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O'Reilly family records
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1795, 1830-1992 (Creation)
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9.0 m of textual records; 39 reels of microfilm [A01907-A01945]
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Provenance: Letters from MS-0248, purchased from J.K. Nesbitt, Victoria, 1974. Records from MS-0412 transferred from Point Ellice Historic House, Victoria, 1975. Records from MS-2086 transferred from the Modern History Division, British Columbia Provincial Museum, 1984. Other records, previously part of the Old Catalogue, were received at various times from various donors. The majority of these Old Catalogue records were received from John Windham O'Reilly in 1964. Accession 92-9758 donated by Inez O'Reilly in 1996.
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The fonds consists of the diaries, correspondence, notebooks, survey field books, accounts, business and personal papers, photographs, watercolours, maps, and ephemera created by members of the O'Reilly family between 1830 and 1992. These records reflect the family's role as part of the inner circle of administrators during the colonial period and as part of Victoria's upper middle class, until the death of Peter O'Reilly in 1905. They also document the everyday activities and events in the life of the family. These records were previously catalogued at the item level in the Old Catalogue, primarily using classification A/E/OR3, and as MS-0412 O'Reilly family, MS-0248 O'Reilly family and MS-2086 Caroline O'Reilly. In 2001 the records were rearranged into a single fonds in preparation for a microfilming project. Records which belonged to the Trutch family (MS-2897), Edgar Dewdney (MS-2898), Weir family (MS-2896) and the William Curtis Ward (MS-2899) were removed from these collections and described separately.
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Researchers are directed to use the microfilm [A01907 - A01945] in order to preserve the originals.
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Accession number(s): 94-0883; 74-084; 75-126; 84-124; 92-9758
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- O'Reilly (family) (Subject)
- O'Reilly, Caroline Agnes, 1831-1899 (Subject)
- O'Reilly, Peter John, 1827-1905 (Subject)