Places

Date: 1823-1878 (1965)

By: Williams, Henry, 1792-1867

Reference: qMS-2239

Description: Extracts from Williams family letters and diaries compiled by Mrs E L Gardiner and Miss Fanny Marsh, ca 1880 Relationship complexity - Ms of extracts at MS-2413-2414 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (141 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript (34 cm; blue buckram)

Date: 1878-1879

By: Morris, William, 1815-1882

Reference: MS-Papers-4277

Description: Diary covers period 1 June 1878-9 January 1879 when Morris was storekeeper at Napier. Daily entries record financial affairs, and his shipping and whaling interests Source of title - Supplied title Born in Ireland, Morris was an early whaler in Poverty Bay in the 1830s and 1840s, working for a time under Capt Harris. He was involved in coastal trade between Bay of Islands and Hawke's Bay during the 1850s, later running sheep farms at Tangoio, north of Napier, and Waikokopu, near Mahia. He was in business, owning stores at Wherowhero and Mahia, and residing in Napier in the 1870s until his death in 1882. Morris married Puihi of Te Aitanga a Mahaki in the late 1830s, and Maria Morris is numbered amongst their children. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Donated by Mr J G Mackay, Gisborne, 1968, whose father, Joseph Angus Mackay, collected material relating to early East Coast identities for his work Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, published in 1949

Date: [Between ca 1878-1897]

By: Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: fMS-247

Description: Comprises one scrapbook compiled by Alexander Turnbull between circa 1878 and 1896, possibly not completed. Material collected by Turnbull dates from 1846 to 1897 and largely relates to te ao Māori, some is written in reo Māori with English translations. Letters, notes, envelopes and also bank cheques have been pasted into the volume, some also attached by pins. Includes: - various letters and waiata transcribed by G H Davies. - Māori to English word lists as well as whakatauki, waiata and karakia, some with English interpretations. - whakapapa relating to Ngāpuhi (p001 and p009) and Te Arawa hapū (p068) - manuscript titled 'Ko nga whakapapa o Nga Tupuna on Nga Ture of Niu Tireni' and translation 'The Genealogy of the Ancestors of the Law of New Zealand' (p003). - information and illustrations recorded by Timi Waata Rimini, about the Maketū-Ōpōtiki area, in particular the pā at Pukuhina, Oreiwhata and Poutuia (p016). - letter from a Mr Walsh dated 1896 to Mr Smith with a large splinter of wood attached. Text in the letter reads: "fragment from the remains of the flagstaff cut down by Hone Heke at Kororareka" (p078). - Māori divisions of time and naming of planets and stars (p086-p089). - manuscript relating to the death of Tukino Te Marae, a tohunga accused of causing deaths by mākutu, shot by Himiona Te Rua, near Te Teko in 1875 (p095-p112). - a list titled 'Scale of Rations' detailing food issued to prisoners, including those serving hard labour (p116). - typescript translation of a campaign speech given by Tamati Tangihia (p114). Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 volume(s) approximately 120 leaves. Physical Description: Volume containing letters, manuscripts and typescripts (46 cm; ¼ red calf, purple boards) Processing information: Description updated March 2024 following digitisation. Kāore i tāruatia ngā whārangi puare | Blank pages not copied.