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Giles, Edmund Douglas, b 1853? : Forty years of colonial life told with an avoidance of...
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)
Cumbria Record Office : Papers
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.
Family papers
Date: [1940-1978]
From: Brodie, John, 1905-1955 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6779-07
Description: Letter from Alan Brodie to his brother Jack while with 2NZEF in the Middle East (1941); genealogical data from Faringdon Parish Church on the Nicks/Nix family (1731-1809); notes on Walter Brodie and family; poem, Rowan Nicks, `Mexico' (1997); clippings on Brodie family members, Mrs A Devore, Martha Brodie and other subjects Quantity: 1 folder(s). Child's crayon drawing of Queen Mum, King John with train, bus, van and trailer etc
Collections SSC - South Yorkshire Record Office
Date: 1791-1971
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2726
Description: Comprises selections from Sheffield Smelting Company records, the Wharncliff Muniments, the Wentworth Woodhouse Muniments, and from the Local History Section and records of the South Yorkshire County Record Office Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Rigg, Esther Mary, 1922-2000 : A history of the Anglican Church in Nelson from the comi...
Date: 1944
By: Penhale, Esther Mary, 1922-2000
Reference: Micro-MS-0775
Description: Thesis for MA in history; includes an analysis of the relationship between the whalers and Maori, the early Nelson settlers and their non-conformist sympathies, the gold rush and the condition of the Anglican church in England in 1840 with particular reference to the Oxford Movement. Describes the growth of the church in the individual parishes in New Zealand and the role of the church in education and Maori welfare leading up to the formation of the Diocese of Nelson on 29 Sep 1858. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (120 pages).