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Moffatt/Bell family vault at Ipswich Cemetery

Correspondence, photographs, notes, newspaper cuttings, relating to the Moffatt/Bell family vault at Ipswich Cemetery (burial site for Thomas Bell (ca. 1798-1872), Mary Isabella Moffatt (nee Bell) (1826-1866), John Alexander Bell (ca. 1829-1901), Ipswich Racecourse, and ‘Maryville’, the first home of Joshua Peter and Margaret Bell.

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Cuthbert Edward Peek at Jimbour House for transit of Venus

Photocopies of extracts from letters written by Cuthbert Edward Peek while on the Queensland and British 1882 Transit Expedition, 29 Oct to 18 Dec 1882, 3 copies. [Cuthbert Edward Peek was a self-funded amateur astronomer who joined the official observers from the Royal Geographical Society that travelled to Jimbour Station and chose Jimbour House as the transit station to observe the transit of Venus; Jimbour House had been recently vacated].

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Bell (Town)

Correspondence between Dorothy McPhee and Joshua Peter Ferguson Bell (1907-1997) [son of Joshua Thomas Bell] regarding information for the booklet The Bell connection, 1986. The booklet: The Bell & District Progress Association Inc. (2006). The Bell connection : compiled for the Bell centenary, Peranga, Peranga Post. Newspaper cutting ‘Town celebrates centenary in style’, The Chronicle, 9 Oct 2006.

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William Kellett and the Bell family

Photocopies, newspaper cuttings, correspondence relating to William Kellett (who worked for Bell & Sons of Jimbour until 1881 when Sir Joshua Peter Bell died). Copy of Mr Edward Kellett (father of William Kellett) deceased notice in Queensland Times, 17 July 1881. Typed tombstone inscription for Edward kellett with typescript of deceased notice in Queensland Times, 17 July 1881. Correspondence to Mr CD & Mrs AM Taylor from Cr Peter Matic relating to naming of Pocket Park, Kellett Street, 17 Nov 2009 to "William Kellett Park".
Two photocopied pages from an unknown publication recounting William Kellett’s association with the Joshua Peter Bell (1827-1881) and the Bell properites, including Buaraba.

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Jimbour House, 2006 to 2010.

Photocopies, newspaper cuttings, correspondence relating to Jimbour House: Copy of ‘The imperfections of the great’, Mar 1978. --
Newspaper cuttings, 2009 to 2010. -- Copy of photograph of tombstone. -- Photocopies of newspaper cuttings. -- Dedication booklet for the Deborah Russell garden. -- Brochure of ‘Jimbour a walk through history’. -- Information sheets. -- Photocopy of photograph of Jimbour Station. -- ‘The Great wall of Jimbour: heritage and the cultural landscape’, from Public history review, vol 12, pp. 103-110, 2006. -- Printout of Friends of Jimbour – Jimbour e-Newsletter, Sep 2009.

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Correspondence, incoming to Colin Basil Peter Bell

Letters to Colin Basil Peter Bell from men who had worked at Westland, during their World War I service, 13 letters, 1915 to 1918. Correspondents include: Bob Thompson Cowlishaw and Harold E. Lawrence. Photocopies maps and newspaper cuttings related to World War I battle sites accompany the letters.

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