Notebook of George Kershaw (as filmed by the AJCP) [microform] : [M435], 1840-1855
- Bib ID:
- 593615
- Format:
- Manuscript and Microform
- Author:
- Kershaw, George, 1801-
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Related Online Resources:
- Finding aid at National Library of Australia
- Access Conditions:
- Available for reference.
- Description:
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- Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, [19--]
- 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
- Summary:
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Memorandum book with short diary entries, lists of income expenditure and family biographical notes. The diary entries, Aug.-Dec. 1841, describe weather conditions and daily routine on the voyage to Australia. There are lists of his earnings and places worked while a plasterer in Liverpool from May 1840 to Aug. 1841, in Sydney from Dec. 1841 to July 1850, and the earnings of William A. Kershaw, 1841, 1845-46. At the end of the notebook are religious lecture notes, recipes and a list of distances travelled and places visited while constable at Braidwood and an inventory of pistols, ammunition and other property given him when sworn in as constable. Finally there are details of the birth and death of his parents, wife and children.
- Biography/History:
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Emigrant to N.S.W. Arrived in Sydney from Liverpool in Dec. 1841 on the Columbine. He worked as a plasterer and as a policeman at Braidwood, N.S.W.
- Notes:
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- Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales.
- National Library of Australia holds microfilm master.
- Australian Joint Copying Project miscellaneous series M435.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-740047280
- Microfilm copy of originals held by the Mitchell Library, Sydney.
- Cited In:
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- Guide to collections of manuscripts relating to Australia ; A189
- Australian Joint Copying Project handbook. Part 8 : Miscellaneous [M series], Entry 93, p. 48.
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 1840-1855
- Other authors/contributors:
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Miscellaneous Series (Australian Joint Copying Project)..
This collection contains 521 records.
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