The Australian Women's Register

MS 6207 comprises correspondence, financial papers, business documents, deeds, wills, diaries, notebooks, photographs, glass slides, press cuttings and notes relating to Miriam Chisholm and properties such as “Kippilaw”, Goulburn and “Calder House,” Sydney. There are also notes and pictorial records of Chisholm’s travel experiences, and a large quantity of notes, articles, family trees, and obituaries relating to the history of Goulburn, Sydney, Canberra, Berrima and nearby areas, as well as the genealogy of the Chisholm family, including the first settler, James Chisholm, and related families such as Kinghorne, Strickland, Mason, Brown and Sandiland (19 boxes, 3 fol. Boxes, 4 map folios). The Acc98.083 instalment comprises records of the Clan Chisholm Society including correspondence, membership applications and indexes, photographs, papers relating to Caroline Chisholm, publications, souvenirs, genealogies and family trees, press clippings, a film and records of branches in Victoria, North America and Scotland (5 cartons). The Acc00.065 instalment includes copies of the documentation prepared for Miriam Chisholm’s Clan Chisholm Society records (1 box).