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Title
Fanny Maria Monk 'A few thoughts on my travels and Indian life', 1849-ca. 1853, compiled in 1896 with genealogical material collected by Irvine Henry Davis
Creator
Fanny Maria Monk
Call number
MLMSS 2686
Level of description
fonds
Date

1896
Type of material
Textual Records
Reference code
931753
Physical Description
1 box of textual material
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

F. M. Monk, 1829-1923, was born in Buckinghamshire, England. She sailed for India in 1849 where she married William Monk. They settled in New South Wales in ca. 1853. She died in 1923 at the home of her nephew Bernard Cecil Monk, son-in-law of Anne Hale Chapman
Scope and Content
Item 1
a. 'A few thoughts on my travels and Indian life', being reminiscences of her life before coming to Australia, ending with the decision to emigrate because of William Monk's health, with biographical information compiled in 1896, and photographs
Item 2
b. Transcript. Photocopy of typescript
Item 3
c. Death and baptismal certificates relating to the Monk and Chapman families
Description source

Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (6-668 C) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
General note

Keyword subject:
Women travelers -- 19th century
India -- Social Life And Customs -- 19th Century.
Baptismal records -- New south Wales
Creator/Author/Artist
Davis, Irvine Henry
Name
Monk family
Chapman family
Subject
Voyages and travels--19th century.
Records of births, etc.--New South Wales.

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