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

Notice of purchase and receipt for payment of New Zealand consolidated stock from F.E. Swindells London, 15 May 1912; 31 May 1912 (File PR 2973/24/2)

2 documents.

Used for the Mission Room listed in 1932 inventory, no longer held according to 1940 inventory.

Calendar of all the crown prisoners at Lancaster Castle, 26 March 1782; 25 March 1783 (File DDB/74/15 and 16)

Includes details of transportees.

Journal of a voyage from Gravesend to Sydney, 23 July 1840 - 15 November 1840 (File DDBl 53/5a)

By F.Smythe. Presented to his sister, C.M.Smythe. 172pp.

Description of the voyage in an unnamed ship under Captain Richardson: details of other passengers, including an American, entertainments on board-fishing, shooting, gambling; daily entries give latitude and longitude position; ceremony of crossing the line; sighting other ships. The diary ends 200 miles out from Sydney and Smythe indicates he intends to start another journal.

Certificate that James Twist was convicted on 31 March 1818 at Lancaster of breaking and entering at Liverpool and sentenced to transportation for 7 years. (2pp), 17 February 1819 (File DDCm/1/2)

Orders for commutation of death sentences to transportation (78pp), 30 September 1819 - 12 August 1842 (File DDCm/1/14-55)

Gives:name of convict, details of crime and place of transportation.

Copy Also: detailed 6 page list from Handlists and Indexes.

C.W. Whonsbon-Aston, Anglican Mission, Mukawa, Papua, to Floyd with information on the Venerable Archdeacon William Floyd, Vicar of Levuka, Fiji, 11 October 1937 (File DDFl 4/72)

L.S. Polynesia (Bishop in Polynesia), Suva, to Floyd with transcription of gravestone of William Floyd, 1 March 1938 (File)

Letters from Mrs. Colin (Leo) King, from Penang and Bukit Mertajam, Straits Settlement to Floyd (28p), 4 June 1930; 25 August 1930; 29 November 1931; 28 March 1933; 31 January 1938; 11 December 1939; April 1941 (File DDFl 6/15)

Subjects include her husband's work in the Malaya Education Service, life in Penang-parties, playing cricket, girl guide camp, cost of living; war news. Post card has a picture of Form IVa High School, Bukit Mertajam.

Mrs. Colin King was killed in Malaya 1942.

Calendar of all the prisoners in the House of Correction at Preston, 8 January 1821; 9 January 1826; 3 April 1826; 14 July 1828; 15 October 1828; 14 January 1829; 29 April 1829 (File DDHe 77/78-84)

Gives: name and age of convict, details of crime, sentence details have been added and list of prisoners under sentence of transportation.

110pp.

Joseph Pedder, Letters from Batavia, 1 February 1834 - 11 June 1840 (File DDPd 17/2)

18 letters and 2 documents.

Joseph Pedder, from Liverpool, Maderia, Batavia, St. Helena, to his parents, Rev. John Pedder and brothers Edward, Richard and James and sisters.

Subjects include - life on ship, details of journey, description of Funchal, life in Java, other English residents, natives, church attendance, bathing in river only once due to alligators, his duties in the commercial house of Messers Morgan Melbourn, trading with Singapore and Europe, being robbed by his servant who was caught and now working in chains on the road, journey home on Christina, death of Morgan.

Includes: 31 March 1835 Thomas Leatherouse, Liverpool to Joseph; Certificate of residence(in Dutch) 4 November 1834, and Summons to join militia. 22 September 1834 (in Dutch).

Letters from Preston, Bombay and Colombo were not filmed by the AJCP.

Declaration by Sarah, wife of Thomas Gough of Parramatta, NSW, blacksmith, 19 November 1852 (File DDPd 26/392)

Re. her first marriage and children by William Lewthwaite (died 21 November 1851), a nephew of Roger Taylor, late of Finsthwaite. Includes copies of extracts from the marriage and burial registers of St. John, Parramatta, 1832 and 1851 and Certificated by Henry Burton Bradley, notary public, Sydney. (13p.)

Assignment of Gaol with a calendar of prisoners, 10 February 1777 (File DDPr 18/1-3)

Names of transportees, 25 January 1779, 10 February 1787, 11 February 1788,4 March 1791. (File DDPr 18/3)

5 sheets (some damaged).

Draft contract between Dobson and Barlow and the National Aniline Division of the Allied Chemical and Dye Corp. Inc., n.d. (c.1960s) (File DDP SL 14/13/1)

Dobson and Barlow to supply Aniline Division with machinery for a factory to be built in Australia and to erect and provide technical assistance for starting the machinery.

Letters of administration of personal estate of Jonathon Matterson Smith, 15 June 1866 - 22 April 1884 (File DD Ra 5/30)

Jonathon Matterson Smith, formerly of Howthorpe, Near Bulmer, Yorkshire but late of Christchurch, New Zealand, farmer, died intestate 15 June 1866 at Christchurch, granted to Jabez Smith, the elder attorney of John Smith, father of J.M.Smith, Gross value not exceeding £100. Probate granted 1 sheet.

Plan of parish of Cut Paw Paw, County of Bourke, 1865 (File DD Rf 16/1/1)

Scale 2 inches = 1 mile.

Gives names of plot owners.

Tracing of parish of Bellarine, Victoria, n.d. (File DD Rf 16/1/2)

Scale 1 inch = 40 chains.

Plan of Portland, 1863 (File DD Rf 16/1/3)

Scale 1 inch = 8 chains.

Gives names of plot owners.

Plan of parish of Nillumbik, 1866 (File DD Rf 16/1/4)

Scale 1 inch = 60 chains.

Gives names of plot owners and marks aboriginal reserve.

Robert Dall, Adelaide to John W. Dall (father), Roach Mill, 30 August 1857 (File DDX 21/6/21)

Includes news of his children, birth of another daughter, description of Adelaide, discovery of a new goldfield in Victoria, the country is being explored to the north, possible discovery of new copper mine and hopes of future prosperity.

Biography of Robert Dall Senior (1813-1874), 1874 (File DDX 21/6/27)

Details of his life in South Australia, where he arrived in 1852 and was superintendent of Sunday School at Coromandal Valley.

Printed 1874. 1p.

R.J.A. Berry, Department of Anatomy and Histology, University of Melbourne Medical School, 1930 (Item p.3)

Methods and Problems of Medical Education. 17th series.

(10p.)

Registrar University of Melbourne to Berry, sending resolution passed by Faculty of Medicine to record appreciation of services rendered by Berry, 19 July 1929 (Item p.15)

B.T. Zwar, President Royal Melbourne Hospital to Berry, re. Berry's involvement in re-siting the hospital, 23 February 1945 (Item p.20)

Melbourne Argus review of Brain and Mind, 28 April 1928 (Item p.24)

Copy of review in Medical Journal of Australia of Your Brain and its Story, November 1953 (Item p.25)

Melbourne Argus review of Berry's work at Children's Hospital, 30 August 1928 (Item p. 26)

Hilda Mackinnon, President of the Children's Hospital, Melbourne, to Berry thanking him for his work at the hospital, 27 June 1929 (Item p.27)

Article on Berry's work with children (Argus?) (Item p.29)

2 menus, one signed for farewell dinners at Windsor Hotel on Berry leaving Melbourne, 13 July 1929. and n.d. (Item p.33)

Two photographs of Berry, one with his daughter, taken in Melbourne, c.1906 and 1926 (Item p.36)

Picture of Royal Melbourne Hospital, 8 January 1945 (Item p.37)

Includes letter from Dr. B.T. Zwar, Frankston to Berry re. building of the new hospital.

Photograph of 4 Howard Place, Edinburgh, and Berry's house in the University grounds, Melbourne (Item p.38)

1914-1918 War Memorial of Victorian branch of British Medical Association, n.d. (Item p.40-41)

Photograph of Beatrice Berry, who married Ramsay Maxwell, Queen's College, Melbourne, Prof. of English Literature, n.d. (Item p.46)

Photographs of Berry's twins, Norman and Margaret, born in Melbourne 24 November 1908, n.d. (Item p.48 - 49)

Removal order for Dixson children, 27 August 1836 (File DDX 153/6/2)

Thomas, Edward, Sarah and Catherine Dixson, children of Henry and Catherine Dixson both under sentence of transportation for 7 and 14 years respectively, their removal from Liverpool Workhouse to Newton in the Willows.

Includes deposition of Thomas Dixson, father of Henry, as to his marriage and birth of Henry and deposition of Catherine Dixson as to her marriage to Henry and birth of the children.

(4p.)

Walter Buchanan, London to Cuthbert Relph, 10 June 1825 (File DDX 207/35/7)

That he has heard from his cousin, Captain W.B.Lamb who is lately returned, that there is a Ralph at Hobart Town just establishing an Inn.

R.K. Hardwicke, Longreach, Queensland to Slater, 20 July 1899 (File DDX 771/3/9)

Re. his life as a drover, considering going to the opal mines or gold fields, he has grown and is healthy.

J. Martin, Streatham Hill, London to Lord Crawshaw, 16 December 1899 (File DDX 821/2/10)

Requesting him to attend a meeting on the 21 December to settle the future of Mongers West Australian Stores Ltd. in its litigation with WA Goldfields Co, proposed restructuring of the board with comments on the new members.

Will and administration David Wilson, late of Murray Downs, Station NSW, stock owner and grazeier, now of Melbourne, 13 October 1855 (File DDX 1041/4/3)

Died 15 June 1854 leaving effects to brother James Wilson of Tallangatta Station, Albury.William Cross appointed administrator on behalf of executors George Houston and Robert Turnbull of Melbourne. Probate 3 large sheets.

Plan of rim clutches with common sliding box supplied to Brickworks, Australia, 2 December 1960 (File DDX 1219/1/115)

1 sheet.

Scale 3 inches = 1 ft.