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Books

Alexander, Michael, Mrs Fraser on the Fatal Shore. London: Michael Joseph, 1971.

Barton, Charlotte (A Lady Long Resident in New South Wales), A Mother’s Offering to Her Children. Sydney: printed at the Gazette Office, 1840.

Bayley, William D’Oyly, A Biographical, Historical, Genealogical, and Heraldic Account of the House of D’Oyly. London: 1845.

Bennett, George, Wanderings in New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore, and China; Being the journal of a naturalist in those countries during 1832, 1833, and 1834, vol. 2. London: Richard Bentley, 1834.

Birch, Alan and David S. Macmillan (eds), The Sydney Scene 1788–1960. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1962.

Blackburn, Geoff, The Children’s Friend Society: Juvenile emigrants to Western Australia, South Africa and Canada, 1834–1842. Access Press: Northbridge, Western Australia, 1993.

Brenton, Edward Pelham, The Bible and Spade. . . London: James Nisbet & Co., 1837.

Brockett, William Edward, Narrative of a Voyage from Sydney to Torres Straits : in Search of the Survivors of the Charles Eaton, in His Majesty’s colonial schooner Isabella, C.M. Lewis, commander, Sydney: printer Henry Bull, 1836.

Burke, Bernard, The Heraldic Register, 1849–1850, London: E. Churton, 1850.

Burke, Edmond, Annual Register, or a Review of the History and Politics of the Year 1839. London: Longman & Co. et al, 1840.

Curtis, John, Shipwreck of the Stirling Castle, containing a Faithful Narrative of the Dreadful Sufferings of the Crew, and the Cruel Murder of Captain Fraser by the Savages. Also, the horrible Barbarity of the Cannibals Inflicted upon the Captain’s Widow, whose Unparalleled Sufferings are Stated by Herself, and Corroborated by the Other Survivors. To which is added, the narrative of the wreck of the Charles Eaton in the same latitude, London: George Virtue, 1838.

Dana, Richard Henry, Two Years before the Mast, London: Heron Books, 1968.

Darwin, Charles, Journal of Researches into the Geology and natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle . . . from 1832 to 1836. London: Henry Colburn, 1839.

De Morgan, Sophia Elizabeth, Mary A. De Morgan ed., Threescore Years and Ten. . ., New York: Cambridge University Press, 1895, digitally published 2011.

D’Oyly, Charles and John Atkinson, Tom Raw, the Griffin. London: R. Ackermann, 1828.

D’Oyly, Sir Charles, Regency Cape Town: Daily life in the early eighteen-thirties. . ., Cape Town: Tafelberg; London: Nasionale Bboekhandel (Publishers) Pty Ltd, 1975.

D’Oyly, Sir Warren Hastings, Tales Retailed of Celebrities and Others, England, William Brandon, & Son, 1920.

Earl, George Windsor (trans.),Voyage of Lieutenant D. H. Kolff, Brig of War Dourga, 1840, supp. p. 1: ‘Sailing directions for the Arafura Sea’; compiled from the narratives of Lieuts Kolff & Modera of the Dutch Navy, issued by the Hydrographic Office, November 1837.

Earl, George Windsor, Enterprise in Tropical Australia. London: Madden and Malcolm, 1846.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th edn, 1911.

Fisher, John, The Afrikaners. London: Cassell, 1969.

Forss, Charles, Practical Remarks upon the Education of the Working Classes. London: S. W. Fores, 1835.

Green, Laurence, A Hollow Sea: Thomas Prockter Ching and the barque ‘Charles Eaton’. Totnes, Devon: RGY Publishing, 2007.

Haddon, A. C. (comp.), Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits. . ., vol. I: General Ethnography. Cambridge: Cambridge at the University Press, 1935.

Hamilton, Walter, East India Gazetteer. London: 1825.

Heavisides, Henry, The Annals of Stockton-on-Tees: with biographical notices. Stockton-on-Tees: Henry Heavisides, 1865.

Heber, Right Rev. Reginald, D.D., Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824–1825 (with Notes upon Ceylon,) : An account of a journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826, and letters written in India, vols 1 & 2. London: John Murray, 1843. Section on Chunar, Chapter XIII, pp. 401–13.

Herschel, Sir John, Herschel at the Cape, David S. Evans et al (eds). Austin and London: University of Texas Press, 1969.

Hodson, V. C. R, List of the Officers of the Bengal Army, vol. 1. London: 1927–28.

Hood, John, Australia and the East. London: John Murray, 1945.

Ingleton, Geoffrey C., True Patriots All, or News from Early Australia as Told in a Collection of Broadsides. . . Rutland, Vermont; Tokyo. Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1988.

Ireland, John, The Shipwrecked Orphans: a true narrative, detailing the shipwreck and sufferings of John Ireland and two little boys, George and William Doyley, who, with their father and mother and thirty-two other persons, were wrecked in the Charles Eaton in the year 1834, on an island in the South Seas, inhabited by savages. First edn, London: Dean and Munday, 1837/38; 2nd edn with shortened title, New Haven: S. Babcock, 1845, 1846, 1848; abridged edn 1850.

Johnson, James, M.D., An Essay on Morbid Sensibility of the Stomach and Bowels… to which are added, observations on the diseases and regimen of invalids, on their return from hot and unhealthy climates, 4th edn, London: Thomas & George Underwood, 1827.

Jukes, J. Beete, M.A. F.G.S. Narrative of the Surveying Voyage of H.M.S. Fly. . .  . 2 vols, vol. 1. London: T. & W. Boone, New Bond Street. 1847.

King. Phillip P., Capt. R. N., F. R. S. (ed.); A Voyage to Torres Strait in Search of the Survivors of the Ship Charles Eaton, which was Wrecked upon the Barrier Reef, in the Month of August, 1834, in His Majesty’s Colonial Schooner Isabella, C. M. Lewis, Commander, Arranged from the Journal and Log Book of the Commander, by authority of His Excellency Major-General Sir Richard Bourke, K. C. B., Governor of New South Wales, etc, etc, etc. Sydney: E. H. Statham, 1837.

Lacour-Gayet, Robert, A History of South Africa, Stephen Hardman (trans.). London: Cassell, 1977.

Lawrence, Honoria, The Journals of Honoria Lawrence: India Observed 1837–1854, eds John Lawrence and Audrey Woodiwiss. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1980.

Lubbock, Adelaide. Owen Stanley R.N. 1811–1850: Captain of the Rattlesnake. Melbourne; London: Heinemann, 1967.

Lupton, Reverend Joseph Hirst, Wakefield Worthies: or, biographical sketches of men of note connected by birth or otherwise with the town of Wakefield in Yorkshire. London: Hamilton & Co.; Wakefield: R. Micklethwaite, 1864.

Macgillivray, John, Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake. . ., 2 vols, vol. II. London: T. & W. Boone, 1852. Australiana Facsimile Editions no. 118, Adelaide: Libraries Board of SA, 1967.

McKinnon, Susan, From a Shattered Sun: Hierarchy, gender and alliance in the Tanimbar Islands. USA: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.

Meredith, Mrs Charles (Louisa), Notes and Sketches of New South Wales . . . from 1839 to 1844. London: John Murray, 1844.

Milliss, Roger, Waterloo Creek. Ringwood Victoria: McPhee Gribble, Penguin Books Aust. Ltd, 1992.

Moore, David,Islanders and Aborigines at Cape York. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies; USA: Humanities Press, 1979.

Mostert, Noel, Frontiers. London: Jonathan Cape, 1992.

Nicholson, Ian, Via Torres Strait: A maritime history of the Torres Strait route and the ships’ post office at Booby Island. Nambour, Qld: Roebuck Society Publication no. 48, 1996.

Noble, Captain J., Port Phillip Pilots and Defences. Melbourne: Hawthorn Press, 2nd ed., 1979.

Parkin, Ray, H. M. Bark Endeavour: Her place in Australian history. Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press; Melbourne University Press, 1997.

Pike, Douglas (gen. ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 2, 1788–1850. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1967.

Prinsep, Augustus, Journal of a Voyage from Calcutta to Van Diemen’s Land : comprising a description of that colony during a six months’ residence : from original letters, selected by Mrs. Augustus Prinsep, 2nd edn, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1833.

Robson, Lloyd, A History of Tasmania: Volume I: Van Diemen’s Land from the earliest times to 1855. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1983.

Stokes, J. Lort, Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coast and Rivers Explored and Surveyed during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the years 1837‑38‑39‑40‑41‑42‑43, by Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley’s Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea, Australiana Facsimile Editions no. 33. Adelaide: Library Board of S.A., 1969.

Stuart, Dorothy Margaret, The Daughters of George III. London, Macmillan & Co., 1939.

Swadling, Pamela, Plumes from Paradise. Queensland: Papua New Guinea National Museum with Robert Brown & Assoc. Pty Ltd, 1996.

Sweatman, John, (Jim Allen and Peter Corris, eds), The Journal of John Sweatman: A Nineteenth Century Surveying Voyage in North Australia and the Torres Strait. St Lucia, Queensland: Queensland University Press, 1977.

Teller, Thomas (ed.), A Tale of Travellers; or a View of the World, vol. 1. London: William Mark Clarke, 1838, no. 56, pp. 441–444; no. 57, pp. 449–452.

Thornton, Edward, A Gazetteer of the Territories under the Government of the East India Company, four vols. London: W.M. H. Allen & Co., 1854, vols 2 and 3.

Walsh, Dorothy (ed.), The Admiral’s Wife: Mrs Phillip Parker King: A selection of letters 1817–1856. Melbourne: Hawthorn Press, 1967.

Wemyss, T., Narrative of the Melancholy Shipwreck of the Ship Charles Eaton; and the inhuman massacre of the passengers and crew; with an account of the rescue of two boys in the hands of the savages, in an island in Torres Straits,2nd edn, Stockton-on-Tees: J. Sharp, 1884, reprinted from the 1st edn of 1837 with additional material added.

MANUSCRIPTS, DIARIES, LOGBOOKS, FILES AND ARTWORK

Bayley, William, Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, A1074.

Helpman, Benjamin, diaries of the voyage of HMS Beagle, part III, pp. 258–263. La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria.

Watson, Thomas, ‘Logbook of the schooner Essington’, on file at the National Library of Australia.

Wilson, T. B., M.D. Surgeon R.N., Narrative of a Voyage round the World: comprehending an account of the wreck of the ship “Governor Ready,” in Torres Straits; a description of the British settlements on the coasts of New Holland, more particularly Raffles Bay, Melville Island, Swan River, and King George’s sound; also, the manners and customs of the Aboriginal tribes; with an Appendix containing remarks on transportation, the treatment of convicts during the voyage, and advice to persons intending to emigrate to the Australian colonies. London: printed for Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1835.

ARTICLES, ESSAYS AND LETTERS

Ashmore, Samuel, letter dated 13 May 1836, Nautical Magazine, vol.6, no. 4. pp. 211–214.

Bax, Allan E, ‘Australian Merchant Shipping, 1788–1849’, Royal Australian Historical Society, Journal and Proceedings, vol. XXXVIII, part VI, 1952, pp. 274–725.

‘C. Coral’, ‘The Wreck of the Charles Eaton: A century-old tragedy’, unsourced newspaper clipping dated 26 March, 1932, in Small Pictures Collection, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.

Cox, David J., ‘ “The wolves let loose at Wolverhampton”: a study of the South Staffordshire Election “riots”, May 1835’, Law, Crime and History, 2011.

Deloitte, Captain W. S. ‘Letter to Editor’, The Times, 2 September 1837.

Fraser, Eliza, ‘Wreck of the Stirling Castle’,Tales of Travellers; or a View of the World, no. 48. 2 September 1837.

Hamilton, Walter, ‘Chunar’, East India Gazetteer, London: 1825.

Hardy, Charles, revised by Horatio Charles Hardy, A Register of Ships, Employed in the service of the Honourable the United East India Company, from the Year 1760 to 1810..., London: Black, Parry, and Kingsbury, 1811.

Igglesden, I. N., Commander, ‘Narrative of the late Cruize of the H.C. Brig of War Tigris’, Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, vol. 1, Aug. 1838–May 1839, pp. 337–351.

‘India Shipping’, Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China and Australias, vol. XVI, 1834, pp. 181–82.

Kempthorne, Commander G. B., I. N., ‘A Narrative of a Voyage in search of the Crew of the Ship “Charles Eaton” performed in the year 1836’, Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, vol. 8, 1849.

King, Phillip Parker (with reference to the Log Book of the Isabella by Lewis, Captain C. M. Lewis), ‘Voyage of the Colonial Schooner Isabella in search of the Survivors of the Charles Eaton’, Nautical Magazine, vol.VI, 1837, pp. 654–662 plus map; pp. 753–760; pp. 799–806.

Laade, Wolfgang, ‘Ethnographic Notes on the Murray Islanders, Torres Straits’, Zeitschrift fur Ethnolgie vol. 94, no. 1, 1969, p. 34.

Losty, J. P., ‘A Princess’s Memento’, South-Asian Studies, no, 7, 1991.

McInnes, Allan, ‘The Wreck of the Charles Eaton’, read to a meeting of the Royal Historical Soc. of Qld, 24 February 1983.

Milman, Hugh, ‘Visit of Inspection to Various Islands, in the G.S.S. “Albatross.” ’ (Report by the Acting Government Resident at Thursday Island), Brisbane: Govt Printer, 18 September 1886.

Morton, Alexander, ‘Notes of a Trip to the Islands of Torres Straits and the South-east Coast of New Guinea’, Geographical Society of A/Asia, Sydney Proceedings, special vol., 1885.

Swift, Roger, ‘The English urban magistracy and the administration of justice during the early nineteenth century: Wolverhampton 1815–1860’, Chester College of Higher Education, no date.

‘Voyage in search of the survivors of the Charles Eaton’, Tales of Travellers: or, A View of the World. vol. 1, no. 56, Saturday, 28 October 1837; vol. 1, no. 57.

‘Wreck of the Stirling Castle’, Tales of Travellers; or A View of the World, vol. 1, no. 48. 2 September 1837.

NEWSPAPERS AND JOURNALS

Annual Register or a View of the History and Politics of the Year 1839, vol. 81, 1840.

Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and its Dependencies, vols XV & XVI, 1823.

Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China and Australasia, James Prinsep (ed.), New Series, vols XIII–XX, 1834–1836.

Australian, 9 April 1830; 19 Aug. 1834; 3 May 1836; 14–21 Oct. 1836; 6 Jan 1837; 30 March, 1838; 19 and 22 Nov. 1838; 20 July 1839; 7 Sept. 1839; 10 Oct. 1840; 21 Jan. 1841.

Colonist, 1 Oct. 1835; 17 Nov. 1836; 24 Nov. 1836; 1 Dec. 1836; 2 March 1837; 15 June 1837; 24 Jan. 1838; 5 May 1838; 7 July 1838; 24 Aug. 1838; 16 March 1839; 24 April 1839.

Calcutta Gazette, 14 May 1820.

East India Register and Directory, London: East India Office, 1818 and post.

Government Gazette, 26 Oct. 1836.

Gentleman’s Magazine Sylvanus Urban (ed.), vol. 12, July–Dec. 1839; vol. 30, 1848.

Hobart Town Courier, 13 Sept. 1833; 20 Sept. 1833; 29 Nov. 1833; 20 May 1836; 12 July 1838.

Hobart Town Magazine, vol. Ill, no. 14, April 1834; no. 15, May 1834; no. 17, July 1834.

Law Journal Reports for the Year 1855 Henry D. Barton (ed.), vol. 24, part 2, 1855.

London Gazette, 1905.

London Times, 24, 26 & 29 Aug. 1872.

Lloyd’s Shipping List, 14 June 1833.

Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser, 23 Aug. 1845; 8 Nov. 1845.

Morning Chronicle,6 Sept. 1845.

Morning Post, 26 Dec. 1838.

Nautical Magazine, vol. II, Aug. and Oct. 1833; vol. III, 1834.

New South Wales Post Office Directories, 1832–1836.

North American Review, 1844.

Port Phillip Herald, 14 Jan. 1840; 4 Aug. 1840.

Saint Jame’s Magazine, and Heraldic and Historical Register, Sir Bernard Burke (ed.), vol. 2, 1850.

Sunday Mirror, Sydney, 16 Nov. 1958.

Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 10 Oct. 1831; 25 Dec. 1832; 15–24 July 1834 and post; Oct.–Nov. 1836; 25 Jan. 1838, 27 Jan. 1838.

Sydney Herald, 5–30 July 1834; Supplement, 21 July 1834; 13–27 Oct. 1836; 16 Nov. 1837; 20 Dec. 1837; 20 July 1839; 23 Sept.1839; 16 Jan. 1841.

Sydney Monitor, 30 June 1826; 5 July 1834; 22 Aug. 1835; 19 Oct. 1836; 11 Nov. 1836.

Sydney Morning Herald,1 Nov.1845.

Sydney Sun, 3 Oct. 1936.

The Register (Adelaide), 17 April 1925.

The Times (London), Oct.–Dec. 1833; Sept. 1836; 1 and 5 Nov. 1836; 31 Aug. 1837; 2 Sept. 1837.

REPORTS

Colonial Office, ‘Copy of a report from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope to the Secretary of the Colonies, relative to the condition and treatment of the children sent out by the Children’s Friend Society’, published 1840.

DATABASE

International Genealogical Index (IGI) for England and India.

RECORDS

Bengal Service Army Lists, reference IOR/L/MIL/10/31.

Bengal Service Army Lists, reference IOR/L/MIL/10/52.

Cape Town 1833 census.

Colonial Secretary’s Correspondence: Letters. Received: Port Phillip AONSW 4/2741, letter 46/1623 (Archives Office, New South Wales).

HIEC Army Cadet Papers, IOR/L/MIL/9/220/141–148.

House of Commons Papers, 1835.

HRA, Series I, vol. XVIII, July 1835–June 1837.

HRA, Series I, vol. XIX, 29 Jan. 1838.

HRA, Series I, vol. XX, 25 Aug. 1838.

HRA, Series I, vol. XIX, Gipps to Glenelg, pp. 700–704.

HRA, Series I, vol. XXIV¸ pp. 661-670.

India Office Records L/MIL/10/23, ff. 171–172.

Madras Service Army Lists, IOR/L/MIL/11/59 – date 1854.

New South Wales – Governor’s Despatches to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, vol. 48, June–Dec. 1845, Mitchell Library, Sydney, ML A1237.

Records of the Staffordshire County Quarter Sessions, April 1839.

Teesside Archives, ref. U.NRC/5/15, 14 Sept. 1869.

UK National Archives – wills.

WEBSITES

http://www.cumberlanduk.com/members/sarah/ce

Watson, Kenneth, compiler, A Watson Family in Australia and New Zealand, http: //www. btinternet..com/mel.rowing/roots/documents/

http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/articles/bushbury/churchrectors.htm

www.localhistory.co.uk/schools/St-mary/history3/index.htm

http://www.jenwilletts.com/ConvictShipsM.htm

http://www.RootsWeb.com/South Africa

MICROFICHE

Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, 1834.

CHARTS

King, Phillip Parker, Admiralty Chart of North Eastern Coast of Australia, pub. 17 November 1824. Available on microfilm, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.

 Bing Translator

Copyright for this manuscript is held by the author: Veronica Peek, of Melbourne Australia. Not to be reproduced in any form without permission.