Guide to the Collections held by Leicestershire Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP)

Papers on conviction and transportation of Samuel Chambers, 1844 - 1845 (File 3)

Chambers was convicted of causing a mine to be flooded. The papers include a petition to Sir James Graham, a letter of C.W. Packe concerning an inquiry into the case, and papers entitled 'The Breedon Hill Mine Case' and 'The Case of Samuel Chambers'. (70pp.)

Order of T. Burbidge, Clerk of Peace, concerning sentence of transportation of John Smith, convicted of felony at Leicestershire Quarter Sessions, 7 January 1836 (File 4)

Papers of Higginson Family of Tawonga, Victoria (9ff.), 1870 - 1896 (File 213)

The papers comprise copies of his death certificate, the death certificates of his parents and the birth certificates of his six children.

Samuel Coltman and wife (Duffield) to his sister, 14 July 1852 (File 337)

Emigration of C. Lowndes and friends to New Zealand; their plans to establish saw and corn mill; New Zealand the favourite colony at present; Parkes Family.

Correspondence concerning Australia, 1922 - 1957 (File 62)

Mainly dating from the 1920s, the papers deal with the establishment of the Melbourne branch by H. C. Hancock, reports om the Australian staff, correspondence with H. C. Hancock, manufacture of puffs in Australia, financial matters, changes in organization of Melbourne depot (1934), correspondence with Australian High Commission concerning duty on machinery imported into Australia, purchase of property in Melbourne...

Melbourne Branch. Annual and six-monthly balance sheets and statements of account (c.200 pp.), 1934 - 1963 (File 63)

Includes reports for periods:1934-1936, 1938-1950, 1955, 1957-1958, 1960-1963

Private journal of Arthur Packe (d.1857), on surveying voyages of H.M.S. Rattlesnake and Bramble, 26 November 1846 - 2 December 1849 (File 15)

The journal is very detailed and describes the voyage from England to Australia, surveying operations in Bass Strait, the Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait, the exploring expedition of E. Kennedy, attacks by natives, visits to Port Essington, relations with Capt. O. Stanley, Lieut. C. Yule, J. MacGillivray. There are also recipes for food and medicine, tables on temperatures and winds, deep sea soundings, copies of papers on the funderal of O. Stanley in 1850, and copies of papers on farming near Monte Video in 1853-1957. (214 pp.)

J. Goddard (Fox Bay, N.Z.) to G. Packe, 14 June 1891 (File 45)

Sheep farming; difficulty of obtaining freehold grants; costs of fencing; problems with new Governor, Lord Onslow.

J.P. Robinson (Sydney) to J.T. Barry (London), 15 November 1842 (File 1-5)

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org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:479) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:277) at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$ReadCallback.succeeded(AbstractConnection.java:311) at org.eclipse.jetty.io.FillInterest.fillable(FillInterest.java:105) at org.eclipse.jetty.io.ChannelEndPoint$1.run(ChannelEndPoint.java:104) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.runTask(EatWhatYouKill.java:338) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.doProduce(EatWhatYouKill.java:315) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.tryProduce(EatWhatYouKill.java:173) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.run(EatWhatYouKill.java:131) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.ReservedThreadExecutor$ReservedThread.run(ReservedThreadExecutor.java:409) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:883) at 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