Records of the Land and Emigration Commission (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Bib ID:
- 8032163
- Format:
- Manuscript
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, 2019
- 34 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
- Series:
- Miscellaneous Series (Australian Joint Copying Project)
- Summary:
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Original correspondence, entry books and registers of the Agent General for Emigration, the South Australian Commissioners and the Land and Emigration Commission. The correspondence comments on such matters as colonisation and emigration, work opportunities and wages in Australia, employment of surgeons and land purchase, expenses of the emigration office. Amongst the miscellaneous contents are registers of births and deaths of emigrants at sea 1854-1869, lists of ships chartered 1847-1875, registers of surgeons appointed 1854-1894, and volumes of The Colonial Gazette 1838-1842. Selected pieces from the Series were filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project in their entirety.
- Notes:
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- National Library of Australia holds microfilm master.
- Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project by the National Library of Australia and the Library of New South Wales.
- Public Record Office CO 386/10-20, 58-80, 120-1, 128-30, 140, 155, 170-72, 179-85.
- PRO 310 (part); PRO 865-875; PRO 986-987; PRO 1043; PRO 1493-1497; PRO 2127; PRO 7046-7054; PRO 7193; PRO 6885; PRO 6887-6889
- Australian Joint Copying Project miscellaneous series.
- Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-728377081
- Original held by Public Record Office, London.
- Subject:
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- Great Britain. Colonial Land and Emigration Commission -- Records and Correspondence
- Great Britain. Colonial Office. Emigration Commission -- Correspondence
- Great Britain. Colonial Land and Emigration Commission -- Correspondence
- Great Britain. Colonial Land and Emigration Commission -- Archives
- Land grants -- South Australia
- Land grants -- Australia
- Land grants -- New Zealand
- Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration
- Australia -- Emigration and immigration
- Time Coverage:
- 1833-1894
- Other authors/contributors:
- Related Records:
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
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