Guide to the Collections of the Essex Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP)

Collection Summary

Creator

Essex Record Office

Title

Collections held by the Essex Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP)

Date Range

1782-01-1903-09-28; 1964-1966

Collection Number

M838 - M840

Extent

41 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

Quarter Sessions Records:

Minor functions, miscellaneous: drafts of Orders of Quarter Sessions for transportation May 1845-June 1853, showing name, crime and sentence of each convict.

Clerk of the Peace. Parliamentary returns; returns of transportation orders 1844-1853, giving name, age, crime and sentence of each convict; expenses of prosecutions and of conveying convicts sentenced to transportation.

Process Books of Indictments 1782-1866: 11 volumes giving a note of every indictment session by session supplying name, abode and occupation of defendant, offence, plea, verdict and sentence. With each volume there is an index of defendants.

Private Records:

Documents 1868-1897 relating to the estate of John Vaughan of Hotham Creek, Pimpara, Queensland.

Documents 1848-1862 relating to Charles Perry, Bishop of Melbourne, and his family.

Letters 1882-1898 from Col. Benjamin A. Branfill, Nelson, New Zealand, to T.L. Wilson.

Thesis by M.H. Dunwell: 'True Patriots from Essex: An Investigation into Transportation of Convicts from the County of Essex to New South Wales during the Period 1787-1809, with Particular Reference to Transportees of the First Fleet' (1966).

Hanslip Ward and Co. (solicitors) deposit: letter 1844 of J.S.T. Dowbiggin of Hobart to Miss Cocker concerning religion and education.

Letter 1830 of Dr Edward Hawkins, Oriel College, Oxford, to Christopher C. Parker referring to emigration as a means of alleviating agricultural distress.

Legal documents, correspondence and newspaper cutting 1839-1860, in the Petre Family papers, referring to land in Wellington and Nelson, New Zealand.

Sperling Family correspondence 1810, 1816, referring to William Bligh.

Power of attorney 1876 to Owen Kemp from George T. Kemp, Richmond River, New South Wales.

Letters 1866-1903 to Rose Robertson of South Australia, later Mrs John Player Frowd.

Passport 1896 of Herbert W. L. Way to travel on the Continent and in the Philippine Islands.

Documents 1899 of Alexander Wallace, concerning various hardwood company interests in Western Australia, and letter from his son Arthur C. Wallace, Deniliquin, New South Wales.

Letters 1848 from William Kingston to George Warburton concerning emigration.

Letter 1850 from H. Caslake, Union House, to Rev. J. Bullock about emigrants from Radwinter.

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 Essex Record Office, Chelmsford, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1972 (AJCP Reels: M838-M840). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.

Existence and Location of Originals

Essex Record Office, Wharf Road, Chelmsford, England.

For more information see: Catalogue at the Essex Record Office. [http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk]

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-vn583703] 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 2018. 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

Bligh, William, Capt.; Branfill, Benjamin A., Col.; Bullock, J., Rev.; Caslake, H.; Cocker, Miss; Convicts: New South Wales; Deniliquin, New South Wales; Dowbiggin, J.S.T.; Dunwell, M.H.; Education; Emigration and immigration; Essex Quarter Sessions; First Fleet to New South Wales; Frowd, Rose; Hawkins, Edward; Hobart, Tasmania; Hotham Creek, Queensland; Kemp, George T.; Kemp, Owen; Kingston, William; Land: New Zealand; Melbourne, Victoria; Nelson, New Zealand; New South Wales; Parker, Christopher C.; Perry, Charles, Bishop; Petre Family; Philippines; Pimpara, Queensland; Quarter Sessions; Radwinter, England; Religion; Richmond River district, New South Wales; Robertson, Rose; Solicitors; South Australia; Sperling Family; Timber and timber trade: Australia; Vaughan, John; Wallace, Alexander; Wallace, Arthur C.; Warburton, George; Way, Herbert W.L.; Wellington, New Zealand; Western Australia; Wilson, T.L.

Bibliography

Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 158, pp57-58. [http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-397322928]