Original folder entitled 'Nicholson family history - photos' (now discarded) containing photographs and negatives used in the publication 19th Century Pioneer: Frank Villeneuve Nicholson Family in Australia. Correspondence relating to the house known as Trafalgar is included.

Original folder entitled 'Chapter 7 - Descendents of Frank Nicholson and Saranna (North)' (now discarded) containing photographs, notes, family trees, correspondence, order of service and press cuttings.

Original folder entitled 'Chapter 6 - The North Family and Saranna' (now discarded) containing photograph, correspondence, and notes relating to the name Fairnie Law by John Steele.

Original folder entitled 'Chapter 5 - Frank and Saranna's life together' (now discarded) containing correspondence and biographical notes.

Original folder entitled 'Chapter 3 - Jean and Villeneuve Family' (now discarded) containing newspaper cuttings, correspondence, notes and photographs.

Original folder entitled 'Chapter 2 - Robert Nicholson' (now discarded) containing correspondence.

Folders containing correspondence, genealogical notes, photographs, drafts, newspaper cuttings, family trees, and ephemera used by Michael White in the compilation of 19th Century Pioneer: Frank Villeneuve Nicholson Family in Australia.

Transcriptions of letters and militia records, family trees compiled by various researchers, recollections of Mary McConnel, handwritten notes of an interview with Lester and Jean Knopp, and notes on the Vaux Brothers by Margaret Thompson.

Unpublished manuscript of an account of the lives of Frank Villeneuve Nicholson and Saranna North entitled 'Whispers of yesteryear' written by James F Nicholson and sent to Michael White for comment in 1997.

69 letters and emails relating to the Nicholson, Morriset and Villeneuve families sent to Michael White by various correspondents in the course of his family history research. Correspondents include Kaye Mobsby, Marianne Eastgate and various members of the Nicholson family.