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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: 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: Jan 1791-Feb 1794

By: Bell, Edward, active 1791-1794

Reference: qMS-2071-2073

Description: Journal of the voyage of the Armed Tender, HMS Chatham, captained by Lieutenant William Robert Broughton. HMS Chatham was one of the ships under the command of Captain Vancouver in his exploration of the Pacific and of the North American coast. Describes the voyage from England via Cape of Good Hope to Australia and New Zealand; activity at Dusky Sound, the discovery of the Chatham Islands, the voyage to Tahiti, with descriptions of the inhabitants, and of the Bounty mutineers. The voyage to Hawaii, with a description of the islands and their inhabitants, followed by the voyage to Canada and the Californian coast, before returning to Hawaii. Bell gives full accounts of the places and inhabitants visited. Publication - See: `[The journal of Edward Bell] from the time of the Chatham's being put in commission till her departure from England', by Edward Bell and Charles H Read. Edward Bell was the Clerk aboard the HMS Chatham during Vancouver's voyage in the Pacific Ocean, 1790-1795. Quantity: 3 volume(s). Physical Description: Holographs & typed transcript Finding Aids: Detailed inventory of the journal available.. Provenance: Formerly in possession of Mr R T Pritchett. Purchased by A H Turnbull from Maggs Bros, London, 1908.

Date: 1779-1869 (1869)

By: Tapsell, Phillip, 1777?-1873; Tapsell, Enid Marguerite Hamilton, 1903-1975

Reference: MS-Group-1890

Description: Dictated by Tapsell who describes his life as a sailor and trader among the Maori at Maketu and the Bay of Plenty, 1830-1835. "A trader in cannibal land; the life and times of Captain Tapsell" by James Cowan is based on this manuscript Quantity: 3 volume(s) (287 pages in original ms). 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, photocopies (19 cm; brown hinged lid box) Processing information: qMS-1980 is now at MS-Papers-7168

Date: 19, 29 Aug 1871

By: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Reference: qMS-0809

Description: Comprises (1) Franklin's letter to Shipley giving particulars of the natives of Tahiti, Australia and New Zealand, which Franklin obtained from Banks and Solander; and (2) `Plan for benefiting distant unprovided countries' by Franklin and Alexander Dalrymple which was published in Dodsley's `Annual register' (1779) and A H Smyth's edition of Franklin's writings. Volume also has note re William Smith Mason, collector, with photograph of his house in Evanston, Chicago, and two leaves, possibly of examination questions, on John Savage's voyage, Dalrymple's scheme, and Abel Tasman's voyage, belonging to Clyde Taylor. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (9 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy) and typescript (28 cm, green cloth)

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: [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: 1776-1817

By: Bruce, George, 1778?-1819

Reference: Micro-MS-0533

Description: Relationship complexity - See also Micro-MS-0227 and MS-Copy-Micro-0538 (copy of MS-0336 and MS-0337) Bruce was possibly the first European resident of New Zealand in 1806 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (ca 150 pages).

Date: 1990

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

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-090

Description: The essay details the lives of the Morriss family who have their origins in 1750 in Barnack, Northamptonshire; they crossed the border to Lincolnshire about 1806, mainly into the parishes of Holbeach and Gedney. In 1854 James Morriss and family emigrated to South Australia, settling near Adelaide. The majority of the family remained in Australia. John Frederick Morriss and his brother George Ackland Morriss came to New Zealand in 1901 on the Belimba. George returned to Australia but John remained, married Ethel Dinnison in Auckland in 1906 and settled at Otahuhu. The essay traces their lives and those of their children Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available. Photographs of William Wilkin Morriss and his wife Emily Ann (nee Staples), ca 1926; John Frederick Morriss and wife Ethel (nee Dinnison), 1952; Frank Dinnison Morris and wife Gladys Isobel (nee Reed), 1975

Date: 1990

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

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-085

Description: The essay covers the period 1780-1950, and details the Thomson family origins in Scotland; the lives of five of William Thomson's children who emigrated to Australia between 1852-1861, their lives there, especially that of James Cochrane Thomson of Melbourne, his marriage to Eliza Rutherford Duncan and details of the Duncan family. James Thomson purchased Kawau Island from Sir george Grey in 1888 and lived there with his family for several years, moving from there to Rocklands in Epsom, Auckland, and also purchasing land on Waiheke Island Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available. Includes photographs of James Cochran Thomson ca 1890s, Eliza Rutherford Thomson ca 1890s, `Hillcrest', Richmond, Nelson

Date: ca 1990

From: Stratford, Peter : Epsom Trust collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11750-42

Description: Drafts and other papers relating to Alan Taylor's manuscript for the book about Hongi Hika. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0 Linear Metres.

Date: 1990

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

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-050

Description: The essay details the life and times of Elijah Tucker and his family. The Tucker line is traced back to 1769 in Somerset. Elijah was a writer, editor and publisher, travelling throughout Europe before marrying Marianna Caigou. Five children were born in London and in 1856 the family emigrated to New Plymouth on the `Chatham'. Shortly after their arrival they moved to Nelson. Elijah was the editor of several New Zealand newspapers before he retired to his farm in Pangatotara. After the death of his first wife he remarried Susan Middleton. He died in Stratford while living with his daughter Mary Ann Worthington. Includes photographs and 5 generation family tree Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published inventory available.

Date: 1776-1817

By: Bruce, George, 1778?-1819

Reference: Micro-MS-0227

Description: Relationship complexity - See also Micro-MS-0533 and MS-Copy-Micro-0538 (microfilm of MS-0336 and MS-0337) Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (c200p).

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.

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).

Date: 1882-1886, 1999

By: Fitchett, Ashton John (Dr), 1926-2008

Reference: MS-Group-0898

Description: The collection comprises a history of the Fitchett family of Ohiro, Brooklyn, by Dr Fitchett, who lives in Brooklyn. The family is descended from William Fitchett (b 1730) of Bretby, Derbyshire. John Fitchett arrived in Wellington on the `London' in May, 1842, with his wife, Louisa, settling in Brooklyn and developed Ohiro Farm. Dr Fitchett describes various members of the family, their lives, descendants, etc, documenting events from family, official and local government sources. Dr Fitchett has also transcribed, with notes, the diary of Laura Sophia Fitchett Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts with photographic illustrations

Date: 1970

By: Henderson, Phil, active 1970

Reference: MS-Papers-5698

Description: Comprises account of Ketemarae locality near Normanby, Taranaki, and includes an index to names mentioned and a map. Henderson gives some background Maori history, he describes the Taranaki wars in the locality, early residents and some land transactions. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (14 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (carbon)

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).

Date: May-Nov 1793

By: King, Philip Gidley, 1758-1808

Reference: MS-Papers-0720

Description: Description of arrival and sojourn of two Maori, Woodoo Co-co-tye Tona-ma-honey' and Tooke Teter-re-ue Warri-pe-doe, on Norfolk Island forcibly brought there to teach convicts how to dress flax. Account of Bay of Islands and customs of Northland Maori by King. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopy)