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Catalogue reference: CO 37/188
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- CO 37/188
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1863
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Letters from various government offices (departments) and individuals, most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 37/186 and CO 37/187 and many of which were sent by former Convict Department employees and their relatives.
Offices: Admiralty, Colonial Agents General, Council Office, Foreign Office, Home Office, Land Board, British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, Post Office, Civil Service Commission, Board of Trade, Treasury, and War Office.
Individuals: Second Class Schoolmaster Charles Abbott, Foreman of Carpenters W M Adams, Principal Warden George Banks, F Brown - brother of Warden Thomas Brown, Cox & Co, Charles Carpenter - brother-in-law of Governor Ord, Messenger Robert Campbell, Case and Londonsack - agents for Chief Medical Officer C F Edwards, Assistant Overseer Francis Douglas, Assistant Surgeon W H Dickey, Chief Medical Officer C F Edwards, Rev Frith, George Forrester - father-in-law of Siren Engineer William Bate, Chaplain J M Guilding, Anne Hughlings - widow of Scripture Reader John Powell Hughlings, J H Hall, Assistant Warden Robert Heywood, Mary Hall - relative of convict William Hall, Hospital Warden Alexander Knowles, Assistant Warden Timothy Kerrisk (Kerrish), Grace Kemp - mother of Assistant Warden Thomas Kemp, Assistant Warden Samuel Lee, Alfred M Lloyd, Isabella (Natella) Mantach, Bishop of Newfoundland, Quartermaster Thomas Pearce, Senior Dispenser R J Priest, Assistant Warden John Purton, Clerk of Works Henry Heathcote Russell, Thomas Rowlandson, Assistant Warden Richard W Smith, Harvey Darrell Stewart, Chief Warden Thomas Thompson, Acting Comptroller Henry Trotter, First Class Clerk George Tomlin (Superintendent of the Convict Hulk at Stone Cutters Island, Hong Kong), William Tite - for Clerk of Works Henry Heathcote Russell, Principal Schoolmaster Edward J R Willcocks, Wadeson & Malleson, Second Class Clerk Beaumont Warner, John Whettem - for Foreman of Shipwrights Henry Threadingham, and Stephen Whettem.
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