Missionaries - Tonga

Date: 1843-1849

By: Miller, George Richard Henry, 1806-1854

Reference: MS-1645-1646

Description: Daily account of his work as a doctor and Assistant Missionary with Wesleyan Methodist Society in Tonga Arrangement: MS-1645-1646 are boxed together. Quantity: 2 volume(s). Physical Description: Holographs (18 cm; black buckram, in phase box)

Date: 1796 - 1841 - 1798

By: Smith, Charles Hamilton, 1776-1859

Reference: B-091-003

Description: A stone pyramid structure at Mu'a, Tongatapu, Tonga, with European explorers and missionaries viewing it on the left and part of a village with enclosing fence on the right. Copied from W. Williams' engraving 'The Afiatookas of Futtafaiho at Mooa in Tongatabu' M. A. Rooker delint from a sketch by W. Wilson, J. Landseer direxit, published in Wilson, James. A missionary voyage to the South Pacific Ocean, 1796, 1797, 1798, in the ship Duff ...(London, 1799) opp. p. 284. Other Titles - Afiatookas Inscriptions: Recto - Signature in ink, lower right. Date in pencil, 26-4-41 below image, with inscription C58. Tongatapu P. Title in ink below work. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 203 x 300 mm on sheet 320 x 400 mm

Date: [ca 1861-1953]

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0719

Description: The papers include letters, leaflets, programmes and newspaper clippings concerning Moulton. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also in "Complete annotated catalogue" (Canberra : PMB, 1991) which has an index.

Date: 1887

Reference: A-116-001

Description: Six vignettes of scenes and portraits relating to the 1887 revolution in Tonga. Other Titles - Nukualofa Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving 174 x 241 mm

Date: 9 Aug 1831

By: Woon, William (Rev), 1803-1858

Reference: MS-Papers-2996

Description: Re church matters Rev William Woon was a Wesleyan Methodist missionary based in Tonga from 1830 to 1833. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1860-1889

By: Baker, Shirley Waldemar (Rev), 1836-1903

Reference: qMS-0115

Description: Mainly ms depositions of evidence against Baker heard before Commissioners of the Australasian Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, 1879 Source of title - Transcribed Baker, who became adviser to King George of Tonga, secured international recognition of Tonga as an independent kingdom and was deported in 1890 following an attempt to assassinate him by disgruntled Tongans Quantity: 1 volume(s) (200 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, printed matter (38 cm, black rexine)

Date: 1836-1975

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2649

Description: Comprise selected letters concerning the Phoenix periodical, letters from the Haslam family in Melbourne on birth control, reports and sketches from G A Selwyn in Tonga, notes on the New Zealand social security system, papers from Union of Democratic Control concerning the post-war situation in South East Asia and Australia, letters from the Bell Ferguson and Howard families in Australia, papers of the Revolutionary Communist Party and other Trotskyist organizations, and correspondence between Lord Ammon and relatives in New Zealand. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.

Date: 3 June 1833 - [ca 1990s s- 2020s]

From: Frankcom, Margaret, active 1991-2023: Collection of New Zealand missionary and pioneer mail

By: Orton, Joseph Rennard (Rev), 1795-1842

Reference: MS-Papers-12917-1-7

Description: Lot description from Spink Auction House: "1833 (3 June), entire letter from Joseph Orton, Inspector of Wesleyan Missions, usually stationed in Sydney but written at the Bay of Islands to London". Refers to missionaries proceeding to Tonga, and Reverend Hobb's demotion. Item includes transcript. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Delivered to Library in a Spinks Auction House folder labelled with lot number "2016". Quantity: 1 folder(s) contains letter, and supporting research documentation.

Date: 1884-1965

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1124

Description: Documentation of Tongan traditions and the royal genealogy of Tonga, manuscripts of Fetuani of Kolovai, a diary of J Fekau 'Ofeahemooni, some correspondence of Rev J E Moulton and an extensive collection of that of Rev E E Crosby. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 3 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 1998

Date: [ca 1865-1909]

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

By: Moulton, James Egan (Rev), 1841-1909

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0003

Description: Notes on Tongan history and legends Moulton was a noted Methodist missionary in Tonga from 1865-1906 and founder of Tubou College, Nukualofa Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) negative (96 frames). Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also "Complete Annotated Catalogue" (Canberra: PMB, 1991) which has an index.

Reference: A-116-006

Description: Shows Tongans seated in rows in a very large building, possibly a mission school (or a parliament). There are Europeans around a table in the foreground, one standing and addressing the throng. Appears to be a book or magazine illustration. No text on the verso. From an unknown source Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 65 x 98 mm on sheet 86 x 142 mm

Date: 1878-1879

From: Great Britain Foreign Office : Records relating to French affairs in the Pacific

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-07-3620

Description: Diplomatic and commercial matters concerned with the French colonies and Australasia, concerning mainly New Caledonia and the New Hebrides, and contract labour. Also possible French colonies in New Guinea and North West Australia, and naval actions in the Pacific War between Chile and Bolivia. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1873-1890, 1933-1936

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1089

Description: Letter books of Baker's outward correspondence; includes loose copies of eight letters found in a Land Court minute book for 1933-1936 Source of title - Transcribed The Rev Shirley Baker, a missionary, was adviser to King George of Tonga and acted as Premier for the Tongan government Quantity: 3 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 1997

Date: 15 Dec 2000

From: Little Company of Mary Oral History Project

By: Cass, Rita Mary, 1924-

Reference: OHInt-0601/09

Description: Rita Mary Cass, later Sister Mary Philippine born Wellington 1924. Outlines family background - both parents born Australia, coming to New Zealand, 1922, when father was transferred by Bergers Paints. Recalls education at Newtown parish school in Island Bay and Sacre Coeur, Island Bay for seven years as a boarder before entering the Little Company of Mary sisters, a nursing order. Refers to Flying Boat from Auckland to Australia. Describes the various stages of training and uniform [habit] worn and nursing training. Recalls returning to New Zealand 1953 working mostly in Operating Theatre in Wellington before going to Christchurch to do maternity at Calvary and midwifery at St Helens. Refers to the establishment of training school in Wellington and becoming Novice Mistress before being elected to be General Councillor in Rome. Backgrounds the decision have the LCM in Tonga and refers to Bishop Finau. Refers to Vatican II and changes in rules and habit (clothing worn). Recalls being involved in the establshment of Mary Potter Hospice in Wellington towards the end of the 1980s, being on the Board and involved with Pastoral care at the hospice. Notes that it was the first hospice in New Zealand. Discusses medication for patients in pain. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Ann Trotter Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009406-009407 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. 3 Electronic document(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3045.

Date: 10 Nov 2000

From: Little Company of Mary Oral History Project

By: Tipou, Palu (Sister), 1946-

Reference: OHInt-0601/07

Description: Sister Lusia Tupou born in Tonfa in village of Houma, on Tonga Tapu, 1946. Recalls family background, schooling run by SMSM sisters (Missionary sisters of the Society of Mary) and decision to come to New Zealand in 1966 and entering the convent of the Little Company of Mary (LCM) in 1968. Discusses the different stages of training including canonical year (spiritual year) and commencement of community nurse training, an eighteen months course. After final profession returned to Tonga 1974. Describes difficulties of setting up clinic and convent and opening of clinic in 1975. Recalls being the fourth congregation to open in Tonga but the only nursing one. Talks about the long hours, seeing 100, sometimes nearly 200 patients a day. Describes conditions in the homes in which babies were delivered. Recalls going to the Philippines in 1984 on a course and contacting Hepatitis. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Ann Trotter Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009402-009403 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. 3 Electronic document(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3043.

Date: 1840 - 1850

By: Gush, William, 1813-1888; Egleton, William Henry, active 1840s; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-098-021-a

Description: Half-length frontal portrait of pioneer Methodist minister Walter Lawry. He is shown as balding, in middle age, dressed in a formal suit Copy is inscribed 'To the Rev.d G. Smales from his friend Walter Lawry'. Another cropped copy, lacking the details of artist and engraver, held at A-098-021 Rev. Walter Lawry was a pioneer Methodist missionary in Tonga Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 115 x 80 mm

Date: 1840 - 1846

From: Dumont d'Urville, Jules Sebastien Cesar, 1790-1842 :Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Oceanie ... 1838 - 1842. Atlas pittoresque. Paris, A. Gide, 1846.

By: Le Breton, Louis Auguste Marie, 1818-1866; A Gide, active 1846; Sabatier, Leon Jean-Baptiste, -1887

Reference: PUBL-0028-079

Description: A close-up broadside view of a large double-hulled Tongan canoe with a large covered cabin and sail, being sailed by Tongan men. Another similar canoe with a sail is in the left background, with land and coconut palms further left and to the right. Dumont d'Urville's two ships, the Astrolabe and Zelee, can be seen in the left background. Other Titles - Canoe of the missionaries, Vava'u Island [translation] Tonga Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, black and white, 210 x 360 mm