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Date: 1998

By: Hewitt, Helen Verity, active 1998

Reference: MSX-4762

Description: Family history based on the diaries written by Henry John Sealy between 1858 and 1878. Relationship complexity - A copy of John Sealy's dairy located at MS-Copy-Micro-0046 Sealy emigrated to New Zealand in 1858 with his younger brother Edward Percy (b.1839). He worked as a land surveyer in both the Hawkes Bay and Canterbury Regions. He retired and died in Sydney, Australia. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Helen Hewitt, Australia, 1998

Date: 1886, 1993

From: McNab, John, b 1855 : Diary and travel account

Reference: MS-Papers-6235-3

Description: Title continues:`...off for a holiday, or, Glimpses of Maoriland'. McNab recounts his journey with technical details about the transport he took, various points of interest such as lengths of tunnels, Windy Wellington, and he includes poems; he names and describes each geyser at the Pink and White Terraces, particularly notes churches visited and people he met. Relationship complexity - Photocopy of original volume at MS-Papers-6190 and microfilm at Micro-MS-0930 In Feb 1886 McNab left his home in Timaru for a tour of the North Island travelling by train, steamer, and coach from Christchurch, Wellington to Napier, Tauranga, the Pink and White Terraces, Auckland, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Masterton, back to Wellington, Lyttelton, and home to Timaru Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 16 Nov 1895-5 Apr 1896

By: Davy, P, active 1895-1896

Reference: MS-Group-0708

Description: Comprises holograph diary kept by P Davy on the `Ruahine' and during his tour of New Zealand. After disembarking at Wellington where he visited relatives he toured to other parts of New Zealand. He describes a gathering of Maori following the settlement of fishing rights on Lake Wairarapa, a visit to a freezing works at Belfast, gold mining on the West Coast and Rotorua where he visited a pa, saw geysers and bathed in the hot pools. His journal ends on the return journey to England when staying at Sydney. Also includes transcript of part of the diary (16 Nov 1895-3 Jan 1896). Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - Full transcript of diary at MS-Papers-4391 Davy and his Aunt Harriet boarded the `Ruahine' at Plymouth 16 Nov 1895 and disembarked 12 Jan 1896 at Wellington where they stayed with relatives. After travelling around New Zealand they left Auckland for Sydney, 18 Mar. The writer of the diary is presumed to be P Davy, a passenger on the `Ruahine'; he visited members of the Davy family while in Wellington. He was probably one of the Devonshire Davys, a nephew of George Boutflower Davy, an official of the Land Registration Court of NZ, and the son of Edward Davy (1806-1885), an experimental chemist who emigrated to Australia. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 1 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typescript Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photograph of the `Gaul' with unidentifed tender vessel.

Date: 1881-1897

From: Letters relating to New Zealand

Reference: MS-Papers-6200-02

Description: Comprises letters from Rev W R Campbell, of Waiau, to his cousin, Patrick Campbell, of Edinburgh, re financial problems, family affairs, requesting money, describing a new church at Culverden, a promise from the Minister of Lands for a church at Hot Springs, schooling and his children, his assisstant, Rev A Treadwell and other matters; also includes three receipts for money received from Patrick Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1866-1872

By: Shaw, Charles Reginald, 1829-1906

Reference: MS-Papers-3803

Description: Shaw's diary covers the period 10 Dec 1866 to 5 August 1872. The brief daily entries describe the land he surveyed (the number of acres and the owner), and his activities around his home (gardening, maintenance of the house and furniture, and paying for household purchases). He also records information relating to the health and recreation of his wife and children. Source of title - supplied title Shaw came to NZ in 1853. He was a surveyor living in Timaru. Quantity: 2 folder(s) (172 leaves). Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: 1917

By: Fear, Robert, active 1988

Reference: MS-Papers-5784

Description: Cooper describes her early life in Greenwich, Kent and Camberwell, Surrey; the voyages of her father, Captain John Parsons, to New Zealand for the Canterbury Association with mention of John Godley, her voyage to Lyttelton in 1853 on the Minerva, life at Dampier Bay (now West Lyttelton) and in Christchurch as a governess, her marriage to Charles Edward Cooper in 1859 and her husband's job with the `Lyttelton Times'; later period living in Timaru and return to Christchurch in 1894; and at Sumner 1899. Many early Christchurch families are mentioned. Anne Elizabeth Parsons was the daughter of the first harbour master of Lyttelton Quantity: 1 folder(s) (17 leaves). Physical Description: Ms and typescript

Date: 1899-1910

By: Timaru Beautifying Association

Reference: MS-2149

Description: Minutes, together with numerous letters and newspaper cuttings inserted Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (Ca 105 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, 25x18 cm, ½ purple calf, marbled boards, marbled edges

Date: 1990

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

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-019

Description: The story of Clytie Curfew Howie, born Christchurch, the daughter of Robert Howie and Frances Eva nee Taylor. Her parents divorced after ten years of marriage and along with her mother she went to live with her grandfather James Taylor. She married George Dickinson in 1929, and the couple had three children before George's death by suicide. She remarried Jonathan Mann Includes a five generation family tree of Howie, Taylor and Grose families Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available.

Date: 30 Nov 1853

By: Schaffter, Albert, active 1853

Reference: MS-Papers-4214

Description: Letter was written nine months after Thompson's arrival on the `Minerva' and describes the topography, settlements and people of Canterbury with comment on local issues and conditions together with advice on emigration Source of title - Supplied title Accompanying material - Typed transcript, biographical information on Schaffter and letter, 25 Jan 1988 from donor; also biographical information on Thompson from Canterbury Museum, Christchurch Thompson was a teacher, businessman and Canterbury Provincial Councillor, 1861-1862. He met Rev Schaffter while Vice-Consul in Leghorn (Livorno), Italy and Schaffter requested information about Canterbury from him. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (7 leaves). Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - R D Simonds Jr, New York, 1988

Date: [1970-1995]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-7285-09

Description: Clippings relating to aspects of the history of Christchurch and of Banks Peninsula Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1932

By: Bruce, Alfred Selwyn, 1866-1936

Reference: qMS-0287

Description: Original manuscript for work published in 1936, with same title. Concerns Christchurch, Sumner and Lyttelton, and covers early history, city geography, old identities, pioneer women, St Andrew's Presbyterian Church. Publication - The Early days of Canterbury; a miscellaneous collection of interesting facts dealing with the settlement's first thirty years of colonisation Canterbury historian Quantity: 1 volume(s) (201 pages). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (34 cm; maroon roan)

Date: 9 Jul-26 Sep 1872

By: Coleman, Catherine Jane, 1842-1916

Reference: MS-Papers-5320

Description: The journal begins retrospectively a fortnight into the voyage. Coleman describes the passengers, conditions on the ship, the weather, activities on board and there are small illustrations, eg the Southern Cross and fish. She also describes her first visit ashore to Lyttelton. Accompanying material - Typed transcript arriving shortly, to be added to this collection. Incorporated 21 September 1995. Accompanying material - Donor has included biographical information about the Maile/Coleman families and additional information about the `St Leonards' Source of title - Title supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (40 pages, 19 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (In handmade booklet) Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms R C Belton, Waikanae and Ms J G Belton of Amberley, 1995 Coleman has made a few illustrations, mostly of fish

Date: 1990

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

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-056

Description: The essay details Stephen Corlett's Manx origins, work in Cheshire, emigration to Canterbury, the voyage out in the `Sir George Seymour' in 1850, early years in Canterbury Province, land purchases, burial of Stephen and wife Jane and their reinterment. Also the lives of the first generation to settle and raise families in New Zealand; and the Corlett brothers purchase of Greta Peaks, and loss of their land. Also includes an addendum added by Frances Stewart in 2006. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Published guide available. Includes photographs

Date: Apr 1898-Nov 1899

By: Nairn & Sons Ltd

Reference: qMS-1406

Description: Records financial transactions of Christchurch seed business. Also some clippings on garden plants Quantity: 1 volume(s) (742 pages). Physical Description: Ms and printed matter (34 cm; ½ brown calf, dark brown boards)

Date: 1864-1865

By: New Zealand Exhibition (1865: Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: MS-Papers-0707/1

Description: Inward correspondence concerning the exhibition from intending exhibitors, jurors, etc and Agent-General for New Zealand in London. Source of title - Transcribed title Quantity: 1 folder(s) (119 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopies)

Date: 25 Mar 1852, 20 Oct 1853

By: Rose, Conway Lucas, active 1851-1853

Reference: MS-Papers-3205

Description: Letters to his sister, describing the Canterbury settlement and Christchurch. Letter of 25 Mar 1852 is also signed "and Louie" (ie Louisa Rose). Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - Typescript at MS-1831 Conway Rose was an emigrant who arrived in Canterbury on the "Midlothian", with his wife Louisa George Rose, on 8 Oct 1851, under the auspices of the Canterbury Association. The Roses settled in Christchurch intending to stay in the settlement for ten years but left after only three. His sister "Issy" remained in England. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (16 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Processing information: Formerly Misc MS 654

Date: 1990

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

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-044

Description: The story of the writers great-great-grandmother, Sarah Ann Brunning senior, a widow who arrived in New Zealand in 1855 with her 22 year old daughter, and her two sisters Lucy and Mary Ridley. Includes family trees Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available.

Date: 1885-1886

By: Paske, Edward Lake, 1857-1886

Reference: qMS-1633

Description: Comprises diary or report of a surveying expedition 27 Oct-21 Dec (nd) which left Nelson for the Marlborough Sounds via the Boulder Bank, Croiselles, Anakiwa, the Rai and Whangamoa in which Paske (presumably the writer) mentions meeting settlers and local Maori, food collected and eaten (including fuschia berries), records the death of Simon (a Maori) and the Maori reaction to it and other details. Letters from Lucy Jervois, possibly Paske's aunt, to her sister and brother re Paske's death (12 Jun 1886), and to her sister-in-law Amelia re same (19 Jun 1886); letter from Mr Jervois probably to Paske (snr). Includes court record re Paske being intestate. Also contains `Report on the surveys of New Zealand 1885-1886', by James McKerrow, referring to the death of Paske on a surveying expedition. Maps of the Clarence-Waiau-Spenser region where Paske died: (1) track on day of snow storm marked red; (2) Map of Canterbury and Westland with inset of survey area; (3) one copied from an original (very fine condition), `Portion of the Rainbow Survey District', copy C P Carrington, Feb 1887 Photographs of the region, portrait of Paske and photographs of the church and cemetery where he was bured and his tombstone Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (38 pages). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter (34 cm; marbled end papers, ½ brown calf, brown linen)

Date: 1891, 1892

From: Weir, James Harrison, 1922-2012: Papers related to family, friends and research

Reference: MS-Papers-4631-2

Description: The diary covers the period 5 Jan - 17 Jan 1895 and gives an account of a trip made by Albert Edward Weir from Heathcote Valley to Greymouth and back. He was accompanied by his brother Tom on this journey and also makes mention of the driver William Gemmell. The account describes the scenery and the travelling conditions. An abbreviated version of the diary appeared in `The Canterbury Times' on 2 June 1892 and clippings of this are pasted in the back of the diary. Other miscellaneous clippings are also pasted into the diary. Albert Edward Weir was born at Heathcote Valley, near Christchurch on 27 Jan 1872. He was employed by Black, Beattie and Co and the electoral rolls of 1893 and 1896 listing him as `drapers assistant'. He died of TB on 20 Jan 1898, a week before his 26th birthday. Tom Weir, Albert's brother, became a mining engineer who spent most of his career abroad and died in England in 1945 aged ca 79. William Gemmell, the `guide and driver' noted in the diary died in 1943, aged 94. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 piece).

Date: 1884-1885 (1934)

From: Anderson family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-10737-3

Description: An account of a visit to New Zealand in 1884-1885 written by Georgina Gertrude Anderson. Anderson describes the experiences of herself and her mother, sailing on the `Doric', arriving in Wellington, going to Wanganui by land, the wedding of Anderson's sister at Wanganui and then travelling to the South Island via Palmerston North, Masterton and Wellington, sailing to Christchurch, back to Wanganui, the Pink and White Terraces, Cambridge, Rotorua, the Blue and Green Lakes, Taupo, Tarawera, and their voyage back to England on the `Rimukaka'. Quantity: 1 folder(s).