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2057 - WILTON HOUSE AND ESTATE ARCHIVES

1 - SURVEYS AND VALUATIONS

2 - ACCOUNTS

3 - RENTALS AND RENT ACCOUNTS

4 - MANORIAL

5 - ENCLOSURE

6 - PLANS AND MAPS

7 - OTHER ESTATE RECORDS

8 - WILTON HOUSE AND PARK

9 - CHARITIES

10 - FAMILY AND PERSONAL

11 - Other activities of the family

12 - Public and State papers of Sidney Herbert (1810-1861), Baron Herbert of Lea. Herbert was Secretary to the Admiralty, 1841-1845, Secretary at War 1845-1851, and Secretary of State for War 1852-1860. The papers are an important source for the reorganisation of the army, particulaly medical reforms and the campaign in the Crimea. Florence Nightingale was a frequent correspondent and she figures heavily in the series. Other subjects covered include campaigns in China, India in 1860, Ireland, Wellington College and the Royal medical School at Chatham. See also 2057/F4/50-71 for related correspondence. This list to 2057/F8/I-VI was made by Dr. James G. Provan, Associate Professor of History at Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois, U.S.A. and completed in 1975. Parts VII to XI were listed in 1992, by Nicola Bailey, a student in the Wiltshire Record Office, when the following items in the original list were not found: 2057/F8/III/A/9c, 2057/F8/IV/A/8, 2057/F8/V/A/67-73, 2057/F8/V/A/140, 2057/F8/V/A/216, 2057/F8/V/B/393h, 2057/F8/V/C/71j. Index F8/I 1833-1846 F8/II 1847-1852 F8/III 1853-1855 F8/IV 1855-1858 F8/V 1859-1861 F8/VI Documents dated prior to 1833 or after 1861 F8/VII Additional miscellaneous papers F8/VIII Emigration to Australia; Family Colonisation Loan Society and Female Emigration Fund F8/IX Emigration to Australia; Female Emigration Fund F8/X Appointment of nurses to the army in the Crimea F8/XI Miscellaneous

1 - 1833-1846 Documents

2 - 1847-1852 DOCUMENTS

3 - 1853-1855 DOCUMENTS

4 - 1855-1859 Documents

5 - 1859-1861 DOCUMENTS

6 - Emigration to the Colonies (Australia, New Zealand, The Cape and Canada) 1849-1854

1 - Two letters from the family Colonisation Society.

2 - Family Colonisation Loan Society originated by Mrs. Chisholm, printed leaflet laying out arms of society list of subscriptions already received and those who will benefit. Undated.

3 - Family Colonisation Loan Society – aims of the Society. Undated.

4 - Prospectus. Continued shortage of labour in Australia made worse by the gold rush. Therefore the Family Colonisation Loan Scheme intends to extend their activities. January 1852.

5 - Printed letter. January 1852.

6 - Family Colonisation Loan Society regulations on payments, luggage, bedding, mess utensils, pledge of emigrants, dietary and regulations on board ship and agreement with skippers. Undated.

7 - Copy of report of the Executive Committee of the Family Colonisation Loan Society as to the best mode of employing the sum of £10,000 recently placed at their disposal by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, in accordance with a resolution of the Legislative Council of New South Wales. Undated.

8 - Fund for promoting female emigration – includes ration of males to females in Australia. Lists committee members and subscribers 24, 29 December 1849. Two copies.

9 - The needlewomen and shop-workers’ wellbeing – extracts illustrative of their condition from the letters in the Morning Chronicle on labour and the poor by Sidney Herbert. 1849.

10 - Female Emigration Fund Report February 8 1850. Two copies

11 - Female Emigration Fund – emigrant’s pass signed Sidney Herbert. April 6 1850.

12 - Female Emigration Fund. Includes – list of recruiting points in London, questions would-be emigrants have to satisfy before qualifying and rules for matrons on board the emigrant ships. 15 March 1850.

13 - Fund for promoting female emigrants. Printed letters received by Stanley Herbert from the colonies on the instruction of the fund. 19 October 1850.

14 - Fund for promoting Female Emigration. First Report of the committee. March 1851. Two copies.

15 - Fund for promoting Female Emigration. Occasional paper including letters from emigrants and description of individual cases. January 1 1851.

16 - Various letters etc.

17 - Various letters etc.

18 - Various letters etc.

19 - Extract from Adelaide Observer Saturday on St. Patrick’s Society of South Australia, concerning Irish emigrants. 14 July 1849.

20 - Extract from the Sydney Morning Herald concerning female immigration. Thursday 14 August 1851.

21 - Two cuttings from newspapers – one is undated. Emigration Agent’s Report, the other The Times August 8 1848.

22 - Extract from a newspaper on the Herbert Female Emigration Fund. Undated.

23 - The Right Honourable Sidney Herbert’s letter extracted from the Morning Chronicle on the plight of the needlewomen. Wednesday December 5 1849.

24 - Booklet The Story of the Life of Mrs. Caroline Chisholm the Emigrant’s Friend and Her Adventures in Australia

25 - Letter from James Charles Kiernam to Mrs. Chisholm requesting her influence in obtaining him a pardon from his sentence of transportation. 25 February 1850.

26 - Letter from Mrs. Chisholm to Sidney Herbert asking for money towards ships dated 20 August 1850 and 19 September 1850.

27 - Letter from Mrs. Chisholm to Sidney Herbert asking for money towards ships dated 20 August 1850 and 19 September 1850.

28 - Letter from William O’Hara of Government Town, Sydney concerning emigrants. The former giving information on work available, the latter about labourers Sidney Herbert sent to Australia from Wilton. 29 June 1850 and 23 August 1850.

29 - Letter from William O’Hara of Government Town, Sydney concerning emigrants. The former giving information on work available, the latter about labourers Sidney Herbert sent to Australia from Wilton. 29 June 1850 and 23 August 1850.

30 - Diagram of the layout of emigrant ships

31 - Diagram of the layout of emigrant ships

32 - Diagram of the layout of emigrant ships

33 - Comparative statement of victualling scales. Undated.

34 - Scale of victualling for merchant ships. Undated.

35 - Proposed scale of victualling for emigrants to Australia. Undated.

36 - Concerning health and hygiene on emigrant ships including: Letter to Sidney Herbert from George Stephen on the poor sanitary conditions aboard emigrant ships 3 August 1851. Family Colonisation Loan Society – Ship for Port Adelaide and Port Phillip to sail 28 September from London and 30 September from Gravesend. Details of food, medical provisions, bedding etc. Protection for emigrants on voyage, detail of these on board for Port Phillip.

37 - List of females with occupations, ages and their protection on the voyage – i.e. the family they are grouped with.

38 - Instructions for superior teachers or schoolmasters on board emigrant ships – Society for Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign parts. No date.

39 - Memoranda on Religious Instruction and Teachers appointed to ships despatched to the Australian colonies.

40 - Suggestions for emigrants on clothes needed for Australia and luggage.

41 - Suggestions for emigrants on clothes needed for Australia and luggage.

42 - Suggestions for emigrants on clothes needed for Australia and luggage.

43 - Suggestions for emigrants on clothes needed for Australia and luggage.

44 - Female Emigration Fund – list of females (gives their occupations), on board the Culloden for Port Phillip February 21 1850.

45 - Rough draft of letter from Sidney Herbert concerned with Culloden. January 3 1850.

46 - List of emigrants landed from the Duke of Portland at Adelaide. Gives name, former employment, parish and new employment. 6 August 1850.

47 - Extract of letters from Mrs. Were Todd, Adelaide August 6 1850 concerning the Duke of Portland’s arrival and extracts from The Argus. A Melbourne paper on the needlewomen of the Culloden.

48 - Letter of complaint to Sidney Herbert on the behaviour of women from the ship the Duke of Portland, Adelaide, September 2 1850.

49 - Emigrants despatched up to August 20 1850, gives month, ship, captain, surgeon, matron on board, number of emigrants and destination.

50 - Emigrants from London – Saint Georges, Shadwell, Southwark, Holban and Westminster; home, previous occupation and employment obtained in Australia. Fragile.

51 - Letter from the Immigration Office, Sydney about individual immigrants.

52 - Memoranda on the case of officers selling their half pay to settle on the colony. Undated.

53 - Problems Associated with the Recruitment of Steerage Passengers for the First Four Emigrant ships to Canterbury in 1850 by Ronald A. Chapman – Records of Canterbury Museum, May 1990. vol. 10.

54 - File of notes compiled by D. McCulloch, includes copies of correspondence in New Zealand Archives – list of female emigrants on board the ‘Stately’ rules etc. 1851. No date.

7 - Emigration to Australia: Female Emigration Fund 1850-1853

8 - Appointment of Nurses

9 - Miscellaneous

13 - Deeds

14 - Legal

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