Families - New Zealand - Canterbury Region

Date: [ca 1890s]

By: Sorrell, William Edward, active 1890s-1900s

Reference: PA7-59-20

Description: Photograph taken in the studio of W E Sorrell, Christchurch of a family group comprising the parents and their young daughter. The child is seated on a wicker chair. Her hair is dressed in short ringlets and she is wearing a light-coloured dress with a large sailor collar edged with lace and fastened at the front with a ribbon bow. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 28.4 x 36 cm

Date: 2006

From: New Zealand Century Farm and Station Program :New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award applications

Reference: MS-Papers-8640-58

Description: The papers consist of: Application form submitted by John Williams; history of the Williams family of `Charlcombe', Lyalldale, South Canterbury; photographs of the farm and family; certificates of title and maps. Original owner of the farm was Arthur Cuthbert Williams who purchased 584 acres in 1901. In 2007 the property was owned by his great-grandson, J C L Williams. In 2006 the property was awarded the New Zealand Century Farm and Station award to mark over 100 years of continuous ownership by one family. See also addendum dated 2011-2014, MS-Papers-12040. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, photographs (some photocopies)

Date: 2006

From: New Zealand Century Farm and Station Program :New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award applications

Reference: MS-Papers-8640-66

Description: The papers consist of: Application form submitted by Paul Keith Jarman; history of the Jarman family (written by James Gough Jarman b 1828) and the history of the farm ownership; `James Gough, founder of Nesslea 1865' (written by C J Jarman for the 1965 centennial of Nesslea); paper read before the Courtenay Agricultural & Pastoral Association by James Gough; land titles; photographs. Original owner was James Gough who purchased 128 hectares (known as Nesslea) in 1864. In 2007 the 'Essendon' portion of the estate was owned by his great-greatgrandson Paul Keith Jarman and his wife Ann. In 2006 the property was awarded the New Zealand Century Farm and Station award to mark over 100 years of continuous ownership by one family. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter, photographs (some photocopies) Transfers: Accompanying digital files are described at MSDL-1469.

Date: 2007

From: New Zealand Century Farm and Station Program :New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award applications

Reference: MS-Papers-9137-14

Description: The papers consist of: Application form submitted by Russell Brodie; history of the farm and Brodie family; maps of the property (cadastral); history of land ownership; photographs of family and farm; historical newspaper cuttings about Rangitata Island and Ross Brodie (aviator); brochure about Rangitata Aerodrome and East Canterbury Aviation etc. Original owner was John Ross Brodie who took up land on Rangitata Island in 1891. From 1921 their only child Ross farmed the property until his death in 1953. His son Struan farmed the property until 1990 when it passed to his son Russell. In 2007 the property was awarded the New Zealand Century Farm and Station award to mark over 100 years of continuous ownership by one family. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter, photographs, maps (some photocopies)

Date: [Between 1921 and 1930]

By: Janson, Annie Matilda, 1873-1964

Reference: PA1-o-443

Description: Family snapshots of Percy Rule and his family, and the wedding of Arthur and Katie (nee Sherlock) Wheeler. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with mottled green and brown cover, entitled `Snapshot album'; 12.5 x 17.0 cm

Date: [ca 1890s-1900s]

By: Standish & Preece (Firm)

Reference: PA7-51-29

Description: Studio photograph of a young family (couple with their daughter and younger brother), possibly the Turnbull family. Taken in the rooms of Standish & Preece, 218 High Street, Christchurch in late 1890s or early 1900s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 195 x 143 mm

Date: 1850-1890

By: Harper, Arthur Paul, 1865-1955; Moberly, Patricia, active 1990s

Reference: PA1-f-207

Description: Album probably compiled by the mountaineer and explorer, A P Harper. Harper was also probably the photographer for many of the prints, especially those of mountains and mountaineering. There are Harper and Ackland family photographs which include interior and exterior views and views of the garden, of Ilam, the family mansion in Christchurch. The other main group of photographs relate to A P Harper's activities as a mountaineer and explorer in the Fox and Franz Joseph glacier regions. Some of the climbers active in the Southern Alps during the 1880s and 1890s are depicted. W S Green and his two Swiss guides, and at least one photograph taken by Green during his unsuccessful attempt to reach the summit of Mount Cook in 1882. Fitgerald, Zurbriggen, Mannering, and Dixon were all men that Harper was associated with as a mountaineer. As an explorer he was associated with Charles Douglas, and there are photographs of Douglas, Leonard Cockayne the botanist, and John Roberts of the Westland district survey. There are also many photographs of the mountains, glaciers, rivers, and gorges of the Southern Alps. Some of the English photographs at the beginning of the album may be associated with A P Harper's brother Charles who became an Anglican priest. He may have been the C C Harper who was at Keble College and Cuddesdon theological college, Oxford. There are two interiors of "C C Harper's room at Keble College", and a number of photographs of family groups taken in the grounds of the vicarage at Patea where Charles Harper was vicar from 1894 to 1900. The album ends with A P Harper and his house at Thames, and more British photographs, in particular several pages of Jersey taken about 1897 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 2007

From: New Zealand Century Farm and Station Program :New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award applications

Reference: MS-Papers-9137-02

Description: The papers consist of: Application form submitted by Ross George Hayes; history of the Hayes family's ownership; land documents to support the application; newspaper cutting re 1892 sale of the land; photograph of Benjamin, his son George & grandson George Braddon Hayes, 1927. Original owner was Benjamin Hayes who acquired 1000 acres at Halkett, 20 km from Christchurch in 1893 from Charles Deal. In 2004 his great grandson Ross George Hayes became the sole owners having been a part owner since 1971. In 2007 the property was awarded the New Zealand Century Farm and Station award to mark over 100 years of continuous ownership by one family. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, printed matter, photographs (photocopies) Transfers: A digital version of some or all of these papers is available at MSDL-0420.

Date: 1916

By: Hemus Sarony (Firm)

Reference: PA7-51-21

Description: Photograph of an unidentified family taken in the Christchurch studio of Hemus Sarony in early 1916. The family group consists of the parents, four daughters (the eldest possibly is the eldest in the family) and three sons, the children's ages ranging between 4 and 18. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 155 x 198 mm

Date: [1990-1994]

By: Jenner, Maurice George, 1926-2001

Reference: MS-Papers-7104

Description: Reminiscences by Jenner of his childhood and family life, school experiences and life in Christchurch under the titles `The Last resort...' (published in the Dominion Sunday Times, 19 Aug 1990), `Mick, Dan, and Bob's mob', `The Great adventure', `Family food and school lunches', `Friday .... drill day', `Power pluses and Victoria sedans', `Saturday sixpence', `Family radio in the thirties', and `The Technology of washday' Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts (some photocopies) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs L Jenner, Hoon Hay, Christchurch, per Mr Eamonn Bolger, National Archives of New Zealand, May 2001

Date: [ca 1870]-1951

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographs of family, holidays and tramping trips

Reference: PA1-q-945

Description: There are several subject groups in this album. 1. Family childhood and youth. The earliest family photograph dates from the 1870s and is a portrait of John Pascoe's paternal grandmother as a young woman. The photographs become prolific from about 1918 to 1930. During the 1920s many photographs are of Pascoe and his friends as boys, often with family members, taken during outdoor activities such as staying at baches at Rakaia huts, at picnics, swimming, boating, tramping, hunting and horse riding. Several show John Pascoe with a banjo, and there is a group photograph of Bloys Banjo Band taken about 1930. 2. The next group relate to Christs College, Christchurch. These consist of views of some of the buildings including the interior of the chapel. Many are groups of college sports teams and sudents dressed in striped blazers, the school orchestra, the school cadets, school friends and some teachers. Some of the photographs show study interiors and boys at work in them. 3. Photographs of John and Paul Pascoe as young men in their first suits; Paul Pascoe at architectural school; John and Dorothy Pascoe's wedding in 1940 and of their first house. Related to this group, though scattered throughout the album are photographs of John's father's law offices when John worked there, of Paul Pascoe in England in the mid 1930s, and later of his wife and children at the time that his second son was a baby. 4. John Pascoe as a harrier with the christchurch Harrier Club in the late 1920s. There are photographs of individual runners, group photographs of harrier teams, and many more of races about to start or underway. 5. John Pascoe as a civil servant during the late 1930s and during the war. Some of these are official photographs such as the group at the beginning of the album which relate to the publishing of "Making New Zealand" and the team producing it. As well there are a number of small images of Pascoe's collegues at the Department of Internal Affaires, some photographs of him in operation as a war time official photographer, and a group photograph of Joseph Heenan and his staff standing on the steps of Parliament house. Other photographs include Dorothy, the children, and activities with children in the early 1950s. There is also a photograph of the window of Whitcombe and Tombs bookshop in Wellington displaying Pascoe's book "Unclimbed New Zealand." Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 2000

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-

Reference: H-647-001/080

Description: 80 cartoons on political and social issues. The topics include Laila Harre and views on liberalisation of cannabis laws, Helen Clark asserts authority over Ms Turia, Maori and pakeha racial guilt and shame, Ms Turia reluctantly apologises for 'holocaust' comments, Dr Cullen ponders low business confidence as Grouch Marxist, Timor's Indepencence birthday celebrations destroyed by violence, Fijian-Indian refugees in Fiji following coup, political posturing over Treaty of Waitangi clause in free trade agreement with Singapore, US dollar blasts kiwi dollar, Sydney 2000 Olympics begin, Winston Peters plays the race card in the hopes of raising his popularity, Olympic swimming athletes get the once over by their female onlookers, Australian-New Zealand currency merger proposal, Prebble gets axed by Jenny Shipley, Kiwi dollar low and oil prices high, New Zealand is best at all the wrong things, sports couch potatoes, Milosevic runs for the presidency, US dollars gains steam with President Clinton in charge, women's performance at the Olympics, political awards, NZ toasts the Olympics, army peace keepers get pay review by Clark, 3 Middle East faiths based on love and compassion unable to share sacred site, Don Brash fails the Kiwi dollar, Clark and Milosevic relations, Israeli and Palestinian relations, court call for accountability of parole officers, NZ cricket sports fan still in the dark, NZ dollar down - sharemarket down - petrol prices up, Middle East pro-war protest singer, Clinton attempts to negotiate Middle East and National Party crises, Mr Mudgeway in padded cell waiting for big NZ sports win, rural economy on the up for farmers, Swain and Horomia on ownership of the Taranaki oil and gas fields, Lions rugby team claim the Air New Zealand trophy, Clark seeks an alliance with big business, Clark's alliance with big bisiness consumated, one-tree-hill pine tree felled along with Mike Smith, same-sex marriages, Clark preparing to kneecap Ruth Dyson for Norm Hewitt comments, Property Bill, Dyson resigns over drunk driving incident, purity pledge, cricket match-fixing, support for Paul Holmes' salary, lack of real choice in US presidential elections, NZ Melbourne Cup race winner, US election results on a knife edge, boxing - Lennox vs Tua, All Blacks beat France, Lennox Lewis vs David Tua boxing fight, US presidential election goes to court, English strung up as heretic, Tipene O'Reagan let's nature take its course with stranded whales, Labour Party victory conference, CNN backgrounds the US election count process, petrol prices high, US presidential election fought out on American flag, George Hawkins' suggested cost cutting measures for the Police, National Party leadership based on personality deficit of Bill English, George W. Bush wins Florida, Clarks preparation for Waitangi Day, Tainui iwi's new grievance cycle, Mrs Mudgeway's son hopes to qualify for ACC compensation, Clinton is back as President?, the new and the old All Black diet, signs of recovery in NZ economy being hidden from Don Brash, NZ/Australia defence spending and policies, Hawkins hands out pornography to Police to cut phone-sex costs, being a modern day All Black, Clark and Cullen's popularity increases, Simon Upton departs the National Party, obituary to reporter Mike Robson, America - where every judge counts in becoming President, Clark still unable to apologise to Dover Samuel, cricket at the Basin Reserve for Boxing Day test, petrol war, Anderton and Bunkle over question of where Phillida resides, Paul Holmes CD for Christmas makes Granddad throw-up. Quantity: 80 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: A4 horizontal bromides

Date: 2011, 2013

By: Ifopo, Erolia, active 1999-2017; Hunter, Sarah, active 1990-2000s; Transmit Ltd

Reference: OHColl-1051

Description: Thirteen interviews with the Samoan community in Christchurch, recording their stories and experiences of the Canterbury and Christchurch earthquakes of 4 September 2010 and 22 February 2011, and their aftermath. Interviews include digital sound recordings, photographs, abstracts, and other documentation. Interviews conducted by Erolia Ifopo, with photographs by Sarah Hunter. Six interviews conducted in 2011: Colin Lemalu, Caroline Luafutu, Lynmaree Ariki, Maria Godinet-Watts, Christine Sanft, and Loama Avia. An additional seven interviews were conducted in 2013: Sarona Aiono-Iosefa, Tafaoga Carmine, Pauline Luafutu-Simpson, Lemalu Avia, Pulusila Muagututi'a, Teri Siataga, and Sam Siave. Received an Award in Oral History for 2011 from the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Quantity: 13 interview(s) digital sound recordings (.wav files). 13 folder(s) printed abstracts and photographs. 78 digital photograph(s). 13 Electronic document(s). Physical Description: Interviews include digital and analogue materials Search dates: 2011 - 2013 Number of interviews/events: 13

Date: 26 Sep 2007

From: Civilian life in New Zealand during the Second World War oral history project

By: Gillespie, Nancy Millard, 1925-

Reference: OHInt-0980-06

Description: Interview with Nancy Gillespie (nee Sheat), born in Christchurch in 1925. Talks about her family background, her father and uncles having fought in World War I and the long-term effects on them. Describes life on the family farm at Dunsandel during the Depression, using draught horses, producing their own food, hand-me-down clothes, swaggers, the arrival of electricity and their first car. Refers to her schooling and being a weekly boarder at Christchurch Girls High School from age 14 (1939). Describes her school uniform, school food, going to the 1940 Exhibition in Wellington, and blackouts and air raid drills. Comments that the war became more serious after Japan entered it. Talks about leaving school in 1942, the year her brother Doug was called up in the territorials. Mentions their father, who was running two farms, appealed to keep Doug at home and he was manpowered. Comments that their father was probably thinking of his own war experience but Doug was "furious", and both father and brother were in the Home Guard. Refers to working domestically at home throughout the war years to help her mother who was unwell, her father not believeing in women being in the paddocks, and not being manpowered. Explains their diet did not change much during the war years after rationing was introduced in 1943, making butter at home, having a home orchard and bottled fruit. Refers to having dressmaking and cooking classes in 1943. Mentions farewell dances and speeches for local boys, her mother baking fruit cakes to send overseas, and letters to and from friends and cousins. Describes forming a young women's club in Dunsandel and organising a dance with an outside band. Talks about movies on Saturday nights in Dunsandel. Refers to getting their war news from radio and The Press, and mainly following the Pacific war after she left school. Comments on reading casualty lists, and the death of a cousin's fiance in India. Refers to an American Marine who was billeted with an aunt and visited local farms. Cannot recall VE or VJ days but mentions welcome home dances, change happening slowly after the war and continuing shortages of imported goods. Emphasises the real fear of a Japanese invasion during the war, having had nightmares about Japanese, and not being able to watch the TV series 'Tenko'. Reflects that she would most like people to know the futility and waste, pain and suffering on both sides. Abstracted by - Erin Flanigan Interviewer(s) - Alison Parr Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-022538 - OHC-022540 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.28 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7329. Photocopy(?) of a black and white photograph of Nancy Gillespie (c 1943-44); printout of a colour photograph of Nancy (2007) Search dates: 1925 - 2007

Date: [ca 1885-1910]

From: Alington family :Photographs of Alington and Broadhead families

Reference: PA1-o-1747

Description: Includes - Hester Maud Alington and friend in costume for a Swiss Fair, Christchurch, ca 1910. Hester's sister Winifred Louise Alington in a garden. Hester's mother, Winifred Beatrice Alington with her children, Hester, Louisa, and Edward, ca 1908. Group photograph of the five Tipping sisters, relatives of Hester's mother, whoes mother's maiden name was Tipping. Group photograph of women and girls including Hester and Louisa Alington. Siblings, Hester, Louisa, and Edward at Methven, early 1906, and after the death of their father, George Hildebrand Alington at the end of November 1905. The family with relatives, and a horse and cart, at Seafield. Alington family groups at Seafield including Hester's father, George Hildebrand Alington. Group photographs of a boy and six girls, one of whom is Samoan. Loose cabinet card of a house in Worcester Street, Christchurch, with Grannie Tipping, Aunt Flo, and Louise Dumergue with penny-farthing cycle, in front of house, ca 1885. This album is associated with MS-Papers-11146-23 : Papers relating to Hester Maud Alington. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 2005

From: New Zealand Century Farm and Station Program :New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award applications

Reference: MS-Papers-8640-30

Description: The papers consist of: Application form submitted by Beverley Forrester; Forrester family history and tree; certificates of title and maps; articles about Jim Kilsyth Forrester, Blackhills, Heatherdale, Karaka, and Molesworth Station; extracts from `Cyclopedia of New Zealand'; family photographs; papers relating to the `Abandoned Cottages' project and `Black Hills Heritage Collection'; Map showing route taken by early drovers bringing sheep from Nelson, Marlborough, early 1850s; articles and clippings about Beverley Forrester; transcript of interviews with sisters, Olive Phillips & Ona Price (Beverley's mother). Original member of the Forrester family to own a portion of `Blackhills' was Robert Adam Forrester who purchased land in 1883. Beverley's late husband James Kilsyth Forrester was his great-grandson. In 2005 it was awarded the New Zealand Century Farm and Station award to mark over 100 years of continuous ownership by one family. The 2,250 acre sheep and beef cattle hill country property was awarded an Heritage Award in 2000 & 2003, and Qualmark NZ Tourism award in 2005. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript, printed matter, maps, photographs

Date: [1910s-1920s]

By: Whitehead, Henry Norford, 1870-1965; Whitehead, David Fulcher, active 2010

Reference: PAColl-9661

Description: Photographs of members of the Whitehead Family, taken by Henry Norford Whitehead. Collection comprises: George James Whitehead (1837-1932) and his children Maude Adelaide Whitehead (1872-1965) and George William Whitehead (1866-1940), in their garden at 243 Kilmore street, Christchurch. Photograph taken ca 1900s by Henry Norford Whitehead. Alfred John Whitehead (1875-1947), Ethel Whitehead (nee Webb), their children Basil Murray Whitehead, Joyce Gertrude Whitehead and Alfred Russell Whitehead, and Mollie Webb (nee Ibbotson), at 7 Avon street, Christchurch. Phhotograph taken ca 1910s by by Henry Norford Whitehead. Annie Caroline Whitehead (1908-1992). Photograph taken ca 1910 by Henry Norford Whitehead. Arthur Bruce Whitehead (1931-1985). Photograph taken ca 1937 by Henry Norford Whitehead Accompanying information - Photocopies of biographical information on Whitehead family in Photographic Archive back file Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Provenance: Donor is nephew of Henry Norford Whitehead.

Date: 2008

From: New Zealand Century Farm and Station Program :New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award applications

Reference: MS-Papers-9389-06

Description: The papers consist of: Application form submitted by A W Glassford; copy of `The Gordon Glassfords, 1864-2003' compiled by Gordon Glassford Leask and revised for March 2003 reunion with additional information by Wallace Duncan Leask; `Lines from Central :The Waldrons of Blacks, central Otago and their descendants' by Robyn Newman [Auckland, 2003]; Memories... by Wallace D Leask, ca 2007; land documents (photocopied or scanned). See MS-Papers-9389-31 for published summary & photographs. Original family member to own the land was Charles Henry Verity who purchased 3000 acres in 1908 at Cannington (13 km from Cave) in Waimate Survey District. In 2008 Craigmore Downs was owned by his great grandson Graham John Kirke and his wife Kay. In 2008 the property was awarded the New Zealand Century Farm and Station award to mark over 100 years of continuous ownership by one family. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript, photographs, maps (some photocopies) Large quantity of loose photographs included

Date: [ca 1890s]

By: Sorrell, William Edward, active 1890s-1900s

Reference: PA7-59-19

Description: Photograph taken in the studio of W E Sorrell, Christchurch of a family group comprising the parents and their 10 children [?] - five young men, three young women and two girls. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 28 x 36 cm

Date: 1 Jan 1888-1 Aug 1889, [2000?]

By: Wolff, Johanna, 1869-1889

Reference: MS-Group-1332

Description: Corrected photocopied transcription of original diary in German kept by Johanna Wolff, and translation and transcription of the diary kept by her from Jan 1888 to 1 Aug 1889 in which she describes life on the family farm at Styx. Includes an introduction and supplement by E W Heine, a family tree, acknowledgements of the various stages of the project, recipes, copies of photograph of Johanna Wolff and maps showing the location of the Wolff family's farm, glossary of people, places and other items, etc. Wolff recorded the weather, basic family activities such as cooking, sewing, washing, trips such as going to Christchurch for shopping, visitors to the farm, celebrations, church attendance and so on, more or less on a daily basis Source of title - Transcribed Other - This diary (MS-Papers-8078) was produced by the combined efforts of Karl von Wolff, Hanover, who transcribed the original German diary; Dr Margaret Sutherland who translated the diary on to tape; and Jean Jefferson who typed the English copy from the tapes Accompanying material - Supplementary information supplied by Eric Heine; and details of location of original diary from Karl Wolff Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with illustrative material (includes photocopy) Provenance: The original is in Germany. The family has made several copies and given them to institutions including the Canterbury Museum.