IdentifierUMA-ACE-19790173Extentnot specifiedLinear Meterage0.04Scope and ContentDredge family trees; newspaper clipping from "The London Times", 1949; copy of "The Melbourne Advertiser Port Phillip, Australia", written for and published by M.P. Fawkner, Monday 8 January 1838 handwritten; copy of "The Finders Lane Independent", No. 1, Vol 1, 12 January 1849, handwritten; notes. Facsimile of 1849 'Melbourne Advertiser'. James Dredge's copy of the 1846 Port Phillip Separation Merchants' and Settlers' Almanac, Diary and Directory for Melbourne and the District of Port Phillip (Melbourne, 1845); contains calendar, code of signals for Melbourne, alphabetical directory of residents of Melbourne and 'ten miles around', inc. occupation, and 'b.' if a Burgess, and 'p.r.' if private residence [Dredge entry, apparently for Theophilus, not James, has been inked through]; diary section, with entries from 1 January, when he boarded a ship to return to England on medical advice, to 27 April [one family tree in the collection states that James died in this year]; there is a directory for other parts of the colony as well as Melbourne.Access StatusOpen for public accessRequest Access to RecordsRequest records from this Accession
Previous System ID1979.0173State of ListUnlistedDescriptive NoteNot listed
Dredge Family, [1979.0173] Papers of the Dredge Family (1838-1970), [UMA-ACE-19790173]. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 01/05/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/65766
