Investigators References

References and Further Reading

AJCP = Australian Joint Copying Project, online through Trove at the National Library of Australia (NLA).

NMM = National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

SLNSW = State Library of New South Wales

Admiralty Logs. Polyphemus (1 Nov 1800–31 May 1801) ADM 51/1371;see under Flinders and Fowler for Investigator, Porpoise and Rolla,

Australian Dictionary of Biography, online edition. Articles on Sir John Franklin by Kathleen Fitzpatrick; Matthew Flinders by H.M. Cooper; Governor Philip Gidley King by A.G.L. Shaw; acting Lieutenant John Murray by Vivienne Parsons; Lieutenant-Colonel William Paterson by David S Macmillan.

Booth, John (attrib.), Biographical Notes on Sir John Franklin (Typescript copy PST/44 held at the NMM. Booth was married to Franklin’s sister Hannah, and brother of John’s boyhood friend, William Henry Booth. These notes appear to be a typed extract from the longer Cracroft/Booth ms q.v.

Collard Len, Bracknell, Clint and Palmer David, Nyungar of Southwestern Australia and Flinders: A Dialogue on Using Nyungar Intelligence to Better Understand Coastal Exploration (in ab-Original Vol 1 No. 1(2017 pp 1-16). Available online.

Collins, David, An Account of The English Colony in New South Wales 2 Volumes (London 1798, Echo Library edition, Teddington 2008).

Colwell, Max, The Voyages of Matthew Flinders, (Paul Hamlyn, Sydney, 1970).

Cracroft, Sofia, A manuscript history of the Franklin family, (T3746/L/36/2, Public Records Office of Northern Ireland). Sincere thanks to Brian Watson of Family Ulster who copied it for me. The document appears to have been at least in part originally written or dictated by John Booth q.v., since in several places it refers to ‘the author (J Booth)’. He died in 1854.

Duyker, Edward, François Péron, An Impetuous Life (The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2006).

Estensen, Miriam, The Life of George Bass, surgeon and sailor of the Enlightenment, (National Maritime Museum, London, 2005).

Flinders Matthew, A Voyage to Terra Australis Undertaken for the Purpose of Completing the Discovery of that Vast Country, (2 vols and atlas, W Bulmer and Co, London, 1814, Cambridge University Press ed 2010).

Flinders, ––, Journal of a voyage to Terra Australis in HMS InvestigatorJanuary 1801-March 1803, (MS of the commander’s daily log, ADM 55/75, AJCP File 76, Reel 1586.)

Flinders, ––, Journal kept on board HMS Investigatorand subsequent vessels, 14 March – 10 June 1803 (ADM 55/76, AJCP File 76, Reel 1586.)

Flinders, ––. Correspondence 1791-1815, NMM FLI 1 (AJCP M Series), letter from J Franklin 1810; FLI 4 Letters written by Flinders from a private letterbook 1795-1808 inc. letters to Ann, father, cousin Henrietta.

Flinders, ––, Private letters vol 1, 1801-06 SLNSW, inc letters to Franklin family, Banks, Henrietta,

Flinders, ––, Private letters vol 2 1806-1810, SLNSW, inc letters from Mauritius to Ann, Thomas Franklin.

Flinders, ––, Private letters vol 3. 1810-14, SLNSW, inc letters to Ann and his step-mother.

Flinders, ––, Papers held in the Lincolnshire Archives Office FLI 3, AJCP, various files can be viewed online through Trove. Includes letters to and from his father 23 November 1800, 28 February, 3 April 14 April, 9 May, 10 July, 4 August 1801.

Flinders, ––, Copies of letters from a private letter book 1795-1808 (FLI 4), and Correspondence of Matthew Flinders NMM FLI 1), AJCP, includes letters to Ann, his father and Thomas Franklin.

Flinders, ––, Letters Received by Mrs Flinders and the Tyler family from Matthew Flinders 1799-1812, (46 letters, FLI 25-31, AJCP). See also Retter and Sinclair.

Flinders, ––, A Biographical Tribute to the Memory of Trim, ill. Annette Macarthur-Onslow (Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1973-85. 1997 ed. The original ms dated 1809 is in the Flinders papers NMM FLI 11, AJCP).

Fowler, Lieut. Robert, Log on the Investigator, 25 August 1802-17 July 1803 (ADM 55/77, AJCP reel 1587).

Fowler, ––, Log begun on HMA Vessel PorpoiseSydney Cove, lashed alongside the Investigatorand continued on the Rolla, 20-July 1802-14 December 1803 (ADM 55/77, AJCP reel 1587).

Franklin, Lady Jane and Cracroft, Sophia, Outline of the career of Sir John Franklin (MS 248/167 dated 1853, held at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge.) The ms appears to have been written by Sir John Franklin himself and later edited by replacing the personal pronoun ‘I’ with ‘he’.

Franklin, Sir John, Letters to his family 1800-36 File 1, (Papers of the Gell and Franklin families, M 377-380, AJCP. Typescript copies of letters by John and Thomas Franklin, also Matthew Flinders to Thomas concerning HMS Investigator voyage.

Franklin, ––, Letters to Mrs Ann Flinders, 1810-1842, (From papers of Matthew Flinders FLI 25-31 AJCP file FLI27).

Franklin, –-, Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, (John Murray, 1823, London), also available in facimile editions.

Franklin, ––, Narrative of some passages in the History of Van Diemen’s Land, (privately printed, London, 1845), also in facsimile.

French, Jackie, Nanberry: Black Brother White(HarperCollins, Sydney, 2011).

Green, Neville ed. Nyungar – The People, Aboriginal customs in the southwest of Australia, Foreword by Ken Colbung. (Creative Research in association with Mr Lawley College, Perth, 1979).

Hill, Anthony, Captain Cook’s Apprentice, (Penguin Books, Melbourne 2008. 2018).

Hill, Ernestine, My Love Must Wait, The Story of Matthew Flinders, (Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1941, 1971, other eds).

‘Isobel’, Nanbaree(Muhlings Colour Printers, Perth, 1994-5).

Kelly, Roma, ill. High school students at Mornington Island State School, Nancarrow, Cassy, comp. & ed. The McKenzie Massacre on Bentinck Island, (contact Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies AIATSIS website).

Lamb, G.F., Franklin, Happy Voyager, (Ernest Benn Ltd., London, 1956).

Murray, Acting Lieutenant John, Log of Lady Nelson January-March 1801, can be seen online at POI-Australia.com.au.

Morgan, Kenneth, Matthew Flinders, Maritime Explorer of Australia, (Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2016).

Naval Chronicle,(Vol XXXII (July-December 1814), pages 176-91 Flinders obituary.

Phillips, Eoin, Log book, observations and memoir of HMS Investigator, (Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives, Papers of the Board of Longitude, RGO 14/64, available online).

Pocock, Tom (ed), Trafalgar: An eyewitness history, (Folio Society, London, 2005).

Pope, Dudley, The Great Gamble: Nelson at Copenhagen (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1972.)

Retter, Catherine & Sinclair, Shirley, Letters to Ann, The love story of Matthew Flinders and Ann Chappelle, (Angus & Robertson, Sydney 1999). Letters abridged from the Flinders papers.

Roberts, Janine; Russel Barbara; Parsons, Mike (eds), The Mapoon Story by the Mapoon People (International Development Action, Fitzroy Vic., 1975).

Rodger, N.A.M., The Wooden World, An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy, (Fontana Press, 1988).

Scott, Ernest, The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders (Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1914, Cambridge University Press ed 2011.)

Scott, ––, Terre Napoleon, (Methuen & Co., London 1910).

Scott, Kim, That Deadman Dance, (Picador, Pan Macmillan Australia, Sydney, 2010.) It won the 2011 Miles Franklin Literary Award and numerous other prizes.

Smith, Keith Vincent, King Bungareee: A Sydney Aborigine meets the great South Pacific Explorers 1799-1830 (Kangaroo Press, Sydney, 1992).

Smith ––, Mari Nawi, Aboriginal Odysseys (Rosenberg Publishing, Sydney, 2010).

Traill, H.D., The Life of Sir John Franklin RN, (John Murray, London, 1896, facsimile BiblioBazaar 2016).

Wanklyn, Neville and Margaret (comp.), The early history of the city of Port Lincoln 1802-1972.