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Records of the War Office (as filmed by the AJCP), 1770-1960

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The War Office records cover a wide variety of material relating to both Colonial and Australian involvements in armed conflicts. Amongst the records filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project are documents and correspondence of the Commander- in-Chief, Secretary-at-War, Secretary of State and Judge-Advocate General.
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Papers of the Acland Family (as filmed by the AJCP), 1840-1902

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Correspondence, diaries, newspaper cuttings and a photograph album.
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Collections held by the Liverpool City Libraries (as filmed by the AJCP), 1773-1923

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Justices Sessions. Gaol and House of Correction: index to minutes of meetings and selected sections of minutes concerning transport of convicts to hulks and treatment of female convicts 1837.
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Collections held by the Cornwall County Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP), 1844-1925

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The material filmed by the Australia Joint Copying Project includes: journals of voyages from Melbourne to America, Plymouth to Melbourne and Adelaide to Gravesend; correspondence and legal documents of families including the Victor Family, the Adams Family, the Carlyon Family; emigration lists; mining records; memoirs of Hannah Glasson and papers relating to the Bonython Family.
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Papers of Sir Richard Owen (as filmed by the AJCP), 1796-1889

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Correspondence 1836-1883. Subjects include: discovery of fossils in Australia; observations of Tasmanian Aborigines; self-government in New South Wales; research on Australian and New Zealand fauna including platypus and moa; dispatch of Australian specimens and skulls of Maoris and Aborigines. Correspondents include W. Clift, G. Bennett, Sir Walter Buller, R. Etheridge, W.B. Clarke, Sir Julius von Haast, J.L.G. Krefft, Sir Ferdinand von Mueller, E.P. Ramsay, T.H.C. Hood and H. Woodward.
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Records of Downside Abbey (as filmed by the AJCP), 1819-1869

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Letters, arranged chronologically, sent to Rev. T. Heptonstall, Abbot Gregory and other members of the Downside community. Correspondents include Polding, Ullathorne, Davis, C. Conolly, Bishop R. Salvado, Bishop R.W. Willson, Bishop F. Murphy, Bishop J.B.F. Pompallier, Bishop J.A. Goold.
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British and Foreign Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society (as filmed by the AJCP), 02 May 1837-1895

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Letters received by Secretaries of the Aborigines Protection Society: Thomas Hodgkin (1837-1866), F.W. Chesson (1866-1888) and H.R. Fox-Bourne (1888-1909). They deal in particular with: the treatment of Aborigines in Queensland and Western Australia and of Maoris in New Zealand; charges made by Reverend J. Gribble in Western Australia; the visit of Maori chiefs to England in 1882 and 1884; the Pacific labour trade and the treatment of Pacific Islanders in Queensland; the 1875 Pacific Islanders Protection Bill; cases involving Jason, Carl and other labour vessels; the annexation of New Guinea in 1884; and land rights and race relations in Fiji and Tonga.
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Records of the Exchequer and Audit Department (as filmed by the AJCP), 1765-1918

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Records of the Auditors of the Imprest, Commissioners of Audit, Exchequer and Audit Department, National Audit Office and related bodies.
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Accounts, 1845-1857

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Accounts, 1848-1857

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Records of the Commonwealth and Continental Church Society (as filmed by the AJCP), 23 September 1835-1955

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Annual reports of the Society 1834-1957. These are printed reports and in some cases only the sections relating to Australia have been microfilmed. There is an index to the earlier volumes. Each report lists missionaries and agents, and shows financial returns, as well as detailing colonial operations in Australia, New Zealand, India, Africa, Canada and North America.
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Papers of the Jevons Family (as filmed by the AJCP), 1850-1925

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Letters 1854-1868 of W.S. Jevons to his family in England describing his voyage to Australia and life in Sydney, including his work at the Mint.
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