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Frances E V Stewart - Hessey from Nottinghamshire
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
Coral Dickinson - The Dickinson brothers
Date: 1990
From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
Reference: MS-Papers-4280-060
Description: Alfred Dickinson and his wife Margaret Furness emigrated to new Zealand and persuaded brother George and his wife Martha Jane Morris to do so also. They settled at Sydenham, together running a mobile hardware business. Later Alfred had a hardware shop and taxi business. His son James was killed in WW1. Alfred started a funeral business using partner's name Park & Co. In 1912 George moved to Riccarton where he had a general store and taxi business. He died suddenly in 1937. Both brothers are buried in Bromley Cemetery, Christchurch. The essay includes details of the family's Lancashire roots, immigration to Lyttelton in 1909 on the SS Ionic, life in Christchurch. Includes photos and family tree Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available.
Manuscripts D1745 - D3220
Date: 1798-1883
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1663
Description: The Montgomery papers include the shipboard diary kept by Charles C Greenfield during his voyage to Port Chalmers on the `Antares' (misspelt in inventory as `Andares'), May-Sep 1879, and return voyage to England in 1880 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Raewyn Malcolm - Education with haste
Date: 1995
From: Ted Gilberd Literary Trust : Essay competitions
Reference: MS-Papers-5757-25
Description: Story of Samuel Hastings Andrews, schoolteacher. Tells the story of his Andrews ancestors in England and New Zealand; early life and education in Christchurch; work as a quarry manager to Tramway Board; teaching career - Tuahiwi Native School (1916-1918); Papamoa (1918-1919); Otaua Native School at Punakitere (1919-1920); Kohimaramara (1920-1921); Pouto School on Kaipara Harbour (1921-1923; Waimauku School north of Auckland (1923-1936); Otakeho School in Taranaki (1937-1942). Family life, and years of retirement in Auckland. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy), photographs Includes photos of Samuel Hastongs Andrews; Hilda Codling; Tuahiwi School (1919); Pouto School and pupils (1922); Otakeho School house; etc