Guide to the collections of the Dorset Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP)
M1170-M1171
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2019
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Dorset Record Office
- Title
- Collections held by the Dorset Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1727 - 1975
- Collection Number
- M1170-M1171
- Extent
- 93 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
Selections from parish records 1840-1852 referring to emigration of paupers to Australia.
Papers 1858-1887 of Sir Frederick Weld, colonial governor, and other members of Weld Family relating to property and investments in New Zealand, family history and administration of Straits Settlements.
Papers 1727-1738 of William and Jocelyn Pickard concerning death and estate of Strange Pickard of Fort Marlborough.
Diary and commendations 1860-1861 of Lieut. Albert Battiscombe of HMS Pelorus serving in New Zealand War.
Papers 1885-1915 of Williams Family, including letters of I.T. Simes in Sydney and Condobolin, New South Wales.
Journal 1854-1855 of Annie Beer on a voyage from London to Melbourne on the Canaan.
Papers 1871-1918 of Florance Family, including letters from members of the family in New Zealand.
Papers and publications 1834-1957 concerning the Tolpuddle Martyrs.
Copies of letters 1935-1954 concerning Samuel Stephens, surveyor with the New Zealand Company and one of the founders of Nelson.
Papers of Hardy Family 1851-1872, including diaries of Nathaniel Hardy on voyage to Adelaide on the Thetis in 1851 and return voyage to Plymouth in 1862, and a family tree.
Manuscript 1975 by P.A. Lewis on the history of Sandpit Farm in Broadwindsor, Dorset, referring to the Hardy Family in South Australia and the winemaking firm of Thomas Hardy and Sons Ltd.
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 Dorset Record Office, Dorchester, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1980 (AJCP Reels: M1170-M1171). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
Dorset History Centre, Bridport Road, Dorchester, England.
For further information see Dorset Record Office. [https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/libraries-history-culture/dorset-history-centre]
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-vn2250146] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
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.
Pieces that were not filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project have not been included in this Finding Aid.
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 143, p52.[http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-397322928]
Item Descriptions
Fonds. Dorchester Gaol Records, March 1834
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Subjects
Tolpuddle Martyrs; Convicts
Fonds. Parish Records, July 1840 - 1852
8 itemsFilmed selectively.
Subjects
Adelaide, South Australia; Emigration and immigration; Emigration and immigration: paupers
Buckland Newton, 1848 - 1852 (File P18/OV34)
Correspondence mainly with J. Farquhrson of the Poor Law Board and the Blandford Branch of the Dorset Colonization Society, and papers on emigration of paupers to Australia, with reference to Helliar Family Foot Family and John Burt.
Cerne Abbas, 1851 (File P22/OV30)
Miscellaneous papers. Notice of meeting to dicuss proposal to raise funds to support emigration.
Wareham, 1848 (File P63/OV18)
Lady St. Mary Parish, Vestry minutes. Resolutions concerning raising money for emigration, including Joseph Jacobs and family for South Australia.
Sherborne, July 1840 (File P155/VE2)
Vestry minutes. Resolutions concerning raising money for emigration.
Bridport, 24 August 1848 (File P196/VE1)
Vestry minutes. Resolution concerning raising money for emigration.
Fonds D10. Weld (Lulworth Castle) Papers, 29 July 1858 - 9 October 1884
9 itemsFilmed selectively.
Subjects
Governors and Governors General: Straits Settlements; Investment in New Zealand; Land: New Zealand; New Zealand; Weld Family; Weld, Sir Frederick
Biographical / Historical
Sir Frederick Weld (1823-1891) was the son of Humphrey Weld of Chideoak Manor, Bridport, and the nephew of Cardinal Thomas Weld. In 1843 Weld sailed to New Zealand with two of his cousins and became a successful sheep farmer. He was later elected to the General Assembly and was briefly premier of New Zealand in 1864-65. He returned to England in 1867 and subsequently held a series of vice-regal posts: Western Australia (1869-74), Tasmania (1875-80) and the Straits Settlements (1880-87). Joseph Weld (1777-1863) was an uncle of Frederick Weld.
Palmer, Eland and Nettleship (London) to Joseph Weld (Cowes). Management of estates in New Zealand, 29 July 1858 (File C292)
Palmer, Eland and Nettleship (London) to Joseph Weld (Lymington), 12 September 1884 (File)
Distribution of property under his will, including New Zealand property.
Palmer, Eland and Nettleship (London) to Joseph Weld (Lymington), 9 October 1884 (File)
Property settlement, future sale of New Zealand property.
J. Vaughan (Ross) to Joseph Weld, 19 July 1865 (File C306)
Stocks and shares; purchase of Victorian bonds or New Zealand investment.
G.H. Brown (Oxford, N.Z.) to Joseph Weld, 29 March 1873 (File C308)
Life on sheep farm in New Zealand; relations with Maoris.
Frederick Weld (Chideock) to Joseph Weld, [1859]-02-26 (File C310)
Thanks for congratulations on marriage; money in New Zealand well invested in land at Canterbury; will probably return to New Zealand.
Frederick Weld (Hobart) to Joseph and Flora Weld (Lymington), 28 October 1876 (File)
Family news; rising land values in New Zealand; visit to Melbourne for Cup Day.
Fonds D16. Weld (Chideock) Papers, 5 February 1859 - 18 May 1883
9 itemsFilmed selectively.
Subjects
Genealogy and genealogies; Governors and Governors General: Straits Settlements; New Zealand; New Zealand Company; Weld Family; Weld, Sir Frederick
Charles Weld (Lulworth) to Laura Philips: engagement of Frederick Weld and Filomena Phillips, 5 February 1859 (File)
Frederick Weld (Flaxbourne, N.Z.) to Filomena Weld, 15 November 1864 (File C60)
Horses; estate directions; possibility of Weld being asked to form a government.
T.P. Henning (Sidmouth) to Frederick Weld, [1869]-12-05 (File F35)
Compilation of Weld pedigree; Weld's arrival in Australia.
T.P. Henning (Sidmouth) to Frederick Weld (Perth), [1875]-05-04 (File)
Compilation of Weld pedigree; South Australian appointment.
Fonds D60. Trenchard and Pickard Papers, 17 January 1727 - 22 December 1738
13 itemsFilmed selectively.
Subjects
East India Company; Fort Marlborough, Sumatra; Pickard, Jocelyn; Pickard, Strange; Pickard, William; Straits Settlements
Biographical / Historical
Jocelyn Pickard (1703-1789) became the owner of Bloxworth House near Poole, Dorset, in 1758 on the death of his father-in-law, George Trenchard. His brother Strange Pickard (d. 1735) was an East India Company merchant at Fort Marlborough, Sumatra.
Charles Barbut (Fort Marlborough) to William and Jocelyn Pickard, 17 January 1727 (File F32)
Sends gold to balance account of Strange Pickard.
Indenture of Strange Pickard with United East India Company under a surety of £1000, 16 November 1731 (File)
Strange Pickard (Fort Marlborough) to Jocelyn Pickard (Bloxworth), 26 August 1735 (File)
Thanks for gifts; pepper trade; argument with supervisor; receipt of clothes.
Thomas Saunders (Fort St. George) to William and Jocelyn Pickard: estate of Strange Pickard, 3 October 1736 (File)
Thomas Saunders (Fort St. George) to William and Jocelyn Pickard: sends bill of lading, 15 February 1737 (File)
Thomas Saunders (Fort St. George) to William and Jocelyn Pickard: sends bill of exchange on East India Co., 30 September 1737 (File)
Fonds D86. Calcraft Family Papers, 26 September 1869 - 19 May 1870
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
Subjects
Emigration and immigration; New Zealand
Biographical / Historical
Henry Calcraft (1836-1896) was private secretary to John Bright, the President of the Board of Trade, in 1868-1871.
Fonds D128. Dampier (Hilfield) Papers, 29 August 1839 - 4 February 1843
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
Subjects
Emigration and immigration; Australia; Monaro: New South Wales
Fonds D232. Wootton Fitzpaine Manuscripts, 24 February 1855
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Subjects
Emigrations and immigration; Emigrations and immigration: paupers
Fonds D239. Battiscombe Papers, 1860 - 1890
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
Subjects
Battiscombe, Albert, Lieut.; Camp Waitara, New Zealand; Maori Wars; New Zealand; New Zealand Wars; Pelorus, HMS
Biographical / Historical
Albert H.W. Battiscombe (1831-1918) was appointed a lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1854 and served on HMS Pelorus on the Australian Station in 1858-61. He took part in the war in New Zealand in 1860-61. He was promoted to the rank of commander in 1861.
Fonds D257. Battiscombe Papers, 1860 - 1861
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Subjects
Battiscombe, Albert, Lieut.; New Zealand; New Zealand Wars
Biographical / Historical
Albert H.W. Battiscombe (1831-1918) was appointed a lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1854 and served on HMS Pelorus on the Australian Station in 1858-61. He took part in the war in New Zealand in 1860-61. He was promoted to the rank of commander in 1861.
Fonds D289. Williams Family Papers, 22 November 1885 - 13 December 1891
9 itemsFilmed selectively.
Subjects
Australia; Condobolin, New South Wales; New Zealand; New South Wales; Simes, I.T.; Sydney: New South Wales; Williams Family
I.T. Simes (Sydney) to Robert Williams, 20 April 1891 (File)
Work as wool classer; depression in N.S.W.; Pastoralist.
Postcards of Waihi, New Zealand (File C32)
The 'Big Cut', Waihi; Waihi No. 5 Shaft; Moresby Ave. and Hollis Bush, Waihi; Waihi, view showing Tauranga Road; Waihi Anglican Church.
J.W. Gildea (Condobolin, N.S.W.) to Rosa Williams: stations at Melrose; work in clearing scrub, 22 November 1885 (File C50)
Bob (Melrose, N.S.W.) to Rosa Williams; sheep mustering; mountains at Melrose, 29 August 1886 (File)
I.T. Simes (Condobolin, N.S.W.) to Rosa Williams: life on station; rabbit scourge, 16 August 1886 (File C54)
Fonds D473. Barratt-Hine Papers, 30 October 1854 - 13 February 1855
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Subjects
Beer, Annie; Canaan (Ship); Emigrant voyages; London, England; Melbourne, Victoria; Melbourne, Victoria: immigration to
Fonds D482. Weld Papers, 3 November 1886 - 27 December 1887
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
Subjects
Governors and Governors General: Straits Settlements; Straits Settlements; Weld, Sir Frederick
Fonds D553. Florance Family Papers, 8 June 1871 - 1 May 1918
7 itemsFilmed selectively.
Subjects
Christchurch, New Zealand; Florance Family; Genealogy and genealogies; New Zealand
George and William Baranard (Christchurch, N.Z.) to Angelina Florance, 8 June 1871 (File 2)
Franco-Prussian War; life of Jane Florance in Fiji.
Robert Florance (Christchurch) to Angelina Florance, 6 November 1879 (File)
Death of father; economic conditions in New Zealand.
Jane Cameron [Wellington] to Augustus and Jane Florance (Christchurch), 21 September 1878 (File 3)
Family matters; advantage of life in Fiji.
E. Florance (Christchurch) to S. Saunders, 28 June 1907 (File 4)
New Zealand sketches; progress of Christchurch; photographs.
Fonds D574. Miscellaneous Files, 1933 - 1957
6 itemsFilmed selectively.
Subjects
Convicts; Tolpuddle Martyrs
Biographical / Historical
The Tolpuddle Martyrs, also known as the Dorchester Labourers, were six agricultural labourers from the village of Tolpuddle, near Dorchester. In 1833 they formed a trade union to agitate for higher wages. At the Dorchester Assizes in March 1834 they were convicted of administering unlawful oaths and were sentenced to transportation to New South Wales. They were pardoned in 1836 and returned to England.
Series 24. Papers and publications on Tolpuddle Martyrs, 1933 - 1957
6 items
Historical notes and correspondence between Walter Citrine, General Secretary of the Trade Union Congress, and A.R. Cox of the Dorset County Council concerning the Dorsetshire labourers, 1933 - 1934 (File (i))
W. Maitland Walker. 'An impartial appreciation of the Tolpuddle martyrs'. Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society Proceedings, 55: 47-76, 1934 (File (iii))
R.S. Lambert. 'The Dorsetshire labourers, a dramatic interlude'. Listener:pp. 683-88, 25 April 1934 (File (iv))
Fonds D640. Mansel-Pleydell Papers, 1852 - 1890
4 itemsFilmed selectively.
Subjects
Emigrant voyages; New Zealand; New Zealand Wars
Fonds Photocopy 164; D60/26 (Original). Tolpuddle Martyrs Papers, 20 February 1834
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Subjects
New South Wales: Australia; Tolpuddle Martyrs
Biographical / Historical
The Tolpuddle Martyrs, also known as the Dorchester Labourers, were six agricultural labourers from the village of Tolpuddle, near Dorchester. In 1833 they formed a trade union to agitate for higher wages. At the Dorchester Assizes in March 1834 they were convicted of administering unlawful oaths and were sentenced to transportation to New South Wales. They were pardoned in 1836 and returned to England.
Fonds Photocopy 305. Stephens Papers, 1935 - 1954
1 itemSubjects
Nelson, New Zealand; New Zealand; New Zealand Co; Stephens, Samuel
Biographical / Historical
Samuel Stephens (1801-1855) migrated to New Zealand in 1841 and became the New Zealand Company's chief surveyor in Nelson in 1844. He represented Nelson in the New Zealand General Assembly in 1854-1855.
Correspondence, 1935 - 1954 (File)
Typescript copies of 10 letters to or from J. Edmund Clark, 1935, concerning his uncle Samuel Stephens (1801-1854), a surveyor with the New Zealand Company who arrived in New Zealand in 1841 and was one of the founders of Nelson.
Correspondence deals with the presentation of Stephens' letter diaries to the Alexander Turnbull Library and includes a letter from Robert Pattie of Nelson on the early settlement at Riwaka. Also 2 letters from J. Stephens to Roger Clark, 1954, concerning diaries of Samuel Stephens owned by Helen Stephens.
Fonds Photocopy 398. Tolpuddle Martyrs Papers, 5 April 1834 - 12 April 1834
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Subjects
New South Wales, Australia; Tolpuddle Martyrs
Biographical / Historical
The Tolpuddle Martyrs, also known as the Dorchester Labourers, were six agricultural labourers from the village of Tolpuddle, near Dorchester. In 1833 they formed a trade union to agitate for higher wages. At the Dorchester Assizes in March 1834 they were convicted of administering unlawful oaths and were sentenced to transportation to New South Wales. They were pardoned in 1836 and returned to England.
Fonds Photocopy 465. Hardy Family Papers, 26 May 1851 - 1872
9 itemsFilmed selectively.
Subjects
Adelaide, South Australia; Emigrant voyages; Genealogy and genealogies; Hardy Family; Hardy, Nathaniel; Hardy, Thomas and Sons Ltd; Plymouth, England; Thetis (Ship); Wine industry and trade
Biographical / Historical
Thomas Hardy (1830-1912) was born in Devon and migrated to South Australia in 1850 and established a vineyard near Adelaide. He gradually extended it and in about 1876 he bought the Tintara vineyard at McLaren Vale. In 1887 he formed the company Thomas Hardy & Sons Ltd. His cousin Nathaniel Hardy (1823-1892) also migrated to Adelaide in 1851, but returned to Dorset in 1861.
Diary of Nathaniel Hardy on a voyage from Plymouth to Adelaide on the Thetis, 26 May 1851 - 8 September 1851 (File 4)
Joseph Hardy to his uncle. Death of W. Thomas; property left to Nathaniel Hardy, 6 February 1861 (File 7)
Diary of Nathaniel Hardy on voyage from Melbourne to Plymouth, 15 March 1862 - 30 June 1862 (File 13)
Fonds. Lewis Papers, 1975
1 itemSubjects
Adelaide, South Australia; Genealogy and genealogies; Hardy Family; Hardy, Nathaniel; Hardy, Thomas and Sons Ltd; Wine industry and trade
'The Hardy Family' in unpublished manuscript by P.A. Lewis. The History of Sandpit, Broadwindsor, 1975 (File Shelf 28. ff.93-101)
Biographical / Historical
Thomas Hardy (1830-1912) emigrated to Adelaide in 1850, where he planted a vineyard and eventually established the winemaking firm of Thomas Hardy and Sons Ltd. His cousin Nathaniel Hardy (1823-1892) also migrated to Adelaide in 1851 but returned to England in 1862 and took up residence at Lower Sandpit Farm, Broadwindsor, Dorset.