Kelso Family Archive
This collection is comprised of ancestral documents regarding the lineage of Ruth Kelso, Townsville, Queensland. They were probably brought out of England in the early years of the twentieth century.
Archive Location: 103R
Detailed Listing
KF/1/ Calendar of the Kelso MSS - typed description of: will (31 January 1650-51); letter of administration (5 October 1652); bargain and sale with feoffment (1 March 1693-94)
KF/2/ Kelso MS No. 1 (two copies) - typed transcript of will of Joanne Soaper, Cheddington, Dorset (31 January 1650-51)
KF/3/ Kelso MS No. 2 (two copies) - typed transcript of letter of administration granted to Elizabeth Bryant, executor of the will of Joanne Soaper (5 October 1652)
KF/4/ Kelso MS No. 3 (two copies) - typed transcript of bargain of sale with feoffment (1 March 1563-64)
KF/5/ Two original mid-seventeenth century (early 1650s) documents - will (?) and letter of administration (?)
KF/6/ Photocopy of MSS 1701-1800 No. 00, page 3 (10 September 1702)
KF/7/ Photocopy of MSS 1701-1800 No. 15 (=Bag 2/10), page 1 (top and bottom) (15 November 1733)
KF/8/ Photocopy of MSS 1701-1800 No. 00, pages 1 and 2 (10 September 1702)
KF/9/ Photocopy of MSS 1701-1800 No. 13 (=Bag 3/4), fragment (top and bottom) (1732)
KF/10/ Photocopy of MSS 1701-1800 No. 11 (=Bag 4/8), page 1 (25 November, 1724)
KF/11/ Photocopy of MSS 1701-1800 No. 20 (=QC 11), page 1 (30 December 1734)
KF/12/ Photocopy of MSS 1701-1800 No. 21 (QC 12), page 1 (30 December 1734)
KF/13/ Photocopy of MSS 1701-1800 No. 23 (=QC 42), pages 1 and 2 (12 May 1735)
KF/14/ Photocopy of MSS 1701-1800 No. 23 (=QC 42), page 3 (top left; top right; bottom) (12 May 1735)
KF/15/ Photocopy of MSS 1701-1800 No. 29a, page 1 (11 October 1738)
KF/16/ Photocopy of MSS 1701-1800 No. 30 (=QC 46), page 1 (14 March 1739-40)
KF/17/ Photocopy of MSS 1701-1800 No. 68 (= QC 14), page 1 (Eighteenth century)
KF/18/ Photocopy of MSS 1701-1800 No. 70 (=QC 240), page 1 (top half) (Eighteenth century)
KF/19/ Photocopy of MSS 1701-1800 No. 11 (=Bag 4/8), page 1 (bottom left and bottom right) (25 November, 1724)
KF/20/ Photocopy of MSS 1701-1800 No. 11 (=Bag 4/8), page 1 (top left and top right) (25 November, 1724)
KF/21/ Photocopy of MSS 1701 1800 No. 6 (=QC 47), page 1 (24 July 1719)
Miscellaneous Documents
KF/22/Four parchment documents
KF/23/The Ten commandments calligraphic sampler
KF/24/Geneological chart of the Kings and Queens of England
KF/25/Miscellaneous chart by Master John Ireland (1846)
KF/26/Sewing sampler
KF/27/Collection of black and white close-up photographs of sections of original medieval to early modern documents relating to the Kelso family
