A Guide to New South Wales State Archives relating to Aboriginal People
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A Guide to New South Wales State Archives relating to Aboriginal People |
Part 2: State Archives from other Government Agencies relating to Aboriginal People (cont.)
formerly PRISONS
Jimmy Governor was received into Darlinghurst Gaol on 23 November 1900 and was executed on 18 January 1901.
| Reference Numbers | 6/1029; AO Reel 1843 |
This volume contains a daily record of condemned prisoners showing: name, religion, date placed in condemned cell and put in irons. Then follows the daily record showing date, name of day warder, names of night warders, occurrences during the day. It includes entries for a number of prisoners including Jimmy Governor and details of his daily visitors (pages 42-43). There is an index at the front of the volume.
| Arrangement | Chronological |
| Reference Number | 5/1739 |
Those records created by the Courts of Petty Sessions (or Benches of Magistrates) are restricted for 30 years. Researchers requiring access to restricted records should contact Deputy Director, Local Courts Director's Office, Level 1, Downing Centre, 143-147 Liverpool Street, SYDNEY NSW 2000, Postal address: GPO Box 2521 SYDNEY NSW 2001, Telephone: (02) 9287 7899, Fax: (02) 9287 7900.
The following series contain the names (English and/or Indigenous) of numerous Aboriginal people and also include such details as tribal designation, probable age, whether married and number of children. Occasionally family relationships and women and children's names are given.
| Reference Number | 5/3769 (part) |
| Reference Number | 3/17986 (part) |
| Reference Numbers | 4/5525 part, pp. 130-131, 195, 247; AO Reel 895 |
This is a letter from William Hobbs, the Overseer at Henry Dangar's Myall Creek Station, to the Police Magistrate at Invermein (Scone), dated 9 July 1838, concerning the massacre of Aboriginal people at the Myall Creek Station in June 1838.
| Reference Number | SZ 1053 |
Bench Books contain minutes of proceedings of the bench, noting date and place of meeting, magistrates present, details of party or parties, charge or course and summary of evidence. This bench book contains depositions taken by E.D. Day during his investigation of the Myall Creek massacre.
| Reference Numbers | 4/5601, AO Reel 671 |
These files consist of photocopies of correspondence, submissions and exhibits relating to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody involving New South Wales Aboriginal people.
| Reference Numbers | 6/16941-17029 |
The despatches are from Superintendent Barney and Commissary Darling to Governor FitzRoy. They are concerned with such matters as servants, appointments, the wreck of the Lord Auckland at Port Curtis, attacks by Aboriginal people, and include requests for building materials and other supplies, a report of exploration including a sketch of the Boyne River reports of the progress and difficulties of the settlement and finally of the arrangement for abandoning the Colony. The Governor usually noted his decision on the despatch.
| Reference Number | 4/1619 |
These are despatches to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Under Secretary and occasionally other officials in England. The enclosures sometimes accompany the despatch or are located separately. Included are ordinary numbered despatches, `separate' and confidential despatches. The volumes for 1790-97 (4/1634-1635) are the actual duplicate despatches bound, the remainder are letter books containing copies of the originals.
| Reference Numbers | 4/1634-1642, 4/1645-1650, 7/1748, AO Reels 684, 697 |
Copies of letters covering a variety of subjects including land grants, cultivation, convicts and assigned servants, church property, various regulations, applications for appointments and salary increases, commissariat stores, Aboriginal affairs, exploration, bushrangers, and court sentences. The earlier volumes refer also to Van Diemen's Land, the Lieutenant Governor there being one of the chief recipients. The later volumes deal with rather different matters - Norfolk Island, disturbances in New Zealand, Executive and Legislative Council, Polynesian labour trade, and guano.
| Reference Numbers | 4/1639, 4/1655-1670, 7/4122 |
These papers record Aboriginal births. The Collection was started in 1978 and discontinued in 1986 after the NSW Midwives' Data Collection was established, although there are records in this Collection up to 1990. Each form records mother's and baby's names; town and date of birth; sex; weight; birth length; details about the birth; health details about the mother and baby; antenatal and post natal details.
| Reference Numbers | 17/8625.2-8628 |
These papers record Aboriginal deaths. The Collection was started in 1978. In 1980 recording of Aboriginality on death registrations commenced but the decision to discontinue this Collection was not made until 1993. Each form records: name; identifying number; centre; date of death; place of residence; place and cause of death; date of birth; age; sex, and details about health and lifestyle.
| Reference Numbers | 17/8629-8631.6 |
May 1998
The State Records Authority of New South Wales
Sydney NSW, Australia.
© Copyright reserved by the Government of New South Wales, 1998. All rights reserved.
No part of this publication may be reproduced by any method without the prior written consent of the State Records Authority of New South Wales.
ISBN 0 7310 1737 4 First published 1998.
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