McCracken family - Papers [M1976], 1841-1918
McCracken family - Papers [M1976], 1841-1918
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Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, [19--]
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M 1976
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microfilm reel 35 mm
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Microfilm : M 1976
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1. Letters of Robert McCracken, [1841], describing voyage to Australia on Nimrod. 2. Journal of Alexander McCracken, 1849 Jan.-Apr. describing voyage to Australia on the William Hyde to Adelaide. 3. Letters of Alexander McCracken, 1849-57 to family in Scotland from Plymouth, Port Adelaide, Melbourne and his farm at Saltwater Creek. Describe voyage,...
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McCracken family - Papers [M1976], 1841-1918
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Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales
National Library of Australia holds microfilm master
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Australian Joint Copying Project miscellaneous series M1976
Microfilm copy of originals held in private ownership
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Robert McCracken (1815-1885) and brother Peter McCracken emigrated to Melbourne 1841, establishing a brewery. Their brother Alexander married his cousin Jane and emigrated to Australia, establishing a dairy and then a wheat farm near Melbourne
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M 1976
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1kVdaepn
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432803
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