Downside Abbey (Bath, England) - Records [M995-999], 1819-1869
Downside Abbey (Bath, England) - Records [M995-999], 1819-1869
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Date
Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, [19--]
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M 995-999
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microfilm reels 35 mm
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Fonds
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Microfilm : M 995-999
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Contents
Mainly letters, arranged chronologically. Correspondents include Polding, Dr Brewer, Prior Barber, Father Brown, Bishop Slater, Ullathorne, Rev. C. Conolly (Van Dieman's Land), Bishop Salvado (New Norcia), Henry Gregory, Bishop Davis, Thomas Heptonstall (Polding's cousin), various monks from St. Mary's, Sydney and Dr Goold (Melbourne). Topics inclu...
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Downside Abbey (Bath, England) - Records [M995-999], 1819-1869
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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
Available for reference
Australian Joint Copying Project handbook. Part 8 : Miscellaneous [M series], Entry 175, p. 79
Australian Joint Copying Project...
Contextual Information
Administrative / Biographical history
Downside Abbey was a Benedictine house founded in Somerset, England, in the late 1700s. It supplied some priests for Australia, the first Benedictine appointee being William Ullathorne who arrived in 1833, the second being John Bede Polding, chosen as Australia's first Catholic bishop in 1834
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M 995-999
Record Identifier
YK5QV2an
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YK5QV2an
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432612
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