Anna F. Walker - 'Family traditions and personal recollections', undated
Anna F. Walker - 'Family traditions and personal recollections', undated
About this item
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Author / Creator
Date
[ca. 1900]
Call Numbers
C 195
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Physical Description
Contents
1 volume (59 pages) - 0.01 Meters - - : ;
Textual Records - (typescript) - : ;
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Access and use
Issue Copy
Microfilm : CY 3505 (C 195)
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Anna Walker's narrative covers the period from ca. 1806 to the early 1860s and much of it concerns events that took place before her birth in 1830. She writes about the life of her mother Anna Elizabeth Blaxland and the Blaxland family at Newington, including descriptions of weddings and balls, of her father's experiences while serving in the commi...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Anna F. Walker - 'Family traditions and personal recollections', undated
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Author / Creator
Notes
General note
David Scott Mitchell bookplate
Transferred from ML Q929.2
There is a manuscript version of this typescript in the Walker and Blaxland family papers located at MLMSS 462
Contextual Information
Administrative / Biographical history
Anna Walker, botanical painter, was born on the 23 June 1830 at 'Rhodes', the family home on the Parramatta River at Concord, NSW. She was the third daughter of Thomas Walker and Anna Elizabeth, nee Blaxland, and a grand-daughter of John and Harriott Blaxland who had arrived in the colony in 1807. Thomas Walker had come to NSW in 1818 as assistant...
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
C 195
Record Identifier
9NaAdO2Y
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9NaAdO2Y
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Reference code
447398
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