Guide to the Collections held by the Merseyside Maritime Museum (as filmed by the AJCP)
M2910-M2911
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2019
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Merseyside Maritime Museum
- Title
- Collections held by the Merseyside Maritime Museum (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1808 - 1900
- Collection Number
- M2910-M2911
- Extent
- 25 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
Papers 1864-1866 of James Baines and Co, concerning the company's ships Elizabeth Ann Bright and Netherby.
Journal 23 March-19 July 1867 of J.T. Deighton kept on a voyage on the Fred Warren from Liverpool to Melbourne.
Journal 8 July-21 August 1856 possibly kept by a Catholic priest on the Morning Light on a journey from Liverpool to Melbourne.
Diary and notebook 1878-79 kept by F.G. Pearson on a voyage to Melbourne on the Loch Sloy.
Diary 1876-1877 of Sara Stephens kept on a voyage from London to Lyttelton on the Cardigan Castle referring to quarantine of women at Ripa Island.
Papers 1899-1900 of William Midgley, including description of a voyage from Liverpool on the Grasmere and bill from Chinese store at Brewarrina.
Papers 1856-1891 of William C. Barker, including accounts of voyage to Sydney on the Alnwick Castle and to New Zealand on the Mataura.
Diary 1884-1885 kept by J. Weston Smethurst on a voyage from Liverpool to Melbourne on the General Roberts and then on the Rotomahana to Auckland.
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 Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1993 (AJCP Reels: M2910-M2911). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
Merseyside Maritime Museum. Albert Dock, Liverpool L3 4AA, England. For further information see Merseyside Maritime Museum (http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/archive/).
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-vn804971] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Related Materials
Related collections filmed at the Merseyside Record Office can be found on reels M1955-1958, M2838-2839 (https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn7895061).
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
Alnwick Castle (ship); Aukland, New Zealand: immigration to; Australia; Baines, James and Co; Barker, William C.; Brewarrina, New South Wales; Cardigan Castle (ship); Chinese in Australia; Deighton, J.T.; Elizabeth Ann Bright (ship); Emigrant voyages; England; Fred Warren (ship); General Roberts (ship); Grasmere (ship); Great Britain; Liverpool, England; Loch Sloy (ship); London, England; Lyttelton, New Zealand; Mataura (ship); Melbourne, Victoria: immigration to; Midgley, William; Morning Light (ship); Netherby (ship); New Zealand; New Zealand: visits to; Pearson, F.G.; Quarantine; Ripa Island, New Zealand; Rotomahana (ship); Smethurst, J. Weston; Stephens, Sara; Sydney, New South Wales: immigration to
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 319, pp. 118-119.
Item Descriptions
Fonds. B/Baines Deposit. Papers of James Baines and Co., Liverpool, ship owners, 11 August 1864 - 27 August 1866
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
Elizabeth Ann Bright and Spirit of the North, 11 August 1864 - 13 August 1864 (File Bundle 1)
2 itemsNetherby, 28 July 1866 - 27 August 1866 (File Bundle 6)
6 itemsFonds DX/603. James Ireland Letters, 5 June 1855 - 30 October 1868
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Letters from George and Susan Patterson, Auckland and New Plymouth, New Zealand, 5 June 1855 - 14 January 1861 (File Nos 73-76a)
Describing voyage, first sighting of Maoris, prices in Auckland, details of their farm, requesting packets of seeds from home, Maori Wars and declaration of martial law. 4 letters (some incomplete.)
Fonds DX/908. Anon. Journal of voyage on Morning Light
1 item
Journal of voyage on Morning Light to Melbourne from Liverpool [kept by Roman Catholic Priest?] (51p., incomplete), 8 July-21 August 1856? (File)
Details of: accommodation; the ship; livestock on board; girls bring oranges out to the ship; food; prevented from saying office by movement of ship; mass taken in steerage by Father Krauwater, Jesuit priest going to Adelaide; protestant service on quarter deck; extreme heat; 'the butter is perfect liquid'; storm; ceremonies of crossing the line; small pox; loss of 'Billy' Steward overboard; gales.
Fonds DX/1010. F.G. Pearson Diaries, 1878 - 30 March 1879
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Notebook and Diary of voyage to Australia, 1878 (File)
2 items
Diary of voyage to Melbourne on Loch Sloy (Pencil, faint in places), 27 December 1878 - 30 March 1879 (Item)
p.64-[152].
Details of: sailing from Liverpool; crew; flying fish; Sunday service in saloon; weather; fishing; albatross caught and skinned; 'the skins of the feet if taken off without breaking make splendid purses or tobacco pouches'; fishing for Barracouta off Melbourne; contrary winds prevent landing; train from Williamstown to Melbourne; voyage in City of Adelaide for Sydney; Sydney Harbour 'felt quite charmed'; lodgings at Mrs Newton's.
Religious material at the from of the volume was not filmed by the AJCP.
Fonds DX/1071/R. Sarah Stephens Diary, 26 September 1876 - 23 January 1877
1 item
Diary of voyage on Cardigan Castle, London to Lyttelton, 26 September 1876 - 23 January 1877 (File)
Details of boarding; weather; other passengers in mess; sighting other ships; illness on board prevents pilot boarding; quarantine at Ripa Island for women and Quail Island for men; scenery; leaving island; Christchurch. (17p., typescript)
Fonds DX/1097. William Midgley Collection, 5 July 1899 - 15 October 1900
5 items
William Midgley (Grasmere) to family (10p.), 27 August 1899 - 17 October 1899 (File 1)
Re voyage from Liverpool; seasickness; the prentices' room; black fish; flying fish; Doldrums; birds.
Fonds DX/1177. Barker Family Papers, 1855 - 14 February 1891
3 items
W.C. Barker Correspondence, 27 October 1855 [6]-4 February 1857 (File 1)
William Cecil Barker (Alnwick Castle) to mother re voyage to Sydney; Christmas Day; prices in Sydney; 'Sydney is such a dull place'; wages. (4p., incomplete).
William Cecil Barker Account of Voyages, c.1856-1876 (File 2)
p. 1-163 from front of volume.
Accounts of Australian and New Zealand voyages.
Includes: voyage to Australia on Alnwick Castle; Melbourne; Chin chas Islands; Harring to India; Mataura carrying mails to New Zealand; Wellington Harbour; Sydney; visited New Zealand cousins from Christchurch; Pitcairn Island; carrying passengers between Panama and Wellington; Cambrian to Cape Town.
Remainder of volume describes voyages to South Africa.
Filmed selectively.
Copies of letters from Alfred Charles Barker (Christchurch) to Matt and William Barker undated, incomplete, (103p.), 9 February 1870 - 14 February 1891 (File)
From back of volume. Subjects include: visit of flying squadron; family news; sending specimens of flax; the farm; money difficulties; photography; relations with Maoris; his patent for 'Adipocure'; 'Waikato massacre'; Panama negro attacked another servant in Christchurch; marriage of Dean Jacobs 'greatly to indignation of several of his female friends'; writing on Darwinism; need for more clergy; visit from Governor Sir George Bowen; exhibition of New Zealand manufacturers; his death on 20 March.
Fonds SAS 3/2/5. Migration Diaries, 1885 - 1886
3 items
J.Weston Smethurst. Diary of voyage on General Roberts, Liverpool to Melbourne 1 January 1885 and on Rotomahana to Auckland, 7-19 January 1885 (122p.) (File (a))
Details of: boarding at Liverpool; other passengers; livestock on board; food; weather; storage passenger plays violin for hymn singing; cricket; deck games; flying fish; discovery of pilfering with cargo; stowaways; Cape Pigeons; passengers swept overboard; Christmas Day; Cape Otway; Melbourne; 'dusty'; Steamer to Auckland; Bluff; Otago Harbour; Lyttelton Harbour 'a bonny little place'; Wellington; visit to Museum; Auckland 'looks splendid'.