User:Billingd/History of Victoria

Some citations for works on the history of Victoria, Australia, and a few from nearby. Particular emphasis on older books which are available online. Keep them handy for a bit of cut and paste.

Resources

• Trove
• Australian Digital Collections / First Fleet and Early Settlement
• The Naval Chronicle

Explorers and Early Settlers Journals

• Broughton, William Robert (1804), A voyage of discovery to the north Pacific Ocean : in which the coastal Asia, ... Japan ... as well as the coast of Corea have been examined and surveyed, performed in His Majesty's Sloop Providence and her tender in the years 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798, T. Cadell and W. Davies, OL 24159440M, retrieved 20 January 2012
• Collins, David (1802), An account of the English colony in New South Wales ..., vol. Vol 2, London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, p. 85, retrieved 20 January 2012 {{citation}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
• General and Garrison orders given by David Collins Esq’re, Lieut Governor of Port Phillip & Lieut. Colonel of the Royal Marines. 16th October 1803, Sullivan Bay - Hobart Town, 3rd May, 1808, State Library of NSW transcription
• Grant, James (1803). The narrative of a voyage of discovery, performed in His Majesty's vessel the Lady Nelson, of sixty tons burthen: with sliding keels, in the years 1800, 1801, and 1802, to New South Wales. Printed by C. Roworth for T. Egerton. ISBN 978-0-7243-0036-5.
• Lee, Ida (1915). The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson, with the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant. London: Grafton. OL 6580132M.
• Heeres, J E (Editor) (2006). "Abel Janszoon Tasman's Journal of his Discovery of Van Diemen's Land and New Zealand in 1642 with Documents Relating to his Exploration of Australia in 1644...to which are added his Life and Labours, 1898". Project Gutenberg of Australia. Retrieved 2006-07-09. {{cite web}}: |first= has generic name (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); External link in |publisher= (help)
• Tuckey, James Hingston (1805), An account of a voyage to establish a colony at Port Philip, in Bass's Strait, on the south coast of New South Wales, in His Majesty's ship Calcutta, in the years 1802-3-4 , Portsmouth: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and J.C. Mottley, Also at Google Books

Victoria

• Finn, Edmund (Garryowen) (1878), Der eggsberiences ov Hans Schwartz, Melbourne: Alex. M'Kinley & Co., Printers
• Finn, Edmund (Garryowen) (1880), The "Garryowen" sketches : historical, local, and personal, Melbourne: A. McKinley & Co
• Finn, Edmund (Garryowen) (1888), The chronicles of early Melbourne, 1835 to 1852 : historical, anecdotal and personal, Melbourne: Fergusson and Mitchell

• Fleming, James (2002), Currey, John (ed.), A journal of Grimes' survey : the Cumberland in Port Phillip January-February 1803, Malvern, Victoria: Banks Society Publications, p. 43, ISBN 0949586102

Tasmania

West, John (1852), The history of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania: H. Dowling, Vol 1, Vol 2

Australian Dictionary of Biography

• "Collins, David (1756–1810)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. 1966. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943.
• "Collins, William (1760–1819)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. 1966. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943.
• Cooper, H. M. (1966). "Flinders, Matthew (1774 - 1814)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943.
• McMartin, Arthur (1966). "Grant, James (1772 - 1833)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943.
• Roe, Margriet (1966). "Hayes, Sir John (1768–1831)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943.
• Rutledge, Martha (1986). "Lee, Ida Louisa (1865–1943)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943.
• Pretyman, E. R. (1966). "Harris, George Prideaux Robert (1775–1810)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943.
• Tilghman, Douglas Campbell (1967). "Woodriff, Daniel (1756–1842)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943.

Historical Records of New South Wales

These are available from a number of places. All volumes are available as pdf from Publications NSW but I have used these as a last resort as they are large. Both Open Library and Google Books have partial holdings.

• Bladen, F. M. (Frank Murcott), ed. (1892), Historical records of New South Wales, Volume 1, Part 1— Cook, 1762-1780, Sydney: Charles Potter, Government Printer, OL 20445908M
• Bladen, F. M. (Frank Murcott), ed. (1892), Historical records of New South Wales, Facsimiles of charts to accompany Volume 1, Part 1— Cook, 1762-1780, Sydney: Charles Potter, Government Printer
• Bladen, F. M. (Frank Murcott), ed. (1892), Historical records of New South Wales, Volume 1, Part 2—Phillip, 1783-1792, Sydney: Charles Potter, Government Printer
• Bladen, F. M. (Frank Murcott), ed. (189?), Historical records of New South Wales, Volume 2—Grose and Paterson, 1793-1795, Sydney: Charles Potter, Government Printer {{citation}}: Check date values in: |publication-date= (help)
• Bladen, F. M. (Frank Murcott), ed. (1895), Historical records of New South Wales, Volume 3—Hunter, 1796–1799, Sydney: Charles Potter, Government Printer, OL 3048032M, also OL 20445904M
• Bladen, F. M. (Frank Murcott), ed. (1896), Historical records of New South Wales, Volume 4—Hunter and King, 1801,1802,1803, Sydney: Charles Potter, Government Printer, OL 20445905M
• Bladen, F. M. (Frank Murcott), ed. (1897), Historical records of New South Wales, Volume 5—King, 1803-1805, Sydney: Charles Potter, Government Printer
• Bladen, F. M. (Frank Murcott), ed. (1898), Historical records of New South Wales, Volume 6—King and Bligh, 1806-1807, 1808, Sydney: William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer, OL 20531287M
• Bladen, F. M. (Frank Murcott), ed. (1901), Historical records of New South Wales, Volume 7—Bligh and Macquarie, 1809, 1810, 1811, Sydney: William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer

Historical Records of Australia

• Australia. Parliament. Joint Library Committee, Historical records of Australia, [Sydney] Pub. by the Library Committee of the Commonwealth Parliament

Ships

Ships that were active in the early years of Victoria

• HMS Calcutta - Collins 1803 settlement
• Enterprize (1829) built in Hobart, Tasmania in 1829. John Pascoe Fawkner bought the ship in April 1835 for use in his forthcoming settlement activity in Port Phillip Bay
• Francis (1793) was a 41 burthen ton colonial schooner that was partially constructed at the Deptford Dockyard, England and sent in frame aboard the Pitt
• HMS Investigator (1798), Flinders ship
• HMS Lady Nelson (1798)
• Norfolk (sloop) built on Norfolk Island in 1798. Used by Flinders and Bass to circumnavigate Tasmania
• Ocean (convict transport ship) used fror 1803 Sullivan Bay settlement
• HMS Porpoise (1799)
  • commissioned in October 1799 under Lieutenant William Scott as a storeship for New South Wales
  • wrecked in 1803. Matthew Flinders, was returning to England as a passenger on Porpoise
• HMS Providence (1791), (1791-1797)
  • William Bligh on his second breadfruit voyage between 1791 and 1794.
  • William Robert Broughton in Australian waters briefly in 1795
• HMS Sirius (1786) First fleet
• Sydney Cove (ship) was a sailing ship wrecked in 1797 on Preservation Island off Tasmania while on her way from Calcutta to Port Jackson. She was among the first ships wrecked on the east coast of Australia.