Guide to the Diary of Stephen Brennand (as filmed by the AJCP)
M977
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2019
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Brennand, Stephen
- Title
- Diary of Stephen Brennand (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1842 - 1969
- Collection Number
- M977
- Extent
- 2 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
Diary kept by Stephen Brennand on board the Harbinger from London to Adelaide, 1883.
Letters from Rossendale emigrants in Australia and the United States of America.
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-23 September 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-987654321)
Archival History
Filmed at Rawtenstall Library, Rossendale Lancashire, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1978. (AJCP reel M977). Original microfilm digitised as part of the NLA AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
The original diary was owned by Miss Phoebe Brennand of Rawtenstall, who had lent it to the Rawtenstall Libraries for copying.
Existence and Location of Originals
Rawtenstall Public Library; Rossendale Lancashire.
For further information see Rawtenstall Library (http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/libraries-and-archives/libraries/find-a-library/rawtenstall-library.aspx).
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-vn653009] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Finding Aid Note
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
Adelaide, South Australia: immigration to; Australia; Brennand, Stephen; Emigrant voyages; Great Britain; Harbinger (ship); Heathcote, Victoria; Hopkinson Family; Lancashire; Livesey Family; Preston Family; Rossendale; United States of America; Victoria
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry number 50, page 17.
Biographical / Historical
Stephen Brennand (1851-1944) came from Rossendale, near Manchester. He possessed considerable literary skills and his descriptions of wild seas, storms and skies are very powerful.
Item Descriptions
Diary kept on a voyage from London to Adelaide on the clipper Harbinger, 16 August 1883 - 12 November 1883 (File 1)
The diary records the preparations for the voyage, the departure from London (18 August), shipboard routine, meals, conversations with seamen and fellow-passengers, ships sighted, sightings of porpoises, turtles, sharks, albatrosses and other birds, church services, fighting among passengers, storms, the heat of the tropics, deaths of passengers, concerts, sighting of Kangaroo Island, and the ship's arrival at Port Adelaide (12 November 1883). At the end of the diary are notes on the characteristics of Brennand's messmates, the texts of some rope songs, and a list of the second and third class passengers on the Harbinger.
Rossendale emigrants 1842-1883, edited by Jon Elliott, Rawtenstall Libraries, 1969 (File)
The volume contains transcripts of the diary of Stephen Brennand and the letters of Rossendale emigrants in Australia and the United States.
The letters from Rossendale emigrants include:
An unsigned letter written from Heathcote, Victoria, 15 February 1860: life in Australia, poor results at the gold diggings, swags and rations, travels in northern Victoria.
A.J. and E.A. Preston (Heathcote) to uncles and aunts, 1861: Australian climate, living in a tent, fruit crops, prices.
Hopkinson-Livesey letters: 15 letters from America, 1842-1857.