Guide to the Collections held by the Manchester Central Library (as filmed by the AJCP)
M2081-M2082
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2019
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Fonds L.4. Lancashire: Papers of Bury Family of Pendle Hill, 9 September 1857
Fonds M.4. Manchester: Records of Guardians of Poor: Manchester, Chorlton and Prestwich Unions, 1914 - 1947
Register of children emigrated to Canada and other countries, 1914 - 1947 (File 60/2)
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Select Register Pages, 1914 - 1947 (Item ff.78-124)
The register gives name, date of birth, parentage, township to which chargeable, school or institution prior to emigration, date of discha: from school or institution, name of society sposoring emigration, date of sailing, destination, name and address of employer, general remarks (conduct). There is a name index. Prior to 1914 all the children emigrated to Canada, but after that date several went to Australia.
Fonds M.8. Records of Manchester Chamber of Commerce, 1910 - 1926
Series 4. Sections and Committees, 1910 - 1926
Home and Dominions Committee minutebook, 1910 - 1926 (File 4/18)
The minutes refer inter alia to the Australian and New Zealand tariff and taxation, the Royal Commission on the Australian Tariff (1914), double income tax, Australian invoice values, Australian War Precauti Act Repeal Act (1921), and taxation of agents in Dominions (1926)...
Fonds M.11. Papers of Lord Simon of Wythenshawe, 1951 - 1959
Series 6. British Broadcasting Corporation, 1951 - 1959
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Correspondence between Simon and Sir Richard Boyer (Sydney) (67pp.), 1951 - 1959 (File 7a-b)
The letters refer to the Beveridge Committee on the B.B.C., the roles of Chairman, Governors and Director-General, the introduction of commercial television in Britain and its repercussions in Australia, the Paton Royal Commission on Television (1953), Simon's book on the B.B.C., the operation of commercial television through a national corporation, opposition to the financing of the B.B.C. by sponsorship party politics and the debate about television, Boyer's knighthood, price stability in the wool industry.
Fonds M.38. Records of St. Paul's Literary and Educational Society, Manchester, 1863 - 1880
Fonds M.50. Women's Suffrage Collection, 31 January 1884 - 1912
Series 2. Papers of Dame Millicent Fawcett, 31 January 1884 - 1912
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Subseries 2/1. Correspondence, 31 January 1884 - 8 March 1909
J.S. Anderson to Fawcett, 31 January 1884 (File 29)
Vote on women's suffrage at Leeds Conference; hopes Orient Guide will be reviewed in Times; great increase in emigration to Australia as result of services of Orient Line and other passenger lines.
K.W. Sheppard (Christchurch) to Fawcett, 22 April 1891 (File 118)
Thanks for literature; publication of Suffrage by Women's Christian Temperance Union; apathy of many women.
M.S. Aldis (Auckland) to Fawcett, 29 November 1892 (File 180)
Defeat of New Zealand Women's Suffrage Bill; disadvantages of links with extreme temperance movement.
Amy Dalay (Auckland) to Fawcett, 28 December 1892 (File 186)
Supporters of women's suffrage in New Zealand Parliament; fewer ancient barriers to break down than in England.
H.L.N. (Dunedin) to Fawcett, 12 December 1892 (File 188)
Petition of Fish against women's suffrage and counter-petition.
Marion Hatton (Dunedin) to Fawcett, 3 January 1893 (File 189)
Requests copy of Fawcett's Suggested amendments of criminal law; attempts to raise legal age of consent; opposition of Fish and liquor interests to women's suffrage.
K.W. Sheppard to Fawcett, 3 April 1893 (File 199)
Sends copies of franchise report; hopes of enfranchisement next session.
Marion Hatton to Fawcett, 25 April 1893 (File 200)
Hopes of enfranchisement; need to educate women in political work; introduces A.C. Begg.
A. Lister (Melbourne) to Fawcett, 16 May 1893 (File 201)
Seeks advice on forming women's suffrage society in Melbourne.
A. Lister to Fawcett, 30 September 1893 (File 202)
Opposition to Criminal Law Amendment Bill; thanks for literature; need for good women speakers.
K.W. Sheppard to Fawcett, 4 October 1893 (File 204)
Success in achieving women's suffrage in New Zealand; women registering in large numbers; thanks for help.
G. Innes (Sydney) to Fawcett, 2 April 1894 (File 212)
Visit to England of Ellen Ballance, widow of New Zealand Premier; Innes' visit to New Zealand to inquire into effects of women's suffrage.
Subseries 2/26. Newspaper cuttings etc. on women's suffrage, 21 October 1892 - 1911
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R. Oliver (Dunedin) to Fawcett, 21 October 1892 (File 32)
Defeat of New Zealand Electoral Bill; leading women in movement associated with prohibition and socialism; details of deadlock between two Houses.
Fonds M.72. Records of Gardner Trust, 7 November 1850 - 20 June 1855
Series 24-27. Family Settlements, 7 November 1850 - 20 June 1855
Subseries 25. William A. Gardner of Launceston, Tasmania, 7 November 1850 - 20 June 1855
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Agreement between Robert Gardner (Manchester) and William A. Gardner concerning settlement of property in Van Diemen's Land, (2pp.), 7 November 1850 (File 3)
Agreement between Robert Gardner (Manchester) and William A. Gardner (Launceston), (3pp.), 6 September 1851 (File 6)
Agreement between (1) Georgiana Oakden (Launceston) and others (2) Robert Gardner (Manchester) (3) William A. Gardner (Launceston) concerning purchase of land, shares, stock, (7pp.), 28 February 1852 (File 7)
Agreement between (1) Georgiana Oakden (Launceston) and others (2) Robert Gardner (Manchester) concerning land and shares in Van Diemen's Land, (20pp.), 23 July 1852 (File 10)
Fonds M.83. Papers of John Chorlton and Sons, estate agents of Manchester, 27 August 1878 - 1901
Series 2. Chorlton Family, 27 August 1878 - 1895
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Series 3. Miscellaneous, 1889 - 1901
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Subseries 3/3. Scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings, 1889 - 1901
Cutting book, 1889 - 1901 (File 2)
Cuttings on Samoa and New Guinea, 1889-1901, including letters of Rev. J. Marriott and J.B. Morley, and referring to 1889 hurricane in Samoa, fighting in Samoa, and murders of Rev. J. Chalmers, O.F. Tomkins and other missionaries in New Guinea in 1901. (4pp. and loose cutting)
Fonds M.97. Records of J. & N. Philips & Co. Ltd., textile manufacturers, of Tean and Manchester, 1944 - 1951
Series 4. Patents, 1944 - 1951
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Correspondence and documents concerning application by J. and N. Philips and Co. Ltd. for Australian patent for 'improvements in or relating to narrow fabric multiple web looms', 1944 - 1951 (File 4/2)
Includes patent specification no. 20,924/45, assignment from William Holt (Manchester) to J. and N. Philips and Co. (20 October 1948), and correspondence of J. and N. Philips (Tean, Staffs.), E.K. Dutton and Co. (Manchester) and Guthridge Pty. Ltd. (Sydney)...
Fonds. Owen Manuscripts, 1853 - 1862
Volume 12, 1853 - 1862 (File)
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James Hilton (Maryborough, Emerald Hill) to his brother Michael Hilton (Salford), 1859 - 1862 (Item ff.822-45)
Emigration to Victoria; family news; suicide of father at Ballarat; conflict with wife; life on goldfields; work in store; trade depression, wages and prices; Chinese immigrants; insects; weather; misrepresentation of Australia in England. (6 letters, copies)
Michael Hilton, James Hilton, John Hilton (Melbourne, Maryborough, Tarrangower) to their mother and to James Hilton and Elizabeth Grafton (Manchester), 1853 - 1858 (Item ff.855-901)
Voyage to Australia; building work in Melbourne; wages and rents; shortage of water; bushfires; Sir Charles Hotham; work at Maryborough goldfields; lack of schools and churches on goldfields; Chinese at diggings; family news; voyage of John Hilton to Victoria in 1857; food prices. (12 letters, copies)