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Correspondence and miscellaneous papers

  • AU PMB MS 466
  • Collection
  • 1907 - 1926

See PMB MS 432, material relating to Roman Catholic Mission Fiji.

The papers include accounts of Indians and of part-Europeans in Fiji by Father Helliet and other priests.

Helliet, Y.M.

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers on education

  • AU PMB MS 454
  • Collection
  • 1895 - 1929

See PMB MS 432, material relating to Roman Catholic Mission Fiji.

The documents are:

  1. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers on education, 1895-98
  2. School inspection reports, 1903-08
  3. Legislation on schools, 1917-18
  4. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers on education, 1910-29

Roman Catholic Mission Fiji

Correspondence and mission reports

  • AU PMB MS 174
  • Collection
  • 10 January 1866 - 9 April 1878

These papers comprise part of the records of the Vicariate of New Caledonia which are designated Oceania Nova Caledonia (ONC) in the Marist Archives. The ONC material fills four large filing cabinets which are listed as APM I ONC, APM II ONC, APM III ONC and AMP IV ONC. The ONC files are not as well organized as the other Pacific vicariates and they contain many unclassified and unnamed sections. Please also see PMB MS 161.

Papers from cabinet APM I ONC. Correspondence between New Caledonia and Marist Headquarters in Paris and Lyon. Principal correspondents are Fathers Rougeyron, Forestier and Poupinel. Also included is a summary report to all members of the New Caledonia Vicariate dated 30 January, 1867, on each of the Catholic mission stations in New Caledonia and a detailed report on missionary activity in New Caledonia and its results (Number of converts, marriages, etc.)

Roman Catholic Church - New Caledonia

Correspondence and notes on volcanology in Papua New Guinea

  • AU PMB MS 1330
  • Collection
  • 1971-1979

R.J.S. Cooke was Senior Government Volcanologist at the Rabaul Volcanological Observatory from 1971 to 1979, on secondment from the Bureau of Mineral Resources in Australia. He was killed on Karkar volcano in 1979.

  1. R.J.S. Cooke, Correspondence, 1971-1978, in chronological order. Original correspondence held at RVO.

  2. R.J.S. Cooke, Correspondence regarding sources of reported observations of volcanic activity in Papua New Guinea before 1944, 1976-1978. Original correspondence held by Dr R.W. Johnson, Canberra, in one folder, categorised as follows:
    • Naval/Maritime
    • NLA, AWM, NSW & Victorian State Librarians
    • PNG and Australian National Archives
    • ANU
    • USSR / Russia
    • Church / Missions
    • Miscellaneous institutions
    • Miscellaneous correspondence with individuals

  3. R.J.S. Cooke, Notes on sources of reported observations of volcanic activity in Papua New Guinea before 1944, 1976-1978. Original notes held by Dr R.W. Johnson, Canberra, in one folder.

Cooke, R.J.S.

Correspondence and other papers

  • AU PMB MS 913
  • Collection
  • 1899 - 1925

Pryke was one of three brothers - the others being Frank and James - who pioneered the search for gold in Papua New Guinea, beginning in 1896. (See Pacific Islands Monthly, August 1937, p.7, and Hank Nelson, Black, White and Gold: Goldmining in Papua New Guinea, 1878-1930, Canberra, 1976).

Papers relating to the search for and mining of gold in Papua New Guinea, some written from the field. They are part of the Pryke collection - MS 1826 - in the National Library. Of the six boxes in the collection, the following material appears on the microfilm:
Box 1: Folder 1; Business and personal correspondence, 1909-1917 Folder 2; Letters from Pryke to his wife, 1899-1920 Folder 3; Correspondence, 1903-1920 Folder 4; Correspondence, 1905-1920 Folder 5; Correspondence, 1901-1920 Folder 6; Correspondence, 1901-1925 Folder 7; Correspondence, 1907-1915 Folder 8; Correspondence, 1903-1920
Box 2: Folder 15; 'Contracts for Native Labour' 1900-1914
Box 5: Folder 40 - 'Letters, miner's right, receipts, wage lists 1911, 1908-1911'.

Pryke, Daniel

Correspondence and other papers

  • AU PMB MS 183
  • Collection
  • 1862 - 1914

Please see PMB 161

Correspondence from cabinet APM III ONC including the following dossiers:

  1. Demeles avec le Gouverneur Guillan, 1863-69
  2. Le clerge colonial, 1862-1895 (notes, letters and reports on economic and political aspects of the mission)
  3. Letters and notes relating to the French colonisation of New Caledonia
  4. Letters to, from and about Governor Guillain, 1862-1869
  5. Letters about mission relations with the colonial government, 1869-1902
  6. Printed manual for Les Petites Filles de Marie
  7. Letters from Soeurs de St Joseph de Cluny, 1877-1887
  8. Letters re La Trappe de Wagap, 1876-1893
  9. Letters, reports, newspaper clippings on Pouebo massacres, 1867-1868
  10. Letters from the Soeurs T.O.R.M. to the Administration General of the Society of Mary, 1878-1914. Continues on PMB 184.
    Note: This film, as obtained from Rome, is defective in two respects:
      1. The material on the Pouebo massacres - item 9 - ends in the middle of a letter to Rougeyron (7 Nov. 1867), p.12-13. A join in the film follows. The remainder of the letter will be found at the beginning of reel PMB 182.
      1. A letter of 16 October 1913 to Father Roffin in item 3 above should properly follow material at the end of reel PMB 181.

Roman Catholic Church - New Caledonia

Correspondence and other papers

  • AU PMB MS 189
  • Collection
  • 1848 - 1934

Please see PMB MS 184. These papers comprise part of the records of the Vicariate of Samoa which are designated Oceania Navigatores (ON) in the Marist Archives.

The documents comprise material in the following files:

  1. ON 418 Mgr Brayer, 1896-1918
  2. ON 418 Mgr Darnand, 1905-34 (contents 1920)
  3. ON 498 T.O.R.M. Epistolae Ad Admin General (1877, 1892-1920)
  4. ON 5700-1 Collegiae (1895)
  5. ON 600 Activitas Pastoralis (Conferences Theologiques, 1886)
  6. ON 6100 Aleipata (1900), Apia (1870-1)
  7. ON 61 208 Apia Epistolae (1848-54, 1875-90, 1910, 1855-57)

Roman Catholic Church - Samoa

Correspondence and other papers related to their service with The Methodist Overseas Mission, New Hanover, PNG

  • AU PMB MS 1114
  • Collection
  • 1936-1942

Thomas Nevison Simpson was born in London on 18 March 1909. In May 1924 (aged 15 years) he came to Adelaide with the last batch of boys under the Barwell Scheme of South Australia. In 1928 he took the local preachers' examination and became a member of the Methodist Church. In 1936 he completed studies at Wesley College in Adelaide and at the University of Sydney. In August 1936 he was sent to the Methodist Mission in Rabaul, New Britain, and then to the Mission at Kavieng in New Ireland where he was Assistant Minister. In December 1936 he was sent as the first Methodist Missionary to New Hanover where he was stationed at Ranmelek. Nellie Sudlow and Tom Simpson were married in Rabaul in September 1937. Nellie and their daughter, Margaret, were evacuated from Kavieng in December 1941, but Tom Simpson stayed on at Ranmelek where he was captured by the Japanese. The last communication from Tom Simpson was dated 5 January 1942. Nellie Simpson died in July 1992.

Correspondence from Tom Simpson to Nellie Ludlow and from Tom and Nellie to her family, together with press cuttings and related documents, 1936-1942, arranged and summarised by their daughter, Margaret Henderson. <P><B>See reel list for further details</B>

Simpson, Thomas Nevison

Correspondence and papers

  • AU PMB MS 173
  • Collection
  • 1846 - 1891

These papers comprise part of the records of the Vicariate of New Caledonia which are designated Oceania Nova Caledonia (ONC) in the Marist Archives. The ONC material fills four large filing cabinets which are listed as APM I ONC, APM II ONC, APM III ONC and AMP IV ONC. The ONC files are not as well organized as the other Pacific vicariates and they contain many unclassified and unnamed sections. Please also see PMB MS 161.

Correspondence and other papers from cabinet APM I ONC of Mgr Guillaume Douarre and Father Pierre Rougeyron, Provincial Apostolsic.

Roman Catholic Church - New Caledonia

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