John Thompson - journal kept during a voyage from Leith to Port Adelaide on the ship Duncan, 12 May - 28 August 1849; with a typescript transcription and associated photographs

MLMSS 6710/Box 1X

fonds

1849

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs

402263

0.16 metres of textual material (1 outsize box) includes photographs
Textual Records
Textual Records - (typescript)

John Thompson was born in Scotland in 1828; he emigrated to Australia in 1849, sailing on the 'Duncan' from Leith to Port Adelaide, South Australia via the Cape of Good Hope. He married Agnes Mackie in Victoria (they had five children), was a school teacher at the public school in Manly, NSW, and later moved to East Maitland, NSW where he had a drapery business.
Thompson was an amateur botanist and during the early 1850s he collected seaweed specimens from the foreshores of Sydney's beaches. His seaweed collection was donated to the National Herbarium of NSW at the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, by his grand-daughter Mrs Doris Austin (nee Porter), in 1993.

Journal contains daily entries describing the weather, the ship's progress, conditions on board, and life at sea; with typescript transcription [date and author unknown]
Photographs (3) of: portrait of John Thompson; portrait of Agnes Thompson; seaweed specimen collected by John Thompson