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

Correspondence by and addressed to Michael White relating to various matters including family history. Also included are some photographs, both prints and saved digitally on a compact disc.

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.

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 2 - Robert Nicholson' (now discarded) containing correspondence.

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.

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

Materials relating to the continued memorialisation of James Macdonald after his death including correspondence; 2 copies of a stab-sewn booklet entitled In Memoriam: Captain James Shaw Rose Macdonald; Thanksgiving Sunday 1919 order of service; Brisbane Grammar School booklet Memorial in honour of the Volunteers in the Great War; newspaper cutting; guide to Dickiebusch New Military Cemetary issued by the Imperial War Graves Commission; photographs and negatives. The latter part of the file relates to Michael White's enquiries as to the location of James Macdonald's grave and images of poppies placed on the grave each ANZAC Day.

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.