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Date: 1990

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

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-054

Description: Title continues:`...the Wiltons of Wellington'. Story of the Wilton family who emigrated to Wellington from Somerset on the `Oriental' in 1841. They were at the forefront of the development of early Wellington. From here some of the family moved to Masterton at its formation. A suburb in Wellington is named after the family 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-4280-076

Description: An account of the life and times of the Hopkins family, in particular George and Adelaide who emigrated with five children in 1874 on the Golden Sea. Seven more children were born in Masterton. The writer follows the life of the seventh child Charles, on the land and during World War I, and married life Publication - Essay published in `Our lesser stars' Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available. Family photographs including one of pupils at Kohinui School 1932

Date: 1990

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

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-052

Description: The essay traces the Fissenden family of Birling, Kent, to New Zealand and documents their lifestyles subsequent to their arrival. Beginning in 1875 the Fissendens and their descendants built a new life in New Zealand buying land, opening businesses and raising their families. From Marlborough the descendants of the first nine Fissendens spread to a large part of the upper South Island, later moving to Hawke's Bay and Auckland. Quantity: 1 folder(s) 45 pages. Finding Aids: Published inventory available.

Date: 1908-1909

By: White, William Bertram, 1821-1910

Reference: MS-Papers-4542

Description: The reminiscences mainly concentrate on the period 1842 to 1878 and were dictated to members of his family during the latter part of 1908 and beginning of 1909. They give details of White's mothers family and his father's career as a midshipman. They then go on to describe White's career in New Zealand first as a surveyor in the Horokiwi and Wellington areas, a farmer at Mohunoa (Kapiti) and Wainuiomata, in the volunteer forces which fought against Te Rangiatea, his visits to Auckland and then his later career in Mongonui [Mangonui] holding various government posts including work for the Land Commissioner. The reminiscences give White's impressions of relations between Maori and settler especially in the greater Wellington/Kapiti and Maunganui districts and recount many incidents involving such people as Te Rauparaha, Governor Grey, Fitzroy, McLean, Hadfield and many others. Source of title - title page Quantity: 1 folder(s) (49 leaves). 0 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 1990

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

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-020

Description: The story of the Brooke family from Pyrford, Surrey and their immigration to New Zealand in 1910. The two sons, Jack and Cecil, began their farming life in the Kaikoura district as farm cadets. For seven years they farmed at Kaikoura from where the boys went to war and served with the New Zealand Mounted Rifles and later in the 1st New Zealand Machine Gun Squadron. After Cecil Brooke's leave he bought a small dairy farm at Ruakura in 1920 and 5 years later married Dorothy Hutchinson. They farmed at Ruakura for 34 years, and purchased a further 200 acres of peat swamp to break in. Includes family tree showing Cecil Brooke's line of descent back 4 generations and copies of photographs, mainly of life of the farm Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available.

Date: [1914?]

By: Giles, Edmund Douglas, 1853?-

Reference: MS-0832

Description: Reminiscence of his early years in Somersetshire including details of the Giles forbears back to 1772; description of the voyage to Nelson on the `John Bunyan' in 1868; time spent in Westport where his uncle Dr Giles was the Resident Magistrate; gold mining on the West Coast; travel to Queensland via Sydney (includes descriptions of Sydney, Brisbane and Rockhampton); working as a bullock driver and later a ration carrier and drover, etc in Queensland; describes station life and his other outback experiences; Kanaka labourers in Queensland; Tasmania; return to Barcoo, Queensland; aborigines in Queensland; time spent on New Hebrides, Fiji and other islands in the Pacific; return to New Zealand; family and travel in the early 1900s. Edmund Giles immigrated to New Zealand with his brother Edgar on the `John Bunyan' in 1868. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (231 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; red linen)

Date: 1772 - 1969

From: McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978 :McIntosh Collections of antique maps

By: McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978; Cook, James, 1728-1779; Bayly, John, active 1755-1782

Reference: MapColl-Reserve-830atc/1772(1969)/Acc.33644

Description: Original engravings, lithographs and facsimiles of maps from 16th to 19th centuries McIntosh Collection, item 15 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured, scale [ca. 1:4 5000 000], 37 x 28cm

Date: 1964-1972

By: Gambrill, Reginald Frank, 1890-1975

Reference: qMS-0820-0824

Description: Comprises letters and extracts from personal diaries with notes from family records copied and extracted as a foundation for the preparation of a biography of Major General Sir Andrew Hamilton Russell. Divided into 1772-1895 (vol 1); `Land, 1859-1972 (vol 2); `World War I, 1914-1918 (vol 3); `Civil life, World War II, the declining years, 1919-1960 (vol 4); `Tributes and letters' (vol 5) Gambrill covers all four Andrew Hamilton Russells (though concentrating on the third and fourth) and their lives in NZ. Source of title - Transcribed Other Titles - The Russell family saga Arrangement: Each volume has a contents index at the front Gambrill compiled the saga in preparation for a biography of the Russell family Quantity: 5 volume(s). 0.15 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts and photographs (35 cm, blue linen)

Date: 1792 - 1939

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-5/10/5-Acc.37945

Description: Identifies: Enforced settlement (marooned sealers); Sealing station; Seasonal and permanent whaling stations; General farming settlement; General trade (flax, spars etc) and shipbuilding. Accompanying material: O L C (old land claim) 833.835 Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on grey linen. Scale [ca. 1:1 584 000] 57 x 44 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1990

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

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-088

Description: The essay gives an account of the Williams family beginning in Wales in 1754 and subsequent immigration to new Zealand in 1873 on the Berar. The story traces the lives of William and Temperance Williams and those of their children. They settled in Auckland. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available.

Date: [1791-1904]

From: Natusch, Sheila Ellen, 1926-2017: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6045-2

Description: Photocopies of the `Chatham Island chronicle' (1864-1867), `The Korero Pono' (1904), papers and plan re land claim of J Coffee (1868) and part of chart by Lieutenant Broughton of the Chatham Islands (1791). Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1990

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

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-012

Description: The essay traces the family history of James Anderson Brass who farmed at Orphir in the Orkney Isles. In 1863 he emigrated with his second wife and eight children to Southland on `Edward Thornhill' and farmed at Waikiwi near Invercargill for many years. His family eventually grew to 16 and a brief biography of each is included. Includes extracts from shipboard diary kept during the voyage to New Zealand Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1990

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

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-057

Description: The essay details the German origins of the Hessey family, lives of Nottinghamshire forebears of Joseph and Jane Hessey and family who immigrated to Australia in 1858 on the `Melbourne'. Jane died during the voyage and James married Caroline Stuart, a widow, in Melbourne in 1861. James and Caroline came onto Canterbury in 1862 and settled at Waikuku Creek near to James' daughter Mary and her husband John Ranby. The essay details the lives of all of Joseph Hessey's children who settled in Canterbury and Masterton areas. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available. Includes photographs, one of which is wedding photograph of Grace Hessey and Frank Allsop, taken in Christchurch 1912

Date: 1786-1950

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1965

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: [ca1920-1992]

From: Leaker, Alice Margaret fl 1992-1995 : Mackenzie family papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5311-07

Description: An essay on the white kiwi, correspondence from Mum to Mary Phelan, land transfer documents, a family tree and miscellaneous documents Quantity: 1 folder(s) (28 leaves). Physical Description: Mss (photocopies)

Date: 1778-1903

From: United Kingdom. Admiralty : Records relating to the Pacific

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-05-5947

Description: Includes register of men serving in the Southern and Greenland Whale Fisheries protected from impressment; court of enquiry into loss of HMS Buffalo, Mercury Bay and charges against assistant Surgeon D Russell 1840-1841; papers relating Matthew Flinders and HMS Investigator, the loss of HMS Porpoise ; the voyage to Isle of France and Flindrs' imprisonment by the French, 1806; papers of Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Hughes relating to Royal Navy activities in the East Indies 1779-1782 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [ca 1776-1954]

By: Williams, Charles Skinner, active 1954

Reference: MS-Papers-5166

Description: Unpublished material concerning Maori and Pakeha traditions, history and contemporary description of the Whangaroa Harbour area, collected and written by C S Williams; includes index relating text to album of photographs held in the Photographic Archive Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 3 folder(s) (ca 170 pages). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Transfers: To Photographic Archive - 1 album of photographs.

Date: 1790-1939

By: Cumbria Record Office

Reference: Micro-MS-0113

Description: Includes 2 printed charts of Cook's discoveries, conveyancing details involving James Wilfred Marsden of Nelson, 1905; correspondence of Stephen Magden, miner of Greymouth 1866, 1972; obituary of Francis Jollie of Peel Forest, 1871 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1944

By: Le Fleming, Eliza Ann, 1892-1975

Reference: MS-Papers-5253

Description: The memoirs are those of the daughter writing about her mother's experiences as a settler and pioneer in the Timaru and Taranaki districts. Accompanying material - Accompanied by genealogical chart and notes relating to the Kelland and Le Fleming families Martha Le Fleming (nee Kelland) came to New Zealand ca 1865 and lived first in Timaru and settled in Otakeho, Taranaki, 1881. Her daughter Bessie (Eliza Ann) wrote the memoirs after her mother's death in 1944. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr G C Palliser, Lower Hutt, 1995

Date: [1999]

From: Fitchett, Ashton John, 1926-2008 : Papers relating to the Fitchett family

Reference: MS-Papers-6718

Description: Dr Fitchett describes the history of the Fitchett family of the `Ohiro District', Brooklyn, Wellington, who are descended from William Fitchett (b 1730) of Bretby, Derbyshire, England. John Fitchett, from Leamington, arrived in Wellington on the `London' in May 1842, with his wife Louisa (Buddle), settling in Brooklyn and developing Ohiro Farm. Dr Fitchett describes various members and branches of the family, their lives, descendants etc, documenting events from family, official and local government sources. Includes genealogical tables. Dr Fitchett has spent much of his life in Brooklyn, Wellington. He attended Brooklyn School and Wellington College. He trained as a doctor at Otago Medical School and returned to general practice in the suburb from 1955 to 1990 when he retired. He continues to reside in Brooklyn. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (76 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Fifteen digital reproductions of photographs of Fitchett family members, family documents, properties and views of the suburb.