Guide to the Papers of the Mann family (as filmed by AJCP)

Hilda M. Thorold and Violet M. Mann, compilers. The Mann Family: notes on some members of the Mann Family and their connections with the Gothers, Fryers and Thorold families. Printed, (104pp.), 1950 (File)

Members of the family included Gother Kerr Mann (1809-1899), who arrived in Sydney in 1836 and was a civil engineer and the first Commissioner of the New South Wales Railways, and his brother John Frederick Mann (1819-1907), who migrated to Sydney in 1841, worked in the Survey Department, and married a daughter of Sir Thomas Mitchell.

Frederick G. Mann (Bunbury) to his mother Margaret Mann, 10 October 1889 - 25 October 1889 (File)

Holiday in Bunbury; re-instated to the life of a gentleman; local transport; move to Karridale and work as a surveyor; friends in the district; sketch map of the area.

Frederick G. Mann (Karridale) to Margaret Mann, 8 November 1889 - 9 November 1889 (File)

Insufficient work to keep him busy for more than a few weeks; details of surveying work; news of acquaintances; thanks for photographs of sister Agnes and subscription to Institute of Civil Engineers; depressed economic conditions in the colony; bankruptcies of Perth merchants; likely need for surveys for tramways.

Frederick G. Mann (Karridale) to Margaret Mann, 18 November 1889 (File)

Possibilities of future work; his sketches and watercolours; possible visit to coal and tin fields; sketch map of Western Australia.

Frederick G. Mann (Perth) to Margaret Mann, 27 November 1892 - 4 December 1892 (File)

Anecdotes concerning his young nephew Davie; moral failings of Anglican clergy; prospects for doctors in the colony; doctors in country districts 'are generally drunkards'; Midland Railway 'proved to be a gigantic swindle'; Yilgaru (Southern Cross Goldfields) Railway; specifications in contract with the Government.

Return from survey; work with P.C.C., 1894-04-19; 1894-04-27 (File)

Frederick G. Mann (Perth) to Margaret Mann, 17 May 1894 (File)

Influx of immigrants in the colony; peculiar people of Western Australia; Mann has no wish to get into Society; men returning from goldfields; water shortage and fever on the diggings; will continue working for the P.C.C.; wages; death of his sister Dora; photographs; banks in Perth and Fremantle and police force strengthening their forces on account of many thieves among the diggers.

Frederick G. Mann (Busselton) to his sister Alice Courtney (Milltown, Co. Dublin), 8 October 1909 (File)

Thanks for card and present; fall from a spring cart. (postcard)

James S. Mann. Journal kept on HMS Victor (Captain Richard Crozier) on a cruise to the South Sea Islands, 14 September 1836 - 31 December 1836 (File)

The journal refers to the departure from Sydney; sighting of Cape Egmont and Cape Maria Van Diemen; arrival at Bay of Islands (29 Sept.); meetings with missionaries; landscape; visit by a Maori chief Akita; Maori burials; departure from New Zealand (7 Oct.); island of Toobonai; arrival at Tahiti (30 Oct.); canoes, huts and gardens of Tahitians; impressions of Tahitians; meeting with Queen Pomare, George Pritchard acting as interpreter; church service; cruising among Society Islands and Fiji; meeting with a Fijian chief; arrival at Tongataboo (24 Nov.); religious divisions; weakness of missionaries; treachery of Tongans; Bow (Hao) Island; dealings with chiefs; sighting of Lord Howe Island and Ball's Pyramid; return to Sydney (27 Dec.). At the end of the volume is some verse written by Alexander Ross of HMS Jupiter and longitudes and latitudes of a few places visited on the cruise. (56p.)

James S. Mann (Sydney) to his sister Annie Mann (Guernsey), 11 September 1836 (File)

About to sail on voyage to South Sea Islands; impressions of Maoris living in Sydney; Sydney is not lively as there are very few young ladies; rumours of war with Russia; visit to the theatre in Sydney with Gother Mann.