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Aspects of the Career of Alexander Berry, 1781-1873 Barry John Bridges University of Wollongong University of Wollongong Thesis Collections University of Wollongong Thesis Collection University of Wollongong Year Aspects of the career of Alexander Berry, 1781-1873 Barry John Bridges University of Wollongong Bridges, Barry John, Aspects of the career of Alexander Berry, 1781-1873, Doctor of Philosophy thesis, Department of History and Politics, University of Wollongong, 1992. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/1432 This paper is posted at Research Online. 525 LIST OF SOURCES The sources listed here are those used for Berry's life as a whole. No attempt has been made to confine the list to sources mentioned in the reference notes by identifying and deleting sources for chapters on matters not included in this thesis or lost in cutting the text. Item details have been taken, as far as possible, from title pages. As a consequence, in some items usage varies from mine in the text of the thesis. Anonymous items have been placed at the end of sections and listed chronologically by date of publication. Where the author has been identified his name is indicated in square brackets. PRIMARY SOURCES ARCHIVES SCOTTISH RECORD OFFICE, NEW REGISTER HOUSE, EDINBURGH Old Parish Registers OPR 351/2 Errol Births/Marriages 1692 - 1819. OPR 420/3 Cupar Baptisms/Marriages/Deaths 1778 - 1819. OPR 420/4 Cupar OPR 445/1 Leuchars Births/Marriages 1665 - 1819. OPR 445/2 Leuchars Births/Marriages 1820 - 1854, Deaths 1720 - 1854. OPR 446/1 Logie. OPR 446/2 Logie. OPR 453/3 St Andrews and St Leonards Births. Sherriff Court SC 49/31/8 Sheriff Court of Perth - for inventories of estate of James Berrie 10 March 1828. Other GD 45 Dalhousie Muniments GD 80 Macpherson of Cluny Muniments. [Both or these are copied in ML FM4/2323 Scottish Record Office, Material Relating to Australia and New Zealand.] ;26 NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND, EDINBURGH Dep. 298 (formerly Ace. 3993) Church of Scotland Colonial Committee Minute Books. Ace. 4633 (1) Free Church of Scotland Australia Letters 1851 - 1854. UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS ARCHIVES U St A UY 505/3 Minute Book University Court No. 3. U St A Library Archives. Student Borrowing Register 1795 - 1900. U St A B65 St Andrews Stent Rolls 1618 - 1803. U St A B2 P29 Disposition and Assignation Jean Kidd & others To Andrew Walker 8 November 1802. U St A MS 6583 to MS 6602 Letters from John Hay of Coolangatta 1889 - 1905. U St A MS 7109 to MS 7110 Letters from James Norton. U St A MS 8389 James Louden to Principal Donaldson 2 Jan. 1903. PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, KEW, LONDON CO 201/78, 201/95, 201/315, 202/12 Colonial Office records INDIA OFFICE LIBRARY AND RECORDS, ORBIT HOUSE, BLACKFRIARS, LONDON L/Mar/B/323G Log of the Lord Hawkesbury 1804-1806. L/Mar/B/323H Log of the Lord Hawkesbury 1807-1808. L/Mar/B/3230 Lord Hawkesbury 1804 - 1806: Receipt Book. CAPE ARCHIVES DEPOT, CAPE TOWN CO and MOIC series : Documents relevant to Shortt & Berry, Francis Shortt and Alexander Berry. NEW SOUTH WALES ARCHIVES OFFICE, SYDNEY Court records Map cabinets Supreme Court of Civil Jurisdiction Equity Proceedings 1817-24. 527 Shortt V Berry & Wollstonecraft [Drawer 5], Berry v Loane & Hall [Drawer 7]. 2/8143 Court of Appeals Case Papers May 1820 to July 1822. 4/6604 Court of Civil Jurisdiction Appeal Court Proceedings [Governor's Court]. X1987 Court of Appeals Case Papers July 1822 to April 1824. 5/1161 Supreme Court Papers : Papers on Aborigines collected by Mr Justice Burton,(83) Alexander Berry. Recollections of the Aborigines, 1838. Clergy and School Lands Corporation 4/333 Applications For Children out of the Orphan Schools 1825-9. 4/390 Male Orphan School. Indentures of Apprentice­ ship 1822-32. Colonial Secretary's 'In' Letters Registers [ Consulted for subjects of letters missing from the archive. A considerable number of Berry's letters to the New South Wales Government are listed as missing and some which are not were not found when searching at the given locations]. Main Series (numerous locations). 2/7800 Letters relating to Land 1826 - 1860. 2/8020.4 Aboriginal outrages, 1830-1. 2/8130 Miscellaneous Papers, 1794 - 1825. 2/8306A Applications for Marriage Licences 1827. 4/748.1 Municipalities 1864 - Shoalhaven. 4/787.1 Broughton Vale Municipality 1871. 4/795 Municipalities 1860-74 Part II. 4/1099.1 Returns of Duty Paid on Cedar Aug.-Dec. 1826. 4/1100.4 Pauper Emigration 1831 - 1832. 4/1112.1 Petitions from Convicts to have their familites sent out at Government expense 1824-7. 128 4/1123.2 Berry and Wollstonecraft Papers re land 1826-39. 4/1128.1 Liceses to Cut Cedar 1826 - 1839. 4/2194.1 Miscellaneous B 1833. 4/2285.3 1835 - Miscellaneous and Unregistered. 4/2319 Harbour Master 1836. 4/2509.6 Police Wollongong 1840. 4/2642.2 District Councils 1844. 4/6666.3 Papers re Aborigines Lands 2/8638 A-D Alexander Berry Estate, 4v. Census X950 Census 13 March 1841. 4/1243C OTHER PUBLIC RECORDS MITCHELL LIBRARY, SYDNEY [Numerous locations] Governor's Despatches to England. A1283 Despatches to Governor of NSW July December 1840. BT, Bigge Appendix, Boxes 5, 26. PRIVATE PAPERS MITCHELL LIBRARY SYDNEY ALEXANDER BERRY MSS 315 Berry Papers (incorporating the records of Berry & Wollstonecraft and the papers of Edward Wollstonecraft). [At the time of research and writing these papers, incomparably the most important source for this thesis, were undergoing reorganisation and cataloguing.] A719-A721 Berry Estate (Coolangatta) Official copies of the papers relating to the Berry Estate at Coolangatta, dating 1829 to 1890 prepared to order of Parliament in 1890. 5.29 [Some of the papers refer to the Crows Nest estate]. B897 Diary of expedition to Shoalhaven River June 21 - July 23, 1822. B898 Journal of Ship Royal George from the Port of London to Port Jackson in New South Wales. Commencing May the 3rd and Ending on the 7th of November same year [1821]. Ab69 Alexander Berry Miscellaneous Papers. Abl92 Letters to Alexander Berry. Doc.439a Berry's one share in Bank of Australia. OTHER PAPERS Safe 1/51 William Bligh & others Letters 1803-1810. A68 Public Men of Australia. A151 Matthew Hindson Account Book 1827 - 30. A254 Captain John Piper Papers v 1 1791-1818. A286 New South Wales Parliament Petitions & Correspondence 1833-1850. A291 Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Papers v II, 1820-1829. A317 John Mackaness Papers. A329 Bank of N.S.W. & J.H.Potts Papers, 1818- 1839. A754~l D'Arcy Wentworth Correspondence 1821-1827. A754~2 D'Arcy Wentworth:Supplementary Papers 1785- 1826, mainly letters to D'Arcy Wentworth. A757 Wentworth Papers. Letters to William Charles Wentworth 1814 - 1857? A774 Lachlan Macquarie Diary 9 July 1818 - 28 February 1820 and 1 March 1820 - 8 March 1821. A873 Parkes Correspondence, v 3. A887 Parkes Correspondence, v 17. A1440 William Charles Wentworth. Legal Letter Book. A1559~l~3 Sir Thomas Brisbane's Letter Books Nos 1-3. 530 A2026 Papers of Dr James Mitchell 1824-69. A2146 Colonial Office. New South Wales 1832. Miscellaneous Letters [typescript copies]. A2224-A2236 John Dunmore Lang Papers, w 4,5,7,8,10,11,16. A2899 Macarthur Papers, v 3. Letters of John Macarthur to his sons, 1815 - 1832. A2911 Macarthur Papers, v 15. John Macarthur Jr. - Correspondence 1810-1831. A2928 Macarthur Papers, v 32. James Macarthur - Miscellaneous Papers 1843-1873. A2930 Macarthur Papers, v 34. Letters from Sir R. Therry 1851-66. A2939 Macarthur Papers, v 43. Sir W.Macarthur In- Letters 1871-81. A4346 Macarthur Papers. Correspondence: Emily Macarthur Miscellaneous 1840-79, A - J. A5375 -2 Norton Smith Papers. C200 Roll Book. Male Orphan School. D'Arcy Wentworth Police Reports and Accounts Dl 1810-1827. Petition of William Blue to Governor Ab31 Brisbane 28 October 1823. Draft deed of grant of 10,000 acres at A159 Reid's Mistake to London Missionary Society. Report of Board for Victualling and Clothing A187/3 Prisoners of the Crown, 6 January 1827. MSS139 Rev.W.B.Clarke. Correspondence, vv 3, 34. MSS315/111 Sir John Hay, 'An Australian Pioneer Being Memorials of the Hon. Alexander Berry M.L.C. of Coolangatta, New South Wales: Together with a chapter on David, William and John Berry'. MSS563/7 Edward Pierson Ramsay. Correspondence 1883- 1912 re the David Berry Bequest. MSS802 Hay Family - Miscellaneous Papers. DIXSON LIBRARY, SYDNEY 531 ALEXANDER BERRY MSQ330 Alexander Berry's Account of the destruction of the ship "Boyd" and massacre of the Captain and crew, by the Natives of Wangaroa, New Zealand. (Carbon typescript - see NLA MS91). OTHER Add.113 Presbyterian Church Papers. FERGUSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY, SYDNEY The Minutes of the Presbytery of Sydney In Connexion with the Synod of Australia, From its first Constitution, by a Decree of the Synod at Sydney on November the 5th A.D. 1840. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA, CANBERRA ALEXANDER BERRY MS91 Alexander Berry's Account of the destruction of the ship "Boyd" and massacre of the Captain and crew by the Natives of Wangaroa, New Zealand. (Carbon typescript). [This is supplementary to Berry's account published in Constable's Miscellany.^ OTHER MS2117 Rev. William Hamilton. Diaries and Correspondence. MS3267 John Dxinmore Lang Papers, Series 1: Letters 1829-1893. MS3346 Rev John Kinross Papers. BERRY MUSEUM, BERRY MS Reminiscences of George Henry Jacques. Sketch Map of early Broughton Creek from 1830. Shoalhaven District: An 1868 map showing the mail lines of the area and the roads subject to flooding. MEMORIAL INSCRIPTIONS Berry graves, Logie Churchyard, Fife. Tod family graves, Leuchars Churchyard.. Fife. Hay family grave, Leuchars Churchyard, Fife. 532 Barbara Berry-Armit grave, St Andrews cathedral cemetery, Fife. Berry-Wollstonecraft mausoleum and graves of certain friends and associates, St Thomas's Rest Park, West Street, North Sydney.
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