Description: | A large collection of station records relating to 'Ollera' and 'Tenterden' (owned by the Everetts) and 'Stratton' (owned by the Mackenzies); as well as records relating to the Everett, Mackenzie and Clerk families (connected through inter-marriage). Diaries and notebooks with personal and business details of Everett and Mackenzie family members cover 1836-1848, 1862-1906, and journals kept by E.A. Hill (valet-companion to Mr. Edwin Everett) on sea voyages to and from England, cover 1861, 1880-1881. Further records include Everett family correspondence, 1833-1867 and business letters, 1874-1908, 1922; genealogical notes re Everetts, c.1968 and Clerks (of 'Clerkness', Bundarra) c.1882; miscellaneous papers including newspaper clippings, wills and copies of sketches and official reports; station and production Accounts, 1841-1909, 1916-1917, 1922-1924; stock records including a Stud Book (cattle) 1843-1853, and Sheep Returns, 1839-1949, 1857-1901. (Note: some of the literary records pre-date the establishment of 'Ollera' Station.) |