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Rosina Ferguson |
Letters written to relatives in England while on the Buffalo and in Adelaide, referring to Governor Hindmarsh and to early South Australian settlement 1836-50 |
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Rev Robert Haining |
Diary kept during a voyage from England to South Australia on the Orissa 1841 |
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Alexander Lang Elder |
Diary of a voyage from Adelaide to London 1849-50 |
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Edward Dowsett |
Journal of the Government Schooner Yatala Port Adelaide, which refers to the naming of Port Augusta 1852 |
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George Frederick Jeffrey |
Diary kept while serving on HMCS Protector 1900-01 |
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Captain J I Ellis |
Account of a voyage from Kingstown, Ireland, to Swan River, WA on the ship James describing difficult conditions on an overcrowded immigrant ship 1828 |
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Thomas Turner |
Diary of voyage to Adelaide on the Baboo 1848 |
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Mrs Pollock |
Log of the voyage of the Charlotte Jane from Graves End to Holdfast Bay 1851-52 |
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Bernard Wilfred Francis |
Diary kept as storekeeper aboard the S.S. Despatch whilst handling cargo on the River Murray 1909 |
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George Pike |
Diary of his arrival as a 13 year old at Holdfast Bay aboard the Fairlie 1840. |
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Charles William Stuart |
Five diaries kept on a voyage to Australia, including his trip to South Australia on the True love from the eastern colonies, and while manager of stock for the South Australian Company 1833-43 |
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Henry Dudley Melville |
Five volumes of reminiscences describing his pioneering work in the Coorong for the South Australian Company; as police trooper protecting overland parties; as Sub Collector of Customs at Robe and Port Caroline involving his assistance to shipwrecks; and as Chief Warden of the Northern Territory goldfields 1840-77 |
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John Watson |
Diary of a Wesleyan Minister, giving good detail about life as a missionary on the West African coast, and the voyage to Adelaide on the Agincourt 1840-51 |
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Carl Schwabe |
Journal of a voyage on the Prebislaw from Adelaide to Java, and relating to Adelaide and South Australia 1849 |
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Eliza Burge (nee Springbett) |
Diary of an unpleasant voyage aboard the Loevesteyn from London to Adelaide 1854-55, in the course of which the captain died. The diary was also used for recording sales of butter 1864-67 |
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William Hancox |
Letter describing his voyage out in 1839, his impressions of the colony of South Australia, living conditions and commodity prices, wages paid for work, and his own employment prospects. 1840 |
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Charles Marsden |
Diary kept by an emigrant labourer of a voyage from Plymouth to Adelaide on the Eastern Empire1864 |
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Samuel Pickering |
Diary kept by an emigrant labourer of a voyage from Plymouth to Adelaide on the Matilda Atheling 1864-65 |
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Charles Davies |
Diary of a voyage to Adelaide, settlement and sheep farming in the Gawler Ranges, and a trip to Mattwarrangalla 1863. |
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William Jnr Giles and Thomas Hudson Beare |
Press copies of business letters from partners in the cutter Mary Ann, mostly written from Kingscote, Kangaroo Island 1838 |
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Thomas William Craddock |
Letter from Tarlee, South Australia, describing his voyage out on the Forfarshire and working conditions in South Australia around Tarlee 1874 |
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Esther Pocock |
Diary kept by a 29 year old laundry maid on the voyage of the Hesperus, together with a set of verses composed by the sailors 1884 |
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Thomas Gemmell |
Letter describing a voyage from Scotland to Australia on the India 1839-40 |
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William Rooke Creswell |
Notes on proposals for the Australian Navy ca 1909 |
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Matthew Flinders |
Extract from a copy of the log of the Investigator recording the loss of a number of the crew, together with the meeting with Nicolas Baudin in Encounter Bay of 2-25 February 1802 |
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Thomas James Haddrick |
Account of a voyage from England to South Australia on the Resource 1838-39 |
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Stephen Richards |
Journal of voyage to South Australia on the Pakenham 1848-49, and subsequent experiences in Adelaide and the Burra Burra copper mines 1849. |
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Emanuel Solomon |
181 pages of letters by important trader Emanuel Solomon who arrived in South Australia in 1838, invested in land and buildings, began a business as an auctioneer and merchant, had his own vessel the Dorset trading between Adelaide and Sydney, and in 1840 erected the Queen's Theatre, the first building of any substantial size in Adelaide. He was a prominent member of Adelaide's Hebrew Congregation. |
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Sampson Hosking |
Diary kept on the 'Tarquin', Plymouth to Port Adelaide 1864, including description of the rations for meals. The diary is followed by religious writings, words for poems or songs, and an account of his expenses for 1865-1867 |
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Bill Hemer |
Letters concerning salvage of MS Victoria at Tunkallilla 1934 |
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Leopold Judell |
Diary of a voyage from Hamburg to Adelaide on the City of Adelaide written in German and with a translation 1870 |
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Vivian Family |
Letters and a diary of a journey on the Pakenham from Plymouth to Port Adelaide 1848. |
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John Cock Belton |
Letters by a steerage emigrant passenger on the Rajasthan 1838 and later in 1839 |
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John Reynolds Ewens |
Private journal kept by Police Trooper Ewens, at Guichen Bay (Robe), Gawler Town, Port Elliot and Port Lincoln, covering shipping movements, shark fishing and whale catching, trips to local areas, incidents of police interest and social activities and events 1853-62 |
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Esther McMichael |
Diary of a voyage from Dartmouth to Adelaide on the Argonaut with descriptions of departure scenes, prayer meetings, rough seas and a hurricane, the activities and ailments of fellow passengers and sailors, the trials and tribulations of her numerous pot plants, the ladies' reading group, and the ship's newspaper The Argonaut Times 1878 |
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Joseph Mercer |
Diary kept during a voyage from England to South Australia on board the Lady Lilford. Pages 3-5 have names of passengers, crew numbers and people on board 1839 |
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Adaliza Ann Gower |
Diary on the Hooghly 1846 and first impressions of South Australia showing the pastimes, entertainments and invitations offered to a well to do young woman newly arrived in the Colony 1847 |
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James Hastwell |
Diary of a voyage to Adelaide on the Cotfield 1853 |
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Alexander Scott Cameron |
Letters written while working on the Ghan railway; on the yacht Beatrice, the S.S. Innamincka , the H.M.C.S. Protector, the Bolivia, the S.S. Kolya, and on the Morgan-Kapunda railway line 1896-1900 |
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Arthur Hardy |
Two diaries: volume 1 covers his voyage in the Platina, his pastoral and agricultural operations at section 335 on the Torrens (Paradise); volume 2 is a record of trips to Port Lincoln and a trip to England on the Medway, his activities there and his return trip to South Australia on the Mary Ann1838-45 |
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Ann Taunton Scammell |
Diary kept on board the William Wilson to Adelaide 1849 |
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Percy M Wells |
Diary describing voyage to South Africa and Boer War service 1901 |
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Thorburn Brailsford Robertson |
Diary of a trip by train from Adelaide to Sydney, then by ship to New Zealand, Pago-Pago (American Samoa), Honolulu, then to San Francisco 1905 |
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Captain John Hart |
Diary of a pioneer seafarer, merchant and Parliamentarian 1865 |
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Sir Charles Todd |
Family letters, mainly by his wife Alice, written during Todd's absence on construction of the Overland Telegraph in 1872 and a letter by Todd to his family in England describing his voyage to South Australia in the Irene 1855 |
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Henry Watson |
Henry Watson was a pharmacist businessman, book lover and wine lover and became the founder of South Australia's first wine industry association. His diary describes his emigrating voyage with his family from England to South Australia on the Katherine Stewart Forbes including a description of a visit to a vineyard in Capetown 1838-39. |
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Sir Charles Todd |
Diary of a tour on the Continent and in England and of a voyage out to Australia 1885-86 |
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James Llewelin Lewis |
Seven letters describing trips, cargo, freight rates and vessels in port written on board the ketch Prima Donna at Port Victor, Lacepede Bay, Port Pirie, Wallaroo and Port MacDonnell just prior to disappearing with all hands 1872-80 |
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John Harman Eamer |
Letter from Australia to his mother describing voyage aboard the Andromache and settling in Adelaide 1850 |
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Charles Algernon Wilson |
Diary by 20 year old Wilson, (who became Adelaide’s first entomologist) of a voyage to South Australia on the Duke of Roxburgh with details of steerage conditions on board, and maps and sketches of the countries passed 1838. |
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Gregory Seale Walters |
53 letters to his wife Johanna in England, when he was sent to Australia to establish smelting works at the Burra Mines. The letters begin on his voyage to Australia and arrival at Port Adelaide and Holdfast Bay in 1848 |
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South Australian Company |
194 pages of general correspondence relating to the Company's affairs in South Australia, including letters by Edward Delius relating to German immigration 1836-51, 1855 |
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South Australian Company |
General correspondence mainly by Edmund Wheeler, the original Manager 1835-38 |
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South Australian Company |
Letters received from the Colonial Manager January to June 1838 |
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South Australian Company |
Log of the South Australian 1836-37 |
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