Emigration.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Diary of James Robb`s voyage from London to Melbourne, with a transcript of the diary and biographical notes.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13645
Dates:
1891
Journal of William Whyte of Oban kept during his voyage from Leith to Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand as an emigrant.
File
Identifier: Acc.14574
Scope and Contents
William Whyte was brought up in a Free Church of Scotland family in Oban, the eldest son of Duncan Whyte, secretary and treasurer of the local National Security Savings Bank. He emigrated to New Zealand, possibly for religious reasons, on the ship Melbourne, which sailed from Leith in November 1860 and arrived in Dunedin in March 1861. His daily journal, written in the form of a letter to his family in Oban, contains detailed descriptions of life and conditions on board ship, with remarks on...
Dates:
1860-1861.
Letters and other papers, 1887-1920, of the Reid and King families, relating to the First World War and life in Australia.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13540
Scope and Contents
Letters and other papers, 1887-1920, of the Reid and King families. The papers consist of an Army pay book, 1887-1893, of Private James Reid, 2nd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders; a letter from Andrew Reid to his parents, 16 December [1916], describing his experiences on the Somme front during the First World War; 2 letters, 6 January 1918, of Mary King (nee Reid) to her mother, and to her sister, sent from New South Wales, Australia; a photograph of Mary with her husband, Andrew...
Dates:
1887-1920
Medical Journal of Dr Normand Morison.
File
Identifier: MS.50263
Scope and Contents
A recipe for gunpowder (folio i).Case notes, 1729-1730, possibly written at Glasgow Infirmary (folios 1-19).Sketch financial accounts and copy letters, 1740s, of Normand Morison to Normand MacLeod, Daniel MacLeod and John Nicolson concerning the export of linen and import of tobacco, sugar and rum between New England, Glasgow and the Western Isles (folios 20-28).Copy letters, 1740s, of Normand Morison to unnamed relatives concerning emigration from the...
Dates:
1729-1759.
Transcripts of records of migrant ship 'Canterbury' sailing from Glasgow to Otago, New Zealand.
File
Identifier: Acc.12967
Dates:
1878.