Seddon family

Date: 1907-1932

By: Seddon family

Reference: MS-Papers-10703

Description: Papers connected with the ordering, purchase and freighting to New Zealand of a processional cross commissioned by the Seddon family in memory of Louisa Jane Seddon and presented to St Paul's Church in 1932. Includes samples of F Osborne's ecclesiastical art metal work, catalogue of ecclesiastical silver & metal work (company unknown) and church plate and metal work (company unknown), quotations from Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd and E Whiteway & Co Ltd of London. Also part of a letter to Owen Cox, Sydney, mentioning Rev Sprot(t) and Mr Barraud re the R J Seddon Memorial Pulpit in Old St Paul's (2 May 1907). Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See TAPUHI for further Seddon records Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, printed matter, photograph

Date: ca 1890s

From: Donne, Anne, fl 1975 :Photographs mainly of Richard John Seddon in New Zealand and the Pacific

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-3329-01

Description: Photographs of: a group of people gathered to watch sports on the Queen's Birthday in Tonga including Seddon; a view of the coast at Cape Foulwind; a letter addressed to "Sire Sedone, Pirima, Neuseland" from Niue; a gathering of Tongans outside a marquee in Nuku'alofa for the Queen's birthday celebrations; Seddon and what are probably other parliamentarians standing on the steps of a building; a large totara; the Seddon family on a visit to the state schoolhouse in Levuka, Fiji; the Seddon family gathered round an ornately framed certificate noting Seddon's achievements; Huka Falls taken by the Burton Brothers; Seddon holding a taiaha seated in a group of seven working men; the recreation ground in New Plymouth looking towards Mount Taranaki; two portraits of Samoan girls; a cart travelling on the Cable Bay Road looking out over the bay taken by Tyree Studio; Lake Taupo from Motutere taken by Burton Brothers; and a group of men, possibly including Seddon, sitting and standing on the steps of a building. Other than the first six, these prints are all stuck to pages from what may have been an album. Quantity: 16 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1900-1910]

By: Seddon, Thomas Edward Youd, 1884-1972

Reference: PAColl-10034

Description: Photographs relating to the Morice and Seddon families of the West Coast taken circa 1900-1910 by an unidentified photographer. Includes family groups, picnic scene, men playing golf and a group on (Franz Josef ?) glacier. One shows the Greymouth surgery of the Drs Morice. Dr Charles George Frederick Morice and his wife, Louisa Jane Morice (nee Seddon), feature in some of the family groups. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 26 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen and silver gelatin prints Provenance: Photographs came to the Library enclosed in a book titled 'The treasury of British eloquence' and inscribed by George Toogood to T E Y Seddon, and dated 25 July 1906. Transfers: Collection as a whole received by Photographic Archive. Material transferred from there. - To Book Collections - (G Collection) Cochrane, Robert, compiler and arranger. The treasury of British eloquence. Edinburgh, Nimmo Hay & Mitchall, 1902. With inscription from George Toogood to T E Y Seddon, 25 July 1906..

Date: 1920 - 1936

By: Seddon, Beatrice Anna, 1889-1987; Seddon, Mary Dorothea, 1924-2000

Reference: B-062-026

Description: Shows the house of Sir Francis & Lady Dillon Bell from garden entrance, presumably before the death of Sir Francis Dillon Bell in 1936 Other Titles - The drive up to the home of Sir Francis & Lady Bell's house in Lowry Bay, Wellington [inscribed on verso of work] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Beatrice Seddon; Verso - Additional title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on canvas 367 x 417 mm Provenance: By descent to artist's daughter, Mary Seddon, of Wadestown, Wellington.

Date: 1850-1971

By: Seddon family

Reference: MS-Group-0170

Description: Correspondence and official papers of R J Seddon while Prime Minister, 1893-1906, re trade, South African War, Pacific and international affairs, Maori and other national matters; speech notes, addresses, commemmorative material, personal and estate papers. Papers of other family members, especially T E Y Seddon: diaries, correspondence, papers, covering childhood in Kumara, law studies in Wellington, political and diplomatic career, war service; drafts of The Seddons, reminiscences and other writings Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 254 folder(s). 38 volume(s). 8.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [ca 1880s-1906]

From: Seddon family :Photographs

By: Seddon family

Reference: PA1-f-265

Description: Photographs of Richard John Seddon, his wife Louisa Jane Seddon and of his family. Show family house in Kumara. Includes images of daughters, especially May and Mary, and of sons Tom, Dick and Stuart. Also show Seddon's sister Mary and Knox Gilmer, later May's husband. Several images show family members wearing various costumes. A number of images taken at the time of the second South African War show some of the Seddon in army uniform, May and Louisa among them. Includes scenes from the military training camp at Newtown Park, Wellington. Other photographs show travel in New Zealand by horse and cart and car. Show Seddons at Franz Joseph Glacier and in Rotorua. Includes some images of guide Makereti Papakura. Other images taken in Pacific or during shipboard travel. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green covered album originally with black corners and spine, 28 x 36cm; now housed in a phase box

Date: 1852-1974

Reference: fMS-Papers-5195

Description: Includes Education Department Standard Certificate, issued in 1897, Wanganui Collegiate School certificates, 1905, 1907; souvenir certificate of flight in first Avro-Avian in New Zealand, 1929 and page from a Seddon family scrapbook? Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Transfers: Items transferred from Ephemera Collection..

Date: 1868-1936

Reference: MS-Group-1716

Description: Contains correspondence between the St Helens (England) and New Zealand branches of the Seddon family, mainly between Mary Seddon and her sons, Benjamin and Richard and their family. The letters discuss family matters and the desirability of New Zealand as a destination for other family members to emmigrate to. Also contains letters from Richard John Seddon to his English relations and printed material relating to his career as a politician and prime minister of New Zealand. Mary Seddon, 1840-1922 lived in St Helens, Liverpool. Her son Benjamin (1880-1966) emigrated to New Zealand in 1908 and worked for the railways at Addington, Christchurch until he transferred to Greymouth in Oct 1912. A second son, Richard (1874-1946) also emigrated to New Zealand, initially settling in Wellington in 1912 and then moving to Greymouth. Richard John Seddon 1845-1906 was the nephew of Mary Seddon and cousin of Bejamin and Richard Seddon. Quantity: 28 folder(s). 0.28 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: The papers were held by Isabella Seddon, living in St Helens' UK and a descendant of Richard John Seddon's brother, Benjamin Seddon, who passed them on to Ronald Nathan Seddon, on whose behalf they were donated to the Library by his widow, Janet Anne Seddon Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Manuscripts. Transfers made from here. - To Photographic Archive - Group photograph featuring Richard John Seddon (2 copies) PAColl-9316.

Date: 1880-1938

By: Seddon family

Reference: MS-Group-1570

Description: Letters, scrapbooks and photographs of the Seddon family, with newspaper cuttings. Includes family correspondence, financial papers and material relating to Richard Seddon's death, as well as later correspondence and scrapbooks, mainly relating to Seddon's life. Also includes two scrapbooks compiled by Elizabeth May Gilmer, Seddon's daughter, about her campaigns for Parliament in 1935 and 1938, and another scrapbook about gardening. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 21 folder(s). 5 volume(s). 1 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter, photgraphs and scrapbooks Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Ms J Gilmer, Wellington, 2007 Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts; material transferred to other sections from here - To Photographic Archive - One photograph album and one photograph (PA-Group-00294).

Date: 1883-1927

By: Seddon family

Reference: MS-Papers-9572

Description: Collection comprises correspondence, ephemera and printed material relating to Richard Seddon and the Seddon family. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss & printed matter

Date: [1840-1915]

By: Seddon family

Reference: PAColl-8539

Description: Photographs relating to Premier Richard John Seddon and his family. Comprises an image of Richard John Seddon, portrait of Seddon and his wife Louisa taken circa 1860s, a painting dated circa 1840 of R J Seddon's father Thomas, a painting dated circa 1860s of an unidentified couple, the Seddon house in Kumara, Seddon's wife Louisa with her children in 1915, Seddon with his wife and family circa 1899. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-047790 to 047798 Quantity: 7 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: 1893-1897, 1936-1937

By: Hay, Mary Stuart Carlton, 1874-1946

Reference: MS-Group-0529

Description: Comprises inward letters from Stuart Seddon (R J Stuart) to his sister Mary Stuart Seddon while on active service in WWI and from Paddy (not identified further) and 7 vols of family scrapbooks Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 7 volume(s). 0.50 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms Helen Hitchings, Wellington, May 1988

By: Seddon family

Reference: PAColl-4656

Description: Quantity: 59 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: Date unknown

By: Seddon family

Reference: 1/2-105145-F

Description: Te Ao Marama meeting house/mission hall. Date and photographer unknown. The Te Ao Marama meeting house, Ohinemutu, opened circa 1912. It was owned by the Bennett family and given by them to St Faith's Church for use as a parish hall. During the 1930's the Board of Maori Arts established the Rotorua carving school (led by Harold Hamilton) in this building. (Information from back of file print of 1/2-105145)

Date: [ca 1905]

From: Child, Edward George, 1860-1949 :Photographs of the Ohingaiti district

Reference: 1/4-016535-G

Description: Photographic copy, of a photo-mechanical print in an unidentified publication, depicting Richard John Seddon and his family. From left to right, standing: Mr Stuart Seddon, Miss May Seddon, (Mrs Phoebe Dyer ?). Seated: Miss Lulu Dyer, Mrs Louisa Jane Seddon, Richard John Seddon. Photo-mechanical print made from a photograph taken circa 1905. This copy made between 1905-1910 by Edward George Child. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: Sep 1895

By: Seddon family

Reference: 1/2-098554-F

Description: Deputation of Urewera chiefs to Richard John Seddon (4th from right), at the Ministerial Residence in Molesworth Street. James Carroll is on the extreme left. Taken by an unidentified photographer in September 1895. The deputation of Urewera chiefs included: Marunui, Harehare, Rewi, Tokopounamu, Mihaere, Te Korowhiti, Paraki, Te Peere, Wharekotua, Wharepapa, Tuhoto, and Ngapuhi. Wi Pere, MP for the Eastern Electorate, was also present. (Source: library client and "Nga korero mo Tuhoe : taenga ki Poneke kia kite i te Kawanatanga : tau 1895", accessed through the NZ Electronic Text Centre). Not all of those named are in this photograph. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: [ca 1900]

By: Seddon family

Reference: 1/2-060074-F

Description: Richard John Seddon (left), outside a railway carriage circa 1900. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).