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Creator: Bright Family [ - ]
1999.0009 PAPERS OF THE BRIGHT FAMILY AND THE MANNERS SUTTON FAMILY 1495-1927 Access: Open
1. Folder of early Australian documents collected by Alfred Bright, including real samples of Ticket-of-leave, Governor's Pardon, Convict Identity documents; Cause for a lashing; 1830-1889; 2. Fifteen folders of Bright Family Papers, including land deeds, wills, indentures, letters, accounts, deeds of partnership, inventories, publications (inc. Jamaican Gazette 11 July 1754), Victorian Miner's R Finding Aids: Yes listed ONLINE
1980.0075 Papers of the Bright Family 1511-1974 Access: Open Some records digitised and available online via Search Digitised Items at http://archives.unimelb.edu.au/
The Bright Family Papers consists of personal, financial, commercial and legal documentation relating to the Bright and Meyler families, including deeds, indentures and wills; correspondence, letterbooks and extracts; journals, ledgers, cashbooks and summaries of accounts; estate plans and inventories; pedigrees, family trees, and copies of Parish registers; folios of artwork; photographs; and so Finding Aids: Yes listed ONLINE
1994.0123 Papers of the Bright Family 1875-1875 Access: Open
Letter written on board the S.S. Great Britain from The Hon. Anna-Maria Georgiana Bright to her parents, the Viscount and Viscountess Canterbury. 30 pages. Finding Aids: No Finding Aid: request file
2005.0024 Papers of the Bright Family 1852-1852 Access: Open
Reginald Bright's log of the voyage of "SS Great Britain" 1852, includes full transcript by D M Baillieu Finding Aids: No Finding Aid. Request all
2009.0010 Papers of the Bright Family 1859-2008 Access: Open
Comprising legal papers and correspondence relating to Alfred Ernest Bright (1869-1938) Finding Aids: Yes listed ONLINE
2010.0010 Papers of the Bright Family 1543-2008 Access: Open
Comprising land deeds, estate documents, inventories, wills, indentures, diaries, reports, correspondence, accounts, newspaper cuttings, genealogical notes, photographs, sketch, prints, amateur watercolours, maps, objects, including dies, an intaglio and seals Finding Aids: Yes listed ONLINE
2000.0025 Papers of the Bright and Manners-Sutton Families 1651-1944 Access: Open
The papers in this acquisition were created and gathered by the Manners-Sutton Family and the Bright Family. Boxes 1 and 2 consist of documents originally stored in the black ministerial despatch box of Charles Manners-Sutton, First Viscount Canterbury and father of the Governor of Victoria, John Henry Thomas Manners-Sutton. The box was passed through the family until its contents were deposited Finding Aids: Yes listed ONLINE
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