Business Archives Council of Australia records

MLMSS 11324

fonds

1818-1970

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs

9618576

0.36 metres of textual material (2 boxes) includes 1 photograph

This collection includes records of the Business Archives Council of Australia and state branches in Victoria and New South Wales. It also includes various documents, mostly standalone, collected by the BAC as part of their goal to preserve Australia's business heritage.

Box 1
Business Archives Council Foundational Members correspondence 1954-1955.
Business archives and recordkeeping reference material, correspondence to/from Alan Birch c 1955, includes list of ‘Companies in NSW’.
Minutes of the Business Archives Council of Australia New South Wales branch and Victorian branch along with correspondence and reports, and informal reports on other companies and their history 1955-1970.

Box 2
Hudson Brothers Limited certificates (1882, 1888) and Memorandum and Articles of Association (1883), agreements and other legal documents between Hudson Bros, and: Normal Selfe, James Musgrove, George Downe and James W Coyzer, Southern Coal Company of NSW.

Thomas Walker, will dated 19 March 1857 and codicil dated 10 October 1859.

Captain John Broomfield insurance policies: Limited Alliance Marine and General Insurance NSW for ship Enterprise dated 21 April 1899; Hull policy from Australian Alliance Assurance Co London for ship Enterprise dated 21 April 1899; National Fire and Marine Insurance Co of New Zealand for ship Monarch dated 3 July 1899 and 2 July 1900, and for ship enterprise dated 24 April 1899.

PLB and Investment Company, ‘Minute re Company’s Position and Suggestions for Improvement’ October 1894, J W Duesbury (original and typescript copy).

Alliance Insurance Policy for Joseph Tice Gellibrand, 1834, No 1; Alliance Insurance Policy for William Champion, 1854, No 9272; Alliance Insurance Policy for Charlies Stuart Causdell, 1866, No. 12040; Duplicate of correspondence 1846 appointing R W Nutt to Director of Alliance Insurance.

Report on Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Company Limited, by J B Were and Son, copy only with microfilm, [original 1936].

Photograph of Elizabeth Bay House staircase, 1957, black and white.

William Charles Wentworth titles: Deed of Trust Tom Winder Campbell to William C Wentworth and Thomas Chaplin Breillat, 1841; Indenture: Conveyance of Land at Liverpool, 21 March 1840 George Joseph Thompson to Charles Drew Street; Grant: Town of Sydney, George Street and Hunter Street to William Henry Chapman, 1837; Mortgage of the “Rover’s Bride” of San Francisco, a ship of 383 tons, between Josiah Doliff Nason and Frederick William Clarke 21 January 1856

Feoffments:
12 square miles of land situate at the entrance of the harbour of Wai-nga-roa, John Jones and Francis Owen Leathart to W C Wentworth 1840; Southern point of Molyneaux Bay, John Jones to W C Wentworth 1840; One third part of Land at “The Bluff” New Zealand, John Jones to William C Wentworth 1840; 5,000 acres more or less, being all that piece or parcel of land situate in the territory of New Zealand, and bounded by a water-frontage five miles, known by the name of the River Kauri, running in an easterly direction north about four miles in the interior, known by the name of the Pakekake, running in a southern direction to the River Operon, westerly part of the River Kawhia. John Jones and Francis Owen Leathart to William Charles Wentworth 1840; 2,000 (two thousand) acres, more or less, being all that piece or parcel of land called Kopukerau, situate on the River Waiharakeke on the east, by a creek on the south, a sandy point on the north, and by a range of hills on the west, John Jones and Francis Owen Leathart to W C Wentworth, 1839; 16 square miles more or less situate near the Harbour of Wai-nga-roa, in the territory of New Zealand, John Jones and Francis Owen Leathart to W C Wentworth, 1840; 8 square miles more or less situate at Kawhia, New Zealand, John Jones and Francis Owen Leathart to W C Wentworth, 1840

Letters Patent for an invention of improvement in Railways and in Locomotive Engines to be used thereon to Edward Bell of Surry Hills, Sydney NSW, 14 June 1860 [Victorian Patent Number 7].

Bills of Exchange: Joseph Lingard from Chapman, 14 May 1818, London; Askew Wentworth to himself, 19 January 1830, Manchester. [Reverse of both have multiple names written and struck out, showing the bills were used as financial instruments].

New South Wales legal documents 1: Conveyance of 50 acres of lands situate at the Ponds, Samuel Marsden to Henry Harvey, 25 February 1834 [Anderson’s Farm]; Conveyance Henry Harvey to Robert Foulcher 8 July 1874; Probate of Robert Harvey Foulcher of Ryde, 6 September 1882; Mortgage Charles Edward Cowell to Richard Ray, 22 August 1894; Mortgage James Cowell to Richard Ray 30 November 1894; Declaration of Trust by L F Heydon re James Cowell’s interest under will of Hannah Cowell deceased dated 15 July 1901, amended with Conveyance of Trust dated 20 October 1906; Land plan of lot on Morrison Road, Hunters Hill, owned by T Cox, n.d.; Letters of Administration for the goods of Sarah Cowell late of Hunter’s Hill dated 7 March 1889; Letter from George H Hind, Ryde Public School, to Mr Matthews concerning the character of the latter’s deceased son 26 October 1886.

New South Wales legal documents 2: Conveyance of one hundred and eighteen acres on the Northern Road near Richmond to uses to bar dower from John Lewis Spencer by the direction of John William Thurlow and Robert Ebenezer Johnson to James Johnson dated 2 February 1838; Lease for a year of house and premises in Fort Street Sydney from Hannah Wade to William Ealy Sampson dated 10 July 1833; Conveyance of house and premises in Fort Street in the town of Sydney from Hannah Wade to William Ealy Sampson 11 July 1833; Ship registration, ‘Victor’ in Port of Sydney, No 72 in 1878, dated 2 December 1878; Release from J Cheers to H Chapman dated 29 September 1835 together with a lease of a year dated 1835 [water damaged, most illegible]; Mortgage in fee of 110 acres of land situate at Prospect in the county of Cumberland New South Wales for securing 500 and interest from Thomas W Campbell to Thomas D Edwards dated 20 December 1839 together with Lease for a year for the same dated 19 December 1839.

Victorian legal documents: Grant to Owen Poole of 36 acres in Colac, Volume 396 Folio 113 dated 30 November 1842; Grant to Michael O’Gorman of Colac of 2 roods in Lorne, Volume 491 Folio 98194 dated 31 January 1835.

Subdivision plan for Blackfriars Estate, between Abercrombie and Shepherd Street [present Chippendale] to be sold at Auction on 22 January 1879; Sydenham subdivision [very poor condition, half missing due to pest activity].

Lease from Her Majesty’s Theatre and Grand Opera House Company of Sydney Ltd to Frederick Ware dated 7 September 1887.

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