Archifdy Ceredigion Archives
Emrys R D Prosser Collection

ACCESSION 1322 and 1447

Ref: PRO/B2

Research: Welsh Emigration
The papers in this Sub-series mostly relate to Prosser’s research into a history of the Welsh in Australia, although it does extend into general Welsh emigration and the Welsh abroad.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/1
TITLE: Copies of documents from the Public Record Office relating to the transportation of criminals from Wales to America and Australia
DATE: c1780-c1828 [Copy date Late 20th Century]
EXTENT: 9 documents
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Includes copies of criminal registers, convict transportation registers, and a warrant.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/2
TITLE: Booklet entitled ‘Census of the Commonwealth of Australia 30th June 1954’
DATE: 1956
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: ‘1. Population Abstract of the Principal Results for Western Australia’.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/2a
TITLE: Untitled notebook
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Comprises notes taken from ‘White and black in Australia’ by Rev. J Needham.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/3
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘The Welsh in Australia I: Bibliography’
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Bibliography of publications relating to a history of the Welsh in Australia. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/4
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘Australia General II’
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes concerning a history of Australia taken from a number of publications including Alfort’s ‘Kingdom in Partnership: A Study of Political Change in the British Commonwealth’, Taylor’s ‘Australia’, and Greenwood’s ‘Australia: A Social and Political History’. Also includes a number of newspaper cuttings, mostly taken from the Western Mail, concerning the Welsh in Australia. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/5
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘Welsh in Australia III’
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes taken from a number of publications including Williams’ ‘Some Figures Relating to Emigration from Wales’, Whyte’s ‘William Morris Hughes: His life and times’, and Davies’ ‘The Life and Opinions of Robert Roberts, a wandering scholar, as told by himself’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/6
TITLE: Research notes relating to a history of the Welsh in Australia
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 bundle
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Papers relating to Prosser’s research into the Welsh in Australia. Includes notes taken from publications and manuscripts, and correspondence.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/7
TITLE: Correspondence regarding the research and publication of a ‘History of the Welsh in Australia’
DATE: 1961-66
EXTENT: 1 folder
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Includes correspondence regarding books requested for research, Australian census information, and the publication of the manuscript. Also includes the readers report for the original manuscript.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/8
TITLE: ‘Newspaper cuttings re. Australia’
DATE: 1966-69; 1984-6
EXTENT: 1 bundle
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Taken from the Cambrian News and Western Mail. Concerns the transportation of convicts from Wales and Welsh emigration to Australia.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/9
TITLE: Manuscript entitled ‘Cymry Awstralia: Yn gartrefol oddicartref ymhell yn y de’
DATE: nd c1967
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Essay concerning the Welsh in Australia by Emrys Prosser. This essay is an amended version of the essay which won the Beatrice Grenfell prize at the 1961 Eisteddfod.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/10
TITLE: Handwritten draft of the manuscript ‘A History of the Welsh in Australia’
DATE: nd [c1960]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/11
TITLE: Map showing ‘Emigration [from Wales] to USA 1795-1860’
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
MEDIUM:: Pencil on tracing paper
SCALE: No scale given
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Tracing ‘based on Bob Owen, Ceredigion 11, No 3, 1954, Table B p167’.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/12
TITLE: Untitled notebook containing research relating to a history of the Welsh in Australia
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes taken from a number of publications, including the Australian Encyclopaedia and Taylor’s ‘Journeyman Taylor: the education of a scientist’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/2/2/13
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘Emigration General IV’
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes relating to British emigration taken from a number of publications including Clapham’s ‘An Economic History of Modern Britain’ and Fitzpatrick’s ‘British Imperialism and Australia 1783-1833’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/14
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘Australia V’
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes taken from a number of publications including ‘Palmer’s Track of the Years: The Story of St Arnaud’, Pike’s ‘Paradise of Dissent’ and Ward’s ‘The Australian Legend’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/15
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘VI The Welsh in Australia’
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes taken from a number of publications including Green’s ‘A Century of Responsible Government in Tasmania 1856-1956’ and Beaglehole’s ‘The Journals of Captain Cook’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/16
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘Australia Vol VII’
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes concerning the Welsh in Australia taken from manuscripts at the National Library of Wales and the University College of North Wales, Bangor.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/17
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘Australia Vol VIII’
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes taken from a number of publications including Fitzpatrick’s ‘The Australian Commonwealth: A Picture of the Community 1901-1955’and Davies’ ‘Western Australia’. Paginated.
LANGUAGE: English and Welsh

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/18
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘IX Welsh in Australia’
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes taken from ‘Y Bywgraffiadur Gymreig hyd 1940’, including entries for Llewelyn David Bevan and Jonathon Ceredig Davies, and also from Jones’ ‘Annibynwyr Cymraeg Awstralia’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/19
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘Australia Vol X’
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes taken from a number of publications including Lubbock’s ‘The Colonial Clippers’, Thomas’ ‘The Diary and Letters of Mary Thomas’ and Bevan’s ‘The Life and Reminiscences of Llewelyn David Bevan’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/20
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘XI Welsh in Australia Y Drysorfa’
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from ‘Y Drysfora concerning the Welsh in Australia. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/21
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘XII’ concerning the Welsh in Australia
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes taken from a number of publications including ‘Y Berniad Vol XIV’ and Lewis’ ‘History of the United Welsh Church of Blackstone, Queensland Australia 1883-1933’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/22
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘XIII’ concerning the Welsh in Australia
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes taken from a number of publications including Fitzpatrick’s ‘The Australian People 1788-1945’ and Barrett’s ‘Gold in Australia’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/23
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘XIV. Australian Cricket. The Convict Ships 1688-1768’
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes taken from Moyes’ ‘Australian Cricket: A History’ and Bateson’s ‘The Convict Ships 1787-1868’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/24
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘XV Serle Dict Biog Yr Emfys (Part 1)’
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes taken from Serle’s ‘Dictionary of Australian Biography’ and ‘Yr Enfys Cylchgrawn y Cymru ar Wasgar’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/25
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘XVI Enfys (Part II)
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes taken from ‘Yr Enfys Cylchgrawn y Cymru ar Wasgar’ Part II of 1447/24/6. Notes also taken from other publications concerning the Welsh in Australia including Idriess’ ‘Back O’Cairns’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/26
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘XVII Newspapers’
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes taken from a number of newspapers concerning the Welsh in Australia.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/27
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘XVIII Yr Ymwelydd 1874-76...’
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: ‘...2 vols, 27 issues in all’. Notes taken from ‘Yr Ymwelydd’ a Welsh monthly newspaper published in Victoria. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/28
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘XIX Yr Australydd’
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from volumes I-IV. Also includes notes taken from Cobley’s ‘Sydney Cove 1793-95 Vol IV’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/29
TITLE: Notebook
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘XX’. Research notes concerning the Welsh in Australia taken from a number of publications, including Cobley’s ‘Sydney Cove 1788’ and Ecatt’s ‘Australian Labour Leader: The Story of WA Holman and the Labour Movement’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/30
TITLE: Notebook
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘XXI’. Research notes concerning the Welsh in Australia taken from a number of publications including Hasluck’s ‘Unwilling Emigrants: A Study of the Convict Period in W[estern] A[ustralia]’ and Uren’s ‘Glint of Gold’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/31
TITLE: Notebook
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘XXII’. Research notes concerning the Welsh in Australia, taken from a number of publications, including Owen’s ‘Bedyddwyr Cymreig Awstralia’Trivelt’s ‘NSW Statistical Register for 1913’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/32
TITLE: Notebook
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘XXIV’. Research notes concerning the Welsh in Australia, taken from a number of publications including Turner’s ‘A History of the Colony of Victoria’ and Giblin’s ‘The Early History of Tasmania’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/33
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘XXV JRAHS 1926’
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes concerning the Welsh in Australia, taken from a number of publications including Fitzpatrick’s ‘The British Empire in Australia: An Economic History 1834-1939’, O’Brien’s ‘The Foundation of Australia 1786-1800’ and a number of articles from the Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/34
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘XXVI’. Research notes concerning a history of the Welsh in Australia, taken from a number of publications including Davies’ ‘The History of the Tahitian Mission 1799-1830’ and James’ ‘A Homestead History’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/35
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘XXVII’. Research notes concerning the Welsh in Australia taken from a number of publications, including ‘Historical Studies, Australia and New Zealand’ and Paull’s ‘Old Walhalla: Portrait of a Gold Town’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/36
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘XXVIII JRAHS 1921-35 see also XXV’. Research notes concerning the Welsh in Australia taken from the Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/37
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘XXIX’. Research notes concerning the Welsh in Australia taken from a number of publications including Kiddle’s ‘Men of Yesterday’ and Brown’s ‘The Clyde Company Papers’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/38
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘XXX’. Research notes concerning the Welsh in Australia and Chartism taken from a number of publications including Turnbull’s ‘Bluestone: The Story of James Stephens’ and Withers’ ‘The History of Ballarat’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/39
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘ XXXI JRAHS 1935’. Research notes concerning the Welsh in Australia taken from the Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/40
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘XXXII’. Research notes concerning the Welsh in Australia, particularly William Morris Hughes, taken from a number of publications including Morgan’s ‘The War on Wales’ and Barnard’s ‘A History of Australia’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/41
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘XXXIII Maccoby English Radicalism’
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes taken from Maccoby’s publication ‘English Radicalism’ and publications concerning the Welsh in Australia, including Naish’s ‘The Cleab Breast: An autobiography in eleven episodes’ and Martlock’s ‘Experiences of a Convict’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/42
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘XXXIV WMH’. Research notes relating to William Morris Hughes, the Australian Prime Minister, taken from a number of publications including Murdoch’s ‘The Day and After: War speeches of the Rt. Hon. WM Hughes’ and Sladen’s ‘From Boundary Rider to Prime Minister: Hughes of Australia the Man of the Hour’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/43
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘XXXV’. Research notes concerning the Welsh in Australian politics taken from a number of publications including Graham’s ‘The Late Right Honourable Sir Samuel Walker Griffith’ and Murdoch’s ‘Alfred Deakin: A Sketch’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/44
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘XXXVI’. Research notes taken from the Australian census c1851-1901. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/45
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘XXXVII’. Research notes primarily concerning the Chartist movement in Wales. Notes taken from a number of publications including Nicholas ‘One Hundred Years Ago: The Story of the Montgomeryshire Chartists’ Hamer’s ‘A Brief Account of the Chartist Outbreak at Llanidloes in the Year 1839’,and Thomas’ ‘Agriculture in Wales during the Napoleonic Wars’. Paginated. Loose in notebook are a leaflet on ‘The Australian National Flag’, and biographical notes on William Morris Hughes. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/46
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘XXXVIII Welsh Emigrants...’
DATE: 1960-65
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: ‘...Extracts from an address delivered at the British Association meeting in Cardiff by Prof. EG Bowen’. Newspaper cuttings concerning Welsh emigration. Also includes two cuttings relating to ERD Prosser winning the Beatrice Grenfell Prize at the National Eisteddfod for his essay on the Welsh in Australia.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/47
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘XL Hist[orical] Rec[ords of] Australia’
DATE: nd [1960/70s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes concerning the Welsh on Australia taken from ‘Historical Records of Australia’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/48
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘XLI Hist[orical] Rec[ords of] Australia (cont’d)’
DATE: nd [1960/70s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes concerning the Welsh in Australia taken from ‘Historical Records of Australia’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/49
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘XLII Hist[orical] Rec[ords of] NSW’
DATE: nd [1960/70s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes taken from ‘Historical Records of New South Wales’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/50
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1960/70s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘XLIII’. Genealogical research concerning the family of Evan Evans of Tregynan-Uchaf, Llanrhystyd, now of Australia. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/51
TITLE:Research notebook
DATE: nd [1960/70s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘XLIV’. Research notes concerning William Morris Hughes primarily taken from Fitzhardinge’s ‘William Morris Hughes: A Political Biography’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/52
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1960/70s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘XLV’. Research notes concerning Australian and Canadian history and politics taken from a number of publications, including Barry’s ‘The Life and Death of John Price: A study of the exercise of naked power’, King’s ‘Ten Decades: The Australian Centenary Story of the London Missionary Society’ and Stephenson’s ‘The History and Description of Sydney Harbour’.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/53
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1960/70s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘XLVI’. Research notes relating to the history of the Welsh in Australia taken from ‘Papers and Proceedings of the Tasmanian Historical Research Association’, Cobley’s ‘Crimes of First Fleet Criminals’, and Aitken’s ‘Land of Fortune’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/54
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1960/70s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘XLVII’. Research notes concerning Welsh emigration to Australia. Notes taken from a number of publications including Austin’s ‘The Webbs’ Australian Diary’, Cobley’s ‘Sydney Cove 1791-92’ and Shaw’s ‘Convicts and the Colonies’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/55
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1960/70s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘XLVIII’. Research notes concerning the Welsh in Australia taken from a number of publications including Henderson’s ‘Early Pioneers Families of Victoria and Riverina’, Fenton’s ‘A History of Tasmania’ Sibree’s ‘London Missionary Society’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/56
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘XLIX Y Geninen (Eisteddfod)’
DATE: nd [1960/70s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes concerning the history of the Eisteddfod and the Welsh in Australia taken from Y Geninen and Yr Enfys.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/57
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1960/70s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘L’. Research notes concerning the Welsh in Australia taken from a number of publications including La Nauge’s ‘Alfed Deakin: Federated Australia Selections from Letters to the Morning Post’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/58
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1960/70s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘LI’. Research notes concerning the Welsh in Australia taken from a number of publications including Waterson’s ‘Squatter, Selector and Storekeeper: A History of the Darling Downs 1858-93’ and Clark’s ‘A History of Australia Vol II’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/59
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1960/70s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘LII’. Notebook containing eight hand-drawn and untitled maps of Australia and Tasmania. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/60
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘LIII J B Humffray’
DATE: nd [1960/70s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes concerning the life of John Basson Hummfray, who migrated to Australia from Wales in the 1850s and became a Minister for Mines. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/61
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1960/70s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘LIV 3013’. Research notes concerning the Welsh in Australia taken from Weatherburn’s ‘George William Evans, explorer’. Only the first few pages have been used.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/62
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1960/70s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘LV’. Research notes concerning John Lord MP for Pembroke and later Sir John Owen upon inheriting the Oriellon estate near Pembroke, and his brother Edward Lord, a landowner in Van Diemen’s Land and a principal figure in the establishment of an elected legislature for Tasmania. Only frist few pages of notebook are used.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/63
TITLE: Research notes on the Welsh in America
DATE: nd [1960/70s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from publications including ‘Welsh People in California’ by D Hughes and ‘The Character of Early Welsh Emigration’ by A H Dodd.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/64
TITLE: Notebook containing research relating to a history of the Welsh in Australia
DATE: nd [1970/80s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from publications and archival sources.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/65
TITLE: Research notes taken from documents held at the Public Record Office concerning convict registers
DATE: nd [c1980]
EXTENT: 1 folder
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Also includes a newspaper article by Alexander Cordell entitled ‘Martyrdom and massacre at Merthyr’ concerning the publication of a new book by the same author regarding the hanging of Dic Penderyn for his alleged role in the Bread or Blood Merthyr riots of 1831. Material originally in folder entitled ‘PRO convict registers etc’.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/66
TITLE: Papers relating to research into the Welsh in Australia, with particular reference to the Lord family of Pembrokeshire
DATE: 1985-6
EXTENT: 1 folder
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Includes correspondence with the National Library of Wales, the Royal Commonwealth Society, and the Australian High Commission, research notes, and an essay entitled ‘Edward Lord: The John MacArthur of Van Diemen’s Land’ by E R Henry.
LANGUAGE:: English and Welsh

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/67
TITLE: ‘Census of New South Wales: November 1828’
DATE: 1986
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: ‘Corrigenda and addenda’. Corrections to the Census volume published in 1980. Gives reference number, surname, Christian name, age, FB, ship name, year of arrival, S, R, occupation, employer/remarks, residence, and source. Annotated by Prosser.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/68
TITLE: Newspaper cuttings from the Western Mail
DATE: 1987-8
EXTENT: 1 folder
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Includes an article regarding the sale of Trefecca, a sixteenth-century property built by Rebecca Prosser and associated with Daniel Rowlands; two articles by Lord Parry concerning Welsh settlers in Australia; a letter from E R D Prosser to the Western Mail concerning some corrections to Lord Parry’s articles; and an article concerning the transportation of three of the leaders of the Newport uprisings to Tasmania. Also includes a letter from Lord Parry to E R D Prosser thanking him for his corrections and congratulating him on his research.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/69
TITLE: Correspondence concerning the Centre for Australian Studies in Wales at St David’s University College, Lampeter
DATE: 1987-1990
EXTENT: 1 folder
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Correspondence concerning to ERD Prosser concerning CASW, including details of the first symposium and attendees. Also includes parts of Prosser’s work ‘Cymry Awstralia: Yn gertrefol oddicartref ymhell yn y dre’, and poetry, and details of forthcoming publications relating to the Welsh in Australia. Originally in folder entitled ‘Centre for Australian Studies in Wales’.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/70
TITLE: Correspondence concerning copies of Indices covering the Northern Territory
DATE: July 1988
EXTENT: 1 bundle
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: To ERD Prosser from the Northern Territory of Australia Department of Land and Housing. Originally in envelope entitled ‘NT No Dice’.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/71
TITLE: Gazetteer of place names in Australia
DATE: 12 August 1988
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/71a
TITLE: Correspondence relating to mapping in Victoria, Australia
DATE: September-October 1988
EXTENT: 1 bundle
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: To ERD Prosser from the Division of Survey and Mapping. Includes a number of guides and leaflets. Originally in envelope entitled ‘Victoria’

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/72
TITLE: Research notes concerning the New South Wales census of 1828
DATE: nd [1980s]
EXTENT: 1 bundle
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/72a
TITLE: Papers relating to historical research
DATE: 1980s
EXTENT: 1 folder
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Ten Public Record Office guides to sources for historical research at the PRO, handwritten research notes, and a leaflet advertising the publication of ‘The Founders of Australia: A Biographical Dictionary of the First Fleet’ by Mollie Gillen.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B2/73
TITLE: ‘Corrigenda and Addenda [to the 1828 NSW Census] additional to those of 1896’
DATE: c1990
EXTENT: 1 folder
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Correspondence and notes concerning the New South Wales Census of 1828 with amendments made by ERD Prosser. Originally in folder entitled ‘2 Electorate Census of New South Wales Corrigenda and Addenda 1990’.


Emrys R D Prosser Series B2: Research (Welsh Emigration)