Australia. Oceania. Nation. Longitude: 135.0000. Latitude: -25.0000.
Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Account of travels of W Fordyce Brown.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9773
Scope and Contents
Concerns visits to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, the East Indies, China and Japan.
Dates:
1882-1884.
Australia., 1934-1938.
File
Identifier: Acc.3721/55/261
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series of files was placed in R E Muirhead's room in the Scottish Secretariat Office.
Dates:
1934-1938.
Journal and sketches of Australia and Java., 1914.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/263
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
1914.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis families.
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Forbes Family Papers.
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Papers of George Forbes.
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Travel Journals of George Forbes.
Journal of John Mackay, a Haddington man, describing his sea voyage to the Australian goldfields.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6158
Scope and Contents
Ledger containing journal of John Mackay, an iron foundry moulder from West Port, Haddington, who emigrated to Melbourne, Australia, in 1852, possibly intending to join the gold rush. The journal was written for Mackay's family in Scotland. Daily entries describe the 110 days Mackay spent travelling from Glasgow to Liverpool and his sea voyage to Melbourne aboard the ship 'Mobile' as a steerage passenger with his brother Arthur Mackay and sister-in-law Janet Mackay, between 9 July and 12...
Dates:
1852.
Letters of members of the Allardyce family, written from Australia.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6934
Dates:
1854-1892.
Memoirs of Ann Anderson, a nurse in Australia.
File
Identifier: Acc.11468
Scope and Contents
Includes documents and letters of and concerning Ann Anderson.
Memoir published in 1992.
Dates:
circa 1850-1900.
Papers of the Calder family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9000
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from emigrants to Montana, United States and Australia.
Dates:
1822-1913.
Papers of the Reverend David Thomas.
File
Identifier: Acc.9863
Scope and Contents
Includes:
journal, 1904, of a visit to Australia, with an edited typescript
volume of hymns, undated
photograph, undated, of "Old Scotch Collegians" in Melbourne
Dates:
1904 and undated.
Papers of the Wilson family of merchant shipowners.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14272/1-9
Scope and Contents
The collection documents the life and global commercial interests of a Banffshire family who settled in Tasmania and Bengal, and is comprised of the correspondence and papers of Captain John Wilson, his wife Barbara Wilson, their children Captain William Wilson and his wife Grace Wilson; Jane Craigie, née Wilson and her husband George Craigie; John Wilson; and Sir James Milne Wilson, KCMG, and his wife Deborah Hope Wilson. With correspondence and papers of their relatives John Wilson Smith...
Dates:
1823-1880.
Photocopies of 22 letters of John Smith to family in Scotland and Australia.
File
Identifier: Acc.6036
Dates:
1859-1900.
Press cuttings concerning Australia., 1920-1932.
File
Identifier: Acc.3721/142/256
Typescript chapters of travel writing on Indigenous Peoples in Australia by Naomi Mitchison., 1970s
File
Identifier: Acc.10888/76
Scope and Contents
Manuscript of chapters of travel writing by Naomi Mitchison, on the lands now known as Australia and Indigenous Peoples in Australia. Includes derogatory term “aborigine”, which was commonly used up to the 1960s but is now regarded as outdated and discriminatory; and the term "half-caste", introduced to Australia and Aotearoa in the early 19th century with derogatory implications, which is considered offensive. Definitions from the Cultural Heritage Terminology Network's Inclusive...
Dates:
Other: 1970s
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, diaries and literary manuscripts of Naomi Mitchison.
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Non-fiction manuscripts of Naomi Mitchison.
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Manuscripts of travel writing by Naomi Mitchison, including on Botswana, Uganda, Malaysia, Indonesia and and Australia.
Typescript of journal of Jane Blackwood Mack concerning her childhood in Australia.
File
Identifier: Acc.9754
Scope and Contents
With a map of Berry Bank estate, Victoria, Australia.
Dates:
mid 19th century.