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CA NL006 3 · Series · 1800-1970
Part of Keith Matthews fonds

Series consists of copies and transcripts of official documents from a range of sources relating to Newfoundland fisheries and Newfoundland politics and government during the 19th and 20th centuries. Mostly copies of Government records, British Colonial Office and Newfoundland Governor's papers. The guide to the collection provides description of each item. Records are arranged alphabetically by author.

Keith Matthews fonds
Fonds · Photocopied 1960-1984 (originally created 1500-1984)

Fonds consists of records collected by Matthews for his dissertation and during his tenure as chair of the Maritime History Group, as well as his prior research. The fonds includes material for his research into the study of the Newfoundland/West of England fisheries, the subject of his doctoral thesis, as well as extensive data on the individuals and businesses involved in the early settlement and trade of Newfoundland, up to 1850.

The early modern documents are a collection of copies of over 1200 documents held at repositories in Britain relating to political development and trade in Newfoundland in the 17th and 18th centuries. The 19th and 20th century Newfoundland documents are copies of individual documents and collections of documents relating to the Newfoundland fishery and its government and politics, drawn mostly from records of the Colonial Office, Newfoundland governors papers and papers of Newfoundland prime ministers. The fonds also includes Matthew's research notes and personal papers.

The fonds is arranged in five series: Series 1. Early Modern Documents, 1500-1800; Series 2. Name Files, 1500-1850; Series 3. 19th and 20th Century Documents; Series 4. Research Notes; Series 5. Personal papers.

Matthews, Keith
Name Files
CA NL006 2 · Series · 1500-1850
Part of Keith Matthews fonds

Series consists of data on individuals, families and businesses that were involved in the settlement, fisheries and trade of Newfoundland from earliest settlement to 1850. The files were compiled from a wide variety of English, Irish and Newfoundland records, include parish registers, newspapers, shipping records, customs records, political papers, census records, merchant records, diaries, records of the British Colonial Office, Admiralty and Board of Trade, muster rolls and crew lists etc. Most of the data concerns people from the West of England, but it also includes individuals involved with the Newfoundland trade who resided in London, Ireland, Bristol and the Channel Islands. The collection includes data on 7,300 surnames, arranged by surname and subdivided by given name. Records are arranged by surname.

CA NL006 1 · Series · 1500-1800
Part of Keith Matthews fonds

Series consists of photocopies of over 1200 individual documents relating to early modern Newfoundland, collected by Matthews in the course of his research into the West Country cod fisheries at Newfoundland. The documents are an almost complete collection of extant material held in British repositories that relates to the fisheries, settlement and political development of Newfoundland from European discovery and settlement to 1800. The collection was described and annotated by historian Peter Pope, in 1989. He also added relevant documents to the collection.

Research Notes
CA NL006 4 · Series · 1965-1984
Part of Keith Matthews fonds

This series consists mainly of research material collected for Matthews' thesis on the Newfoundland/West of England fishery, and is made up notes, extracts and transcripts from a wide variety of sources relating to Newfoundland, its trade and settlement in the 16th - 19th centuries. Records are arranged in sub-series relating to subject or source of information.