Family: Burt Family, Burdekin Downs
Summary
Items: two boxes. Shelf Location: 4R. The Burt family operate Burdekin Downs cattle stations in the Charters Towers District. Mr Howard Burt an American citizen came to Australia as a serviceman during the Second World War and married Elizabeth Salmon of Burdekin Downs. The station was one of the first runs settled in the area during the squatting rush of 1861, by Edward Cunningham.
BOX1.
Collins Lady's Diary 1890, entries few and not for 1890, including station jottings, brief details of a voyage Townsville-Gibraltar, from 17 November, during journey, Charters Towers-London, one volume.
The Cooper Note Book for Stockowners, 1949-50, including rough diary entries, station jottings from 31 August, one volume.
Correspondence files, postcards, documents, photographs, poetry: correspondence including some business letters and legal documents; collection of letters and cards covering overseas trips by family members, also correspondence from Australian Servicemen in France and the Middle East during the First World War.
Uncatalogued photographs of family and general north Queensland interest.
Commemorative poetry dated 5 March 1890, 1 December 1897; bush verse, 30 May 1883, all initialled 'LFD', several bundles.
Correspondence, entitled 'Letters from our American Cousins', covering period ca. August 1915-December 1969, one bundle.
Box 2: Miscellaneous Items.
Correspondence file. Letters from George Cavey to his family, while he was serving in England and France during the First World War. Family and business letters, dating from September 1892, from England, U.S.A., Colombo, Methodist Ladies' College Melbourne, Thornborough House Charters Towers, Brisbane. Also from Queensland station properties: Bedford Downs, Augustus Downs, Inverleigh, Mt Elsie, Canobie, Yacamunda, one large folder.
Postcards and greeting cards, from nineteenth century, one package.
Birth certificates, six family records, from 1875, one package.
Contract: Charters Towers Water Supply, Intake Tunnel and Pump Shaft, Contract No.1, No.2, No.3. Specifications for Works, Charters Towers Waterworks Board, Charters Towers, 1888, one fastened bundle, frail.
Account book, Burdekin Downs, June 1916-December 1939, one volume.
Wages book, Burdekin Downs, 1 June 1916-1 July 1918, one volume.
Collection of printed publications including:
A lecture on our gold supply: Its effects on finance, trade, commerce and industries, by Mr Thomas Cornish M.E. Read before the Balloon Society of Great Britain, Friday February 25 1887. Publishing details obliterated, softbound, pp.29.
Australian Imperial Force. The Final Objective, Being a Souvenir of the Voyage from England to Australia, H.M.A.T. Takeda, Xmas 1918-February 1919. "Written at Sea, Printed in Adelaide, Cherished at Home". Soft bound booklet, pp.14, two copies.
Charters Towers Goldfield. Review of the Year 1895. Taken from the Northern Miner and North Queensland Register newspapers, includes a coverage of all major mines, soft bound booklet, pp.21, frail.
Photograph Collection. Including family groups, portraits, Australian troops in England First World Ward, scenes of Townsville, Magnetic Island, Ingham, Port Douglas, Charters Towers (including mines), from 1870, two bundles.
Photographs: Miles Family of Mt Elsie Station, Charters Towers, six prints.
Collection, various invitations, menus, commemorative souvenirs, postage stamps, one package. DELAMOTHE.