barfield Farm, Bramshaw, Hampshire. He visited Australia in 1926-27 and corresponded with his sister Joan Bonham Carter.
Gerard Bonham-Carter to Joan Bonham-Carter, November 1926 - January 1927 (File F309)
The letters describe the voyage to Australia on the Osterly, a visit to a station near Balmoral, Victoria, meetings with people in Melbourne in Melbourne including Sir Thomas Lyle, a trip to Hobart and Launceston, the Tasmanian landscape, meetings with people in Sydney including G. Macarthur-Onslow at Camden, impressions of Sydney, and plans for a trip to New Zealand. (10 letters, 4 postcards).
Notebook (in pencil) of Gerard Bonham-Carter (File F310)
Recording impressions of Australia and Australians and miscellaneous notes on geography, topography, climate, history, and primary industries. (c.120pp.)
Gerard Bonham-Carter to Joan Bonham-Carter, February 1927 - March 1927 (File F311)
The letters describe the voyage from Sydney to Wellington, visits to Christchurch, Dunedin and Lake Wakatipu, travels in the North Island, Wanganui, Rotorua, Maoris, fishing, and the return voyage to Australia. (9 letters, 8 postcards)
Fonds 28 M73. Papers of Grove Family
1 itemFilmed selectively.
E.A. Grove (File Z 8)
Arthur Meek of Brighton, England and Wellington, New Zealand, his wife Georgina (nee Dallimore) and their family. (26pp. roneoed).
Biographical / Historical
Arthur Meek (1834-1906) migrated to New Zealand in 1874. His son Alfred Meek (1862-1957) migrated to Western Australia in 1896.
Fonds 42 M80. Papers of Waddell Family, 1842 - 1851
5 itemsFilmed selectively.
Biographical / Historical
Alexander Stuart Waddell was a sea captain engaged in trade with India and Australia.
J. Cartwright (Goulburn) to Alexander Waddell, 18 November 1842 (File F2)
Ill-health; family matters; disappointed that Waddell unable to visit Goulburn; wishes father would settle in Australia rather than Canada. (poor condition)
(Alexander Waddell (Algoa Bay) to Charlotte Waddell), 4 August 1850 (File F6-7)
Wreck of ship Asiatic on voyage from South Australia.