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Walker Family Scrapbook

Collection consists of digital files from a Walker Family scrap book compiled by Peter Benson Walker - held in a Private Collection

Peter Benson Walker

Letters to James Backhouse Walker from his mother Sarah Benson Walker and grandmother Esther Mathers

Letters to James Backhouse Walker from his mother Sarah Benson Walker and grandmother Esther Mather congratulating him on attaining his majority on his twenty first birthday in 1862. From Walker Family Scrapbook compiled by Peter Benson Walker. Private collection. Page 36 b&c

James Backhouse Walker

Obituaries of George Washington Walker, Tasmania

Newspaper obituaries of George Washington Walker including a letter to the editor of 'The Christian Times' by James Bonwick. From Walker Family Scrapbook compiled by Peter Benson Walker. Private collection.

George Washington Walker

Photograph of Mrs. Sarah Hammond

Photograph of Mrs. Sarah Hammond, youngest daughter of the Reverend Joseph Benson and sister of Ann Benson, aged 62.
From Walker Family Scrapbook compiled by Peter Benson Walker. Private collection. Page 10

Sarah Hammond

Letter from George Washington Walker to James Backhouse Walker

Letter from George Washington Walker in Hobart to his son James Backhouse Walker, expressing his desire to meet him in Melbourne on his return from England after attending school there. From Walker Family Scrapbook compiled by Peter Benson Walker. Private collection. Page 36a

George Washington Walker

Phrenology report of Robert Walker

Character sketch of Robert Walker by A.S. Hamilton, phrenologist, 1855. From Walker Family Scrapbook compiled by Peter Benson Walker. Private collection. Page 36a

Robert Walker

Establishment of the Hobart Town Savings Bank

Meeting held on 15th January 1845 to establish a savings bank in Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land. It was unanimously resolved that it be called " The Hobart Town Savings Bank" Includes a list of trustees. From Walker Family Scrapbook compiled by Peter Benson Walker. Private collection. Page 26a

George Washington Walker

Letter and memorial on the death of Ann Mather

Letter and memorial on the death of Ann Mather by her daughter Sarah Benson Mather, Van Diemen's Land, 1831. From Walker Family Scrapbook compiled by Peter Benson Walker. Private collection. Page 21

Ann Mather

Letter : Ann Mather to her sons

Letter from Ann Mather to her sons who were attending James Thompson's school, Hobart on the present site of Pressland House. Reproduced in Appendix A of 'All that we Inherit' by Peter Benson Walker. From Walker Family Scrapbook compiled by Peter Benson Walker. Private collection.. Page 17

Ann Mather

Letter : Mary Mather to her brother Robert

Letter from Mary Mather in London to her brother Robert in Van Diemen's Land dated 23 September 1830. From Walker Family Scrapbook compiled by Peter Benson Walker. Private collection. Page 20

Robert Mather

Letters : Ann Mather to her husband Robert Mather

Three letters dated April 9th 1828, June 19th 1828 & July 15th 1828 from Ann Mather to her husband Robert Mather revealing the care and concern for her children. She lived at Lauderdale supervising the farm workmen, and the children lived in Hobart Town with their father. From Walker Family Scrapbook compiled by Peter Benson Walker. Private collection. Page 20

Robert Mather

Letters : Sarah Benson to her sister Ann Mather

Letter from Sarah Benson to her sister Ann, Mrs. Robert Mather, who was at Ramsgate into which the disabled 'Hope' had sailed after narrowly escaping shipwreck in October 1821. The Mathers subsequently sailed for Van Diemen's Land on the barque 'Heroine' on the 28th April, 1822. From Walker Family Scrapbook compiled by Peter Benson Walker. Private collection. Page 15

Ann Mather

Account of the voyage of the Heroine from England to Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land in 1822

Peter Benson Walkers account of the disablement in a storm of the ship " Hope" in 1821, and consequent voyage of the barque "Heroine" from England to Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land in 1822. From Walker Family Scrapbook compiled by Peter Benson Walker. Private collection Page 13

Peter Benson Walker

John Walker's gravestone and biography

Image of the grave of John Walker in the cemetery of Pere-la-Chaise, Paris. Biographical information about John Walker, the father of George Washington Walker - the youngest of 22 children from John's two marriages. From Walker Family Scrapbook compiled by Peter Benson Walker. Private collection. Page 5

John Walker

Letter from Sarah Benson to her sister Ann Mather

Letter from Sarah Benson to her sister Ann Mather, London, July 1817 describing in detail the confinement of her sister Isabella Phytall. From Walker Family Scrapbook compiled by Peter Benson Walker. Private collection. Page 7

Ann Mather

Letters from Ann Benson to Robert Mather

Letters from Ann Benson to Robert Mather regarding the disapproval of the Reverend Joseph Benson to their attachment. He later gave his reluctant consent to their engagement and they were married on the 16th October 1811 at St. Luke's Church, Old St, London. From Walker Family Scrapbook compiled by Peter Benson Walker. Private collection. Page 12 & 13

Ann Benson

Letter from Joseph Benson to his sister

Letter dated 29th April 1802 from Joseph Benson 1780-1853, eldest son of the Reverend Joseph Benson, to his sisters. Joseph Benson entered the medical profession and became a surgeon. From Walker Family Scrapbook compiled by Peter Benson Walker. Private collection. Page 8

Joseph Benson

Letter from John and Elspeth Arneil

Letter from John and Elspeth Arneil advising of the death of Robert Mather's father Andrew in Scotland on June 11th 1826. From Walker Family Scrapbook compiled by Peter Benson Walker. Private collection. Page 20

John Arneil

Letters from H.M. Benson

Letters from H.M. Benson, wife of the Reverend Samuel Benson, to her niece, revealing the faith and devotion which motivated christian life in 19th century England. From Walker Family Scrapbook compiled by Peter Benson Walker. Private collection. Page 11

H.M. Benson

Letter from John Benson to his sister Ann

Letter from John Benson, second son of the Reverend Joseph Benson to his sister Ann mentioning her work as her father's amanuensis for his well known "Commentary on the Bible" to which he devoted 9 continuous years labour. John Benson took Orders and became the rector of Norton-sub-Hamdon, Somerset. From Walker Family Scrapbook compiled by Peter Benson Walker. Private collection. Page 6

John Benson

Image of the Rev. Joseph Benson

Image of the Rev. Joseph Benson (1748-1821) husband of Sarah and father of Ann who married Robert Mather. Inscription on the tombstone of Joseph and Sarah. From Walker Family Scrapbook compiled by Peter Benson Walker. Private collection. Page 4

Joseph Benson

Letter from Joseph Benson to John Wesley

Letter from Joseph Benson (1748-1821) to John Wesley. Includes transcript. From Walker Family Scrapbook compiled by Peter Benson Walker. Private collection. Page 5

Joseph Benson

Note written by Rev. Joseph Benson to his son John

Copy of note written by the Rev. Joseph Benson for his son John advising of the marriage of Ann to Robert Mather. From Walker Family Scrapbook compiled by Peter Benson Walker. Private collection. Page 6

Joseph Benson

Land grant map of Lauderdale

Land grant map including Robert Mather's free grant of 1,500 acres, eventually to be increased to 2,500 acres. He called the property 'Lauderdale'. From Walker Family Scrapbook compiled by Peter Benson Walker. Private collection. Page 16

Joseph Benson

Letter : James Backhouse Walker to his sister Mary

Letter from James Backhouse Walker in Hobart to his sister Mary who was painting in Quinperle, Brittany. It sets out the Walker genealogy at length and describes the ships which carried Collins and his party to Sullivans Cove. From Walker Family Scrapbook compiled by Peter Benson Walker. Private collection. Page 40

James Backhouse Walker

Letters : Reverend Samuel Benson to his niece, Sarah Benson Walker

Three letters dated April 20 1875, January 4, 1876 and September 11, 1876 from the Reverend Samuel Benson who was for many years rector at St. Saviours, Southwark, and youngest brother of Ann Benson, to his niece, Sarah Benson Walker, wife of George Washington Walker. From Walker Family Scrapbook compiled by Peter Benson Walker. Private collection. Pages 8 & 9

Samuel Benson

James Backhouse Walker's resignation from the Hobart Savings Bank

Letter to James Backhouse Walker from his great friend Charles Walch on his decision to resign as accountant of the Hobart Savings Bank and to take up law. Also draft letter written by James Backhouse Walker. From Walker Family Scrapbook compiled by Peter Benson Walker. Private collection. Page 37

Charles Walch

Certificate of marriage of Robert Walker and Eliza Hannah Amos

Certificate of marriage of Robert Walker and Eliza Hannah Amos and photographs of the Gala Kirk Church of Scotland in Great Swan Port where they were married on the 11th of May, 1869. From Walker Family Scrapbook compiled by Peter Benson Walker. Private collection. Page 42b

James Backhouse Walker

Bacon Collection

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC 2013/1
  • Coleção
  • c1996-2004

Collection consists of ephemeral material collected by Jim Bacon during his time as Premier of Tasmania

James Alexander Bacon

Hilda Bridges Collection

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC 2013/2
  • Coleção

Collection consists of material produced and collected by Hilda Bridges. Contains photographs, newspaper articles, material relating to Roy Bridges and his publications and many loose manuscripts and typescripts written by Hilda Bridges

Hilda Bridges

Journal of Walter Robson's voyage to Australia

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC 2015/1
  • Coleção
  • 1867-1870

Transcript of the Journal of Walter Robson's voyage to Australia , October 1867 to March 1870

Walter Robson

Margaret Sturge Watts Collection

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC 2017/1
  • Coleção
  • 1906

Papers of Margaret Sturge Watts include photo albums of relief work in Central Europe after World War I, an autograph album, visitors books, journals, an unpublished autobiography, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous items including the notification and congratulatory letters for Margaret Watts' MBE in 1957 for her work in the 'assimiliation of new settlers.'

Margaret Sturge Watts

Book I

1 handwritten diary (black exercise book), marked Private, 1910 - 1914, documenting her last week in London and voyage to Australia [sailed from Tilbury on September 15th and arrived in Adelaide on 21st October 1911]. At the Freemantle stopover, her father received a letter from Francis Mather and Mr Gower asking him to take over at the Friends' School for 7 months while Mr Gower was in England

Margaret Sturge Watts

Book 2

1 handwritten diary (black exercise book), marked Private, 1910 - 1914 (amended to 1914 - 1916, which is incorrect) documenting her time in Hobart and voyage back to England [arrived at Tilbury in April 1914]

Margaret Sturge Watts

Transcript of diary

1 typescript document of 2 MST diaries (A1 and A2). Transcribed c1989 by Belinda Marsden-Smedley, who also added some dates and notes (as Margaret didn't include many dates) to enable correlation with events reported elsewhere.
Includes regret at not being able to join in the dancing (pages 3 and 5) on the voyage; her plan to to work with women in India in 5 or 6 years 'to try to show them the meaning of love' (p7); letter from Francis Mather & Mr Gower asking Mr Thorp to substitute at the Friends School for 7 months (p9); brief preliminary visit to Hobart (p14); arrival in Hobart (p27) and concern at boys attending military drill; met Captain Amundsen who signed her autograph book (p30.

Margaret Sturge Watts

Diary of three months in America

Photocopy of diary. Summer 1914. Toured with a delegation of 7 Young Friends to visit all sections of the American Society of Friends. Known as 'Babe' because she was the youngest of the team. War was declared in Europe while she was in Pennsylvania. Came home to pack her things for the return trip to Australia. [Left Liverpool on 18th June and returned to England in September 1914]

Margaret Sturge Watts

Photograph album

1 hand-illustrated quarter-bound leather album of black and white photographs of people MST met on the trip, and colour postcards

Margaret Sturge Watts

Report and financial statement

Report and financial statement. December 1st, 1921, to June 30th, 1923. 31 pages. Printed in Melbourne by H.E. Pett & Co.
Fund started at instigation of the Quakers, and taken up by other churches and charities.
Margaret Thorp pages 4, 10, 19, 22; and Arthur Watts page 4.
After the Armistice, there were approximately twenty organisations - religious, social and philanthropic - taking part in relief work in Central Europe. The Australian Relief Fund for Stricken Europe was inaugurated in 1921 to coordinate funding efforts, after Australians (including Margaret Thorp of the Society of Friends) returned from relief work confirming stories of distress, disease and starvation rampant in Europe. On her return, Margaret Thorp lectured and organised committees throughout the Commonwealth

Margaret Sturge Watts

Photograph album

1 large, hand-illustrated quarter-bound leather album of black and white photographs.
Gold lettering on cover: War Relief Work Through Europe 1920-1921. M S Thorp.
Inscriptions include: Holland; Peace Palace Hague; Amsterdam; Rotterdam; Holland; Hartz Mts; Wandervogel; Blackforest Mountains; Spreewald; Bohemia; Schleswig Holstein; on the Baltic; Freiburg; Black Forest Mts; Dresden; Austrian Tyrol; Kattowitz, Upper Silesia; Freiburg; courtyard in Freiburg; skiing in the Blackforest Mts; Frankfort; medical examination; making use of spare rooms for homeless children; Dresden; open-air treatment; Leipzig depot; last scrapings of meal; German woman’s home; No-More War Demonstration; Hermine Chandlemaier; Lust-garten; Mrs Einstein; mission cows, Vienna; milk trains; hospitals & clinics; Austrian clinics; big child aged 3, small child aged 6 years; mission goats; rickerty children; angora rabbits; Town of Peace, Vienna co-operative scheme; Vienna; Friends’ motor transport, Vienna; Poland: Fumanka; refugee’s home, seven people; market scene; mission truck; refugees returning from Russia; dug-outs, Polish frontier, 10-15 peasants living in one dug out; returning refugees; where her home used to stand; washing clothes; negotiations for a new home; peasant woman; dug-out; carrying water; Upper Silesia; Warsaw; rickerty child, our courtyard, Warsaw; White Palace, Brest Litovsk where the Peace Treaty was signed; Russia: Minsk; Moscow – Kremlin; St Basil’s Church; propaganda; Opera House, Childrens’ Day; Cathedral; kindergartens and creches; Freinds’ (sic) warehouse; Stein; Rosinsky; childrens’ home; Doris White; All Russian Health Commission off to famine area; Childrens’ Day; children from famine area, Moscow; demonstration of maternity welfare; Kirghese; Samara; Russian porter (?); Health Committee, Samara; famine children, Samara; waiting for a boat on the Volga; the daily search; Russian village; relief supplies; famine transport; Russian village; peasants’ home; on the banks of the Volga, village depopulated; Violet Tillard; waiting for dinner; refugees – Samara; wild lily of the valley, Russia; Mission motor tractors; relief supplies; Petrograd; Buzuluk; Minsk; Reval; Berlin bunker air raid shelter; homeless; train travel in Germany; women workers in Schleswig Holstein.
Relief work included feeding children; medical and hospital work for children afflicted with tuberculosis and rickets; agricultural and housing reconstruction; settlement of Polish refugees returning from Russia; fighting typhus and cholera; and the Russian famine

Margaret Sturge Watts

Photograph album

Cover: M.S. Thorp, The Lighter Side of Wartime Relief-Work in Central Europe. War Relief Work in Central Europe, Berlin 1921-22.
Album of black and white photographs taken in Central Europe of colleagues and friends at social activities.
Inscriptions include: Opera House, Paris; The Seine, Paris; The Luxomburg, Paris; Dorotheen Strasse 2 Berlin; Headquarters Friends; Alfred Scattergood and Caroline [illeg]; Mary Hannum; Our Berlin Centre [illeg] Relief Section 135; Beatrice Ford Smith and Margaret; Friends Meeting House Berlin; Carl and Effie Heath? and F. Howard at [illeg]; Brandenburger Thof. Berlin; At Spreewald; Tiergarten Canal; Near Duisburgruhr; Brent and Edmund? at Potsdam; MST (Margaret Sturge Thorp) Konigstein; Brent Allinson Potsdam and E. Cooper and M. Thorp in lake; Edmund Cooper; Potsdam; Wandervogel; Berlin Opera House and Art Gallery; Cathedral; Crown Prince's Palace now an art gallery; University Berlin; Violet Tillard, Mary Hannum, Von Geisburg?, Hubert [illeg], Mary Allan, Sylvia Cowles, Mrs. Morris?, Mrs. Allan; Howard ?; Frieda Burkle?; MST, 'Scottie' & John Fletcher?; ? and Mary Howard [illeg], MST and Joan Fry + 3 unnamed; Old folk dance; Prague; Wandervogel; At Spreewald. Julia Ives?, Mary Moon, Mary Connell, Doris White, Beulah Herley, [illeg]; 'Scottie', MST?, Jeusen; 'Scottie', MST, Frieda, Sylvia, Laura, Caroline, Edmund, Julia, Harriet?, Von Geisburg, Mary [illeg], Howard [illeg], Mary Hannum. Fancy dress party at Kaiserallee given by Mary and Margaret; Rufus? Jones; Wandervogel; Alice McIver 'Scottie'; Hubert Hemp; [illeg] H and Mrs P [illeg] and 'Scottie'; Mary Hannum, Beulah Herley, [illeg (3)]; Terraced vineyards; Edmund Cooper; Konigstein; Old market place [illeg]; Spreewald; Student picnics while in Berlin; Violet Tillard; Students picnic at G--walt; Berlin Cathedral; Tiergarten; Berlin Office Field Centre ? table; Mary Hannum; Unter den linden; Regatta Day; Tiergarten Berlin; [illeg]; Taken from the train going to Vienna; Munich; Dresden; Berlin strasse, Charlottenburg Berlin

Margaret Sturge Watts

Inscription

Xerox copy of inscription on one sheet of paper - from a book?
On the recto, a black and white photo inscribed (by a different hand, possibly MST): Brent Allison (sic), Munich & Vienna.
On the verso: To my friend Margaret Thorp who understands - for the sake of old times together under the Quaker Star! from Brent D. Allinson. Vienna, September 1922

Margaret Sturge Watts

Visitors book

1 brown paper-covered book (cover detached from spine).
Inscription on cover: Visitors Book, very special. Margaret Watts. Oct 1920 to 1972.
Includes names and addresses; photos; newspaper cuttings.
From Oct 19 1920 to 9th April 1972.

Margaret Sturge Watts

Visitors book

1 maroon book with gold inscription printed on cover: Guests.
Inscription on inside cover: Margaret Watts 1/9 Greenknowe Ave, Potts Pt 2011 Sydney N.S.W. Tel. 358-2403. Christmas gift from my brother Joe .. 1971.
From 10/4/72 to June 12th 1975.

Margaret Sturge Watts

Visitors book

1 cream coloured book with gold inscription printed on cover: Visitors.
Inscription on inside cover: To Margaret, With love from Eleanor. June 12th, 1975.
From 13-6-75 to 23rd April 1977.
3 inscriptions at the back: 2 messages from special German Friends, Werner & Paula Arnuade (Christmas 1976, and 84th birthday); and 'The Tree of Life' from the English Friend 11.5.75.

Margaret Sturge Watts

Visitors book

1 cream coloured book with gold inscription printed on cover: Visitors.
Inscription on inside cover: 1977. To Margaret, With loving wishes from Gladys Allen, Pontefract Yorks: for 12.6.77.
From 25.4.77 to 1st May 1978.
The last entry reads: Margaret conveyed by Ambulance to St Vincents Hospital, Darlinghurst. Her brother Joe Thorp went with her - she was seen by her Doctor (Dr Green) this morning, who wisely arranged for her to go to hospital. She has a Cerebral Vascular accident, ie possibly a cerebral embolism or thrombosis or haemorrhage. This looks like the last chapter of a very wonderful & useful life. JHT

Margaret Sturge Watts

Typescript of autobiography

Incomplete? Ends in May 1970: she'd had pain on the left side of her chest, and an operation at St Vincent's revealed it was benign, with no trace of cancer.
Includes handwritten inserts and edits in text.

Margaret Sturge Watts

Excerpts of autobiography

Excerpts of autobiography, incomplete. Differ from wording and page numbers of typescript autobiography (E-15).
Pages 1-28, 76-79, and 90-95
Contents
Foreword
Appendix 1: Some Quaker generations
List of illustrations
To Face Page 8: Letter from my grandfather for my twelvth birthday
To Face Page 18: Mother and father

Margaret Sturge Watts

Album: Margaret's post-war travels

Handwritten label pasted on cover inscribed 'Margaret's post-war travels. An ad hoc collection including Continental Europe, England, Australia & the USA and some Sydney social service and Quaker projects, in an ancient family album. Margaret Sturge Watts'.
Black and white photos and colour postcards pasted into album.
Includes 1 loose black and white photo with inscription on the reverse: 'Staff of Dept of Labour & Industry, Q'land 1918. When I was Factory Inspector'

Margaret Sturge Watts

Album I

Black and white photos and newspaper cuttings pasted into red album

Margaret Sturge Watts

Album III

Black and white photos, colour photos and postcards in cork album.
Inscription 'Kind gift of Daphne Aveling to Margaret 13-2-74'.
Includes black and white MST wedding photo pasted inside front cover; and loose letter-sheet 'Dear Margaret Watts, Loving greetings from Australian Friends gathered at Adelaide for General Meeting 10-15 Jan 1963' followed by signed names

Margaret Sturge Watts

Album IV

Black and white photos, colour photos, postcards and typed letter from Rev Ted Noffs in blue album.
Inscription inside front cover: 'Album from brother Joe, June 12th 1974'.

Margaret Sturge Watts

Album 5 1975-

Black and white photos, colour photos, postcards and typed letter from Sydney Lord Mayor Leo Port in album (mountain scene on cover).
Inscription on title page: 'Loving gift from Gladys Allen, Pontefract Yorks: England, July 1975'.

Margaret Sturge Watts

Album 6 1976-77

Black and white photos, colour photos and postcards in album (sailing ships on cover).
Inscription on cover says '1976-77' but pasted inside the cover is a black and white photo of the Lord Mayor of Sydney presenting MSW with a potted liquid amber when she was Senior Citizen of 1973.
Inscription inside cover: 'From Dorothy Allen, Christmas 1976'.

Margaret Sturge Watts

Envelope

27 black and white photos of people and scenery (some with details on the reverse), 1 postcard, 5 visiting cards, 1 40 pfg. Stettiner Strassen-Eisenbahn Gesellschaft (tram ticket?) and 1 Bettkarte (sleeping berth ticket) Berlin - Coln.
Inscription on envelope: 'Visiting cards, photographs (family ancestors), Germany, Australia, to keep or use'.

Margaret Sturge Watts

My trip

Diary of trip from Sydney to Hastings, UK from February 21st to 23rd April 1963.
Inscription: 'from Mary & Arthur Hausch xmas 1962'.
Sailed to Naples on the "Australia" , then coach and train through Italy and Switzerland.

Margaret Sturge Watts

Souvenir de Suisse

Contains diary notes, postcards and travel brochures of Locarno and Zurich, and note from Reigate where she spent the last night of a wonderful holiday.
Friday April 5th to Monday 22nd April, 1963.

Margaret Sturge Watts

My trip

Contains diary entries, postcards and photos from trip to New Zealand in May 1973.
Inscription inside cover: 'To Margaret - Wishing you a happy trip - Love from Bet & Daph. May 1st 1973'.
Inscription opposite: '"Every gift conceals a task". The enclosed is my happy task MSW' underneath a picture of kiwi & egg

Margaret Sturge Watts

Pocket diary 1921

Collins pocket diary for 1921, green.
Inscription inside cover: 'From Mary & Reg, Xmas 1920'.

Margaret Sturge Watts

Pocket diary 1922

Woods' Australian diary for 1922, maroon.
Inscription inside cover: Margaret S. Thorp, Derwent Haven, Berriedale, Tasmania or 20 Russell Street, Melbourne.

Margaret Sturge Watts

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