Guide to the Guide to Collections held by the Hertfordshire Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP)
M1176
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
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Fonds Q.S.. Quarter Sessions Records, 1797 - 1841
Two receipts issued by Deputy Clerk of Assizes to Treasurer of Country of Hertford for removal of convicts sentenced to transportation, 1797 - 1798 (File Q.S. Misc. 66B)
Fonds D/P34. Digswell Parish Records, 1917 - 1921
Admission and discharge book, No. 5 Australian Auxiliary Hospital at Digswell House, Welwyn, 1 May 1918 - 16 February 1919 (File 29/1)
No. 4 Australian Auxiliary Hospital at Digswell Place, Welwyn, 1 May 1918 - 11 December 1918 (File 29/1)
Fonds Q. Nonconformist Records: Records of Hertford Meeting of the Society of Friends, 1846 - 1858
Correspondence concerning Friends in South Australia and Tasmania, 1846 - 1858 (File 124)
16 letters concerning the work of the Society in South Australia, members of the Hertford Meeting living in Australia, difficulties in communications between Hertford and Australia, travelling Friends in New Zealand and Tasmania, marriages, and the departure of Friends for Hobart. The correspondents include Joseph May (Mt. Baker), Margaret Phillips (Adelaide), E. May (Adelaide), J. Ellis, W. Pollard, E. Gupper (Nottingham) and G.W. Walker (Hobart).
Fonds F. Documents deposited by F.D.E. Fremantle, 1893
Fonds Acc. 166. Title deeds of High Cannons, 1841 - 1844
Bond of indemnity granted by Rev. John Winter of London, Mary Winter of Stanley Hill, Herts, Thomas Winter formerly of Hobart, James Winter of Hobart, and others, to John Roberts, 24 July 1841 (File 27507)
Fonds Acc. 599. Leake Family Papers, 1823 - 1922
Correspondence of Lieut. Col. W. Leake of Ware, Herts, with Admirality, General Registry Office, London, and the Registrar-General, Sydney, seeking information on the death of H.M. Leake, 1912 - 1922 (File 85011-21)
Miscellaneous financial documents, 1823 - 1831 (File 85023-30)
Bills of exchange drawn by H.M. Leake (85023-26) and notes by George M. Leake of sums paid out to his son Henry M. Leake and his wife Clara (85027-30).
School, tailor and shoemakers' bills incurred by four children of H.M. Leake; receipt of £40 for passage money for four children to Sydney, 1831 - 1832 (File 8532-39)
Power of attorney granted by H.M. Leake to his father, G.M. Leake, Portsmouth, 1 January 1830 (File 85041)
Correspondence concerning bills of exchange of H.M. Leake, finally refused by G.M. Leake, 1831 - 1834 (File 85042-53)
Details of half-pay payments of H.M. Leake and correspondence of G.M. Leake with Admiralty concerning payments, 1831 - 1832 (File 85054-59)
H.M. Leake (Sydney) to G.M. Leake, 20 March 1832 (File 85060)
Financial difficulties; farming in Australia; future plans.
Correspondence between Stephen M. Leake and H.M. Leake concerning death of G.M. Leake, legacy due to Henry, and farming in N.S.W., 1834 - 1836 (File 85061-63)
Correspondence of W. Plunkett, C. Crespigny and C. Calvert (Christchurch), 1859 - 1860 (File 85947-50)
Concerning emigration of W. Plunkett to New Zealand on the Clontarf and his death on the voyage.
Fonds D/EGp. Papers of Giles and Puller families of Youngsbury, 1874
Six letters of Arthur Giles-Puller to his family, April 1874 - July 1874 (File C17)
The letters describe his voyage to Australia on the Pera, his visit to Adelaide and meeting with Bishop Short, the prosperity of Adelaide and Melbourne, the activities of his cousin Charles Pearson, the journey overland from Melbourne to Sydney, N.S.W. - Victorian rivalry, the land question in Queensland, a visit to a sugar plantation, Pacific labourers, impressions of Queenslanders, plans to return to England.
Fonds D/EJg. Records of Jessopp and Gough, solicitors, of Waltham Abbey, 1839 - 1853
Correspondence, 1839 - 1853 (File B43)
Correspondence of Henry Edenborough (Sydney), Horatio Edenborough (Jerry's Plains, Goulburn, Sydney), Samuel Edenborough, E. Kitson (Goulburn), G. Griffiths (Sydney), D. McLeod (Gundaroo), C. Jackson (Gundaroo) and J. Ogle (Sydney) concerning Horatio's financial transactions, debts, legal expenses, the loan of a horse, prices, the depression in N.S.W., his descision to return to England in 1845, family matters and disputes, wool sales, and the lack of material comforts in N.S.W.
Fonds D/EL. Records of Messrs Longmore, solicitors, of Hertford, 1854 - 1868
Fonds D/Z17. Papers of Ward Family of Gilston Park, 1860 - 1864
Seven letters of C.D.R. Ward and Anne Ward of Wellington and S. Ward of London to W.T. Longbourne, 1860 - 1864 (File F4)
Concerning notarial seal, growth of Dudley Ward's law practice, the likely effects of the Torrens Conveyancing Act, the Maori War, the Loan Act passed by the Province of Nelson, financial matters, and the decision to make Wellington the Capital of New Zealand.