Black, Dorothy fl 1947-1959? : Early New Zealand women of note

Series of short talks about women who came to New Zealand prior to the emigration schemes of the 1840s. Includes accounts of the lives of missionaries Ann Turner, Mary Stack, Susan Maunsell, and Hannah Watkin. Also Betty Guard who first came to New Zealand with her whaler husband in 1828 and settled at Te Awaiti. In 1834 Betty and her children were taken captive by Maori when their ship ran aground off the Taranaki coast. Two women who settled with their families at Banks Peninsula, Elizabeth Sinclair and Mrs Ebenezer Hay, are also included. There is also information about three Maori women: the wife of Captain Blenkinsopp of Cloudy Bay (she is unnamed); Kuika Rangiawa who married a Dutchman named Wynen who had settled at Cloudy Bay; and Te Rongo of Ngati Toa who was wife of Te Whaiti and then of Rangihaeata.

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Physical Description: Typescript (some carbon) with annotations (37 cm, blue pam case)