Scrip certificate for one hundred five shilling shares for the sum of two shillings and sixpence each, issued to E. Le Rossignol of New Town by the Savage River Silver Prospecting Company. Office of company: Miller's Chambers, Murray St., Hobart. Registered as a No Liability Company under "The Mining Companies Act, 1884". Issue number 55. Share numbers 7201-7300. Dated 23rd December 1891. Signed by the Director and the Manager.
Scrip certificate for twelve (12) five shilling shares for the sum of five shillings each, issued to E. Le Rossignol of New Town by the Savage River Silver Prospecting Company. Registered as a No Liability Company under "The Mining Companies Act, 1884". Issue number 1042. Share numbers 46,865 to 46,876. Office of company: Miller's Chambers, Murray St., Hobart. Dated 23rd December 1891. Signed by the Director and the Manager.
Scrip certificate for fifty shares from the South Oceana Silver Mining Co, No Liability, Zeehan, Tasmania, registered under the mining companies act 1884. Issues to Edward leRossignol of New Town. Dated 26th August 1891. Number of issue 236.
Written from Cambridge, Mass. U.S.A. (1905) and New York (1907): family, experience in architects office, competition for design of Chicago Court House, supply of 500 Chinese for Panama Canal, Roosevelt, Hancock Building. (7 letters)
Letter to Andrew Inglis Clark from the Commercial Bank of Tasmania Ltd, 24 Jan 1898, regarding Clark's release from a guarantee to W.J. Williams at the request of Sir E. Braddon.
Diary of the Don Store, 11 February 1887 - 30 December 1888. In February 1886 Wells was appointed manager of the Don branch store of the Don Trading Company by John Henry, the owner, and about 1888 he took over the store, which became William Wells & Co
Letter written by William L. Wells to "Sister" dated 17 July 1910. Grandson, Frank and Isabel's child, William Walker Wells, little Francie, Arnold, Ella.
The autograph book includes poems by Gwen Harwood, Vivian Smith, Christopher Koch, James McAuley and Barrie's second wife Carol Warner de Jersey. There are also entries from Pat Brewer, potter Mylie Peppin and Volkes Rauff of Salzburg.
Papers relating to probate, claims against estates of deceased, cases and opinions concerning the execution of wills and also applications for administration of intestate estates. Papers in alphabetical order.
Rose Bennett: intestate 1879
Joseph Bridge: intestate 1875
Thomas Brown 1888-89, of Oatlands (d. 13 March 1887), inc. correspondence with daughter M.A. Harding, trusts for daughters' families etc.
William Birchall 1894, late of Launceston (inc. will of Henry Marshall of Blind Burn, Glamorgan)
Michael John Clarke, builder, of Hobart 1889
Richard James Edwards of Hobart, tobacconist 1892
Cornelius Finn of Ridgeway 1876
Mary Fitzpatrick of Hobart, widow 1877
Richard Gerald Fitzsimmons of Richmond, gent 1886
John Richard Garth of Sandy Bay, farmer 1878
Martin Goram of Hobart 1899
George Grey otherwise George Bale: intestate 1884
Fortune Guillois of Hobart, mattress maker 1885-86
Ellen Mary Gurling 1898
Thomas Harrison: intestate 1878
Abraham Hawkesford of Hobart, mariner 1883-85
Michael Hayes of Hobart, licensed victualler 1886
Ellen Hefferan 1886
Patrick Hefferan of Hobart, dairyman 1877
Anne, wife of Edward Heslop of Launceston, grocer 1894
Patrick Hewitt 1886, Catholic priest of New Town N.S.W. died in Hobart, Rev. Philip Ryan Hennebry executor.
Charles Henry Hodges of Oatlands 1887
Thomas George Holdsworth of Oatlands, farmer 1887
Richard Howard of Hobart, licensed victualler 1886
Adam Howell of Launceston, shoemaker 1883
James Hurst of Hobart, coal & wood merchant 1877
Edward Carroll Marum, Catholic priest of Brighton 1881, including Roberts Stewart catalogue of books of estate of Archdeacon E.C. Marum.
John Ryan of Oatlands, storekeeper (d. 1878) 1877-91 and Ellen Ryan (d. 1882), including particulars of sale of property and abstract of title of Rev. John Feehan and Andrew Morrison to land at Oatlands bequeathed by Mrs Ellen Ryan.
Ebenezer Sims: intestate 1885
William Smith: intestate 1876, of Auckland, New Zealand, formerly of Hobart, carpenter
Ellen Whitford, factory manageress of Hobart 1905, including inventory of goods
Testamentary cause dated 1893-1894 - Patrick Boyce Coglin (d. 1892): administration of estate, including property in South Australia and Melbourne, administered by J. Powell, solicitor: accounts, etc.
Memoranda of transfers of land titles and registration at Lands Titles Office:-
Robert Barnett to John Gregory Edwards, 8 p. Hobart 1901.
Henry John Buckland to Matthew O'Shaughnessy 1879, Hamilton: 8 ac. 5 p.
James Isaac Lepitit Cameron & Susan Palmable Cameron his wife, to William Douglas Laing 36 p. in Queenborough 1906.
George Coombe to Alexander McA. Johnston per Alfred Harrap 1892 Campbell Town.
Louisa Crane to Robert Daly, 25 ac. Longley 1900.
John Dally to Job Dally 1894.
James Dillon to Virginia Ebdon 1882.
Sarah Dillon to James Geappen, Hobart 1884.
Edward Dowling to Thomas Dowling 1893.
Joseph Feltham to William Douglas Laing, Hobart 1904.
Martin Goram to Michael Spohn 1886.
James Gunton to Martial Louis Frederic Mary 1888. Branxholm: 15 ac. to M.L.F. Mary, Catholic Chaplain, inc. letter from Fr. Mary.
John Hager to William John Dunne 1881. Waratah: 34 p. to W.J. Dunne, Catholic Chaplain and others.
Peter Harrington to John Scammell, St. Helens 1882-86.
William Hawkins to Charles McMahan, Honeywood 1882.
Vernon William Hookey to Julia Develyn, Cygnet 1884.
Mary Ellen Innis to John Charles Williams 1888.
William Henry Kellow to Isabella Kellow 1893.
William Langford to William Pearson, Hobart 1890-94.
Robert P. & George P. Roberts to William Douglas Laing 1904.
Thomas Sheehy to Walter Lewis 1898.
Joseph Sidwell to William Douglas Laing 1903.
William Sullivan to John Sullivan 1898.
Fr. Van der Heyden to Thomas Kelsh 1905. Derby: land near Catholic Church from Fr. Van der Heyden, Catholic priest, formerly of Derby, Tasmania, now residing at North Brabant, Netherlands, to Rev. T. Kelsh of Westbury and others, Governors of St. Joseph's Orphanage.
Notes of man hours spent, wages, costs, and some specifications for various vessels, including Evening Star, steam ketches Lottah and Nubeena, May Queen, Thistle, Victoria Louise, and S.S. Ronnie.
List of ships built and for whom, from Huon Belle built in 1866 by Colin Walker for whom John Wilson worked, Good Intent the first ship built by John Wilson at Martins Point in 1877, One and All, ketch built for Andrewartha in 1878, Birngana, Lottah, Ronnie, Rooganah, etc. to Derwent Hunter built for A.J. Drysdale 1843.
Press cuttings regarding the launching of the ketch Marina built by Wilson Brothers for for H. Jones and Co. for the timber trade, The Marina is an auxiliary ketch of the following dimensions: - Length overall, 100ft.; extreme breadth, 23ft. 6 in.; depth of hold, 7 ft. 6 in.; gross tonnage, 100 tons; displacement when loaded, about 280 tons. She will be powered by a 70 h.p. Diesel engine by Ruston Lister, which will be installed after the vessel reaches Hobart. When put into commission she will be employed by H.Jones and Co. Pty. Ltd. in the timber trade between Launceston and Mel- bourne, freighting timber from the firm's Warrentinna mill to Melbourne, and carrying general cargo as back freight. The Mercury Tuesday 18 December 1934.
Diploma of Associate of Arts Degree, dated 1861, awarded by the Tasmanian Council of Education to William W. Perkins who passed in English, Latin, French, elementary hydrostatics and mechanics, geology, third class. Diploma has decorative border of oak leaves and acorns designed by Henry Hunter and engraved by Alfred Bock
Two letters from J.H. Patterson, written to his mother Mrs S. Patterson from army camps in Victoria, referring to "the kiddies' journey" (1910), birthday wishes and gift to his mother from "the Tallangatta family".
Colour photograph of rotting timbers from wreck of boat, half-buried in the sand near shallow creek on beach near Mars Bluff, Bruny Island, Photograph possibly taken 1963.
Colour photograph of Bare Mountain, with evidence of past bushfire damage to trees on lower slope GIS: Latitude -4149 Longitude 14590 Gazetteer Australia Record_ID TAS23466
Colour photographs shows three people in a small boat laden with firewood being moved from one side of Lake Dobson to another. Hut visible on shore and cleared path of zig-zag track up hill visible in background
Colour photograph shows smoke curling out of the flue from a woodheater or fireplace of the Hobart Walking Club timber hut at Mount Field National Park, with snowdrifts banked halfway up the walls of the hut
Colour photograph shows a farmer driving an International Harvester Farmall M tractor, with the Australian model name AM, pulling a trailed harvester in a paddock of rye at Glen Dhu, 1956. Placename distinct from other Glen Dhu, near Launceston.
Colour photograph shows people assembling the roof frame of a Hobart Walking Club hut at K Col, later named the FA. Peterson Memorial Hut and officially opened in 1960 by New Zealand adventurer Sir Edmund Hilary
