Voyages and travels

Date: 1879-1881

By: Coulthard, John, active 1880

Reference: MS-Papers-0539

Description: Account of a voyage from Plymouth to Nelson in the "Opawa", 1879-1880. Followed by some description of Nelson, and of work in the Brunner Mine. John Coulthard, his wife and daughter were government assisted immigrants Quantity: 1 folder(s) (34 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopy)

Date: 1858-1937

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2993

Description: Selected papers from a variety of family and shipping company records, relevant to Australia and New Zealand Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1875-1876

Reference: qMS-2010

Description: The Terpsichore left Hamburg Nov 15th 1875, arrived at Wellington Mar 18th 1876, when the emigrants were quarantined on Somes Island until May 12th Relationship complexity - See also fMS-Papers-2226-1A & 1B Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Microfilm print-out

Date: 30 Jun-10 Oct 1880

By: Hurst, Christopher John, 1835-1918

Reference: MS-Papers-4508

Description: Hurst describes his voyage from London to Lyttelton on the `Waitangi' covering the period 30 Jun 1880 to 10 Oct 1880, the last entry being written at Broom Cottage in Christchurch. The entries detail weather, the ship's progress, fellow passengers and ship life. Source of title - supplied title Accompanying material - Accompanied by an excerpt from the family history giving details of the Hursts trip to New Zealand and a family tree. Christopher and Mary Hurst came to New Zealand on board the Waitangi in 1880 along with their seven children. On arrival they lived in Broom Cottage (Christchurch) and later established a farm near Waimate called `Brooklands'. They had seven more children in New Zealand. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcript (photocopy) Provenance: Donor is Hurst's granddaughter

Date: 1864-1900

By: Rye, Peter Hugh Jekyll Lewes, active 1860-1911

Reference: MS-Papers-2177

Description: Central fragment of letter, describing arrival in Auckland on the Blue Jacket, Maori-pakeha relations, and his service during New Zealand Wars in Waikato Campaign and the siege of Orakau Quantity: 1 folder(s) (21 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (and photocopy)

Date: 1872-1873

By: Dudding, Horatio, 1843-1915

Reference: MS-0704-0705

Description: Describes the voyage on the barques `Agamemnon' and `Lyttelton'; includes a full account of life on board and at anchorage at Rio de Janiero and Cape Town; includes passenger list. The `Agamemnon' was condemned at Cape Town and passengers continued onto New Zealand in the `Lyttelton'. Source of title - Transcribed Dudding was a saloon passenger Quantity: 2 volume(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs (21-23 cm; blue buckram hinged lid box)

Date: 20 Jan-5 Jun 1854, 28 Sep 1854-20 Jan 1858

From: Bennett, Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd, 1872-1960: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1346-371A

Description: Describes voyage to Lyttelton, New Zealand on the `Royal Stuart' arriving Jan 1855. He describes daily activities and mentions fellow passengers. Also time spent in Wellington (including a description of the earthquake and aftermath) and Napier, voyage from Wellington to Sydney on the `Waterwitch', Apr 1855, and time spent in New South Wales, at Sydney, Wollongong, Angels - Cateract River, Campbelltown, Cordeaux Creek, Bargo, Cross Roads, and Bathhurst. The back of the volume has been used as a Cash book (receipts & disbursements) 20 Jan-5 Jun 1854, and for surveying/engineering notes and mathematical calculations Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 volume). Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1872-[ca 1887]

By: Mortensen, Hans Peter, 1862-1946

Reference: MS-Papers-3595

Description: Reminiscences describe the conditions on the voyage to New Zealand on the `Hovding' and conditions that confronted the Scandinavian settlers and their settlement of the Norsewood area. Source of title - title page Mortensen came from Oslo on the ship 'Hovding' in 1872 and settled in the Norsewood district Quantity: 1 folder(s) (11 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: 1875-1876

By: Charlesworth, Alfred, 1852-1876

Reference: MS-Papers-1832

Description: Diary kept on board `Columbus' on voyage from England to New Zealand; comments on shipboard activities, health and religious affairs. Letter journal is briefer version of the diary. Charlesworth died shortly after his arrival in New Zealand, apparently of consumption and later entries are almost entirely taken up with health and spiritual matters Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcripts

Date: 1841-1983

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1877

Description: Papers of Charles Armitage and his son Charles (Carlino) Brown, who settled in Taranaki in 1841. They include a notebook containing a shipboard diary kept by Charles Armitage on the Oriental (1841), correspondence and official documents. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1841

Reference: MS-Papers-3707

Description: Account of life on board the `Oriental' on which Brown emigrated to New Zealand. Contains his condemnation of the idleness of passengers, with suggestions for avoiding it. Includes also the draft of a letter to Captain Liardet and Captain King concerning Brown's alleged insult to Mr Eastfield, 11 March 1842, some shorthand notes by Brown, a passage of lyrical description prose and details of the ship's progress each day. Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s) (17 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: 26 Feb 1990

By: Sherley, Haydn Ferrars, 1924-2007; Long, Winifred Joyce, 1910-2001

Reference: OHColl-0680/1

Description: Radio interview on the programme `Take 5', Radio 2YA, Wellington. Winnie Long was from Middlesex and chaperoned children being brought out to New Zealand from Great Britain after World War II. She made the trip in 1949 possibly on the ship `Rimutaka'. Talks about the scheme, the trip and her work. Describes staying in New Zealand about a year before returning to Britain and then coming back to New Zealand on retirement. Interviewer(s) - Haydn Sherley Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 30 Sep 1874-20 Jan 1875, 2001

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Hilliker, George, active 1874

Reference: MS-Papers-7084

Description: Account of voyage from Gravesend to Port Chalmers on the vessel `Margaret Galbraith'. Hilliker was travelling in the single men's compartment and his brief daily entries record the ship's progress, vessels sighted, weather and events on board. He arrived at Port Chalmers on 9 Jan and took the steamer to Oamaru, his final destination, arriving on 20 Jan 1875. The account is written in the form of a letter which was probably posted back to relatives in England Quantity: 1 folder(s) (12 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by M Donaldson, 2001

Date: 8 Sep 1850-14 Feb 1851

By: Davie, Cyrus, 1821-1871

Reference: MS-0667

Description: Journal of Davie's voyage to Lyttelton on two of the Canterbury Association's ships. Davie trans-shipped mid-ocean (4 Oct 1850) to the Randolph from the Sir George Seymour, his luggage having sailed with the Randolph after he missed the ship. Source of title - Title at head of page one Relationship complexity - This is a fuller version than the contemporary holograph at MS-0666, the latter ending on 28 Dec 1850, the typescript finishes on 14 Feb 1851 and details Davie's surveying work up to that time. This typescript appears to have been made from the original holograph in the Canterbury Museum Archives which ends on the same day. The Canterbury Museum also has another typescript, presented by E R Webb and part of the Canterbury Pilgrims and Early Settlers' Collection (125), which is similar but not identical to this one. Cyrus Davie was a Canterbury surveyor Quantity: 1 volume(s) (35 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; red linen)

Date: 27 Aug-24 Dec 1879

By: Couchman, Charlotte, 1829?-1902

Reference: MS-Papers-4174

Description: This letter to Couchman's family is written in the form of a diary and covers the period 28 August 1879 to 24 Dec 1879. Couchman describes the trip out to New Zealand, the family's initial job and living situation when they arrived in Wellington and then Bulls. The covering page includes some genealogical information. Source of title - Supplied Charlotte Couchman came to New Zealand on board the `Arethusa' along with some members of her family. They landed at Wellington but travelled on to Bulls. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (11 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 1850-1880

By: Stanley, John, 1827?-1891

Reference: qMS-1863

Description: Letters written from the ship `Randolph', 1850, from Lyttelton, and `Broadway' farm Papanui, dealing with aspects of pioneer life in New Zealand, with particular reference to food prices, working conditions, cuultivation of land and family matters. Also copy of Stanley family tree Quantity: 1 volume(s) (16 items). Physical Description: Mss (26 cm; ¼ brown morocco, brown buckram hinged lid box) Includes illustrations

Date: 1836

By: Hopper, Edward Betts, 1799?-1840

Reference: MS-Papers-0392

Description: Includes accounts for various goods brought to New Zealand on the `Oriental' in 1840 Petre, Hopper & Molesworth entered into business at the Hutt where they erected a flourmill and farmed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (9 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres.

Date: 1863 (1956, 1976, 1981)

By: Woodhouse, Jonas Eastwood, 1842-1897; Woodhouse, F R (Mr), active 1956-1981

Reference: MS-Group-2357

Description: Original log book of an account of Jonas Eastwood Woodhouse of his journey from London, England to Southland, New Zealand on board the 'New Great Britain' in 1863. Also a typed transcript of the same. Woodhouse describes life on board the ship in detail, including the weather, food, entertainment, equator crossing celebrations, and deaths of other passengers. He also describes sailing past Solander and Steward [Stewart?] Islands and arriving in Southland where they were met by a pilot ship and assessed for quarantine. He gives his impressions of the bush, houses, gardens, animals, and pig hunting that he could see from the ship before they landed. Also includes a list of passengers on the ship, organised by county and country, and the words to 'Song of the New Great Britain' composed by Mr Robert Wotton - another passenger on the ship. Also includes letters addressed to Mr F R Woodhouse (a great grandson of Woodhouse and previous owner of the book) in relation to the log book (letters dated 1956, 1976, and 1981). Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 volume(s). 2 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, Typescripts Provenance: Previously owned by Mr F R Woodhouse, a great grandson of Jonas Eastwood Woodhouse. Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Modern First Edition Ltd, England, Jun 2014

Date: 1849-1870 (1909)

By: Orbell, Macleod Clement, 1838-1914

Reference: MS-1731-1732

Description: Includes description of voyage to New Zealand on the `Mariner' in 1849 Quantity: 2 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; brown calf)

Date: 30 Dec 1873-29 Jun 1874

Reference: MS-Papers-0981

Description: Comprises a photocopy of "Abstract log of the ship 'Rakaia' from London to Canterbury, NZ, commanded by Captain Henry Rose, kept by Warren Frederick Caborne, Chief Officer". Contains navigational details, notes of weather and passenger lists. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (30 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms (photocopy), poor quality, text illegible in places Processing information: Record updated 21 February 2024 with information about the material quality.