Collection RS20 - John Walker Collection

Index to RS20

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Identity area

Reference code

AU TAS UTAS SPARC RS20

Title

John Walker Collection

Date(s)

  • 1837-1878 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent and medium

8 bound volumes

Context area

Name of creator

(1799-1874)

Biographical history

Walker arrived in Hobart Town on September 1822 aboard the "Heroine". By his own account he was 'penniless and unfriended'. Within a month he was appointed superintendent of the government flour-mill on the Hobart Town Rivulet. Next year he received a ... »

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Presented to the Royal Society by Mrs C.N. Atkins and A.D. Goodfellow (having been found on premises
in Barrack Street, formerly occupied by Walker's mill)

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Collection consists of various Walker Mill records including ledgers, sales journals and day book. Also included is a cashiers day book for the Derwent Bank. John Walker was the liquidator of the bank.

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing reproduction

This material is made available for personal research and study purposes under the University of Tasmania Standard Copyright Licence. For any further use permission should be obtained from the copyright owners. For assistance please contact Special.Collections@utas.edu.au

Related units of description

Some other records of Walkers Mill and brewery were transferred to the State Archives on indefinite loan by the Royal Society on 8 June 1961 (NS 37) https://stors.tas.gov.au/AI/NS37

Access points

Dates of creation revision deletion

HE Apr.2020

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