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Date: ca 1890-1950 (196-?)

By: Playford, Lorna Martin, 1887-1979

Reference: MS-Papers-3869

Description: Unpublished atobiography by L M Monckton; she describes her childhood in the Wairarapa, service with QMA Women's Auxiliary units during World War One, life in Canada in the 1920s and England in the 1930s and 1940s. Annotated in an unknown hand. Publication - Published in; Joblin, Dorothea. The colonial one ; Lorna Monckton of Newstead. Christchurch, 1975 Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (107 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with holograph annotations

Date: 1852-1891, 1955

By: Watters, Bethlyn, active 1950-1987

Reference: MS-Papers-3932

Description: The papers largely consist of correspondence spanning four decades between Jane Oates and her sister, Margaret Morten, who lived in Derbyshire, England, but include letters written by Samuel, John Morten (husband of Margaret), various children of the Oates and Morten families, and by various other family friends and relatives. Letters give details about family matters, the concerns of stock and crop farming, adverse weather conditions, etc both in New Zealand and rural England. The collection includes photocopy of passenger contract ticket for and photograph of Jane Oates and children on their departure for New Zealand, as well as genealogical material, and a letter written by Watters to her family in New Zealand when she was visiting the family home and relatives at Monyash, England in 1955 Source of title - Supplied by Library Other - See MS-Papers-8236 for further letters from the Oates family in New Zealand to their family in England Accompanying material - Accompanied by copies of photographs (originals in Photographic Archive) and material relating to the Rev. William Ronaldson kept by Miss Annie Oates, an aunt of Mrs Watters'. Jane Oates emigrated to New Zealand with 5 children in 1856 on the `Oliver Laing'. She joined her husband, Samuel, who had come out earlier and begun farming at Taratahi Plains, north of Carterton in the Wairarapa. Quantity: 7 folder(s). 0.07 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1880-1959, 1962, 1964, 16 Mar 1918, 6 Feb 1925, 17 Apr-27 Sep 1937

By: Hansen family; Tiller, Eileen Mavis, active 1957-2014

Reference: MS-Group-0887

Description: Estate papers of W F Hansen and his father Anders. These include correspondence, diaries, autograph books, insurance papers, accounts, property papers, papers re British & Continental Film Company Ltd, 1920s. The diaries of Elizabeth Hansen, 1928-1932, 1954-1959, 1962, 1964, contain brief daily entries describing her domestic activities, weather conditions, involvement in community work and the Methodist Church. The early diaries were kept while the Hansens were in Featherston (the period immediately following their marriage). From 1954, after Fred Hansen died, Elizabeth lived at Masterton. Included in some of the diaries are newspaper clippings which report on church and community affairs. Contains letters by Anne Hansen aboard the `Rangitata', in England and Ireland to Fred and Lizzie Hansen in Masterton, New Zealand. Anne describes her daily life and travel and discusses family matters. Also contains a letter from Lena Cook (nee Hansen) while on holiday in Melbourne and a letter from an ex-soldier Elyabill Harrold to Fred Hansen following Fred's return from World War One. See ATL-Group-00334 for photographic material relating to the Hansen family. William Frederick Hansen's father, Anders Hansen was a lighthouse keeper. Fred Hansen was born at Cape Saunders, Westport. He was a tunneller in World War One. Elizabeth and Fred Hansen lived at Featherston and later moved to Masterton where Fred died in 1953. Mrs Eileen Tiller (née Hansen) is the niece of Mrs and Mrs Hansen. Quantity: 32 volume(s). 9 folder(s). 0.71 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter Provenance: Eileen Tiller is the granddaughter of lighthouse keeper Anders Hansen. Processing information: Twenty diaries arrived in the Photographic Archive and were separated from the photographic material as was the practice at the time.

Date: 1855-1864, 1934-1935, 1951-1958

Reference: MS-Papers-1780

Description: Farm records of Whangaimoana Station, owned by Russell family including letter book of S A Hanlon, owner of Moanatahi Station, Palliser Bay; personal papers of W P Karaitiana, farmer at Pirinoa (1933-1958), including Te Aute College school report card for Hugh Karaitiana (1951-1952) Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: [1846?-1856?], 1958

From: Colenso, William, 1811-1899 : Journals and correspondence

Reference: 91-169-2/6

Description: Contains letters from Maori to Colenso about the activities and plans of Maori teachers, parishioners and others, reports of deaths and illnesses, requests for religious texts, medicine and other items, discussions about Colenso's conflicts with Maori leaders, details about land tenure and transactions, conflicts within communities and information about chapel building Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1807-1954

By: Tiffen, Frederick John, 1828-1911

Reference: MS-Papers-1348

Description: Journals and other records of farming activities in Wairarapa and Hawke's Bay after arrival in Wellington on the `Louisa Campbell' in 1845; land transactions in Hawke's Bay; records of Elmshill Station, purchased 1859. Also `Frederick John Tiffen...' compiled by A M Andersen, 1959; genealogical material on Tiffen and Monteith families. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 34 folder(s). 0.34 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescript Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1990

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

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-096

Description: The essay covers the period 1839-1957 and details the lives of two Sykes brothers who married Child sisters. William Sykes married Elizabeth (Betsy) Child, and George Skyes married Jane Child, all from Yorkshire. The two couples immigrated to New Zealand on the Bolton in 1839 and settled first in Wellington and then the Hutt Valley. The essay also details the life and family of Robert Wyeth who arrived in Wellington on the Cuba in 1839 and settled in Hutt Valley. Publication - In `Our lesser stars' Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available.

Date: [1900-1950]

By: Bennington, N J, active 1926

Reference: MS-Papers-6833

Description: Comprises 59 small notebooks of indexes to the `Wairarapa news', the `Wairarapa press', the `Wairarapa free press', the `Newsletter', the `Wairarapa mercury', the Borough Council minute book and other items; also one folder of loose papers, including a talk, possibly by Bennington, on Wairarapa history, obituaries for John Kay, and biographical piece on Christopher Bennington. Note added to original holding box, `Notebooks transcribed entries from Wairarapa Free Press 1878...'. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 box(es) (hollinger box with 59 notebooks and one folder). 0.13 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, typescripts and printed matter