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Norfolk Island victualling book, 1792-1796

Norfolk Island victualling book, 1792-1796

Full title: Norfolk Island victualling book, 1792-1796

Author/creator: King, Philip Gidley, 1758-1808, New South Wales. Commissariat.

Date: 1796.

Call Numbers: SAFE/A 1958 (Safe 1/266)

Record Identifier: 9NaApbWY

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Formats: Manuscripts

Contents: 0.03 metres of textual material (1 volume)

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Notes: This is a register of all people, whatever their status, entering Norfolk Island. Its purpose was to record the number of days each person was supplied with food rations from the Commissariat stores. Governor King's instructions to the Commissary required such a register to be kept at each branch of the Commissariat and it was called a Victualling Book. (Source: State Records Authority of New South Wales -- Record Series Detail, Series No.1343) See transcribed copy, with index : T. D. Mutch - Norfolk Island victualling list 1792-1796 (CY 3467 (Original at A 4422))

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    Norfolk Island victualling book, 1792-1796

    Call numbers

    SAFE/A 1958 (Safe 1/266)

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    9NaApbWY

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    Norfolk Island victualling book, 1792-1796

    Full title

    Norfolk Island victualling book, 1792-1796

    Author / Creator

    New South Wales. Commissariat

    Date

    1796

    Call Numbers

    SAFE/A 1958 (Safe 1/266)

    Record Identifier

    9NaApbWY

    Formats

    Manuscripts

    — Physical Description

    Contents

    0.03 metres of textual material (1 volume)

    — Other Descriptions

    Level of description

    Fonds

    Arrangement

    Arrangement is by date of entry in each listing.

    Access and use

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    Issue Copy

    Microfilm : CY 367, frames 1-197 (A 1958, filed at Safe 1/266)

    Microfilm : CY 3467, frames 1-103 (A 1958 , filed at Safe 1/266)

    Subjects

    Subjects and topics

    Norfolk Island Convicts--Norfolk Island--Registers. Pioneers--Norfolk Island--Registers Public administration--New South Wales. Registers of births, etc.--Norfolk Island.

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    — SCOPE AND CONTENTS

    Contents

    List of all people on Norfolk Island 1792-1795 on food rations from the Commissariat. The following details are given: register number, date of entry to Norfolk Island, from where (name of ship arrived on), name of person, status or rank, whether discharged or dead, date of discharge or death, name of ship in which departed, and the number of days...

    — ALTERNATIVE TITLES

    Full title

    Norfolk Island victualling book, 1792-1796

    — AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

    Author / Creator

    Author / Artists

    — NOTES

    General note

    This is a register of all people, whatever their status, entering Norfolk Island. Its purpose was to record the number of days each person was supplied with food rations from the Commissariat stores. Governor King's instructions to the Commissary required such a register to be kept at each branch of the Commissariat and it was called a Victualling...

    — CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION

    Source

    Presented by Gilbert Goldfinch, July, 1934. (ML 477/34)

    Administrative / Biographical history

    In October 1786, Governor Phillip selected Philip Gidley King to establish a subordinate settlement on Norfolk Island. In December 1789 the secretary of state announced that King would be appointed lieutenant-governor of Norfolk Island. (Source: ADB online)

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    — PRIMARY IDENTIFIERS

    Call Numbers

    SAFE/A 1958 (Safe 1/266)

    Record Identifier

    9NaApbWY

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    Reference code

    457626

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