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.

Original folder entitled 'Chapter 1 - Nicholsons' (now discarded) containing correspondence, genealogical notes, family trees, drafts and photographs.

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

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

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

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 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 8 - Frederick Charles North and Daisy and Descendents' (now discarded) containing correspondence, notes and souvenir programme for April 1927 Bushman's Carnival, held at Beaudesert, along with draft of Chapter 8

Original folder entitled 'Chapter 9 - The Morisset Family' (now discarded). Correspondence, notes, photographs, 2 compact discs containing photographs, 1 compact disc labelled 'James Thomas Morisset with contact prints and draft of Chapter 9.

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.