Places

Date: [186-], 1951, 1982, [200-]

From: Alington, Margaret Hilda, 1920-2012 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8897-59

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs, manuscripts, typescripts, printed matter

Date: 18 Dec 1842

By: Dowdeswell family

Reference: MSI-Papers-4267

Description: Letter, written from Parrurua [ie Porirua] Road, describes the voyage to New Zealand, their arrival in Wellington, setting up their accommodation house and life in Wellington. Bishop Selwyn's visit is also described in the letter. Accompanying material - Photocopy of letter (4 leaves), envelope with annotations in unknown hand, and photocopies of correspondence between Library and Mrs B Kay, great grand-daughter of Susannah Wall, Pukerua Bay Other - Published in part in Tawa Flat and the old Porirua Road / A H Carman (1970) Susannah Wall arrived in Wellington with her husband Anthony Wall, four sons and one daughter, on the Lord William Bentinck in May 1841. They set up the Halfway House for travellers on the Porirua Road Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 pp on 1 folded leaf). Physical Description: Holograph (encapsulated) Provenance: Original held by Percy Wall family of Hinerangi, Hatuma, Hawkes Bay, for many years

Date: 1842-1844

By: Williams, John Brown, 1810-1860

Reference: Micro-MS-0186

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (Positive, ca 153 pages).

Date: 1852-1867, 1911, 1970, 1995-1996

From: Alington, Margaret Hilda, 1920-2012 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8897-65

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs, manuscripts, typescripts, printed matter

Date: 1842-1866, n d

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-207

Description: Comprises a whakapapa of Warea area people, April 1862, in Maori (10 pages); a 19-page text of 43 waiata, dated 4 Feb 1866 (by Ropata Ngarongomate?); a further transcription of 50 waiata in Maori hand, possibly from Taranaki area; a 7-page account in Maori of the stories of Kae and Maui; an account of the activities of Wiremu Kingi Matakatea; and a document titled 'Maori house' which lists names of the figures depicted in the pou of 'Te Hau ki Tūranga', a whare built by the Ngāti Kaipoho tribe "to the memory of Tamata Waaka Tuangere [Tamati Waaka Mangere], the elder brother of Raharuhi Rukupo who designed it". This whare was built in Turanga (Gisborne) in 1842-1843. In addition to the above Maori writing the folder contains a large empty envelope with a pasted on note in Smith's hand listing previous contents, some of which are now to be found in other folders; a Taranaki whakapapa with a note by Smith saying it was given to him by Mr Jackson, Native interpreter at New Plymouth, Jun 1910; a drawing of a sailing canoe and miscellaneous photographs and other documents. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescript

Date: 1842

From: O'Shea, Phillip Patrick, 1947- : Papers

Reference: fMS-Papers-5059-15

Description: Three letters written on the same sheet of paper, from William Williams and his partner Hallamore, to business colleagues in Great Britain, describing their arrival in Auckland, business opportunities, and selling butter, cheese and shoes Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 leaf). Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Collected by Mona Gordon for her biography of J C Firth

Date: 1841-1842

By: Moore, Frederick George, 1815-1892

Reference: MS-1661-1664

Description: Autobiography of life in Wellington & Nelson and 3 volumes of newspaper clippings of articles in the Weekly herald, under the title `Early pioneer days in New Zealand', based on the typescript. The newspaper articles touch on the settlement of Nelson and steam communication with Great Britain Relationship complexity - See MS-1660 for journal and correspondence relating to Moore. Quantity: 4 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss (23 cm; ¼ green morocco)

Date: 1840-1842

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

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-07-3590

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1842-1866

By: Baucke, Johann Heinrich Christoph, 1814-1908

Reference: fMS-014

Description: The church register for the German Evangelical Mission in the Chatham Islands, kept by J H C Baucke. The final 13 leaves contain the genealogy of Baucke's descendants. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (28 cm, sacking, in grey phase box) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs B G Jenkins, Karori, 1969

Date: 1907, 1913

By: Tylden, Charles Ryland, 1842-1913?

Reference: MS-Papers-7587

Description: Tylden began writing his reminiscences in 1907 and continued till 1913; he writes of his childhood, education, military training in England and coming to New Zealand in 1862 with the 70th Regiment. He gives full accounts of skirmishes in the Waikato, Wanganui and New Plymouth areas from 1863 to 1866. Following his discharge in 1868 he returned to farm in the Pukekohe area until 1881 and practised law in Auckland from 1882 to 1912. Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See also typescript copy at MS-Papers-1350 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (52 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (duplicated)

Date: 1842-1849

Reference: Micro-MS-0800

Description: Records charges, complainants, defendents, witnesses and verdict in each case Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (ca 56 frames).

Date: 1979

By: Airey, Elisabeth Farrant, 1934-

Reference: MS-Papers-2015

Description: Ms of book published by author. History of the family of Dr Thomas Renwick and his first wife, Adeline Absolon, and second wife Anne Smith. Adeline came alone to New Zealand in 1843. However, she found life in the colony dull and some time in the late 1850's or early 1860's returned to London. A year after her death in 1870, Thomas married Anne Smith. Born in 1844 Anne came to New Zealand with her elderly mother. After Thomas's death in 1877 she continued to run their farm, and a substantial part of the history relates to financial problems she had to deal with in order to keep it in production. Other Titles - Renwick; the story of a pioneer family Quantity: 1 folder(s) (93 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 1842 - 1872

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster collection and papers / of Kenneth Athol Webster

Reference: MS-Papers-1009-2/77

Description: Contains a certificate of confirmation of Himiona Tangata as a lay teacher, various notes about the Maori language, including a Maori-English vocabulary and translations of various prayers and text, land transfer deeds (for the establishment of churches at Wanganui and Waikanae), progress reports on Maori children at church schools Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1990

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

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-037

Description: The essay details the McDonald family story around the life of the youngest daughter Frances Harwood McDonald. She was born on Kawau Island in 1848 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available.

Date: 1990

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

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-011

Description: This essay tells the story of the writer's great-great-grandmother, Caroline Julian, who came to New Plymouth on the `Blenheim' in 1842, and that of Caroline's family Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published inventory available.

Date: 1840-1842 (1939)

By: Weekes, Henry, 1804?-1894

Reference: MS-2362

Description: Journal describes the voyage to New Zealand in the William Bryan and the settlement of New Plymouth Source of title - Supplied Weekes first arrived in New Zealand in 1841, as surgeon to the New Zealand Company, on the ship 'William Bryan'. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (27cm, various paginations, ¼ dark green morocco, green boards)

Date: 1842-1844

By: Williams, John Brown, 1810-1860

Reference: qMS-2242

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s) (124 pages). Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy) (33 cm; red linen)

Date: 1841-1842

By: Webber, Edmund, 1817-1860

Reference: MS-Papers-10957

Description: Webber's memoirs were written while working as an unpaid clerk in the Treasury in Auckland in 1842. Covers his first 20 years and describes life while serving in the West African Survey under Sir Edward Belcher, return to England, and his 4 years on the Mediterranean Station. Webber's journal begins on the voyage to New Zealand 20 Aug and ends with Webber in Auckland, 22 Jun 1842. Describes departure from Sydney, life in Van Dieman's Land, meetings with members of the Ross Antarctic Expedition, visits to Norfolk Island, arrival at Bay of Islands, New Zealand landscape, attempts to obtain a government post, social life in Auckland and the barracks, land question, Governor Hobson, trial of Maketu, Auckland Maori. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - William Cocksworthy Museum, Kingsbridge, Devon via NZ High Commission (84-243)

Date: 1910

By: Gudgeon, Walter Edward, 1841-1920

Reference: Micro-MS-0811

Description: Description of his life, with emphasis on his term as Resident Commissioner to the Cook Islands 1899-1909 (entitled `A journal of my residence in the South Seas and the causes that led to that residence, 1898-1909'); some details of the New Zealand wars, Maori genealogies. Source of title - Transcribed Other - Pages 242 and 247 appear on the microfilm between pages 219 and 220. Page 220 shows as a reversed (mirror) image. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 250 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

Date: [1910]

By: Gudgeon, Walter Edward, 1841-1920

Reference: fMS-079

Description: Autobiography with related documents including many Maori genealogies. Includes description of his time as Resident Commissioner to the Cook Islands, 1899-1909 entitled `A journal of my residence in the South Seas and the causes that led to that residence', (68pp & 3 pp related) Quantity: 1 volume(s) (loose leaves tied between boards). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter (photocopies) (loose leaves tied between boards)