| Description | Including:
Reasons for emigration
Emigration agents
Journal of a voyage from Hull to New York, 7 Jun 1817 (photocopy)
Emigrants letters (photocopies):
Letter to from John Leedham to his mother in Goxhill, Lincolnshire, 5 Jun 1818; letter from John Leedham in Duck Creek to his father, 12 Sep 1818; letters from John Leedham in Fearing Township to his mother, 25 Jul 1819, 4 Jan 1823, 12 Jan 1823, 14 Jun 1829, 24 Apr 1831, 1 Sep 1831, 1 Feb 1833, 5 Mar 1835, 21 Jan 1838, letters from John Leedham to his sister, 11 Apr 1838 and 14 Dec 1838; letter from Richard Knaggs in New Zealand to Robert and Ellen Fox in Lockington, 6 Feb 1860; letter from Isaac Bravendon in Brock, Canada, to Thomas Sawdon, Yorksgate, Malton, 11 Dec 1846; letter from John Bravendon to Thomas Sawdon, 20 May 1847
Emigration to South Africa, Australia and North America pre 19th century
Ship, 'Albion' passenger list, 14 Mar 1774 (photocopy)
Land Tax assessment relating to Egremont, 1832 (photocopy)
Petworth Emigration Scheme booklet, May 1990, relating to emigrants from Sussex and neighbouring counties to upper Canada |