Of Norton, Somerset. Came to New Zealand in 1825 with the Church Missionary Society. Ran a mission station at Manukau Heads in the 1840s. Married Elizabeth Osborn who died in 1858. Died on 15 Nov 1865 at his residence, Waipuna, near Panmure, aged 62 years (Colonist, 1 Dec 1865, p 2). See Dictionary of New Zealand Biography / Scholefield Volume 1 p 351 and "Register of Missionaries and Native Clergy from 1804-1904" (Ref Rm 920Coll ca 1905)
Hamlin, James (Rev), 1803-1865
Stack, James 1801-1883 : Journal
Date: Jun 1834-Dec 1836, 2004
By: Stack, James, 1801-1883
Reference: qMS-1858-1859
Description: A detailed history of the mission at Mangapouri with emphasis on the relations between the Maori and the missionaries in the pre-European settlement period,as seen by a Church Missionary Society missionary. Also included are day-to-day accounts of journeys in the Waikato-Thames Valley area, of thens at Pahia, Puriri (Thames) and Tauranga, and of the wars in 1836 between Maori tribes in the Waikato-Thames Valley and the Rotorua-Bay of Plenty areas Source of title - Supplied title Variations in title - "Stack's Journal" on each section Quantity: 2 volume(s) (122 pages). 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs (some photocopies) (34 cm; blue calf box)
Hamlin, James 1803-1865 : Journal
Date: 1826-1837
By: Hamlin, James (Rev), 1803-1865
Reference: qMS-0909
Description: Describes his work among the Maori at Waimate (North), Kerikeri, Mangapouri and Manukau; also visit to Waikato with Archdeacon Brown in 1834 Source of title - Supplied title Church Missionary Society missionary and lay teacher Quantity: 1 volume(s) (112 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript (34cm; red buckram)
Hamlin, James, 1803-1865 : Letter
Date: 14 Apr 1846
By: Hamlin, James (Rev), 1803-1865
Reference: MS-Papers-2991
Description: Informs of his movements and forwards Mrs Colenso's bill of expenses; recipient of letter unknown Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 leaf). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph
Hamlin, James 1803-1865 : Journal
Date: 1826-1837
By: Hamlin, James (Rev), 1803-1865
Reference: Micro-MS-0296
Description: Describes work among Maori at Waimate (North), Kerikeri, Mangpouri amd Manukau; also visit to Waikato with Archdeacon Brown in 1834 Relationship complexity - Typed transcript at qMS-0909 Church Missionary Society missionary and lay teacher Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (ca 150p).
Research notes - Colenso family history
Date: 1788-1948
From: Petersen, George Conrad, 1900-1978 : Papers relating to a biography of William Colenso
Reference: 80-038-20
Description: Includes "Letters between the members of the Corporation of Penzance respecting a lecturer to be appointed..." (1788), notes on Henry Williams, transcripts of letters and diaries of the Williams family, Colenso and others, and related material Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript (some carbon copies) and printed matter
[Ashworth, Edward] 1814-1896 :Native settlement - Tipitai, Manukao Hr. New Zealand. Xma...
Date: 1843
By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896
Reference: A-208-010
Description: View from a hill near the water's edge, looking down towards pohutukawa, with a small group of Maori dwellings at the water's edge, alongside a small stream. Across the Manukau harbour can be seen the Huia area. The settlement at Titipai was about one mile west of the kainga of Awhitu, which in turn was about two miles west of James Hamlin's Church Missionary Station at Orua, at Manukau Entrance, the southern end of Manukau Heads Exhibited at 'The world was all before me; journals and watercolours of Edward Ashworth from the collections of Alexander Turnbull Library', Curator was Jill Trevelyan. The exhibition title is taken from Ashworth's journal where he misquotes from John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost": "The world was all before me / where to choose my place of rest". At the National Library Gallery, 27 April - 29 July 2001. Other Titles - Manakau Harbour Christmas Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in ink, with Xmas 1843 in pencil upper right sky area. The paper (cream wove) has a blind embossed stamp, lower right, marked 'Extra fine Bristol' inside an oval leaf-pattern. Sketched on Ashworth's trip to the Waikato December 1843 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and sepia wash 183 x 227 mm Provenance: Purchased Sotheby's auction, 1966
Corrigenda to the translation of St Mark's Gospel
Date: 1841
From: Simkin, William John (Bishop) 1883-1967 : Papers
By: Hamlin, James (Rev), 1803-1865
Reference: MS-Papers-0131-13
Description: Corrigenda to William Williams's translation of Mark, in the script of James Hamlin, watermarked 1838, but not precisely corresponding to the texts of 1837 or 1841 or 1844 (all printed). The corrections are mostly in Maori with some English commentary. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Opinions of various authorities on native tenure
Date: 1890
From: Grace, John Te Herekiekie (Sir), 1905-1985 : Grace family papers
Reference: 85-173-5/6
Description: Contains an extract from the AJHR of 1890 dealing with the opinions of various experts about the nature of Maori land tenure, 1840-1890 Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Early correspondence (CN/E) and letterbooks (CN/I 1, CN/I 2)
Date: 1808-1811, 1852-1883
From: Church Missionary Society : Archives relating to the Australian and New Zealand Missions
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-04-27
Description: Comprises some 17 letters 1809-1811, to the Society from Samuel Marsden, William Hall, and John King, describing each other, conditions in New Zealand, the `Boyd' affair, and other missionaries; and two outward letterbooks Jan 1852-Sep 1883. The outward letterbooks are to individual missionaries ca 1852-1883. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Processing information: Record updated on 2 March 2023 as paper inventory had incorrectly associated "letters to E.B. Clarke" with James Climo, 1822-1911. Replaced with correct name record for Edward Blomfield Clarke, 1831-1900.
Simkin, William John (Bishop) 1883-1967 : Papers
Date: [ca 1841-1845]
By: Simkin, William John (Bishop), 1883-1967
Reference: MS-Papers-0131
Description: Consists mostly of fragmentary remains of MS drafts and duplicate fair copies of contributions to the Maori prayer book produced by Selwyn and published in England in 1848, as described in detail in the Child Records. Source of title - Supplied title Anglican Bishop of Auckland, 1940-1960 Quantity: 18 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in reading room was removed on 24 Nov 2014 as it contained no extra information. A copy is available in the staff backfile.. Provenance: Originally in papers of St John's Theological College but removed by Bishop Simkin while bishop of Auckland.
Miscellaneous inward correspondence
Date: 1855-1869
From: Williams family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0069-074A
Description: Names of selected correspondents in Name Field Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: List of correspondents in inventory.
Church Missionary Society : Records
Date: 1821-1868
By: Church Missionary Society
Reference: MS-Papers-0179
Description: Includes letters, chiefly to CMS secretaries, 1821-1868; report from C L Reay; letters relating to Henry Williams' land claim, 1847; reference to William Colenso's dismissal, and to W R Wade Quantity: 7 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.
Hamlin, James 1803-1865 : Letters to the Church Missionary Society
Date: 1826-1848
By: Hamlin, James (Rev), 1803-1865
Reference: Micro-MS-0295
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (200p.).
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
Reverend Hamlin's Mission Station at Wairoa
Date: ca 1850s
From: Rhodes, Beatrice, fl 1978 :Photographs
Reference: PA1-q-193-050-1
Description: Reverend James Hamlin's Mission Station at Wairoa from across the Wairoa River. Four main buildings can be seen, and another is under construction. Photographed between 1844 and 1863 by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Mission Station. Wairoa. Rev. Hamlin Clyde Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 9.3 x 15.2 cm mounted on album page
James Hamlin
Date: [ca 1860]
Reference: 1/4-002132-F
Description: James Hamlin circa 1860. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Inward letters - Surnames, Hamlin
Date: 1859-1875, n d
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0323
Description: Correspondents: H M Hamlin, Clive & Napier, 1868-1875 (5 letters); James Hamlin, Wairoa, 1859-1863 (4 letters); to Josiah Hamlin (from McLean), Napier, 1873, and undated copy (2 letters) Quantity: 1 folder(s).