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Date: 1815-1970

By: Adams, Martha, 1815-1906

Reference: qMS-0026

Description: Reminiscences of early days in Marlborough written in 1857; copies of verse and satire by the family; copy of letter and verse by Henry Harper on Martha Adam's death, plan of family home, Redwood; biographical details from the Cyclopedia of New Zealand and newspaper clippings concerning her husband and eldest son; and sketches she made as a girl in England. Describes her English childhood, marriage to William Adams in 1840 and emigration to Nelson 1850. She describes the `mud hovel' in which the Adams family first lived when taking up a Marlborough run in 1852, and recalls the islolated life which at times found her coping alone with house and farm work, sick children, food shortages and vagrants. Her account ends with the family's move to a new property `Langley Dale', on the Wairau River. Source of title - Supplied title Other Titles - Cyclopaedia of New Zealand Quantity: 1 volume(s) (51 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript, printed matter (photocopy) (37 cm, red buckram) Includes sketches of Salop, England

Date: 1 Jan-31 Dec 1877, 1876

By: Potts, Geoffrey, 1852-1929

Reference: MS-1787

Description: Daily entries of activities on South Canterbury sheep farm, with extra notes for 1876 and 1877 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (53 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; grey linen)

Date: 1869-1872

By: Gubbins, Arthur Winthrop, 1844-1902

Reference: MS-Papers-3807

Description: The journal covers the period Sept 1869 to March 1872. It describes the breaking in and development of the Gubbins brothers' farm and comments on pioneering life in the Waikato. Part 2, p 17, 18 and part of p 28 are missing. It appears to have been transcribed in 1974 by E McDonald who also provides an introduction to the journal entitled `Mr Gubbins comes to Auckland in 1869 and buys a farm in the Waikato',which gives biographical details about Arthur Gubbins. Publication - Published in Auckland-Waikato Historical journal, nos 24, 25, 27 (Apr, Oct 1974, Oct 1975) Source of title - supplied title Gubbins and his brother Evans emigrated from Ireland to New Zealand and took up land at Ohaupo, south of Hamilton, in 1869. He later returned to Ireland and married Katherine O'Grady. They returned to New Zealand in 1879 and bought land near Morrinsville at Kiwitahi. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (39 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcript (some carbon copies)

Date: Jan 1865-Jan 1866

By: Trolove, Edwin, 1832?-1886

Reference: MS-2159

Description: Brief entries, noting daily events and work on the farm at Woodbank Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (54 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (26 cm, green linen)

Date: 1892, 1950

By: Guthrie-Smith, William Herbert, 1862-1940

Reference: qMS-0892

Description: Guthrie-Smith's meeting with Mary Macpherson, daughter of Donald Macpherson, during sheepfarming activities; she died shortly afterwards, aged 13 years. Includes letter from the British Museum to the US Educational Foundation in NZ re `Tottie' and other published works. Source of title - Transcribed Other Titles - Good words (periodical) (London) Quantity: 1 volume(s) (12 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (26 cm, blue linen)

Date: 1 Dec 1858-7 Sep 1869

Reference: qMS-1667

Description: Day to day account of station activities, weather, visitors etc, on a sheep station on the Maniatoto Plains, Central Otago Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; green linen)

Date: 1835-1860

By: Harding, John, 1820-1899

Reference: MS-0929

Description: Letters from John Harding of Waipukarau and other members of the Harding family Source of title - Supplied John and Emma Harding came to Wellington as assisted immigrants on the `Birman' in 1842 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (48 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm, red linen)

Date: 1873-1953

By: Wood, Henry Alfred, 1873-1956

Reference: MS-GROUP-1988

Description: Autobiography deals mainly with dairying and work on the land, especially drainage of Ngaere Swamp; history of the Rawhitiroa district and the New Plymouth settlement; section on waterfront strike (1913); appendix: Reminiscences written by Mrs Phillipa Wood (nee Inch) of her voyage to New Zealand on the `William Bryan'. She was a child at the time. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 2 volume(s) (112, 11 leaves ie 123 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) (25cm; orange cardboard)

Date: 1974

By: O'Donnell, Ewart, 1890-

Reference: MS-Papers-2197

Description: Unpublished book describing pioneer farming near Eketahuna, in the Waikato and in the King country Quantity: 3 folder(s) (218 leaves). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: [1976?]

By: Holmes, David Livingstone, 1906-2001

Reference: MS-Papers-1681

Description: 4 articles discussing fishing, shipping, agriculture and daily life on the islands Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (25 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: [ca 1850-1923]

By: Trolove family

Reference: MS-2162

Description: Includes copies of letters between Edwin and John Trolove. Describes principally the activities of the Trolove family at Woodbank farm and later at the Shades station. Source of title - Transcribed title Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (28cm, red linen)

Date: [ca 1869-1879, 1963]

By: Schweiters, Franz Joseph, 1886-

Reference: MS-1858

Description: A historical romance of pioneer life in Taranaki in the 1870s, based partly on the author's experiences on a farm near Inglewood Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (239 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (Photocopy, 35cm, green buckram) Illustrated

Date: 1855-1861 (1940)

Reference: qMS-1739

Description: Diary describes life on the station, farming, duties, prices etc Quantity: 1 volume(s) (3, 142, 15 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; grey clothh)

Date: 1842-1853 (1960)

By: Marshall, Mary Frederica, 1826-1854

Reference: MSX-8805

Description: Letters, mainly to her father and husband describing political and social life at Wellington and the Hutt, with some correspondence from other members of the Swainson family Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (30 letters). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (30 cm; green linen) Finding Aids: Index available at qMS-1340-1343.

Date: 1887, 1891-1893, 1904-1905

By: Shaw, Charles Reginald, 1829-1906

Reference: MS-1928-1932

Description: Full entries for 1891-1892 covering farming activities, primarily cropping. Interests include service on school committees and Levels Road Board. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 5 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs (26cm, various bindings) Provenance: The journals passed into the hands of Charles Shaw's second daughter, Bertha Shaw, and were placed in the Turrnbull Library by her son, Mr K J Ray, at her request.

Date: 1820-1896

By: Hirst family

Reference: MS-0994-1006

Description: Letters exchanged between members of the Bracken family in England and the Hirst family, mainly Grace Hirst. Discuss business affairs, day-to-day life in Taranaki, Maori wars in the 1860s, voyages to New Zealand, etc Source of title - Supplied In Dec 1851 Grace, Thomas and five of their children left England in the `Gwalior', arriving in Auckland in Jun 1852. They settled in New Plymouth and traded as general merchants. In Feb 1860, with the outbreak of war in Taranaki, the family retreated from Bell Block to the safety of New Plymouth. In 1861 Thomas & Grace returned to England where Grace remained for a year before returning to NZ on the `Silver Eagle' in 1863. Thomas returned on the Ravenscraig in 1861 Grace frequently assisted neighbouring families as a midwife and nurse, attended at the birth of many of her own grandchildren, and helped lay out the dead. She was also active in fundraising for the Anglican Church Quantity: 13 volume(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts (27 cm; red buckram)

Date: [1866-1950]

By: Allen, Charles Ernest Hanson, 1866-1953

Reference: qMS-0054

Description: Reminiscences of childhood in Wanganui, surveying at Mangamahu and of farming at Matamata, Hamilton and Tauranga Source of title - Transcribed Other Titles - Eighty years in New Zealand Quantity: 1 volume(s) (78 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) (36 cm, brown buckram)

Date: 1862-1892

By: Parsons, John, active 1852-1868

Reference: MS-Papers-1856

Description: Letters to brother-in-law, J Adams, in Nottingham, chiefly on family matters and daily farm life, with some comments on ploitics Source of title - Supplied J Parsons arrived from England in 1862, farmed at Woodlands, Hawke's Bay, and from 1882 at Manutahi, Taranaki Quantity: 1 folder(s) (39 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcripts (photocopies)

Date: 1852-1896

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2773

Description: Letters, exchanged between members of the Bracken family in Yorkshire, but mainly from Grace, describe daily life in Taranaki, the outbreak of war in 1860 and its progress, domestic and farm life. Included are detailed accounts of the voyages to New Zealand on the Gwalior, Ravenscraig and Silver Eagle. Thomas and Grace Hirst emigrated to New Zealand from West Riding, Yorkshire on board the Gwalior in 1851 with five of their eight children. They settled in Taranaki, first in New Plymouth where Thomas and Grace traded as general merchants. In 1854 they moved to a small farm at Bell Block, moving back to New Plymouth when marital law was declared in Feb 1860. Thomas & Grace made a visit to England later that year. On the return voyage their ship the William Brown caught fire and was destroyed. Thomas set sail again on the Ravenscraig and Grace returned in 1863 on the Silver Eagle. On the death of Grace's brother in 1870 the family inherited a substantial amount of money which was invested in land etc.. Grace frequently assisted neighbouring families as a midwife and nurse, attended at the birth of many of her own grandchildren, and helped lay out the dead. She was also active in fundraising for the Anglican Church Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Physical Description: Microfilm of typed transcripts

Date: 1851-1858, 1910 (2000)

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Mieville, Frederick Louis, 1830-1922

Reference: MSDL-1272

Description: Reminiscences written in 1910 of Mieville's life in New Zealand, mainly on Glenham Station in the Mataura Valley, Southland, and in Dunedin; transcribed and indexed by Marsha Donaldson. Includes shipboard accounts of the voyage to Port Chalmers on the 'Dominion' in 1851 with the Richardson family, a voyage home to England via Melbourne on the 'Thomas and Henry', and 'Royal Charter' in 1857, and the return voyage to Port Chalmers in 1858 on 'Agra'. He includes some of his wife's diary entries in his reminiscences. His first year in New Zealand was spent at Otepopo on the sheep station owned by Charles Suisted. He married Fanny Richardson in Dunedin in 1854. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s). Finding Aids: Accompanied by index to people and ships mentioned, and some places. Processing information: Part of SBDD (shipboard diary digitisation) project