Born in England, he served with the Forest Rangers under Major Von Temsky and Captain Jackson, in the Waikato War (1863-1865), and assisted in the East Coast War (1865). He became Officer Commanding in Poverty Bay on the death of Major Reginald Newton Biggs in 1868, and fought at Ruakituri and Ngatapa under Colonel Whitmore. He retired from the army with the rank of major, farmed at Te Arai from 1867, and took over the Waiohika End of the Whataupoko run in 1875. He died in reduced circumstances in Wellington, on 23 Jun 1903 aged 60. Sources of information: Dictionary of New Zealand Biography / Scholefield Volume 2 p 484; The defenders of New Zealand / by Thos. Wayth Gudgeon (Brett, 1887); Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z. / by Joseph Angus Mackay (J.A. MacKay, 1949); Registrar General.
Westrup, Charles, 1843?-1903
Album of portraits of the Johnson and Gale families, Poverty Bay
Date: 1860-1900
From: Mackrell, Brent fl 2012: Photographs
Reference: PA1-q-757
Description: Album of photographs of the Johnson, Gale and Image families of Poverty Bay, and other Poverty Bay settlers, 1860s-1880s, and named Maori portraits. Quantity: 1 album(s).
Inward correspondence - Wes to You
Date: 1877-1898
From: McLean family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0876
Description: Includes letter from Sister M Xavier, St Joseph's Convent, Matata requesting a donation Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.
Album of photographs of the Johnson and Gale families, Poverty Bay
Date: 1860s-1870s
From: Mackrell, Brent fl 2012: Photographs
Reference: PA1-q-758
Description: Album of portraits of the Johnson and Gale families, in England and Poverty Bay. Also includes photographs of members of the Poverty Bay military establishment, and portraits of the Biggs and Wilson families, killed at Matawhero by Te Kooti's party on 10 November 1868. Includes some biographical information inside the front cover. Quantity: 1 album(s).
Personal, financial and miscellaneous papers
Date: [ca 1870-1900]
From: McLean family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1043
Description: The papers in this folder relate to R D D Maclean and include letters relating to business, farming, donations and charitable gifts Maclean has made, requests for help gaining employment, one unsigned [Edmond Bourgeois?] providing a detailed summary of his and his family's financial situation and a list of his children's health status (one died) and that of himself and his wife, land matters including re Goathurst Farm, court matters, thanks for his grant of land to Napier Education Board (1893) and other matters. Also includes photocopy of photograph from John D Enys of an American snow gate with design of same. Letter to Algernon C Fountaine requesting to paint his portrait, 1900. Identified persons entered under Name. Language - Letter from Edmond [?] Bourgeois, Napier, in French Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969 Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Original of photograph of Castle Hill Station's American snow gate.
Watts, Mr, fl 1866 :Letter from Reginald Newton Biggs
Date: 24 Sep 1866
By: Watts, (Mr), active 1866
Reference: MS-Papers-9064
Description: Letter to Watts written from Poverty Bay and dated 24 Sep 1866. Biggs thanks him for the cartridges he sent down and gives him `Poverty Bay news;'. In the letter Biggs mentions Wylie, Westrup, Rice and wife, Baker, and the Hau Hau. Accompanying material - Typed transcript Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 leaf). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Letter came into the hands of the donor's husband Andrew Botica, through his mother, Joy Winnie Botica (nee Watts). She was adopted into Ross family, her adoptive father being Ross Watts.
Rhodes album
Date: [ca 1860s-1880s]
From: Rhodes, Beatrice, fl 1978 :Photographs
By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Chapman, Alfred, 1828-1874; Rhodes, Joseph, 1826-1905
Reference: PA1-q-193
Description: Album owned by Joseph Rhodes containing photographs and sketches and ephemera dated between 1860s-1880s of New Zealand and overseas. Includes photographs of Hawkes Bay dated between 1860s-1870s. Many of the sketches were drawn by Alfred Chapman, one section containing an illustrated tale "The life and adventures of Thomas Pinniger" (p 34a-d). On p 34b Governor Eyre is pictured lower left at Government House, Wellington. There are two photographs of paintings by Charles Barraud (one of Te Aro Flat, City of Wellington (p 68), and one of Wellington Heads (p 104). Many of the photographs of the Hawke's Bay area show the houses on various sheep stations, including Clive Grange Station, and Spring Hill Station (Joseph Rhodes), Maraekakaho Station (Donald Mclean), Woburn Station (Thomas Purvis Russell), Mount Herbert Station (Henry Robert Russell), and Mangatarata Station (Donald Gollan). There is also one of George Fannin's house in Napier, one of the Reverend Hamlin's mission station at Wairoa, and one of The Grange (Wellington home of Joseph Rhodes's brother William Barnard Rhodes).Others in the area are related to military encampments, barracks, stockades, and mission stations. On page 31 there is a photograph of "The great peace meeting, 1863", and one entitled "Whaka & tribe". On page 53, the caption reads "Donald McLean Esq. Superintendent, Hawkes Bay, purchasing Wairoa from the natives, 18[55?]." There are many photographs, postcards and tourist scenes taken in Egypt, Ireland, Norway, Italy and Australia. The Australian scenes show views in Queensland, including Australian Aborigines fishing for dugong, the Railway Mortuary Chapel at the Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney (subsequenlty sold to a church group, dismantled and rebuilt in North Ainslie in Canberra) and views in the Maryborough area. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown leather embossed cover 29 x 23 cm, with 79 leaves
Outward drafts and fragments
Date: 1870-1872
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0726
Description: Names of identified correspondents entered in Name Field. Also Miss Manning of Onoke; Edwin Smith Esq of Melbourne (late of Hawke's Bay), 1870; Captain Johnstone; Mr Hunter; Major Jackson; Mrs Symonds (wife of Captain Symonds) and letter to Tukairangi ? for administrative assistance. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Bartlett, Robert Henry fl Auckland 1875-1880 :Photograph of Major Charles Westrupp
Date: [Between 1875 and 1880]
By: Bartlett, Robert Henry, 1842-1911
Reference: PA2-0222
Description: Carte de visite portrait of Major Charles Westrupp, taken between 1875 and 1880 by Robert Henry Bartlett of Auckland. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Verso - Major Westrupp N T Militia Poverty Bay at time of Massacre Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 9.2 x 5.8 cm on mount 10 x 6.3 cm
Inward letters - J D Ormond
Date: 1869
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0483
Description: 44 letters written from Wallingford and Napier. Includes letters addressed to William Fox, William Gisborne, Daniel Pollen; also letter from Charles Westrup to Ormond, Dec 1869. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Inward letters - Charles Westrup
Date: 1865-1871, nd
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0630
Description: 33 letters written from Poverty Bay, Hawke's Bay and Auckland, 1865-1871 & undated. Includes piece-level inventory for letters accessioned pre-1969 Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Major Westrupp's camp, Poverty Bay
Date: February 1866
From: Rhodes, Beatrice, fl 1978 :Photographs
By: Williams, William Leonard, 1829-1916
Reference: PA1-q-193-085-1
Description: Major Westrupp's camp at Kohangarearea, near Manutuke, photographed 1865-1866, probably by William Leonard Williams. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Poverty Bay middle district The locality has been identified as Major Westrupp's camp by comparison with PA1-q-193-092-1. Photograph probably taken by William Leonard Williams. Williams visited Westrupp's camp on 9 February 1866. (information from Sheila Robinson, Gisborne Museum & Arts Centre. See AT 13/12/4, 27/8/90) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 101 x 153 mm mounted on album page