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MF 163-88

The Moravian Mission in Australia Papers
1832-1916



ACCESS AND SCOPE NOTE

Access

Open access. Depositor's permission not required for quotation, but required for copying in part or whole. Depositor's permission required for copying photographic material - A1/B4 and B6.

Contact: Archiv der Bruder-Unitat, DDR-8709, Herrnhut, Zittauer Strasse 24.

Scope

Papers, correspondence, transactions and diaries on microfilm. Microfilm, 26 reels, 35 mm. 26 parts including 1786 letters.
 

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HISTORICAL NOTE


The Moravian Mission

The Moravian Church, also known as the Church of the United Brethren, originated in central Europe in the fifteenth century. The Church was essentially a missionary fellowship and the first Moravian missionaries were sent to Australia at the invitation of authorities in New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria in October 1849. This collection includes the papers, correspondence, transactions, diaries, and related material on the emigration to Australia (1832-50), first mission at Lake Boga, Swan Hill, and its abandonment (1849-57), beginning again in Gippsland at Ramahyuck Mission (1858-70), correspondence associated with Lacepede Bay, Yorke Peninsula, Lake Condah, Kopperamanna, Coranderrk, Brisbane, Boorhooyanna (1865-89), Ebenezer and Ramahyuk Missions (1858-1906), and North Queensland, Weipa, Aurukun and Mapoon (1885-1916). Copied from the originals in the Archiv der Bruder-Unitat, Herrnhut, DDR.

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SERIES LIST

Microfilm Series
164-185 Australia
186-187 North Australia, North Queensland

AUSTRALIA

MICROFILM 164

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  1. Correspondence and transactions on the emigration to Australia: memorial of the Mission Board of the Church of the United Brethren, 16 March 1841 in reply to the representation of the Committee of the London Association regarding a Mission to the Aborigines; London Association report and minutes for 1844; extracts from letters from missionaries, 1832-3; 18 letters 18 June 1847-29, May 1850 from C.J. La Trobe, G. von Rochling, N.J. Curie, Eduard Delins, I.C.M. Hartig, G. Blumel and others, William Westgarth and Andrew F.C. Taeger; Fur Auswanderer nach Australien by Michael Deutscher; Der zurcherische Missionsverein - Zwanzigster Jahresbericht an alle Freunde des Reiches Gottes, Zurich, 1847, 30 p.; Die deutsche Auswanderung nach Sudaustralien, [1847], 8 p.; Die deutsche Auswanderung nach Sudaustralien und Australia Felix, [1848], 8 p.; Plan of between decks of the ship, Sibella, 1849.
     
  2. Transactions with the English authorities in Australia: gift of land: Bericht und die Auswanderer nach Australien, [1848], 4 p. ; 59 letters, 11 Apr. 1851-14 December 1857 to Government House, Sydney, Colonial Secretary's Office, Melbourne, Chief Commissioner of Crown Lands Office, Melbourne, Superintendent of Police, Governor of the Colony of Victoria, Surveyor Generalls Office, and to and from the Lake Boga Mission from A.F.C. Taeger, I.M. Smith (Hon. Treasurer, Moravian Mission Fund), A.W. Spieseke, P. La Trobe and others; Mr Somerville's Remarks on the blacks of Australia, dated Portland, 26 November 1855 followed by Statements on the Aborigines of Wide Bay and Fraser Island by Rev.Tanner, n.d.; clipping from Bericht an die Auswanderer nach Australien, [1850?] (MF 188).
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MICROFILM 165

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  1. First Mission at Lake Boga.
  1. Correspondence 27 September 1849, 11 January 1851-3 [Dec.?] 1857 (mainly to Ernst Reichel and T.C. Breutel, Berthelsdorf bei Herrnhut, Saxony and Peter La Trobe, Secretary, Church and Missions of the United Brethren, London): 53 letters from A.F.C. Taeger, A.W. Spieseke, C.J. La Trobe, W. Lees, Paul Hansen, J.H Gwyther (Vicar of Madely), P. La Trobe, F.A. Hagenauer and A.W. Spieseke.
  2. Reports January 1851-June 1856, 146 p. (dates and page references listed).
  3. Paul Hansen's diary, 8 September 1853-1 January 1854, 50 p.
  4. Abandonment of the Mission: Verhandlungen und Memoranda uber Aufhebung dieser Mission, 1856 und Aufgang einer neuen Mission, 1857, 8 p.; Remarks on the circumstances attending the progress and abandonment of the Australian Mission, 8 p.; Memorandum from the Church Missions of the United (or Moravian) Brethren to Sir Henry Barkly on the Mission to the Aborigines in the Colony of Victoria, signed P. La Trobe, London, 17 October 1856, 3 p.; Remarks by C.J. La Trobe, Addington Vale, 11 December 1856, 6 p.; letter to The Record on the abandonment of the Mission signed P. La Trobe, London; 5 letters, 20 February-16 December 1857 from P. La Trobe, the Bishop of Melbourne and Sir Henry Barkly; Petition ordered by the Legislative Assembly to be printed 24 June 1857 - The memorial of the United Church of England and Ireland in Victoria, signed by the Bishop of Melbourne.
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MICROFILM 166

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  1.  
  1. Wilhelm Spieseke Diarium vom Boga-See, January 1855-August 1856, 44 p.
MICROFILM 188

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  1. Extracts from The Herald, 6, 9, 11 September 1856; The Argus, 17 March 1856; The Record, 16 and 30 January 1857; Australian News, 20 January 1866; The Register, 9 January 1866
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MICROFILM 166

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  1. Replacement of the Mission
  1. Correspondence l0 January 1858-7 December 1859, (mainly to L.J. Reichel, Berthelsdorf and P. La Trobe, London): 57 letters from F.W. Spieseke, F.A. Hagenauer, Rudolf Linder, Sir Henry Barkly, Chief Secretary's Office, Melbourne, Public Lands Office, Melbourne, T.L. Badham, P. La Trobe, Peter Beveridge, G.G.M. Fordern, S. Lloyd Chase and Horatio C. Ellerman - Motion on Aborigines, Legislative Assembly, Melbourne, 1 February 1859.
  2. Beginning again in Gippsland - correspondence 24 July 1860-16 December 1862, 22 September-6 December 1866, 8 December 1868-4, January 1870: 39 letters from A.J. Campbell for Mission Committee, Sir Henry Barkly, Bishop of Melbourne, F.A. Hagenauer, Carl Kramer, L.T. Reichel, G. Meissel and George MacKie.
  3. Articles and doctrine of the Moravian Society at Herrn Huth, Mount House, Victoria. Instructions and suggestions for Brs. Spieseke and Hagenauer supplementary to those of the U.E.C. A.W. Spieseke's description of his journey, June 1858, 2 letters. Extract from the Report of the General Assembly's Committee on Missions to the Heathen, 1861; Extract from the First Report of the Central Board for the Aborigines in the Colony (Victoria) presented October 1861; Report of Br. F.A. Hagenauer's missionary tour through Gippsland in July and August 1861.
  4. Meissels Tagebuch, 1864-8.
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MICROFILM 167

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  1. Australia incognita: Extracts from the Beilage; 2 letters from A.J. Campbell, 24 December l862-11 February 1863; Proposed mission to the blacks at Cooper's Creek, clipping from The Argus, 18 August 1863; correspondence 25 July 1863-25 August 1868. 100 letters from Wm. E. Morris, A.W. Howitt, G. Meissel, Carl Kramer, Julius Kuhn, H. Walder, T.L. Badham, L. Theodor Reichel, Mary-Ann Aldersey, Patrick Simpson, Matthias Goethe, I.C. Walter, F.W. Cox, Secretary of the Colonial and Continental Committee of the Free Church of Scotland, Edinburgh and resolutions of the meeting of the Society for Promoting Moravian Mission with special reference to Cooper's Creek, c. December 1864.
  2. Victorian Association aiding Moravian Missions to Aborigines - correspondence 3 January 1867-10 May 1869: 21 letters from George MacKie, Chairman of the Association, Wm. E. Morris, L.T. Reichel, H. Walder, I.C. Walter and Aug. Clemens.
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MICROFILM 168

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  1. Various plans and endeavours
  1. Lacepede Bay: Correspondence 12 July 1865-23 November 1866:22 letters by Lewis Irving (Joint Convener of the Colonial and Continental Committee of the Free Church of Scotland, Falkirk), Henry E. Shawe (Missions of the United Brethren or Moravians, London), L.T. Reichel, T.L. Badham, W. Julius Kuhn , H. Walder, William Wilson (Congregational Manse, Kadina); resolutions on Cooper's Creek, [June 1865] and 18 June 1866.
  2. Yorke Peninsula, Cooper's Creek: Brief review of the operations of the Yorke's Peninsula Aboriginal Mission for the first five years, Kadina, 1872, 10 p.
  3. Fourth Annual report of the Yorke's Peninsula Aboriginal Mission, 1869/70.Port Wallaroo, 1871, 11 p.
  4. Correspondence 23 February 1867-27, February 1875, 20 January-3 February 1877: 24 letters from W. Julius Kuhn and William Wilson (Congregational Manse, Kadina); report 8 November 1862-1, May 1869, 41 p. (handwritten).
  5. Lake Condah, Framlingham Aboriginal Reserve: correspondence 12 June 1867-18 December 1867, 1867-81, 3 August 1874-24 March 1875, 5 August 1877-13 August 1883, 29 October 1885, 18 August 1887, 2 November 1888-17 April 1890: 32 letters from F.A.Hagenauer, W.E. Morris, J. Heinrich Stghle, Mary Stahle; Remarks in Visitors' Book, 29 November 1880 by W. Anderson, MP, 27 October, 2 November 1888, 13 March 1889 by J.B. Gribble, H.P. Bogisch, Allan W. Webb.
  6. Kopperamanna: correspondence 8 January-23 November 1868: 36 letters from H. Walder, Carl W. Kramer, G. Meissel.
  7. Coranderrk: correspondence 24 May 1874-January 1875: 9 letters from J. Heinrich Stahle and Mary Stahle.
  8. Brisbane: correspondence 6 September-9 December 1875, 3 August 1877: 8 letters from F. Schirmeister, E.R. Just, Johann Godfried Hauhsmann, F.V. Burghardt and others, L. Theodor Reichel; Report of the Board of Inquiry Appointed by the Secretary for Lands to inquire into and report upon the state of the Aboriginal Reserve at Mackay, by Charles C. Rawson, C.W. Maclean and Edward M. Long. Brisbane, Government Printer, 1876, 1 p.
  9. Boorhooyanna: correspondence 31 May-11 December 1878: 2 letters from W. Julius Kuhn.
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MICROFILM 170

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  1. Miscellaneous
  1. Journey from Ebenezer to Melbourne, 1872, 16 p.
  2. Journey from Ebenezer to the east, 1873, 32 p.
  3. Einige Beinerkungen liber die Stellung der Mission Stationen in Victoria zum Aborigines Board, 25 February 1873, by F.A. Hagenauer, 8 p.
  4. Instruktion fair Br. Hagenauer, 10 December 1877, from the Missions Department der Bruder Unitat, 3 p.
  5. Kinderfest in Ebenezer, [1878], by P. Bogisch, 4 p.
  6. Answers to circular from Mission Department, Bethelsdorf sent 4 October 1878, Ebenezer, 14 January 1879, by P. Bogisch, 4 p.
  7. List of outfit for Australia, 1884 - clothes, bedding and linen required by a Brother and Sister.
  8. Bericht uber das Missionswerk... unter den Eingebornen von Australien, 1879-88, by F.A. Hagenauer, 12 p.
  9. Versammlungs-Regulativ, 2 p.
  10. Papers of Fraulein Henriette Geymuller later Bogisch, 1878-89: 4 letters.
  11. Letter from F.A. Hagenauer to - Schneider, 10 April 1890.
  12. Exchange of correspondence on the closure of the Ebenezer and Ramahyuk Missions, 1899-1904.
  13. Report to the Board for the Protection of Aborigines, Melbourne, 28 February 1899, by Albert A.C. Le Souef, F.R. Godfrey and D.N. McLeod.
  14. Notes from the 36th Report of the Board, 1900.
  15. C.M. Officer (Vice-Chairman, Board for Protection of Aborigines) to the Right Rev. Bishop La Trobe (Director, Moravian Mission Board, Berthelsdorf, bei Herrnhut), 21 February 1902.
  16. Report to the Chief Secretary on the closure of the Ebenezer Mission, 5 February 1902, by C.M. Officer, 4 p. (Typescript).
  17. Bishop La Trobe to C.M. Officer, 10 April 1902.
  18. Report to the Chief Secretary -'precis of the matter relating to the question of amalgamating some of the Aboriginal stations' by C.M. Officer, 29 April 1902, 2 p.
  19. Bishop La Trobe to C.M. Officer, 13 April 1904; letter to R.F. Godfrey (Vice-Chairman, Board for Protection of Aborigines) 13 April 1904 (incomplete, typescript).
  1. Printed matter
  1. An Act to Provide for the Protection and management of the Aboriginal Natives of Victoria. Melbourne, Government Printer, 11 November 1869, [4] p. including Regulations and orders made under the Act, 13 February 1871.
  2. Draft for regulations required to carry out the provisions of various clauses in the Aboriginal Protection Act of 1886. Melbourne, Government Printer, 3 p.
  3. An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to Provide for the Protection and Management of the Aboriginal Natives of Victoria'. Melbourne, Government Printer, 1886. 4 p. (Victorian Government Gazette 10 December 1886).
  4. An Act to Consolidate the Laws relating to the Aboriginal Natives of Victoria. Melbourne, Government Printer, 10 July 1890. 5 p.
  5. Aborigines Act 1890 Regulations. Melbourne, Government Printer, September 1890. 4 p.
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MICROFILM 188

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  1. Australischer Christenbote, Melbourne, 31 May 1860; Sud-Australische Zeitung; Tanunda, 30 June 1860?; clippings 1861-3; The blacks of Cooper's Creek: appeal by the Victorian Association in aid of the Moravian Mission to the Aborigines of Australia for the United Brethren (or Moravian) Mission, 1864.

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MICROFILM 171 - 173

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  1. Diary from Ebenezer 14 May 1858-31 December 1862, 359 p., 1 January 1863-31 December 1868, 324 p., 1 January 1869-7 June 1888, 374 p.
     

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MICROFILM 174

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  1. Reports from Ebenezer, 1858-67, 1869-74, 1879, 1881, by A.W. Spieseke, Fr. August Hagenauer, I.A.I. Hartmann, J. Heinrich Stahle, Carl W. Kramer; Report 1879-87 by Carl W. Kramer.
     

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MICROFILM 175

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  1. Reports from Ramahyuk, Gippsland, 1860-3, 1866-9, 1871-95, 1897-1905, 1907:
    Facts relating to the Moravian Mission later entitled Further facts: First paper - sixth paper. Melbourne, Committee of the Melbourne Association in aid of the Moravian Mission to the Aborigines of Australia, 1860-7; 2 letters, 12 and 26 August 1862 by W.E. Morris (Hon. Sec., Church of England Mission to the Aborigines of Victoria); clipping on the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria; Report of the Aboriginal Mission Station, 1868-95, 1897-1905, 1907; clippings on Foreign Missions: Australia, Ebenezer and Ramahyuk, 1877, The Congregational Mission, Yackandanah District from Victorian Independent, 1 September 1871, Gippsland Times, 7 October 1871, later from Horatio C. Ellerman from the Evening Herald, and Gippsland Times, 1 November 1873; Missionwork among the Aborigines of Ramahyuk [on the early work of the Mission], by F.A. Hagenauer, 7 March 1877; Report to the Inspector General for the Protection of Aborigines, by F.A. Hagenauer, 17 March 1879;. Report of W. Bolam, Inspector General of Schools in the Colony of Victoria on his visit at Ramahyuk, [1883], 3 p.; 2 letters, 9 July 1877 and 11 February 1878 by Murdoch Macdonald and L. Theodor Reichel; Rough notes of a rough journey, Southern Mail, 11 March 1877?, 6 pls. by a Presbyter on furlough, i.e. Murdoch Macdonald.
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MICROFILM 176

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  1. Published Mission reports, 1859-77:
    Missionary success among the Aborigines, Melbourne, W.M. Goodhugh, printer, 1860, 7 p.; Report of the General Assembly's Committee on Missions to the Heathen, Melbourne, Mason & Firth, printers, 1860, 3 p. ; The Aborigines of Australia, by J. Cameron, Free Church of Scotland Monthly, 1 August 1867; 5th-6th, 23rd Annual report of the Melbourne Church of England Mission to the Melbourne Church of England Mission to the Aborigines of Victoria, Melbourne, 1859-60, 1877; Report of the Chinese and Aboriginal Misions Committee for 1869, Presbyterian Church of Victoria.
     
  2. Conference reports, 1873-88 by C.W. Kramer, P. Bogisch, F.W. Spieseke, J.H. Stahle, F.A. Hagenauer.

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MICROFILM 177-180

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  1. Correspondence with Ebenezer (from Ebenezer mainly to L.T. Reichel, James Connor and Benjamin La Trobe, Berthelsdorf), 1860-1876.
  1. 11 January 1860-24 December 1876: 445 letters from Fr. August Hagenauer, Robert Gillespie (Parliament House, Melbourne), Wm. Macredie (member of the Board for Aborigines, Melbourne), F.W. Spieseke, P. La Trobe, T.L. Badham, Elise Strecher, Johan Christine Frickel, Natalie Hamel, Job Francis, Louise Knobloch later Hagenauer, R. Linder (London), C.H. Penszel, Carl W. Kramer, Julius Lonzer, J.F. Roederer, Mary Morris, Adolphus Hartmann, P. Libbey, Mary Hines, J. Romer, A. Lutze, H.Guthe (Hannover), Heinr. Ferd. Moeschler, R. Brough Smyth (Office for the Central Board for the Protection of Aborigines, Melbourne), Nathaniel Pepper (poem), C. Wilson, Christine Spieseke, George MacKie (The Manse, S. Yarra), Hermann Herlitz, H. and Amalie Fricke, Heinrich Staehle, Marie Stamm later Staehle, J. White (Sandhurst), Horatio C. Ellermann (Dimboola Manse), Huxley, Parker & Co. (Monumental Masons, Melbourne), Susette Walder, John Green (Coranderrk), Rebecca Pepper, G. Heyer (Germantown, nr Geelong), Education Department, Melbourne, Paul Bugisch, Amalie Stengard, M. Windfahr (Neusalz), Amalie Jindra (Neusalz); Record of school attendances, July 1865; Petition to the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Colony of Victoria signed by the inhabitants of Wimmera District requesting an extension of the Lake Hindmarsh Aboriginal Reserve (in F.W. Spieseke's letter of 11 May 1872); 2 clippings on missionaries (in letter of 29 November 1872) and on Report of the Chinese and Aboriginal Missions Committee (27 December 1872); plan of church (in F.W. Spieseke's letter of 14 April 1873); Report on application for additional land at Lake Hindmarsh (13 May 1873).
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MICROFILM 181

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  1. 25 January 1877-28 December. 1904: 233 letters from Paul Bogisch, Carl W. Kramer, James Connor, Brother Kunz (Neusalz), Christine Spieseke, Amalie and Paul Bogisch, H.A. Hahn, - Zahn (Bremen), A. Coombs (Narrook), Daniel Gunson, Frederic Stewart (Lake Boga), J.F. Pemsel (Moravian Church and Mission Agency, London), Henriette Bogisch; clippings on meeting of Aborigines Board (14 August 1889).

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MICROFILM 182-185

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  1. Correspondence with Ramahyuk (from Ramahyuk to mainly L.T. Reichel, James Connor and Benjamin La Trobe, Berthelsdorf), 1863-1896.
  1. 20 January 1863-23 December 1879: 315 letters from F.A. Hagenauer, Julius Kuhn , Carl W. Kramer, - Roedell, George MacKie (Convener, China and Aboriginal Missions Committee and Member of the Moravian Society), I.F. Schleicher, M. Goethe, J.W.I. Walter, Emilie Beyer, B. Schulz, August Hann (St Pauli), W. Foster (Police Magistrate for the Governor), W.E. Morris (Secretary, Committee of the Church of England Mission to the Aborigines), George H. Davis (Religious Tract Society, London), J.G. Hausmann (Bethesda), A.J. Campbell (Committee of the Church of England Mission), H. August Hahn, Godfried and May Ellinor Clemens, Godfried Clemens, Paul Bogisch; clippings on the drought in the 'northern country' from the South Australian Register (2 October 1865) and on the death of Tommy Bun Berru, King of Swan Reach (20 February 1866); certificate certifying the appointment of F.A. Hagenauer as Superintendent of the Moravian Mission in Australia, Province Victoria, signed by L.T. Reichel (1 March 1877); Donnerstag, 25 April- 6 June 1878, signed P. Bogisch and C.W. Kramer; Report to the Mission Department on the instruction given to the Missionaries, signed F.A. Hagenauer and H.A. Hahn (10 December 1878); clipping on baptism at the Mission (21 January 1879); Board of Advice School District, No.73 - investigation into charges against Br. Hahn, Ramahyuk (23 December 1879). Letters for 8 January-31 December 1872 duplicated at the end of MF 182 and the start of MF 183.
  2. 13 January 1880-20 December 1906: 246 letters from F.A. Hagenauer, C.W. Kramer, J.G. Hausmann (Bethesda), Ralph I. Allsworth (Convener, Maori Missionary and Presbyterian Church of New Zealand), James Connor, J. Laurence Rentoul, G. Schirmeister (Brisbane), Louis Grauer (Bloomfield via Cooktown), A.M.A. Page (Inspector General of Aborigines, Melbourne), Alex Morrison (Vice-Chairman, Board for Protection of Aborigines), Andrew Hardie, James Hastings (Ramahyuk), M.H. Ward, Henry A. Hagenauer, J. Bau (Berthelsdorf), H. Herlitz; 4 clippings on the Aboriginal Mission Station, near Cape Bedford, Qld (3, 16 and 25 March , 28 May 1886) extract on cannibalism (28 May 1886); handwritten map of Batavia River area (31 December 1891); clipping Australian Aborigines: Ramahyuk Mission Station by Johannes Heyer, Australian Weekly (25 January 1895) certificate authorising F.A. Hagenauer to act as Treasurer, Ebenezer Mission, signed Benjamin La Trobe, Moravian Mission Board, Herrnhut (15 July 1903).
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MICROFILM 185

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  1. Accounts and statistics;
  1. Accounts for Ramahyuk, 1863, 1872, 1897-9, 1902-3, 1906; Ebenezer, 1896-1900; Mapoon, 1896-1900.
  2. Statistics for church and school; Ebenezer and Ramahyuk, 1869-77; Return of congregation occurrences (baptism, confirmation), 1865; Return of numbers in the congregation, signed by F.W. Spieseke; Ebenezer, 1869-89, 1896-1901; Ramahyuk, 1869-87, 1889-1906; Ebenezer - school statistics, 1896-l901; Ramahyuk - school statistics, 1874, 1897, 1899, 1901-6.
  3. Extracts from the church book; Ebenezer, 1864, 1867; Ramahyuk, 1867-70; Births in the District of Stratford, Victoria, 1874, signed by F.A. Hagenauer; Table showing the number of blacks in the neighbourhood, n.d.
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NORTH AUSTRALIA, NORTH QUEENSLAND

MICROFILM 186-187

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Single Items;

  1. Letters and report by F.A. Hagenauer, 24 June 1885- December 1891, 3 letters and report.
     
  2. On the history of the Mission, Meldungen, 1887, 3 letters signed P. Croger and W. Voullaire.
     
  3. Documents on the case of Beltzer-Nicolaus Hey, 1905-9 (NOT HELD as filming is not permitted).
Consecutive items;
  1. Annual reports from Mapoon on the state and progress of the Mission, 1897-1907, by Nicolaus Hey and Arthur Richter.
     
  2. Annual reports from Weipa, 1901-8 by Edwin Brown and Arthur Richter (1907).
     
  3. A) Correspondence with Mapoon, 10 January 1891- 9 December 1899 (a second sequence, 13 June 1891-30 November 1898, follows 9 Dec. 1899): 83 letters, from Nicolaus Hey, J. Gibson, Edwin Brown, John Ward, Mrs. M.H. Ward, Laura Schick (including report from her medical practitioner) and Heinrich Baartz. (2nd sequence)
    B) Letters from Mapoon, 9 Jan. 1900-13 July 1908: 63 letters from Nicolaus Hey, Mrs. M.H. Ward, Oliver Tonkins, Arthur Richter and R.H. Roberts.
     
  4. Letters from Weipa, 6 January 1899-26 September 1908: 57 letters from Laura Schick, Edwin Brown (see letter of 19 May 1902 for copies of letters from W.E. Roth dated 13 Dec. 1901 and 2 February 1902, and W.S. Macqueen and 2 July 1902 for further letter from Macqueen) and Arthur Richter.
     
  5. Letters on Mapoon from the Presbyterian Church; Presbyterian Women's Missionary Union, 17 September 1897-29 December 1899: 10 letters (including one from B. La Trobe, 29 December 1899). Federated Presbyterian Church of Australia and Tasmania, 25 August 1890-29 June 1899: 8 letters.
     
  6. Statement of receipt and expenditure for the year ending 1 July 1897.
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MICROFILM 171

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  1. Reports and statistics; Mapoon - statistics for church and school, 1896-l900. From the early records of the missions' management;
  1. Jahresberichte der Station Aurukun, 1905-12, signed by Arthur Richter; Report to the Chief Protector of Aborigines, Brisbane, 12 January 1914, 7 P., signed by Walter Owen.
  2. Jahresberichte der Station Mapoon, 1909-13, signed by N. Hey; Regulations for the leasing of farms on Mapoon Aboriginal Reserve to Aboriginal, half-caste or other residents on the reserve; draft, 2 p. (typed); Extract from the church book (baptisms, marriages, burials), 1913, signed by N. Hey; Minutes of the Conference held at Aurukun 26 September 1910, signed by M.H. Ward, 6 p.; Minutes of the Conference of the Moravian-Presbyterian North Queensland Aboriginal Mission, Mapoon, Jime 1906, signed by N. Hey and Edwin Brown, 6 p.
  3. Jahresberichte der Station Weipa, 1909-13, 1915, signed Edwin Brown.
  4. Statistics, 1901-16: Mapoon, 1901-12, 1916; Weipa, 1902-1;1, 1916; Aurukun, 1905, 1909-12;
  5. Extracts from the Church book, Mapoon, 1905.
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Guide updated by Janet Phillips December 1999.