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National Maritime Museum

Owen Family

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0064 COO

Held at: National Maritime Museum

Title: Owen Family

Date(s): [1774]-1894

Level of description: Collection

Extent:

Name of creator(s): Cochrane | Archibald | 1874-1952 | Rear-Admiral
Owen | Sir | Edward William Campbell Rich | 1771-1849 | Knight Admiral
Owen | William Fitzwilliam | 1774-1857 | Vice-Admiral

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Archibald Cochrane consisting of two midshipman's logs, 1890 to 1894.

Papers of Sir Edward William Campbell Rich Owen. They consist of an account, drawn up in 1825, of the mutiny at Spithead in 1797 and of documents and narrative towards a history of the Walcheren expedition of 1809. There is also a letter of Privy Seal appointing Owen Clerk of the Ordnance, 1834.

Papers of William Fitzwilliam Owen. They include a narrative of Owen's naval service, an account of the proceedings in the Cornelia and papers relating to the Africa survey and his work at Fernando Po. There are also papers concerning the settlement founded by Commander Owen, Admiral Owen's father, in Nova Scotia.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were presented to the Museum by Mrs Cochrane in 1952.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Edited by Sarah Drewery, Sep 2011.