Ada Booty - Diary of a voyage from Melbourne to England in the steam yacht 'Cushie Doo', 2 May 1884...
Ada Booty - Diary of a voyage from Melbourne to England in the steam yacht 'Cushie Doo', 2 May 1884...
Ada Booty - Diary of a voyage from Melbourne to England in the steam yacht 'Cushie Doo', 2 May 1884 - 22 Dec. 1885
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Date
1884-1885
Call Numbers
B 1189
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1 volume - 0.02 Meters
Textual Records - (manuscript)
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Fonds
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Issue Copy
Microfilm : CY 926, frames 1-106 (B 1189)
Finding aids
Read the transcription here: http://archival-classic.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2017/D00007/a1743.html
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Scope and Contents
Contents
The diary describes a voyage around the Western Australian coast to Darwin, and then on to England. The Aboriginal people at Legrange Bay are described in the entries for July 1884, on pages 22-27. Ada Booty stayed at Darwin from 1 August 1884 to 3 January 1885 while the 'Cushie Doo' went on to the Cambridge Gulf. The yacht then proceeded on her j...
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Full title
Ada Booty - Diary of a voyage from Melbourne to England in the steam yacht 'Cushie Doo', 2 May 1884 - 22 Dec. 1885
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Digital order no:Album ID : 823795
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by David Edwin Goldsmith, nephew of Ada Booty, in 1949
Administrative / Biographical history
The 'Cushie Doo' was owned by William Henry Seville Osmand who was a part owner of Ord River Station in Western Australia. Osmand was the first person to take a steamer up Cambridge gulf and to take soundings. He was born in 1824 and died at his home in Stawell, Victoria, in 1901. Joseph Panton was also on the voyage. A former Victorian police mag...
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B 1189
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9WZMpg0Y
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9WZMpg0Y
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Reference code
456412
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