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

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M2060

National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record

Created: 2019

Collection Summary

Creator
Liverpool Record Office
Title
Collections held by the Liverpool Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP)
Date Range
26 December 1838 - 27 November 1924
Collection Number
M2060
Extent
52 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

Voyage book 1864-1866 of Sea Insurance Co Ltd.

Log 1882-1883 of E. Turner kept on John Gambles on voyage from London to Wellington, Newcastle, San Francisco and London.

Correspondence 1838-1841 of George Holt on purchase of sheep and cotton cultivation in Australia.

Papers 1862-1899 of Rev. Alfred J. Tomlin concerning church affairs in Australia and the Pacific. Correspondents include Bishop T.N. Staley.

Minute-books 1883-1924 of Liverpool Chamber of Commerce referring to: Australian mail arrangements; Australian customs tariffs; New Zealand customs regulations; Commerce Act; Navigation Act; and New Zealand Patents Bill.

Diary 1892-1893 of Sir Richard D. Holt describing travels in Malaya and East Indies.

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

Material selectively filmed at the Liverpool Record Office as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1987 (AJCP Reels: M2060). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.

Existence and Location of Originals

Liverpool Archives and Family History, Liverpool Central Library, William Brown Street, Liverpool.

For further information see Liverpool Records Office at Liverpool City Libraries (http://liverpool.gov.uk/libraries/archives-family-history/).

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-vn774402] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Selections from other collections of the Liverpool Record Office have been filmed by the A.J.C.P. on reels:

M869-M870 Miscellaneous Collections (https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2115989)

Includes papers of C. T. Bowring and Co., H. E. Symonds, M. Gregson, H. T. Wilson, Sir William Forwood, W. Roscoe.

M1969-M1972 15th Earl of Derby Papers, 1852-1885 (https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2288116).

The papers of 13th Earl of Derby (M2077) have been listed separately (https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn774440).

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 2019. 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

Anglican Church; Australia; Australia: laws; Cotton and cotton growing; Customs and excise; Dutch East Indies; Dutch East Indies: visits to; Great Britain; Holt, George; Holt, Sir Richard; John Gambles (Ship); Liverpool Chamber of Commerce; London, England; Malaya; Malaya: visits to; New Zealand; New Zealand: laws; Newcastle, NSW; Pacific Islands: missions; Postal services; San Francisco, USA; Sea Insurance Co Ltd; Staley, T.N., Bishop; Tariffs; Tomlin; Alfred J., Rev.; Trade: Australia; Trade: New Zealand; Turner, E.; Wellington, New Zealand: visits to; Wool and wool growing: Australia.

Bibliography

Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8:Miscellaneous (M) series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 284, pp106-107.

Item Descriptions

Fonds 288 HAL. Papers of Lawrence Hall, 1875

1 item

Biographical / Historical

Lawrence Hall (1864-1940), Liverpool cotton broker and local historian.

Series 5. Material relating to Hope Street Unitarian Church, January 1875

1 item
Subseries 5/5. Miscellaneous Printed Notices and Pamphlets, 18 January 1875
1 item

Filmed selectively.

Farewell to Robert Trimble on his emigration to New Zealand, 18 January 1875 (Item 7)

From members of late Hope Street Mutual Improvement Society, Liverpool (printed).

Fonds 368 SEA. Records of Sea Insurance Company Ltd., 1864 - 1866

8 items

Biographical / Historical

The firm of Williams and Co. was founded in Liverpool in 1813. It was later renamed W. H. and S. Jones Co. and in 1876 became a public company under the name Sea Insurance Co. Ltd.

Series [4]. Records of Sea Insurance Company, October 1864 - December 1866

8 items
Subseries 4/2. Voyage and time risk book, October 1864 - December 1866
8 items

The book lists the date, number, name of ship, port of departure, destination, cargo, premium rate of cargo, name of broker.

Filmed selectively.

Britain-Australia and New Zealand (File pp.21-36)
Australia and New Zealand-Britain (File pp.37-40)
Britain-Straits Settlement and Java (File pp.165-170)
Straits Settlements and Java-Britain (File pp.171-174)
Australia-Asia (File pp.595-596)
Australia and New Zealand-America and Mauritius (File pp.605-608)
Australia-America (File pp.661-664)
Britain-Australia and New Zealand (File pp.703-704)

Fonds 380 COM. Records of Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, 1889 - 1924

11 items

Biographical / Historical

The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1850.

Series 1. Minutebooks of Council, November 1889 - September 1911

5 items
Subseries 1/2. Minutebooks of Council, 15 November 1889 - 3 January 1890
3 items

Filmed selectively.

Australia mail arrangements, 15 November 1889 (Item 199)
Imperial Federation, 16 December 1889 (Item 200)
Imperial Federation, 3 January 1890 (Item 202)
Subseries 1/3. Minutebooks of Council, 29 November 1898
1 item

Filmed selectively.

Address by E. H. Wittenoom on prospects of Western Australia, 29 November 1898 (Item 228)
Subseries 1/4. Minutebooks of Council, 25 January 1899
1 item

Filmed selectively.

Clause in Charter Party for coal from Australian ports (includes resolution of Shipowners Association), 25 January 1899 (Item 3-4)
Subseries 1/5. Minutebooks of Council, 29 July 1907 - 31 December 1907
2 items

Filmed selectively.

Address by F. Brockman on cotton growing and pastoral industries of Western Australia, 29 July 1907 (Item 8)
Australian Customs Tariff, 31 December 1907 (Item 30)
Subseries 1/6. Minutebooks of Council, 10 July 1911 - 13 September 1911
2 items

Filmed selectively.

Address by J. McGowan on affairs of N.S.W., 10 July 1911 (Item 18)
Address by J. Mitchell on resources of Federated Malay States, 13 September 1911 (Item 24)

Series 2. Minutebooks of Committees, November 1900 - November 1924

6 items
Subseries 2/6. General Trade Committee, 23 November 1900 - 27 November 1924
6 items
General Trade Committee, 23 November 1900 - 14 March 1902 (File 2/6/1)
3 items

Filmed selectively.

N.S.W. Industrial Arbitration Act, 23 November 1900 (Item f. 58)
Australian tariff: acetic acid, 13 December 1901 (Item ff. 150-151)
Appointment of trade agents in colonies, 14 March 1902 (Item f. 192)
General Trade Committee, 5 February 1904 - 16 June 1905 (File 2/6/2)
3 items

Filmed selectively.

Preferential treatment in freights given to foreign shippers, 5 February 1904 (Item f. 16)

Includes letter of Shaw, Savill and Albion Co. on New Zealand trade.

Preferential treatment in freights given to foreign shippers, 19 February 1904 (Item ff. 30-31)
Australian customs charges on advertising matter, 16 June 1905 (Item ff. 212-213)
General Trade Committee, 14 July 1905 - 10 January 1908 (File 2/6/3)
19 items

Filmed selectively.

Australian duty on advertising matter, 14 July 1905 (Item f. 3)
Australian duty on advertising matter, 11 August 1905 (Item f. 10)
New Zealand Customs regulations, 11 August 1905 (Item ff. 11-12)
New Zealand Customs regulations, 8 September 1905 (Item f. 14)
Commonwealth of Australia Commerce Act, 20 July 1906 (Item f. 78)
Commonwealth of Australia Commerce Act, 28 September 1906 (Item ff. 85-86)
Commonwealth of Australia Commerce Act, 19 October 1906 (Item f. 89)
Australian Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act, 23 November 1906 (Item ff. 90-91)
Australian Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act, 29 November 1906 - 7 December 1906 (Item f. 98)

Includes letter from London Chamber of Commerce, 29 Nov. 1906.

Australian Industries Preservation Act, 6 December 1906 - 7 December 1906 (Item f. 101)

Includes letter from G. H. Cox, 6 Dec. 1906.

Australian Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act, November 1906 - 21 December 1906 (Item f. 103)

Includes printed copies of correspondence, Nov.-Dec. 1906.

Address by Agent-General for Western Australia, 18 January 1907 (Item f. 108)
Australian duty on trade catalogues, 31 May 1907 (Item f. 136)
Australian duty on trade catalogues, 16 August 1907 (Item ff. 157-158)
Australian Customs Tariff, 29 October 1907 - 8 November 1907 (Item f. 173)

Includes letter from Board of Trade, 29 Oct. 1907.

Certificates of origin for goods shipped to Australia, 22 November 1907 (Item f. 182)
Australian Customs Tariff, 22 November 1907 (Item ff. 183-184)
Australian Customs Tariff, November 1907 - 6 December 1907 (Item f. 186)

Includes summaries of replies from companies, Nov.-Dec. 1907.

Australian Customs Tariff, 10 January 1908 (Item ff. 190-191)
General Trade Committee, 7 August 1908 - 22 July 1910 (File 2/6/4)
15 items

Filmed selectively.

Australian Navigation Bill, 7 August 1908 (Item f. 28)
Preferential tariff for British goods: Australia, 6 November 1908 (Item ff. 54-55)
Western Australian Land and Income Tax Assessment Act, 28 October 1908 - 6 November 1908 (Item ff. 55-56)

Includes letter from Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, 28 Oct. 1908.

Australian tariff, 4 December 1908 (Item f. 66)
Australian tariff, 18 December 1908 (Item f. 73)
Western Australian Land and Income Tax Assessment Act, 12 March 1909 (Item f. 93)
Size of bags for wheat exported from Australia to South Africa, 24 September 1909 (Item ff. 130-131)
Australian Patents Act 1903 (Amendment) Bill, 25 September 1909 - 22 October 1909 (Item ff. 145-146)

Includes letter from London Chamber of Commerce, 25 Sept. 1909.

Australian Patents Act 1903 (Amendment) Bill, 12 November 1909 (Item f. 149)
Australian Patents Act 1903 (Amendment) Bill, 26 November 1909 (Item f. 152)
Australian Patents Act 1903 (Amendment) Bill, 15 December 1909 - 7 January 1910 (Item ff. 155-156)

Includes letter from London Chamber of Commerce, 15 Dec. 1909.

Australian Patents Act 1903 (Amendment) Bill, 4 February 1910 (Item ff. 164-165)
Frozen meat trade: Australia, 29 April 1910 (Item f. 187)
Australia: administration of British preferential tariff, 25 April 1910 - 29 April 1910 (Item f. 188)

Includes Board of Trade memorandum, 25 April 1910.

Australia: administration of British preferential tariff, 22 July 1910 (Item ff. 201-202)
General Trade Committee, 23 March 1911 - 3 January 1913 (File 2/6/5)
11 items

Filmed selectively.

Australian Navigation Bill, 23 March 1911 (Item f. 23)
Australian Navigation Bill, 21 April 1911 (Item ff. 32-33)
Visit of H.M. Trade Commissioner for Australia, 21 April 1911 (Item ff. 34-35)
Australian legislation, 28 April 1911 (Item f. 40)
Address by H.M. Trade Commissioner for Australia, 5 May 1911 (Item f. 44)
Queensland income tax on British manufacturers, 29 June 1911 - 22 September 1911 (Item ff. 65-66)

Includes letters from Australian Association of British Manufacturers (Melbourne), 29 June 1911.

New Zealand Patents Bill, 20 October 1911 (Item ff. 76-78)
New Zealand Patents Bill, 11 November 1911 - 24 November 1911 (Item f. 91)

Includes letters from Board of Trade, 11 Nov. 1911, and New Zealand High Commissioner, 11 Nov. 1911.

Royal Commission on Resources of Dominions, 20 September 1912 (Item ff. 158-159)
Australian Navigation Bill, 3 January 1913 (Item f. 189)
Overseas bills of lading, November 1912 - 3 January 1913 (Item f. 189)

Includes letters from Liverpool Steamship Owners Association, Nov.-Dec. 1912.

General Trade Committee, 16 September 1913 - 27 November 1924 (File 2/6/6)
5 items

Filmed selectively.

Australian Navigation Act, 16 September 1913 (Item f. 21)
Freight rates on bottled beer to Australia, 16 July 1915 (Item ff. 100-101)
Double income tax within Empire, 1 April 1916 - 19 April 1916 (Item f. 120)

Includes letter from London Chamber of Commerce, 1 April 1916.

Distinctive marking of goods imported into Australia, 10 January 1919 (Item ff. 157-158)
Indian and Australian bills of lading, 27 November 1924 (Item f. 177)

Fonds 387 MD 60. Log of E. Turner, 10 May 1882 - 19 August 1883

Log of E. Turner kept on John Gambles on voyage from London to Wellington, Newcastle, San Francisco and London. (102pp., pencil)

The entries vary, the earlier ones being very brief statements about the weather, the later ones being more detailed. Some pages may not have reproduced well.

Fonds 920 DUR. Papers of During and Holt Families, 1838 - 1893

6 items

Series 2. Correspondence and papers of George Holt, December 1838 - August 1841

5 items

Filmed selectively.

Biographical / Historical

George Holt (1790-1861), Liverpool cotton broker and a founder of the Bank of Liverpool.

Subseries 2/17. Papers concerning Australia, 26 December 1838 - 16 August 1841
5 items
Articles of agreement between Thomas Freeman (London) and George Holt (Liverpool) concerning purchase of sheep in South Australia on account of Holt, 26 December 1838 (File 1)
Account of sheep of T. S. Brand, 1839 (File 2)
T. Freeman (Adelaide) to G. Holt, 4 November 1840 (File 3)

Purchase of sheep; ill-feeling of Bank of South Australia; changing economic conditions in South Australia; seeks power of attorney.

[Unknown] (Adelaide) to T. Hayley (Liverpool), 19 December 1840 (File 4)

Release from gaol; purchase of sheep; wool sales.

J. Thompson (Sydney) to G. Holt, 16 August 1841 (File 5)

Cotton cultivation in N.S.W.; despatch of samples; need for cheap labour.

Series 14. Papers of Richard Holt, December 1892 - December 1893

1 item

Sir Richard D. Holt (1868-1941), 1st Baronet (created 1935), joined firm of Alfred Holt and Co. in 1889 becoming partner in 1895, director of many companies, member of Mersey Docks and Harbours Board 1896-1941, Liberal M.P. 1907-1918.

Diary of R. Holt, 9 December 1892 - 1 December 1893 (File 14/40)

Diary of voyage from Liverpool to Singapore via Suez and Colombo, travels in Malaya and East Indies (Jan.-July 1893) visiting Bangkok, Deli, Belawan, Malacca, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Buitengong, Batavia, Samarang, Soerabaya, Macassar, Ambon, Ternate, Sandakan and Bokkara, and journey home via Hog Kong, China, Japan, Canada and United States.

The diary gives a detailed account of his travels, scenery, economic conditions, people and business discussions. (168pp.)

Fonds 920 MEL. Correspondence of George Melly, 1872

1 item

George Melly (1830-1894), Liverpool merchant, Liberal M.P. 1868-1875.

Series 24. Correspondence, October 1872

1 item

Filmed selectively.

Sir George Bower (Wellington) to G. Melly, 29 October 1872 (File 4649)

Case referred to Ministers; Bright Family of Melbourne; employment of Maoris on public works; peacefulness of Maori Highlands.

Fonds 920 TOM. Papers of Alfred J. Tomlin, 1854 - 1899

19 items

Filmed selectively.

Biographical / Historical

Rev. Alfred J. Tomlin, curate in Parish of Liverpool 1846-1872, Vicar of Tranmere, Secretary of Liverpool Branch Committee of Hawaiian Church Mission.

Rev. F. Barker (Chesterfield) to A. Tomlin, 8 August 1854 (File 68)

Thanks for congratulations on appointment as Bishop of Sydney; experiences in Liverpool.

Appeal for Diocese of Sydney (printed), c. 1869 (File 68 [a])

Photograph of C. H. Bromby, Bishop of Tasmania (File 194)

Bishop G. A. Selwyn (Bromfield, Shropshire) to Rev. J. Earnshaw, 4 September 1867 (File 1466)

Lambeth Conference; need to secure endowment for See of New Zealand as almost no provision for his successor.

Bishop W. S. Smith (Iver) to A. Tomlin, 12 July 1894 (File 1508)

Imminent departure for Sydney; unable to preach at Tranmere.

Rev. T. N. Staley. Circular letter concerning appointment as Bishop of Honolulu, n.d. (File 1518)

Bishop T. N. Staley (Manchester) to A. Tomlin: movements, 31 July (File 1519)

Bishop T. N. Staley (Manchester) to A. Tomlin, 18 July (File 1520)

Determination to keep clear of both Rome and Geneva; Hawaiian Mission.

Bishop T. N. Staley (London) to A. Tomlin, 23 Dec. (File 1521)

Arrangements for meeting.

Photographs of Bishop T. N. Staley and his grave (File 1521 [a])

Blanche Staley (Seafield) to A. Tomlin, 9 September 1899 (File 1522)

Death of her father Bishop T. N. Staley.

Catherine Staley (London) to A. Tomlin, 4 April 1862 (File 1523)

Movements of Bishop T. N. Staley; arrangement for departure to Sandwich Islands.

Appeal for Diocese of Brisbane (printed), n.d. (File 1678)

Society for Propagation of Gospel. Quarterly Paper no. 134, November 1865 (File 1678 [a])

Article on Queensland including woodcut of Brisbane.

Although described individually, this document was originally microfilmed with a page from another document. The last page of the document described can be found at the beginning of nla.obj-903526546.

Note on death of Bishop E. W. Tufnell (printed), 1896 (File 1678 [b])

Bishop A. Willis (London) to Bridges, 26 September 1882 (File 1810)

Requests he meet party of Hawaiian youths on Britannic.

Bishop A. Willis to Tomlin, n.d. (File 1811)

Sends English translation of preface to translation of Book of Common Prayer by King of Sandwich Islands; weakness of Anglican Church in relation to Roman Catholic Church in Hawaii; seeks aid.

Papers on Church of Hawaii (14 papers), 1862 - 1894 (File 1872)

7 items

Items of note include:

Leaflets on Hawaiian Church Mission (1862), Church in the North Pacific (n.d.) and Liverpool Branch Committee of Hawaiian Church Mission (n.d.)

Bishop T. N. Staley. Sermon preached at farewell service of Mission to Sandwich Islands in Westminster Abbey (London) (23-07-1862)

Cuttings concerning Hawaiian Church Mission 1862

Occasional paper of Hawaiian Church Mission (London). 1865

Bishop T. N. Staley to Tomlin: Sale of royal autographs. (n.d.)

Engraving of choir of Honolulu Cathedral

Cutting about Hawaii, The Sketch (25-07-1894)

Papers on Hawaii, November 1862 - 26 October 1865 (File 1874)

Items of note include:

Cutting on death of Prince of Hawaii (11-1862)

Signatures of King Kamehameha and Queen Emma (11-1862)

Engravings of King Kamehameha and Queen Emma

Cuttings on death of King Kamehameha (1863-1864)

Cuttings on visit of Queen Emma to Liverpool (26-10-1865)

Fonds 942 WAT. Waterhouse Collection, 1850 - 1864

5 items

Biographical / Historical

Nicholas Waterhouse (1827-1898), antiquarian and writer, Secretaryt of Royal Institution of Liverpool, Secretary of Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire.

Series Vol. 1. Autographs and Sundries, March 1850 - October 1864

5 items

Filmed selectively.

S. Herbert to Mrs Bayley, 12 March 1850 (File 10)

Conditions for assisting emigrants to colonies; emigrants need to be willing to engage in domestic service. [1/8/1]

Rev. G. H. Nobbs (Norfolk Island) to Rebecca Waterhouse, 25 May 1864 (File 63)

Thanks for gifts; growth of community since departure from Norfolk Island; Bishop of Melesia; recollections of Liverpool in 1812. [1/59/1]

Although described individually, this document was originally microfilmed with a page from another document. The last page of the document described can be found at the beginning of nla.obj-903526722.

Jane Barker (Sydney) to [unknown], 6 October 1864 (File)

Attack on Bishop J. Patteson at Santa Cruz; death of son of Rev. G. H. Nobbs. (extract) [1/59/2]

Bishop J. C. Patteson to Bishop F. Barker, 18 April 1864 (File 64)

Departure from Sydney; hopes for close relations between Churches of Australia and New Zealand. [1/60/1]

Bishop G.A. Selwyn to Bishop F. Barker, n.d. (File 65)

Endowment of Bishopric of Melanesia; seeks support for Missionary Board. (incomplete) [1/61]


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