Australia. Oceania. Nation. Longitude: 135.0000. Latitude: -25.0000.
Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Found in 9 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.
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.
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.