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Journal of our voyage to Port Phillip,

  • F901
  • Item
  • 1848

Journal of a voyage to Port Phillip on the sailing ship Hooghly, 29 July to 27 Dec 1848.
Janet Richardson came to join her father at Camperdown with her brother James and sister Anne. Accompanied by notes (2 l.) about the family who later settled at Burrumbeep which adjoined Gorrinn in Ararat.

Wright, Janet

Diary of a voyage from England to Moreton Bay 1865 May-Aug

  • F849
  • Item
  • 1865

Xerox copy of original mss exercise book owned by the Fortitude Club, Brisbane. Accompanied by a typed copy (12 l.) Diary is an account of the voyage to Moreton Bay aboard the ship Melmuby.

Ridley, I.

Diary of a voyage to Australia, 1886 / Hannah Wright.

  • F799
  • Item
  • 1886

Diary of a voyage to Australia aboard the S.S. Duke of Westminster, London to Brisbane, 1886.
Photocopy of typed transcript from original manuscript, accompanied by a photocopy of the first three pages of the manuscript.

Wright, Hannah

Diary, covering Chowilla, Renmark, Bookmark, S.A., Wilcannia, N.S.W. 1893

  • F355
  • Item
  • 1893

Accompanied by 2nd copy (colour printout of digital scan).
Also copy of letter 1880 May 9 from Elizabeth Lynam to George Beaumont, and letter 1972 Aug 31 from Hugh Beaumont to the Fryer Librarian, providing biographical information about Roland Hirst.
Includes references to stations Chowilla and Bookmark on Murray River; opal-mining; fund-raising concert after 1893 floods in Queensland.

Hirst, Roland, 1857-1924

Drover's diary, 1889 Jun - 1890 Jan

  • F332
  • Item
  • 1889-1890.

Contains details of droving from Eulumbie in the Narran district of NSW through Western Queensland to Pomerania near the Leichhardt River in Queensland.

Doyle, A. V.

The Lock family

  • F2436
  • Item
  • 1980

Family history.
Includes transcription from his mother's diary, of her account of voyage from England to Australia, 1909, on the Whakatane.

Lock, Albert

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