Star of the South (Ship)

Date: 1848-1871

By: Northe, John, active 1869-1871

Reference: MS-Papers-0306

Description: Two letters, 1848 and 1852, from John and Elizabeth Grean, Cheapside, London, to John Northey, Barrack Sergeant, Russell. Mentions Chartist Riots, 1848. Also 4 letters, 1869-1871, from John and Ann Northe, Napier, to their son and daughter. Mentions Hau Hau disturbances, 1869, stranding of the "Star of the South" at Napier, 1870, and family concerns Quantity: 1 folder(s) (21 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-043

Description: Additional material included with the essay includes Captain Bendall's shipboard diary kept on board `City of New York', `Zealandia', 1876; letter from William Edward Bendall re stranding of the `Ellerton', 1883; list of vessels Captain Bendall is known to have been master of; family trees Captain Bendall and his wife Mary, nee Taylor, arrived in Dunedin from Launceston, Tasmania on the `Three Sisters' in 1862. From that date until 1878 he was master of several coastal traders and New Zealand pilot for Pacific steamers. He was appointed Marine Surveyor and Lloyds representative in Wellington and salvaged several wrecked or stranded vessels. The couple had nine children. One daughter who lived for 107 years, died in 1986 Relationship complexity - Transcript of Captain Bendall's shipboard log, 1876 is at 88-155 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available. Photographs

Date: 1871-1897

By: Nancarrow & Company

Reference: MS-Papers-1691

Description: The records relate to activities as shipping and commission agents, including declarations of seaworthiness, and to activities as agents for the Grey District Permanent Building Society Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 3 folder(s) (55 pieces). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, printed matter

Date: 1878 - 1883

By: Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948; Haylock, Greta Muriel, 1898-1980

Reference: E-060-2

Description: Timaru views dated 1878 and 1879 and ships Elizabeth, Goahead, Star of the South, Annie Bow, Ben Venue (wrecked 1883), Chile, George Noble all at Timaru. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink and watercolour, page size 118 x 176 mm Finding Aids: Shelf-list with sketchbook.

Date: 1879

From: Haylock, Arthur Lagden 1860-1948 :Sketches by A. L. Haylock, 1878, 1879, 1883.

By: Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948

Reference: E-060-2-008

Description: A broadside view of the ship Star of the South Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 118 x 175 mm

Date: [ca 1881]

From: Perkins, J (Mr), fl 1967 :Photograph album and loose prints

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Perkins, William Herbert, -1927; Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-o-415

Description: Photographs of Greymouth, Grey River, Brunnerton, Ahaura, Reefton, Waimakariri, Lake Pearson, Lake Brunner, Dillmanstown, Milford Sound, Franz Josef Glacier, Ross, and the thermal areas of central North Island. The photographers represented include William Herbert Perkins, James Ring and the Burton Brothers. There is one interior view of a quartz-crushing battery at Reefton. Pages 55, 57 and 58 have portraits of women (and one man) in "Fancy Fair" costumes Inscriptions: Album page - "William Perkins. Greymouth. 1884" Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon covers, darker corners and spine; "Album" lettered in gold on spine; 23.5 x 30.0 cm

Date: 1867, 1870, 1887, 1888

From: Jeffcoat family : Papers

Reference: MSX-8914

Description: Volume contains financial and personal details for the Jeffcoat family. Diary provides accounts of voyages from Auckland to Napier, sawmilling activities around the Napier region, Maori relations, business transactions, weather, and correspondence with family and business partners (Those named include - Cashmore, Marshall, Sanders, Chambers, Karaitiana, Prentice, Tuley, Holt). Also includes poems written by E J (Elon Jeffcoat) and copied letters (these entries mostly date after 1867), sketches of vessels, and a memorandum of cost of improvements at Cabbage Bay (1870). Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres.