Places

Date: 1856,1860

From: Stratford, Peter : Epsom Trust collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11750-24

Description: Contains three parchment land deeds relating to the Williams family [CMS] of Bay of Islands. ET/LT:005 is a land purchase document of Henry Williams purchasing land in Hokianga on 23 July 1856. Includes pencil annotations on the outside of the document including `Taratara' which may refer to Taratara Peak (also known as St Paul's). Also includes the Governor's offical seal. ET/LT: 006 is dated 24 April 1860 and includes Henry Williams Jun. Esq. to John William Williams Esq. Includes a hand drawn coloured map on the inner page. The following places are named on the map: Okorari Creek, Taratara and Pukeawa. It is also dated and stamped on the outside by the `Registrar Auckland' Wed 9 May 1860. ET/LT: 007 includes Henry Williams Jun Esq. to Venerable Octavius Hadfield and wife. It is dated 24 April 1860. It contains a hand drawn coloured map, showing the following places: Okorari Creek, Taratara and Pukeawa. A note for ET/LT:005 says that it may have come from the John Webster collection, but it relates to the Williams family [CMS] of Bay of Islands. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Parchment

Date: 1860-1865

By: Broughton, James, 1792-1869

Reference: MS-0317

Description: Draft correspondence as agent of the London and Liverpool Insurance Company, Wanganui Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 180 pages). Physical Description: Mss (23 cm; ¼ maroon roan, marbled boards)

Date: 1860

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-0037-257

Description: Tables of wind, tempertaure and other weather measurements.

Date: 1858-1860, 1889

By: Olson family

Reference: MS-Papers-3357

Description: Letters from Wellington, Christchurch & New Plymouth written by Frederick, Eleanore, Edward & Elmett H Olson containing mainly family news Quantity: 1 folder(s) (12 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs

Date: 1860-1861

By: Jones family

Reference: MSY-3936

Description: Contains 16 letters between members of the Jones family and a lecture by John Jones to the Young Mens' Mutual Improvement Society on practical business. Contains family news, church affairs, reactions to the events of the day and business concerns, mostly from John Jones. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume. 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (carbon copies) Finding Aids: Typed list in front of volume.

Date: 1999-2000, [ca 1860-1930]

From: Chisholm, Jocelyn Bell, 1928-2010 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-10799-002

Description: Correspondence, notes, transcripts, printed material and other papers relating to the Coghill family, who arrived in Dunedin 1860, and to whom Jocelyn Chisholm was related. Contains material on the early Dunedin artist, Robert Brunton Coghill Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1973

By: Annan, Enid Laura, 1903-1996

Reference: MS-Papers-1562

Description: Text of talk to accompany historic walk through Dunstan, gold mining town in Central Otago in 1860s Quantity: 1 folder(s) (9 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1860

By: Guthrie, Thomas, 1814-1876

Reference: MS-Papers-2881

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 leaf). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, printed matter

Date: 1860-1965

By: Forbes, Josephine Knyvett, 1917-2005

Reference: MS-Papers-1189

Description: Correspondence between Francis Moore and his wife Sophie (nee Lysaght) and with various family members, particularly those of Francis' family in England. Includes correspondence with his brother Arthur W Moore, an Admiral in the British Navy, and his sister Evelyn Moore, a Maid of Honour to Queen Victoria. Also papers relating to their son John Lysaght Moore, artist. Some reference to the Chatham Islands where Moore farmed in the 1880s and 1890s. Relationship complexity - Further Moore family correspondence at 81-041 Quantity: 26 folder(s). 0.26 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Inventory available. Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Sketches by Mary and Frances Lysaght.

Date: 3 Nov 1860

By: Parr, Christopher J, 1931?-; Searancke, William Nicholas, 1817?-1904

Reference: MS-Papers-2309

Description: Letter from Donald McLean at Auckland describing excitable state of Maori population in the Auckland area and discussing settlement of land claims by Sir Frederick Weld; reply from Searancke to McLean at MS-Papers-0032-0565, dated 10 Nov 1860 Source of title - Supplied Searancke was then land purchasing officer in the Wairarapa Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: n d

From: McNab, Robert, 1864-1917 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0047-16

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1860-1861

Reference: Micro-MS-0679

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (16 p).

Date: 1859-1860

By: Baker, Frederick Thomas, 1839-1896

Reference: qMS-0116

Description: Written in Auckland; describes daily life, social events, marriages etc; also news of war in Taranaki, political events in Auckland, and among Maori in the Waikato; reports news from missionaries and others, such as Turton, Parris etc Not definitely established, but it is probable that the author is Thomas Baker Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (18 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (34cm, blue pamphlet case)

Date: 1860-1861, 1880

From: Beach family : Genealogical and personal papers of the Beach and Woodward families

Reference: fMS-Papers-8271-3

Description: Land grants made to william Lancaster Lucena in 1860 & 1861 for land at Featherston; map of New Plymouth, 1880 (reproduced in 1976) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1995-2002

From: Fry, Alexander Sydney, 1926-2006: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8493-1

Description: `When can you start?', an autobiography of Fry's life up until the 1960s describing his childhood, education, war service and employment as a journalist for the Southern Cross newspaper and the New Zealand Listener and editorial work for A H & A W Reed. Chapter 1 begins with Fry arriving in Wellington from Christchurch in 1948 and he describes his experiences working as a journalist for the Southern Cross newspaper and gives his impressions of Wellington, including being a student at Victoria University College in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He then reverts back to his childhood, describing growing up in Wallsend and Christchurch, attending Papanui Technical College and being apprenticed as an electrician. Chapter 10 ends in 1944 when Fry enrolled in the Royal Navy 21st Fleet Airm draft to be trained in England. Names referred to in the text are entered in the name index. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 25 Jul-13 Nov 1859, 1860

By: Munnings, Joseph, 1841-1923

Reference: MS-Papers-1220

Description: Account of voyage to Lyttelton by the `Zealandia' 25 Jul-13 Nov 1859; concludes with description of life in the Christchurch district Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 volume, 39 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs J Jackson, Havelock North, 1972

Date: 1860

From: Connell, Marjorie Bertha, 1907-1995 : Seed family papers

Reference: fMS-Papers-8517-2

Description: First photograph taken of a New Zealand parliament, 1860. Published by Datus. A montage of photographs of the 40 MPs, Sergeant at Arms, Clerk of the House, and Government House, Auckland. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1965-1973]

From: New Zealand Post Office : Histories of the post offices in the Christchurch Postal District

Reference: MS-Papers-5192-6

Description: Includes many of the military camps in the region; offices not entered are Coal Track, The Gates, The Peaks, Ashbourne, Barr Hill, Blandville, Bushside, Darfield, Drayton, Ealing, Ethelton, Holmeslee, Horrelville, Leeston, Papanui, Rakaia, Rangiora, Rse Fete, Seafield, Seaview, Sherwood, South Malvern, Springbank, Stanmore Road, Taratuha, Templeton, Upper Waiau (Feerry), View Hill, Waipara, Waltham, West Eyreton and Woodgrove. Camps were Addington, Burnham, Cavendish, Glentunnel, Homebush, Kowai Bush, Motukarara, Sandown, Scargill, Ashburton Air Force, Blake's, Canterbury Park, Harewood and Norwood air force and Westerfield military camps. Also includes Air Mail and Christchurch exhibitions and Rose Fete, Christchurch. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: 1860-1884 (1894)

By: O'Halloran, George S, 1844?-

Reference: MS-Papers-1345

Description: O'Halloran arrived in Australia in 1860 from Ireland and held a variety of jobs in Melbourne and Victoria before coming to New Zealand in 1861. He worked at gold mining in Otago, hotel and store-keeping, driving and contracting in the Thames, Auckland, and central North Island. He spent nine years with the Mounted Militia, 1865-1874, in Taranaki, central North Island and East Coast and saw frequent action. O'Halloran returned in Australia in 1884. This autobiography was completed in 1894. Quantity: 2 folder(s) (132 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 20 Feb 1860

From: Ford, Harris, fl 1850-1921 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8250-1

Description: Letter from Samuel Ford to his son, Harris Ford, from New Plymouth in envelope with added note, `Fathers last letter to me'; the letter was about the dispute that caused the Taranaki War, the land bought from Teira at Waitara by the Government Quantity: 1 folder(s).