Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862

Surveyor, public servant, farmer, artist. Born probably at Sandwich Kent, England. Arrived in Wellington on `Oriental' 1840 as an assistant surveyor for the New Zealand Company. Explored much of the Wellington and Wairarapa regions. Returned to England 1843; appointed Company surveyor for the Otago settlement. In 1846 surveyed sites for Dunedin and Port Chalmers; explored Central and Southern Otago. Made early pencil views of Dunedin for the New Zealand Company. Appointed a government surveyor 1851. At Kaikihi 1854-1860, then returned to Dunedin. Appointed provincial auditor in 1862. DNZB (1990, Vol 1, 1769-1869, p226-227)

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Kettle, Charles, 1820-1862 :View of part of Dunedin and Upper Harbour from Stafford Str...

Date: 1975 - 1849

From: Penfold's heritage series [Auckland] :Penfolds Wines (N.Z.) [1975]

By: Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862

Reference: C-079-030

Description: A view from sloping ground down towards Otago Harbour with houses and their surrounding gardens on the lower slopes No 81 of a limited edition of 1000 sets of six reproductions. Reproduction of a tinted and hand-coloured lithograph held by the Alexander Turnbull Library, reference number C-010-001-a The view is taken in the first year of organised settlement of Dunedin Other Titles - lithograph Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 342 x 609 mm on sheet 476 x 704 mm

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Kettle, Charles Henry, 1820-1862 :Dunedin in 1848; Charles Kettle's impression of the n...

Date: 1978 - 1848 - 1849

By: Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862

Reference: C-077-022

Description: A view of Dunedin in its earliest days of settlement No. 500 of edition of 1000 A reproduction of a lithograph first published 1849. The Library holds an example of this lithograph at reference number C-010-021 entitled `View of part of Dunedin and Upper Harbour from Stafford Street'; also C-012-004, the original pencil drawing for the lithograph, by Kettle, dated January 1849. Other Titles - View of part of Dunedin and upper Harbour from Stafford Street Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 190 x 435 mm on sheet 280 x 515 mm

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[Various artists] :[Nineteenth century New Zealand ports. Tauranga Owens Group, 1976]

Date: 1976 - 1840 - 1880

By: Sabatier, Leon Jean-Baptiste, -1887; Standidge & Company; Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Townsend, Mary, 1822-1869; Hogan, Patrick Joseph, 1804-1878; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Gouldsmith, Edmund Thomas, 1852-1932; Owens Group (Firm); Le Breton, Louis Auguste Marie, 1818-1866

Reference: C-058-013/018-a

Description: Contents: Sabatier, L J B Mouillage de Kororareka, from a drawing by LeBreton. Standidge & Co. View of the lower harbour of Otago... from a drawing by Mary Townsend. Standidge & Co. Auckland, New Zealand... 1852, from a drawing by Hogan. Heaphy, C. View of a part of the town of Wellington... 1841. Gouldsmith, E T Tauranga, 1886. Offprints from Owens Group's 1977 calendar. Same as C-058-013/018 & ....018b Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithographs, each 207 x 280 mm on sheets 245 x 305 mm

Manuscript

Judith Rosalie Shanks - Sarah Ann Vaughan; Wellington pioneer and Otago forerunner

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-009

Description: Sarah Ann Vaughan's life story covers origins and marriage in Henley and Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire, England; emigration in 1840 on the `Martha Ridgway' to Wellington; settlement in Dunedin in 1846, and finally her death in Timaru aged 78. She was widowed four times early in the marriages Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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[Creator unknown] :[Manawatu River to Ruamahunga River] [copy of ms map]. [Notes from] ...

Date: 1853

By: Burnand, William Henry, active 1843-1850s

Reference: MapColl-832.4at/[ca.1853]/Acc.5977

Description: Copy of a topographic map of the Wellington region from Port Nicholson and Paliser Bay following the Ruamahanga River to the Manawatu River to the coast at Foxton. The Rimutaka and Tararua Ranges are named as are rivers, bays, heads, some settlements, tracks and roads. Some sections are marked and pa sites. Wakefield, Tiffin and Kettle have made descriptive notes about the terrain, views and navigable rivers on the map as well as at the bottom of it. Note on catalogue card states: Photocopy of col. MS map by W H Burnand inserted in his copy of New Zealand journal v. 4. p.218. 1843-44. Note on catalogue card states: Turnbull Library record no. 8 (N 1951) p. 9 gives title: Port Nicholson, Hutt, Wairarapa. Title suppled by cataloguer Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale not given, 44.7 x 19.6 cm.

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Penfold's heritage series [Auckland] :Penfolds Wines (N.Z.) [1975]

Date: 1975

By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862; Standidge & Company

Reference: C-079-028/033

Description: Contents: 1. The pink terrace, Lake Rotomahana, by Charles Blomfield. - 2. View of part of town of Wellington, 1841, by Charles Heaphy. - 3. View of part of Dunedin and upper harbour from Stafford Street, 1849, by Charles Henry Kettle. - 4. Looking up Queen Street, Auckland, from the wharf, 1853, by W S Hatton. - 5. A view of Auckland from Hobson Street South, 1852, by Standidge & Co. - 6. A view of Auckland from Britomart Barracks, 1852, by Standidge & Co. Edition size: No 81 of limited edition of 1000 sets. Source of images: Reproductions of lithographs, oil and watercolour paintings held by the Alexander Turnbull Library Other copies: Same as C-079-028-a/033-a Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithographs, 342 x 609 mm, 356 x 521 mm, 339 x 597 mm, 354 x 519 mm, 356 x 559 mm, 356 x 558 mm on sheets 476 x 704 mm

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Kettle, Charles Henry 1820-1862 :View of part of Dunedin and upper harbour from Staffor...

Date: 1849

By: Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862; Standidge & Company; Trelawney Saunders Ltd

Reference: B-086-009-b

Description: An extensive view of the first houses and streets in Dunedin, looking out over the harbour. Copy of a lithograph (see C-010-001), in its turn based on a pencil drawing with the same title in the Alexander Turnbull Library ref. no. C-012-004 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 210 x 370 mm on sheet 320 x 420 mm

Map

Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862 :Chart of the harbour of Otakou [copy of ms map]. Surv...

Date: 1846

From: Great Britain. Colonial Office :Maps and plans. Series 1. New Zealand. CO 700/New Zealand

By: National Archives (Great Britain); Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862

Reference: MapColl-834.52aj/1846/Acc.46973-6

Description: Copy of a manuscript map that shows the Otago Harbour from the heads to Sawyers Bay, Port Chalmers. Port Chalmers marked as 'Port town of Dunedin'. Gives detailed soundings and channels and some shoreline features and topography. Includes coastal view of harbour and sailing instructions. Has what looks like a New Zealand Company stamp top left corner Charles Kettle was appointed New Zealand Company surveyor for the Otago Settlement Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s) in 4 parts. Physical Description: Photographic print, black and white, scale [1:15 840], 94 x 62.5 cm. Provenance: From Colonial Office papers, England. Colonial Office material now held by National Archives, Kew, United Kingdom.

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Kettle, Charles Henry 1820-1862 :View of the lower harbour of Otago, from Port Chalmers...

Date: 1975

By: Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862; Standidge & Company; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-061-007-a

Description: Original lithograph published ca 1850. Issued with text sheet Nos 5 and 6 of a limited edition of 500 copies Extended Title - Reproduced from a lithograph held by the National Library of Australia Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph 306 x 590 mm on sheet 470 x 707 mm

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[Kettle, Charles Henry] 1820-1862 :View of the lower harbour of Otago from Port Chalmer...

Date: 1849

By: Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: C-012-003

Description: Shows "Heyward's Point, Tairoa's Head [Taiaroa Head] and Custom House" Inscriptions: top centre - New Zealand Company stamp, date "June 26 1848"; Verso - In pencil: "298" Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 295 x 550 mm Provenance: Purchased by A H Turnbull from Francis Edwards, London, 1915. Part of the New Zealand Company Collection

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[Artist unknown] :Pelchit Bay, Dunedin

Date: 1849

By: Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862; Richardson, Fanny Eva, 1872-1954; Richardson, James, active 1850s-1900s

Reference: G-593

Description: View of Pelichet Bay, (later reclaimed), from Clyde and Albany Streets. Houses with fences but not cultivated gardens are shown, there is a cabbage tree and flax bushes in the foreground and the harbour, looking north, in the background. Other Titles - Charles Kettle. View of part of Dunedin and upper harbour from Stafford Street. Pelichet Bay. James Richardson Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Title The view is a copy of Charles Kettle's lithograph View of part of Dunedin and upper harbour from Stafford Street, published 1849 (copy at C-010-001) or a copy of the pencil drawing for the lithograph held at C-012-004. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on board, monotone 207 x 459 mm Provenance: The name James Richardson is recorded on the verso by an unknown hand; also a note by the donor which refers to the painting as being "one of my uncle Jim's". It appears that 'Uncle Jim' or James Richardson may have been a previous owner of the work. He was not known in the family as an artist, but it is possible that he made this copy himself.

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[Heaphy, Charles] 1820-1881. Attributed works :[Nelson from the hills above the Cawthro...

Date: 1851 - 1859

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862

Reference: B-043-010

Description: Shows four main streets running from east to west, bisected by the Maitai River. A man herds two cows in the right foreground. Beside the harbour is a windmill. Numerous houses are shown. Attribution to Heaphy is uncertain. Has also been attributed to C. H. Kettle. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour

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Kettle, Charles, 1820-1862 :View of part of Dunedin and Upper Harbour from Stafford Str...

Date: 1975 - 1849

From: Penfold's heritage series [Auckland] :Penfolds Wines (N.Z.) [1975]

By: Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862

Reference: C-079-030-a

Description: A view from sloping ground down towards Otago Harbour with houses and their surrounding gardens on the lower slopes No 82 of a limited edition of 1000 sets of six reproductions. Reproduction of a tinted and hand-coloured lithograph held by the Alexander Turnbull Library, reference number C-010-001-a The view is taken in the first year of organised settlement of Dunedin Other Titles - lithograph Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 342 x 609 mm on sheet 476 x 704 mm

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[Heaphy, Charles] 1820-1881, attributed works :Off Point Jackson, Cook's Straits. 1848

Date: 1848

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862; New Zealand Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-043-009

Description: Panorama in two halves.Shows profile of coastline with entrance to a bay at centre of right half. Inscriptions: Recto - centre - (on both sides): [New Zealand Company stamp] 21 Sep 1848. Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings 55 x 260 mm, 78 x 260 mm Provenance: Purchased London, 1915, by Alexander Turnbull, from Francis Edwards, part of the New Zealand Company Collection. Alexander Turnbull has written a note on the mount.

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Various artists :[New Zealand harbours and ports]. Owens Group Ltd. Calendar 1979. Taur...

Date: 1840 - 1886 - 1979 - 1852

By: Owens Group (Firm); Le Breton, Louis Auguste Marie, 1818-1866; Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862; Townsend, Mary, 1822-1869; Hogan, Patrick Joseph, 1804-1878; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Gouldsmith, Edmund Thomas, 1852-1932

Reference: A-244-136/141-a

Description: Contents: The Anchorage at Kororareka (now Russell), 1840 [i.e. Mouillage de Korora-reka. 184-?] / Louis Le Breton. - Port Chalmers, 1849 [i.e. View of the Lower Harbour of Otago from Port Chalmers [1849?]] / Charles Henry Kettle. - Port Lyttelton, 1850 [i.e. Port Lyttelton, Victoria Harbour, 1851]/ Mary Townsend. - Auckland, 1852 [i.e. No. 3, Auckland, New Zealand, 1852] / Patrick Joseph Hogan. - Wellington, 1841 [i.e. View of a part of the town of Wellington... looking towards the South-east, 1841] / Charles Heaphy. - Tauranga, 1886 / Edmund Thomas Gouldsmith. Accompanied by looseleaf descriptive commentary; filed with A 244-136/136-a. Set of looseleaf offprints also published as Owens Group Calendar, 1979. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - [Artist] Quantity: 12 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithographs, 208 x 280 mm, on sheets 243 x 314 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright.

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[Heaphy, Charles] 1820-1881 :[Main entrance to Queen Charlotte Sound (?) 1848]

Date: 1848

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-043-008

Description: Shows mountainous coastline from the sea, with some peaks wreathed in cloud. Possibly by C H Kettle. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - [Stamp]: New Zealand Company 21 Sep 1848; Recto - above image - 2 in 48/2078 1 In 48/2078 right; Note by A H Turnbull on mount. Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketches 77 x 254 mm, 76 x 260 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull, from Francis Edwards, London, with other New Zealand Company material.

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Kettle, Charles Henry 1820-1862 :View of the lower harbour of Otago, from Port Chalmers...

Date: 1975

By: Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862; Standidge & Company; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-061-007

Description: Original lithograph published ca 1850. Issued with text sheet Nos 5 and 6 of a limited edition of 500 copies Extended Title - Reproduced from a lithograph held by the National Library of Australia Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph 306 x 590 mm on sheet 470 x 707 mm

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[Various artists] :Owens Group calendar, 1979

Date: 1979

By: Owens Group (Firm); Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Le Breton, Louis Auguste Marie, 1818-1866; Townsend, Mary, 1822-1869; Hogan, Patrick Joseph, 1804-1878; Gouldsmith, Edmund Thomas, 1852-1932; Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862

Reference: C-086-1979-02

Description: Reproductions on a calendar of six prints and watercolours from the Alexander Turnbull Library: Louis LeBreton's Mouillage de Kororareka [1840]; C H Kettle's View of the lower harbour of Otago, 1848; Mary Townsend's Port Lyttelton, 1850; P J Hogan's Auckland New Zealand, 1852; Charles Heaphy's View of a part of the town of Wellington, 1841; and E T Gouldsmith's Tauranga, 1886 Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph in calendar

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Kettle, Charles Henry 1820-1862 :View of part of Dunedin and upper harbour from Staffor...

Date: 1849

By: Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862; Standidge & Company; Trelawney Saunders Ltd

Reference: B-086-009-a

Description: An extensive view of the first houses and streets in Dunedin, looking out over the harbour. Copy of a lithograph (see C-010-001), in its turn based on a pencil drawing with the same title in the Alexander Turnbull Library ref. no. C-012-004 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 210 x 370 mm on sheet 320 x 420 mm

Manuscript

Cator, Charles, 1813-1848 : Diary and account book

Date: Feb 1846-31 Jan 1847

By: Cator, Charles, 1812-1848

Reference: MS-0491

Description: A day-to-day account of an early Wellington solicitor who dined regularly at Barrett's Hotel, was a member of the Britannia Club, took part in balls, cricket matches and race meetings, and was an associate of such NZ Company figures as Daniel Wakefield and Edward Catchpool. Socialised regularly with British army officers of 58th, 96th and 99th regiments. The diary entries cover 2 feb 1846 to 31 Jan 1847. At the back there are account entries arranged by clients - George Young, Mr & Mrs Miller, Henry Charles Townsend, Edward Catchpool, Mr McKenzie, Charles Suisted, Thomas Cross, Walter Brodie Esq, C Harvey, Mr Swann, Miss Pike, James Dent Greenwood, James Andrew Wilson, James McKain, Mr Lethbridge, Robert Glasgow. Variations in title - Spine title : Journal, 1847 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 130 pages). Physical Description: Holograph (20 cm; faded green cloth) Grey phase box