Memoirs of the Petherick and Press families [manuscript]. 1977.

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Memoirs of the Petherick and Press families [manuscript]. 1977.

Memoirs of the Petherick and Press families, dating from 1509 to 1935. "Much of it is based on the family bible account of services in the Navy, navy records, Peter John Petherick's records (in E.A. Petherick's handwriting) and additions by Ernest G.Petherick."

20 leaves.

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Petherick family.

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Petherick, Ernest G.

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Press family.

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Petherick, Edward Augustus, 1847-1917

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Epithet: English manager of G Robertson Australian bookseller British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000974.0x000199 Petherick was born in England and came to Australia as a child. He returned to London to work in 1870 and spent the next forty years as a bookseller, publisher, bibliographer and book collector. Upon his return to Australia in 1909 he presented his large collection to the Commonwealth Parliament as a "n...