Dickson family

Date: 1990

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

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-019

Description: The story of Clytie Curfew Howie, born Christchurch, the daughter of Robert Howie and Frances Eva nee Taylor. Her parents divorced after ten years of marriage and along with her mother she went to live with her grandfather James Taylor. She married George Dickinson in 1929, and the couple had three children before George's death by suicide. She remarried Jonathan Mann Includes a five generation family tree of Howie, Taylor and Grose families Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available.

Date: 1907, [ca 1909]-1919, 1954, [ca 1970s], 1974

By: Cade, John Robert, 1879-1962; Krell, Isobel C, 1921-

Reference: PA-Group-00945

Description: Photograph album and prints relating to John Robert Cade between circa 1909 and 1919. Images largely concern his military career and include one panoramic photograph of ANZAC troops in Newport News, United States of America. Collection also includes a few family photographs taken circa 1907, circa 1915, and 1974. Photographers are mostly unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Relationship complexity - Cade's medals held by Waiouru Museum. Cade's diaries, Territorial red jacket, and presentation sword, held by Wanganui Museum. Relationship complexity - Further photographs relating to J R Cade are at PAColl-10187 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). 6 colour original photographic print(s). 4 b&w original photographic print(s) including one panorama. Physical Description: Photograph album and prints Provenance: Donor is the daughter of J R Cade. Depositor is cousin of donor and nephew of J R Cade. (J R Cade married Ian Dickson's aunt Ada). Transfers: Collection as a whole recieved by Photographic Archive and transfer made from there. - To Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-11829: Cade, John Robert, 1879-1962: World War One postcards.

Date: [ca 1906]

From: McIndoe, R:Negatives showing the McIndoe family and scenes in the Piako area

Reference: 1/4-023867-G

Description: Unidentified boys of the Dickson family, cousins of the McIndoe family, during a 'cock fight' outside their father's workshops, at his house in Te Aroha. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1906

From: McIndoe, R:Negatives showing the McIndoe family and scenes in the Piako area

Reference: 1/4-023878-G

Description: A girl and a boy, both of the Dickson family, sit with kittens on their laps. They are outside their father's workshop at Te Aroha. Taken circa 1906. Inscriptions: About 1906. Children of the Dickson [sic] outside their father's workshop at Te Aroha, Thames Valley. Their father was a scotch wheelwright at D M L Wallaces's shop & built some of the large 6 horse brakes [swung?] in leather suspension. (Transcribed from back of file print) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1990

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

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-083

Description: The essay covers the period 1842-1940 and describes the lives of William and Mary Astle, Edwin Joseph Roden and Mary Astle, Gertrude Hannah Roden, John McCann and Annie Burke, Edward John McCann, Ida Irene Catherine McCann, Isabella Wishart Dickson, James Rose, Elizabeth Mary Rose, Alfred Edward Sunderland and Henry Edward Sunderland, all forbears of the writer. William Astle came to Auckland in 1842 in the St George with 91 other `Parkhurst' boys Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available.