Places

Date: 1933-1934

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Further papers

Reference: MSY-5559

Description: Contains loan accounts relating to regional development schemes Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1920

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0039-08A

Description: Contains waiata and karakia, and accompanying narratives Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1835-1978

By: Church of the Province of New Zealand. Diocese of Auckland

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-19

Description: The collection is of selected baptismal registers deposited in the Auckland Diocesan Office Archives. Where the registers have also been used concurrently for marriages and burials, those pages have been included. Maori registers have been identified as such. Source of title - Title transcribed The Auckland Diocese covers the area from the Archdeaconaries of Waimate in the north to Hunua in the south. Quantity: 21 microfilm reel(s) positive. Physical Description: Mss (microfilm) Finding Aids: An inventory details the contents of each reel and registers are arranged in alphabetical order with some minor variations. The inventory gives the name of the church, parish, dates and indicates if it is a Maori register..

Date: 1852-1930

By: New Zealand. Lands and Deeds Office (Auckland)

Reference: 99-234

Description: Conveyances and mortgages for the Auckland land registration area. There are no documents for 1853, 1855-1858, 1860-1862, 1890-1894, 1899, and 1915 Relationship complexity - See also Deeds and conveyances (73-149). Provenance unknown but very likely part of the same collection Arrangement: Arranged in chronological order Quantity: 2 box(es) (24 folders). 0.60 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs Provenance: Unknown Donor/Lender/Vendor - Provenance unknown. Box labelled `Conveyances ex Sydney Street MSS Room 10/12/68'

Date: 1943-1944

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. Centennial Publications Branch : Historical Atlas material

Reference: MS-Papers-0230-008

Description: Correspondence and letters concerning the history and activities of whalers in New Zealand during the early and mid 18th century. Mostly concerns activities in Northland, Kawhia and Tauranga. Also includes extracts of verbatim evidence from various Maori from these districts. Also includes whakapapa for the Kennedy family from Ngati Porou, and biographical information for the Kennedy, Mair, Clendon, Tapsell & other families. Includes census of Europeans residing in Northern District, 1846 (from Clendon mss in Auckland Public Library) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: May 1863

From: Mantell family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0083-218

Description: Contains correspondence, circulars, and related material about the Taranaki campaign in the New Zealand Wars, including copies of letters to Tawhiao and others from various tribes, expressing their opinions about the fighting; there are also some papers about the administration of Maori Affairs in the province of Wellington, including Wairarapa. Also conveys intelligence and alarm at an incident in Whanganui (?) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1981-1992

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: MS-Papers-12224-2

Description: Comprises five notebooks dated 1981-1987, 1984-1988, 1987-1989, 1989-1990, 1989-1992. Most have lists of places visited and dates on their inside front covers. Two notebooks include sites in the United States of America and the United Kingdom; one notebook includes sites in Sydney, Australia. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Notebooks of various sizes, with cardboard or plastic covers, either stapled or spiral bound. Processing information: The place names noted in the inside front covers of the notebooks have been listed in this record. Other geographic names and specific building and structure names have not been listed.

Date: 1850, 1875-1909

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2653

Description: Further papers and correspondence of William Mortimer Baines in Auckland from family and friends, mainly concerning his business interests in land, timber and gold mining. Includes shipboard diary of his voyage to New Zealand in the Sir Edward Paget in 1850, reminiscences, a notebook and other papers. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.

Date: 1830-1859

By: Woon, William (Rev), 1803-1858

Reference: qMS-2292-2293

Description: Deals mainly with the years 1830-1853 when Woon was a Wesleyan missionary in Tonga, in the Hokianga area, at Kawhia, Manukau and Heretoa. The journal which concludes with entries by Woon's wife Jane, is especially concerned with Woon's missionary work, domestic matters, his translation of the scriptures into Tongan and Maori, and with their printing. Included are transcripts of some letters sent to the Wesleyan Missionary Society, and reports received on Heke's war Quantity: 2 volume(s). 0.06 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (33 cm; brown buckram, marbled boards, brown calf)

Date: 1865-1947

From: Church of England in New Zealand Auckland Diocese : Church registers

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-19-03

Description: Contains registers for Coromandel, 1865-1910 (contd); Holy Trinity, Dargaville, 1937-1947; Holy Trinity, Devonport, 1865-1947; Epiphany City, Auckland, 1888-1904 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1832-1863

By: Whiteley, John, 1806-1869

Reference: MS-2390

Description: Records Whiteley's journey to New Zealand; work as a Methodist missionary at Hokianga, Pakanae and Kawhia; quarrel with the Rev W White; attempt at mediation in an intertribal war; attitude to the Waitara question and the Taranaki war; discussions with Sir George Grey, Donald McLean and R R Parris on Maori and Pakeha relations; journal lacks entries Jul 1843-1860 Source of title - Transcribed Relationship complexity - See typed transcript available (qMS-2212 or qMS-2213) Quantity: 1 volume(s) (542 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (20cm, ½ blue calf, blue slip case)

Date: 1840

From: White, John, 1826-1891 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0075-106C

Description: Contains official copies of correspondence relating to land claims from Te Tai Tokerau and Pewhairangi (i.e. Bay of Islands, the word is a transliteration), Waikato and Whanganui. Includes various documents relating to Whanganui giving extensive lists of names for the purchase of guns, powder and flint by Whanganui Maori; lists of Whanganui Maori working for the Regional Magistrate and their salaries; census of friendly natives, Whanganui district. The last document is the original of the deed by which Nopera Parakareao and other Te Rarawa chiefs sold the Muriwhenua lands of Te Aupouri to the Rev Richard Taylor, witnessed by William Gilbert Puckey, 20 January 1840. A translation of this in Taylor's hand is in MS-Papers-0075-106E. Written only two weeks before the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi to secure private property rights for Taylor (before the arrival of Hobson and the signing of the Treaty) but the publication of Gipps's proclamations of 14 January 1840 invalidated the sale. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2003

By: Williamson, Stephen, active 2003

Reference: MS-Group-1375

Description: Comprises commentary by Williamson on the diary kept by James Williamson Fedarb giving his family background, his association with whaling, the missionaries, traders, mining, the Treaty of Waitangi etc; appendices including date on wills, certificates, corresppondence, an obituary for Fedarb etc; also transcription of diary by Williamson and indexes to the diary of people, boats and places Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 2 folder(s). 1 megabyte(s) textual material. 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr S Williamson, Rogerstone, Newport, South Wales, Dec 2003

Date: 1826-1837

By: Hamlin, James (Rev), 1803-1865

Reference: Micro-MS-0296

Description: Describes work among Maori at Waimate (North), Kerikeri, Mangpouri amd Manukau; also visit to Waikato with Archdeacon Brown in 1834 Relationship complexity - Typed transcript at qMS-0909 Church Missionary Society missionary and lay teacher Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (ca 150p).

Date: 1927-1942

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-06

Description: Includes letters on Maori language: grammar, tuition and translations of many Maori terms; includes the definition of some Maori terms and names like Kohimarama; includes poems on `Tobacco' and 'The Northlander'; essays on place names like Wairoa, Waikato and Taranaki; has waiata and haka and also discusses traditional Maori whare wananga and art Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts (some with ms annotations) Processing information: Not all names have been indexed.

Date: 1835-1964

From: Church of England in New Zealand Auckland Diocese : Church registers

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-19-16

Description: Registers of Lower Waikato, 1880-1906 (Only has the endpage for this register. All content for this register is on reel 15); Waimamaku, 1886-1958 (incl Hokianga 1886-1923); Waimate, 1835-1864; Mahurangi and Matakana, 1866-1899 (S Clements); Kaurawhere, Kaipara, 1874-1914; Warkworth, 1909-1937; Whangarei, 1860-1905; St Thomas' Burial Ground Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1862-1868

By: von Sturmer, Spencer William, 1836-1921

Reference: qMS-1935

Description: Letters addressed to customs officials which refer to gold mining at Coromandel and shipping at Coromandel and Kaipara Quantity: 1 volume(s) (125 pages). Physical Description: Ms (33 cm; green linen)

Date: 1912

By: Oldham, Alfred, 1831-1919

Reference: MS-Papers-6423

Description: The recollections contain an account of Oldham's experiences as a farmer, flax manufacturer and lay preacher. Includes an editorial note by the donor who retyped the recollections from an earlier typescript. Oldham was born and grew up in Nottingham. He emigrated to New Zealand in 1859 and initially farmed at Mangawai, Maungatroto and Paparoa in Northland. A Methodist lay preacher, he conducted services in this district before an official Methodist circuit was established. He became involved in the manufacture of flax matting and in ca 1880 moved to Tuakau in Waikato where he ran a flax factory for about 18 years before retiring to Auckland. He also served as a lay preacher on the Pukekohe and Auckland Methodist circuits. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr L Hampton (great-grandson), Hamilton, 1998

Date: [ca 1800-1850], 1898

By: Osborne, John D, active 1978

Reference: MS-Papers-11789

Description: Comprises copies of ships' logs made by American whalers and Royal Navy ships at Mercury Bay and Coromandel, including information compiled by Osborne; also letter of thanks to Dr Erson re his role in the Dog Tax War at Rawene (1898) Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (19 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss (photocopies)

Date: 1852-1935

From: McDonnell, Alexander Francis, 1866-1938 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0151-20A

Description: Contains holograph copies, made by McDonnell, of various Maori language items including the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852, Nga kupu mihi atu ki a Kingi Te Rata, Te Whare Paremete by Apirana Ngata, A defence of the Maori people, and a history of Haiti There are also orignial letters to McDonnell and others about land issues, book buying and selling and other topics; there is a whakapapa of Ngati Ira, some waiata and a Maori calendar Quantity: 1 folder(s) (56 leaves). Physical Description: Mss