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Jack Sheridan log books
Jack Sheridan wrote several log books during his time sailing the vessel 'Portonian' in South Australian waters. Each is recorded in a three day to a page diary with entries made in pencil at regular intervals throughout the year. The first log has a note in the back page which refers to the...
Waples Diary
The diary, written in a reporter style notebook, contains entries written by 'Tubby' Waples while serving on board HMAS KALGOORLIE during the Pacific campaign of World War Two. Waples writes of the general activities that occurred during the trip talking about the weather, the duties he...
Robert Lees Diary 1875
A diary written by E. Holland about his voyage to Australia with his wife. Beginning on September 11 1875, he writes of his travelling experiences which started at Oxford before travelling to Plymouth to go through the Emigrants Depot, and then heading on-board the the 'Robert Lees' to finally...
Prewett Diary
This diary consists of almost daily descriptions of passenger life on board the SS ORCADES. Travelling from February until March 1961, both Peter and Lorna Prewett write of their experiences as the boat journeys through different countries. They start off at Tilbury, where they boarded, and...
Oriana Diary
Elizabeth Greer, traveled on board the SS ORIANA in 1965, recording her experiences her diary. Travelling alone from Southampton to Australia, Elizabeth wrote daily and concise entries of her life as a passenger on board. She included details about her roommates and the friends she had made on...
Vernon Smith Diary
Vernon Smith’s diary presents incomplete entries of daily events on a sea voyage to the north of Australia in the lugger VENTURE. Entitled ‘Port Darwin May/July 1905’, it presents the daily experiences Smith had on board the ship as well as the different places he visited during his voyage. He...
Chief Gunner Logbook
The Chief Gunner’s journal provides, on one side of the diary, a rough journal by Edward Argent detailing the voyage to China of the PROTECTOR to serve with the Admiralty during the Boxer Rebellion. He writes of the events that occur during the voyage which involve travelling from Adelaide...
William Strapps Diaries
William Strapps’ 1879 diary contains almost daily entries detailing his voyage to Australia from Camberwell England. Sailing on the ship GARONNE, Strapps writes of his time on board living with different people and different nationalities. He also talks of his experiences on the ship from the...
William Hodge Diary
This diary was written in an almost ‘story-like’ way as the author, William Hodge, describes his life from childhood until his later years. Beginning in the year 1864, Hodge mentions his experiences working at a timber firm called John Saunders and Son as well as his interesting travels arounds...
Postboy Logbook
This diary logs the many travels that the schooner ‘Postboy’ completed during the late 19th century. It contains travels mostly from Port Adelaide to other gulf ports in South Australia such as Port McDonnell and Port Pirie. Mostly used as a trading ship, this diary also contains a travel log of...
JH Gill
These papers contain the memoirs of J.H Gill, a Lieutenant-Commander of the Royal Australian Navy. He writes of his time in the Navy, from when he joined the South Australian Naval Reserve in July 1898 until 1943 when he finally retired and became a ferry-boat master, still enjoying life on the...
Loughridge diary 1904-1905
The shipboard diary was written by C.W. Loughridge, the fourth officer of a cargo vessel, the "Torr Head" on its outward voyage from Ireland to Australia, via the Cape of Good Hope. It includes much observational commentary on Port Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and in particular Brisbane...
Records of male convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land, 1820-1844, and female convicts, 1844-1852
In times past, having a convict in your family history was something to be ashamed of – it is ironic that now it is almost un-Australian not to have one! Apart from the usual personal details of when and where the person was born, what you find in these records are the reasons for your...
Francis Forbes - Correspondence relating to the Sudds, Thompson, and Robison cases, ca.1824-1830
In 1826, the privates Joseph Sudds and Patrick Thompson deliberately committed theft in the expectation that they would be transported, a fate they believed to be preferable to continued service in the army. Lieutenant Governor Ralph Darling, Governor of N.S.W., commuted their sentence to a...
Hassall family papers, 1793-2000
Hassall Family Papers https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1Jk404VY This collection contains correspondence, diaries, ledgers, and letter books produced by several generations of the Hassall family. Rowland Hassall (1768–1820) was born in Coventry, England, and was one of the first...
QSA Frontier War Records
Experimental Project that compares transcribing documents with a paid transcriber, with out of the box Transkribus, and with a combination of Transkribus results and a paid transcriber.
John Pentecost diary, 1882
A one volume diary written during an expedition from Sydney to the Ord River, Western Australia, January to December 1882. Please note that several pages in the diary are written in shorthand.
Macarthur papers, 1789-1936
Macarthur papers, 1789-1936 https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YRlZ80gn John Macarthur (1767-1834), soldier and pastoralist, was commissioned as an ensign in the British Army in 1782 and transferred to the New South Wales Corps in 1789 with a promotion to lieutenant. Macarthur, and his...
Dorenberg Diary
This diary charts Ida Dorenberg's journey from Germany to Australia in 1929. Although written in German, an English translation is not being sought; the family seeks a transcription of the document itself.
Vocabulary of New South Wales Aboriginal Dialects
This collection includes word lists of Indigenous Australian to English (6 volumes), and English to Indigenous Australian (4 volumes), with map, and location index in Volume 01.
Gillette Safety Razor Company - Cables and radio scripts concerning the 'bodyline' cricket series, 1932-1933
Bodyline cricket series https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YolEXLy9 Restrictions on commercial radio in the United Kingdom in the 1930s resulted in radio stations being established on the continent beamed directly to the United Kingdom. The main station was situated in Paris. One of its...
Claude Fraser Diary
This diary was kept by 18 year old Claude Fraser from Queensland, who volunteered for deployment with the Graves Registration Unit in 1919. The men were tasked with locating, exhuming, identifying and reburying of Australian war dead on the battlefields of France in 1919.
Emily Caroline Creaghe - Diary, 22 Dec. 1882 - 5 Sept. 1883
Describes her journey from Sydney in the ship Corea with calls at Queensland ports, reaching Thursday Island 9 Jan. 1883, arrival at Flinders telegraph station 14 Jan. 1883, and the journey from Normanton to Port Darwin, sailing from Port Darwin for Sydney 22 Aug. 1883 on the steamer Feilung....
Passat Diary
This diary provides a detailed description of Betty Northmore’s life as a stewardess onboard the Passat. She details her duties as a stewardess as well as the weather, activities on the ship and descriptions of other crew members. Her voyage on the Passat started from Port Talbot to Port...
Colonial Secretary's Correspondence
State Library of Queensland has digitised the Colonial Secretary's letters received relating to Moreton Bay and Queensland 1822-1860 from a microfilm collection. This large collection of more than 42,000 pages of correspondence over nearly 40 years has been challenging to research. Volunteer...
First Nations Language Collection
There are over 150 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander language groups in Queensland. The Queensland State Archives Languages Project aims to support First Nations communities to record and revive traditional languages across the state. The project involves identifying, researching,...
Miles Franklin diaries and personal papers
Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin – known as Stella to her family and friends, and as Miles to her readers – was born on 14 October 1879. The young Miles published her best-known and much-loved work My Brilliant Career in 1901. One of the greatest insights into the life of Miles Franklin is...
Sydney Female Refuge Society records
In 1848 the Sydney Female Refuge Society was established to provide a home for women escaping from prostitution and for young unmarried girls who fell pregnant. This collection includes the digitised pages of three 'minute books' from the Society records. The refuge was established on 21...
Parma Diary
This diary contains personal experiences of the author’s life on board the windjammer PARMA from March 1936 until July 1936. The author, Eric Stevens, writes his diary as a letter to his mother and includes several entries of his activities and jobs while travelling on the PARMA. He recounts the...
Diary of Harry Andrewartha
Harry Andrewartha, writes of his personal experiences as an apprentice on board the windjammer Moshulu. He talks about his voyage from Port Victoria to England via Cape Horn and presents a daily description of his time on the Moshulu performing his duties as an apprentice, the weather (an...
George Jeffrey, Protector Diary
This diary, written by George Frederik Jeffery, talks about an expedition on board the H.M.S Protector from Port Adelaide to the Boxer Rebellion in China. Commencing on 6 August 1900, Jeffery writes of his experiences on board the PROTECTOR. He explains the entire journey as they stop at...
'Young Australia' shipboard diary
A shipboard diary of an unidentified male passenger on board the immigrant ship 'Young Australia' on a voyage from Gravesend, England to Moreton Bay in Queensland. The diary covers the period from 7 May 1862 to 10 August 1862 and records the day to day life on the ship, coordinates of the...
Florence Powe diary
A diary written by Florence Powe while working in the Bundaberg region of Queensland, Australia, She records her day-to-day life as a governess/teacher for the children of the Hon. Angus Gibson, sugar planter and politician, and the children of his three brothers, on Bingera Sugar Plantation. ...
Betty Perrett diary
A diary written by 17 year old Betty Perrett who was living in Kilkivan in the Gympie region of Queensland, Australia. It documents her life working as a nanny in the nearby town of Goomeri and later in the Brisbane suburb of Lutwyche. In the diary she discusses her social life attending balls...
Alan and Nancy Hooper WW2 Correspondence, 1944
Alan Hooper served in New Guinea during the Second World War with 1 Papuan Infantry Battalion (1 PIB) and Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit (ANGAU). These narratives lead us through his wartime experiences in New Guinea, and the life of his new bride Nancy at home in Brisbane. Hooper...
Hassall family papers - Series 07: Rowland Hassall, Parramatta store day sales books, 1803-1804, 1809-1812 - Part 1
This collection contains store ledgers, produced by the Hassall family. It is part of the larger collection that can be found at Hassall family papers, 1793-2000 We have moved some of the store ledgers to their own sub-collection to be transcribed as they suit to be transcribed as tabular...
Hassall family papers - Series 07: Rowland Hassall, Parramatta store day sales books, 1803-1804, 1809-1812 - Part 2
This collection contains store ledgers, produced by the Hassall family. It is part of the larger collection that can be found at Hassall family papers, 1793-2000. We have moved some of the store ledgers to their own sub-collection to be transcribed as they suit to be transcribed as tabular...
Hassall family papers - Series 08: Rowland Hassall, Parramatta store ledger, 1811-1822
This collection contains store ledgers, produced by the Hassall family. It is part of the larger collection that can be found at Hassall family papers, 1793-2000. We have moved some of the store ledgers to their own sub-collection to be transcribed as they suit to be transcribed as tabular...
Alan and Nancy Hooper WW2 correspondence 1942
Alan Hooper served in New Guinea during the Second World War with the 1 Papuan Infantry Battalion (1 PIB) and the Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit (ANGAU). These narratives lead us through his wartime experiences in New Guinea and the life of his fiancée Nancy at home in Brisbane....
Fanny Trundle diary
The diary is a two part, hand-written collection of Fanny Trundle's writings. The first part is devoted to a commentary on various historical figures and documents and reflects Fanny Trundle’s strong religious and temperance beliefs. The second part is an incomplete diary, starting on page 198,...
John Crother's War Diaries 1942-1945
The War Diaries of John Crothers, a forest ranger from Atherton, in north Queensland, who served with the 31/51st Australian Infantry Battalion as a mechanic and driver in Queensland and Merauke, Dutch New Guinea. His diary entries cover his daily activities including his observation of the...