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Enchanted coast (corrected typescript draft)
Date: [1976]
From: Host, Bent Svitser Muusfeldt, 1918-2000: Collection related to research by Bent and Emily Host
Reference: 2003-325-17
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Elizabeth N Graydon - From Sunderland to the Land Down Under
Date: 1990
From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
Reference: MS-Papers-4280-077
Description: The essay describes the origins of the Graydon family, John and Margaret Graydon's voyage to Auckland in 1858 on the Evening Star, their lives and those of their children and grandchildren in Auckland. John worked as a shipwright. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available. Includes photographs of the family
Miscellaneous papers
Date: 1605, 1831-1866
From: Hingston, William George Cornelius, 1802-1894 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0043-1
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.
Scripts, general
Date: [1950-1960]
From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs
Reference: 77-014-4/09
Description: Manuscript of `Good Oh, Joe'; `The Keys'; `The Housegirl'; `Bully Hayes' and `Bully Hayes II'; `Bully Hayes III' ; `What Happened to the Endeavour' ; `Whaling on the East Coast'; `Chinese on Otago Goldfields'; `Thoughts on a Buggy Lamp II' and `Counting sheep'. The story 'Whaling on the East Coast' includes some loan words in Maori for whaling terms. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Robyn Park - The Family of Elizabeth Martha Henwood of Kaiapoi
Date: 1990
From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
Reference: MS-Papers-4280-026
Description: The essay provides the earliest known history of the Trescowthick family in Cornwall, details of Elizabeth's parentage, early life in Padstow, Cornwall, marriage to John Henwood and life in London and Kent. The Henwoods immigrated to Canterbury in 1856 on the `Joseph Fletcher'. The essay describes their life in the new settlement, Kaiapoi floods of 1860s, financial ruin, their family and final years. Includes list of descendants updated to 1987 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Includes photographs
H T Whatahoro Jury - Journal
Date: 1908-1911
From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0189-B056
Description: Contains journal entries dealing with farming activities, political activities, financial dealings, church activities, land matters and domestic affairs; also contains snippets of New Zealand history written in Maori, whakapapa and karakia, Maori vocabulary and phrases, and a record of the births and marriages in the Jury family Physical Description: Black board, 19 cm Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.
Judith Rosalie Shanks - Rachel Willett and Thomas Allport; their parents and families
Date: 1990
From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
Reference: MS-Papers-4280-014
Description: After the Allport family went from Birmingham, England to a new life in Nelson in 1842, the difficulties of the New Zealand Company lead young Thomas to New South Wales, Australia for work. There he met and married Rachel Willett in 1847. She was from a Buckinghamshire family. After a time spent in Queensland they went to Nelson for 13 years before farming at Tua Marina from 1865, raising a family of 11. From 1879 they had the Panama Boarding House in Picton where Rachel was hostess for 35 years. She died aged 90, having outlived her husband and six of their children Quantity: 1 folder(s).