Guide to the Collections held by the Hull City Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP)
M2392
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Hull City Record Office
- Title
- Collections held by the Hull City Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1786 - 1977
- Collection Number
- M2392
- Extent
- 11 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
Quarter Session records 1786-87 regarding the transportation of William Dring, Joseph Robinson and Robert Nettleton to Botany Bay, and the removal of convicts from Hull Gaol to the hulk Dunkirk.
Records 1977 of Thomas Hamling & Co Ltd concerning New Zealand fishing industry.
Petitions and testimony of Sidney Stephen (1840 and 1845) and Edward Abbott of Hobart (c.1838)
Correspondence 1853 of Joseph R. Pease relating to the proposed emigration of his son, James, to Australia or Canada.
Album of photographs of W.H. Slack of Reckitts of his trip around the world 1924-25, and visit to Australia, Naples, Ceylon, Port Said, Aden and Cairo 1932-33.
Letters of attorney 1880-85 by George Urquhart of South Yarra, Melbourne and letter from Urquhart to Jesse Malcolm concerning property in Teignmouth, Devon.
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 at the Hull City Record Office as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1989 (AJCP reel M2392). Original microfilm digitised as part of the NLA AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
Hull History Centre (Hull City Archives). Formerly City Record Office, 79 Lowgate, Kingston upon Hull, Humberside HU1 2AA, England
For further information see The Hull History Centre Catalogue (http://catalogue.hullhistorycentre.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-vn780770] 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
Abbott, Edward (Hobart); Aden; Australia: immigration to; Botany Bay, NSW; Cairo, Egypt; Canada; Convict ships; Convicts: New South Wales; Dring, William; Dunkirk (Convict Hulk); Fish and fisheries; Hamling, Thomas & Co; Hobart, Tasmania; Hull Gaol, England; Hull Quarter Sessions; Malcolm, Jesse; Melbourne, Victoria; Naples; Nettleton, Robert; Pease Family; Pease, James; Pease, Joseph R; Photographs; Port Said; Prisons: England; Quarter Sessions; Robinson, Joseph; Slack, W.H.; Sri Lanka; Stephen, Sidney; Teignmouth, England; Urquhart, George
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 238, p89.
Item Descriptions
Fonds CBQ. Quarter Session, 1786 - 1787
2 itemsFonds DBTH. Thomas Hamling & Co Ltd, 1977
1 itemBiographical / Historical
Thomas Hambling (d. 1903) was a prominent smack owner in Hull and purchased his first steam trawler in 1886. He was also the major shareholder in the Neptune Steam Fishing Company, formed in about 1900. Thomas Hambling & Company was registered in 1907. The White Fish Authority, a public body founded in 1951, was superseded by the Sea Fish Industry Authority in 1981.
Fonds DDX. Miscellaneous Deposited Deeds, c.1838-1845
1 itemDeeds relating to Wilberfoss 1660-87: 1717; Cuniston 1791; Mornington 1771; Sierra Leone, 1836 and Tasmania 1843, c.1838-1845 (File 23)
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Fonds DFP. Pease Family Papers, 1853 - 1864
2 itemsBiographical / Historical
Joseph Robinson Pease (1787-1866) of Hull and Hesslewood came from a wealthy family involved in shipping, trading, whaling, milling, manufacturing, underwriting and banking. In 1810 Joseph Pease, who was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, became a partner in the family bank, which had been established in Hull in 1754. He also had interests in railway and canal companies and was Deputy Lieutenant of the East Riding.
Series DFP 904-2563. Joseph Robinson Pease, 1853 - 1864
2 items
Correspondence: Bishop of Tasmania (n.p.), 1864 (File 1612(75))
Filmed selectively.
Thanking (JRP) for his sympathy with "my fortune and arduous work in my distant dioceses"
Papers relating to establishment of James Pease in Ireland, Australia and Canada and his marriage to Louisa Barkworth, 1853 (File 2329-2362)
4 itemsFilmed selectively.
Fonds DFX. Family Papers: Miscellaneous, 1829 - 1933
2 itemsW H Slack of Reckitts: Album of Photographs, September 1924 - April 1933 (File 10)
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
Biographical / Historical
Isaac Reckitt (d. 1862) established a starch works in Hull in 1840. After his death, his three sons became equal partners and the company became Reckitt & Sons in 1879. It was a household name in Britain and also made substantial sales in the British colonies. It introduced the Brasso metal polish in 1905. W.H. Slack, who visited Australia and New Zealand in 1924-25, was the senior traveller in the company. It merged with the mustard manufacturers J. and J. Colman in 1938.
Fonds DM. Miscellaneous Deposits, 1855 - 1932
3 itemsSeries DMS. Messrs Stamp, Jackson and Proctor, Solicitors, April 1855 - July 1880
1 itemRecords accumulated by firms of solicitors successively known as Codd and Levett, Levett and Champney and Champney of Fonvard
Property in Teignmouth, Devon, April 1855 - July 1880 (File 1/47)
4 itemsFilmed selectively.
Letter of attorney by George Urquhart of South Yarra, Melbourne, settler and G A Urquhart gent of Brisbane, 15 May 1876 (Item 3)
4 itemsAppointing S F Langham and S F Langham, the younger, of Bartletts buildings to take necessary steps for sale of Teignmouth property.
Declarations of Witnesses and registers certificate and copy of George Urquhart's birth certificate, South Yarra (9p), 22 April 1855 (Item 3)
Series DMX 24. W H Bee and W G Bingham Papers, July 1926 - December 1932
2 itemsW G Bingham Papers, July 1926 - December 1932 (File 4)
2 itemsBiographical / Historical
William G Bingham (1888-1933).
Autograph souvenir booklet re luncheon in honour of Amy Johnson, CBE, 30 August 1930 (File DMX 83)
A tribute from representatives of British Youth and achievement in all activities of life to her courage and endurance during her historic flight from England to Australia. 5-24 May 1930. (12p.)
Given by proprietors of Daily Mail, Savoy Hotel.
Menu, Wine list, Robert Nichols "Sonnet in honour of AJ"; account and photographs of the flight and guest list.