The Australian Women's Register

Miscellaneous collection of source material compiled by Nancy Basterfield.,Includes: Macartney lineage, the Macartney, Hardman, De Burgh, McClintock and Woodville (Wydevill) families — much of the material relates to Dean Hussey Burgh Macartney, Jane Macartney and their children, John Arthur, Rev. Hussey Burgh, Flora and Edward Hardman Macartney, details of Melbourne life in the second half of the nineteenth century, especially ministerial work in Melbourne, Geelong and rural circuits, involvement in several hospitals and benevolent societies and various pastoral interests in Victoria and Queensland (details of Glenmore, Mount Battery, Wondilligong, Woodlands and Delatite homestead, and Rockhampton, Waverley and Moreton Bay in the north),material includes photocopies of letters and photographs, newspaper cuttings (especially obituaries of Dean and Jane Macartney) of family members and several poems and hymns by Lady Catherine and Dean Macartney, copies of published material includes autobiographical reminiscences of John Arthur Macartney and Rev. Hussey Burgh Macartney (Jnr.) entitled “Rockhampton fifty years ago – reminiscences of a pioneer” and “England home and beauty, sketch of Christian life and work in England” (1878 and 1893 respectively),also includes biographical material on Anne and Walter Hussey Burgh, Lady Catherine Macartney, Charles James Griffith, Charles Perry, Catherine Anna Mona Brougham (nee Macartney), James Moore, Edward Graves Mayne, the Macartney daughters, Henrietta, Anna, Jane, Caroline, Frances and Charlotte; Edward Hardman Macartney, Flora Macartney and incidental references to prominent early settlers and later Macartney descendants., Overall this material provides quite an interesting insight into the family life of the ‘upper classes’ in nineteenth century Victoria and the importance of religion and morality in everyday life and the general attitudes adopted by women and men in this privileged milieu.