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Letters to her daughter Phoebe Boydell.

Comprises one volume which documents date, names of couple, age, marital status, address, date of banns announcements, ship arrived by, year of arrival, period of sentence, legal status, character and remarks.

Letters from Phoebe Broughton in Darlinghurst to her fiance William Boydell

Notes on the Bible and explanations of Hebrew phrases. Dates are approximate and based on the watermarks on the paper.

In 1846 George James Armytage stated that he saw Rev. J. Duffus drinking and smoking in the tap room of a public bar. Broughton appointed a commission to investigate whether the charges made were legitimate and worth further investigation. After hearing from numerous witnesses who testified to Rev. Duffus' good character, the commission concluded that there was insufficient evidence to carry the investigation any further. In 1847 charges relating to Duffus' moral character were brought against him by the church wardens as a result of documents they had received from Mrs. Forbes and her daughter Mrs. C.A. Bull. Broughton again appointed a commission to investigate the validity of the charges.
The commission concluded that the charges were legitimate and should be investigated further. Broughton therefore held an ecclesiastical court hearing in which he heard the witnesses, and passed sentence

Contains miscellaneous letters written to members of the Broughton family on personal and family matters. Due to the small number of the letters and the nature of their content they have been grouped together.

Letters from his father-in-law Rev. John Francis, Rector of St Mildred's Canterbury, relating to religious matters, and from Charles Perry, Bishop of Melbourne.

Copies of articles from the Sydney Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle, Illustrated News, Freeman's Journal, Melbourne Herald, The Empire, Birmingham Journal. With annotations and typed index.