Firth Family Firth Family Archive. [Archive] (Unpublished)
Summary
This collection is a microcopy of papers held by the family and is held in the microform collection (MF FY 74).
Ezra Firth came to Australia in 1849 and for a while followed his trade of stonemason. He was among the lucky ones in the Ballarat and Bendigo gold rushes and with his fortune he returned to England to bring out his wife, Eliza, and their two children. In the early 1860s he took up Mt. Surprise and ran it as a sheep station. In 1873 he converted to cattle. Most of the documents in this collection are personal and legal papers from the period 1865 - 1920 but also included are station diaries and day books for 1887-1906.
List of this archive's contents
Additional Information
Special Collection items may be used on the Library premises by visiting the appropriate Reading Rooms during opening hours. Digital copies of selected items from this Archive will be made available through the repository as copyright or other restrictions allow.
The Firth Family Albums are located in the NQ Photographic Collection.
References
Related publications held in the NQ Collection at James Cook University Library:
Firth, E. (1980). This is my life. Townsville, Australia.
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