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We can connect 46 things related to 1800, 1900, and Ōtaki to the places on this map.
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Brown, Byron Paul, 1866-1947 :Photographs

Date: [ca 1860s-1930s]

By: Brown, Byron Paul, 1866-1947; Billens Studio; Butterfield, Frederic Augustus, active 1938; Herrmann, Richard, -1892; Kinsey, William Henry Scott, 1860-1931; Morris, Guy Clayton, 1868-1918; Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965; Hay, Mary-Annette, 1925-2024

Reference: PAColl-9373

Description: Photographs of Byron Brown and family taken ca 1860s-1930s by a variety of photographers. Includes photographs of; his wife, Susie Brown nee Bright; his daughter Pauline Burgess nee Bright; his parents Arthur and Jane Brown; his wife's parents Mary Ann and Frederic Bright; his daughter Pauline Burgess nee Brown; and Bright and Brown properties and businesses in Otaki. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s). 29 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photographic prints and photocopies Provenance: Donor is grand-daughter of Byron Brown. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1739 : Brown, Byron Paul: Papers. See also Oral History Collection..

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Webster collection papers

Date: 1820-1906

From: Alexander Turnbull Library : Maori Manuscripts Librarian working notes

Reference: MS-Papers-6373-28

Description: Contains copies of letters from various Maori and missionaries from all over the North Island with holographic notes appended in the hand writing of Piripi Walker of Ngati Raukawa, some with translations. Includes photocopies and commentary on the 1855 Northland document "Kote pukapuka ote Tarakona". Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photocopies with mss annotations

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Rangiatea Church (Otaki) : [Cemetery inscriptions] / transcribed by Mr and Mrs Springer...

Date: 1979

By: Rangiatea (Church : Ōtaki, N.Z.)

Reference: MS-Papers-2016

Description: 325 inscriptions many in Maori, with location map, notes and index. Language - Many inscriptions in Maori Source of title - Supplied title Rangiatea is the oldest Maori church in New Zealand Quantity: 1 folder(s) 24 leaves. 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) Includes map

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Historical documents (1-10)

Date: 1881-1901

From: Gear Meat Company Ltd : Further records

Reference: 81-295-38

Description: Correspondence, cadastral maps, share certificates, legal documents, etc., Includes Memorandum of transfer - Tariwha Te Wheoki and Maaka Pukehi as trustee of Hare Wirikake Te Whare as sucessors to Hare Wirikake deceased re land at Otaki (Ngakaroro No 2F Section 60) to James Gear, butcher and Isabella Ling, widow, 1885 Quantity: 1 box(es) hollinger (10 folders).

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Mason, James Malcolm (Dr), 1864-1924 : Papers

Date: 1856-1917

By: Mason, James Malcolm (Dr), 1864-1924

Reference: 77-075

Description: Papers include correspondence, diaries, financial records, and miscellaneous papers Accompanying material - Chronological list of papers in collection compiled by reader; in collection file Source of title - Supplied title Arrangement: Preliminary listing available Mason served as Chief Health Officer for New Zealand (1900-1909) Quantity: 3 box(es). 4 folder(s). 1.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter and photographs Finding Aids: Detailed calendar of correspondence arranged in chronological order (in back file). Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Negatives found in 1903 diary in box 77-075-3; two photographs - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Pen and ink framed sketch, initialled TM 1894.

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Hadfield, Octavius (Rev), 1814-1904 : Papers

Date: 1833-1902

By: Hadfield, Octavius, 1814-1904

Reference: MS-Group-1027

Description: Comprises Hadfield's missionary activities at Kapiti and Wellington and includes correspondence outwards (1833-1886) (238 items); inwards (1839-1902) (15 items); Henry Williams to Hadfield (1860-1865) (13 items); Catherine Hadfield's letters (1851), 1858-1859 (24 items); Hadfield's diary (Sep-Oct 1839, Jun 1846); sermons (ca1888-1891); Catherine Hadfield's diary (1853); and other minor items Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 7 volume(s). 0.14 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy) (35-37 cm, ¼ maroon morocco, red buckram) Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available (copy also at qMS-0902).

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Parish of Otaki :Photograph album

Date: 1860s-1971

From: Parish of Otaki :Photograph album

By: Church of the Province of New Zealand. Parochial District of Otaki

Reference: PA1-q-887

Description: Photographs of people, buildings associated with Anglican Parish of Otaki, at Otaki, Te Horo and Manakau. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Transfers: Transfer from Anglican Parish of Otaki records (MS-Group-1074).

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Williams, William Temple 1856-1928 : Pioneering in New Zealand, life of the Venerable A...

Date: 1822-1907, 1929

By: Williams, William Temple, 1856-1928

Reference: MS-2496

Description: Proof copy with holograph annotations of a biography of Samuel Williams, missionary at Otaki and Hawkes Bay and founder of Te Aute College Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (8, 216 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, printed matter (22 cm, green buckram hinged lid box) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, Academic Books, North Vancouver, Canada, 1972

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Bothamley, Robert Westley, 1888-1967 : Papers relating to Porirua College and Papawai a...

Date: [Aug 1939-Sep 1943)

By: Bothamley, Robert Westley, 1888-1967

Reference: MS-Papers-7011

Description: File of papers relating to Bothamley's service on the Porirua College Trust Board and the Papawai and Kaikokirikiri Trusts Board; includes memorandums, circular notices, reports, and correspondence relating to various leases and land transactions including the Herewini estate, Whitireia, A Emmett, urban farm list for Otaki, H Adsett,C G Aston, Ernest Hobbs, Monrad's farm, Otaki College and farm (with sketch maps), Te Aute College and M F Gaby. Also Maori education bills and war loans and summary of events relating to Whitireia. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr D Robinson, Paremata, Porirua City, Feb 2001

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Album of photographs relating to Poverty Bay

Date: 1840-1950

From: Mackrell, Brent fl 2012: Photographs

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949; Heron, George Charles, 1923-1972; Johnston, Owen, active 1940-1987; New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch; Palmer, Albert Noel, 1920-1972; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: PA1-o-1036

Description: Contains photographs and photographic copies of paintings illustrating Te Rangihaeata's house on Mana Island, Waitahanui Pa at Lake Taupo, meeting houses at Waihi (Taupo), Wairoa, Te Wairoa (Rotorua), Otaki, Ohinemutu, Morrinsville, Waiomatatini, Pokai, Whakarewarewa, Tokaanu, Koroniti and Thames. Also shown are a gateway at Te Teko and the gateway to a church at Nuhaka. The artists and photographers represented are G F Angas, A P Godber, A N Palmer, William Hall Raine, George Heron, Owen Johnston, E Edwards, and the New Zealand Railways Publicity Department. A number of images were provided by the Alexander Turnbull Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Graphic drawing book 23 x 31 cm

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Carte de visite by the New Zealand Photographic Company, and a cabinet card showing pla...

Date: [188-?], 1901

From: Sullivan, John Paul, 1948- :Photographs

By: New Zealand Photographic Company (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-8581

Description: Comprises: Portrait of a woman, taken between 1888 and 1895 by the New Zealand Photographic Coy. of Wellington. Planting of "Coronation Oak", celebrating the coronation of Edward VII of England in 1901. W H Field is standing 5th from right. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

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Field family : Field and Hodgkins family papers

Date: 1855-1950

By: Field family

Reference: MS-Group-0060

Description: Correspondence and papers of two prominent New Zealand families. The collection centres around W H Field, Waikanae landowner and MP for Otaki, and his wife Isabel Hodgkins, sister of artist, Frances Hodgkins. It amalgamates a number of separately catalogued ms collections of the same provenance, including MS-Papers-0113. * Diary for 1883 missing Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See also W H Field papers, 73-128 Quantity: 244 folder(s). 92 volume(s). 3 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in reading room was removed on 3 Dec 2014 as it contained no extra information. A copy is available in the staff backfile. Family trees for Field, Hodgkins and Parker families available in staff back file entitled Field Family listings.. Provenance: Collected by Field family members, 1855-1950 Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Accompanying art works - To Photographic Archive - Accompanying photographs. Processing information: Two further boxes still require adding to this group and are at the end of the sequence at MS-Papers-0113-31 and MS-Papers-0113-32; they are papers relating to W H Field and will be added to Series 1 and 16B

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Wright, Gwenyth fl 1993 : Land transaction deeds

Date: 1881, 1900

By: Wright, Gwenyth, active 1993

Reference: fMS-Papers-4851

Description: Consists of a land lease deed dated 12 November 1881 between Ngapaki Te Puni and James Hector and a land conveyance deed dated 6 May 1900 between Eperaima Mahauariki and Mary Ann Bright. Source of title - supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Gwenyth Wright, Wellington, 1993

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James Beard & Co., architects :Jenkins' Cottage, Rangiuru Road, Otaki. [Plans]. Sheets ...

Date: 1970 - 1867

By: James Beard and Company

Reference: Plans-97-026-001/004

Description: Includes site plan, with original wattle and daub cottage and proposed museum position shown; cottage plan and west elevation; and two alternative subdivision schemes. The cottage was occupied by William Jenkins (1813-1902) by 1867. His wife Pairoke had died in 1853, and Jenkins and his second wife and many children lived in Wharemauku, Porirua, and Wairarapa, before settling in Otaki. This plan for the Historic Places Trust, for preserving this 1867 cottage was not proceeded with, and the wattle and daub cottage was demolished in 1986. It was beyond repair. There is still a wooden cottage from the Rangiuru end of the site; it has been transferred to a site in Otaki Gorge Road, and was being restored by Mr Graham Atmore from about 1996 (information from Mr Malcolm Pearce, as of January 1998). The Library also holds ink and pencil plans on draughting paper, at Plans-2009-082-7566-001/004. Quantity: 4 plan(s) stapled together.. Physical Description: Diazo prints, 760 x 517 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Transferred from Manuscripts & Archives in 1997..

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Bevan, Thomas 183?-1913 : Reminiscences

Date: [1901?]

By: Bevan, Thomas, 1836-1913

Reference: qMS-0221

Description: Bevan describes incidents in his life in the Otaki and Manawatu districts from 1840 to the 1860s. He was the son of a rope maker and followed his father's trade and farmed. He refers in particular to relationships between Maori and settlers and includes descriptions of Maori pa, legends, customs and the scenery, and a walk he made as a child in 1845 from Wellington to Waikawa, Otaki. Mss written in the hands of Bevan's daughters to whom dictated it, and signed by him Quantity: 1 folder(s) (71 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (33 cm, green tie case)

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Group of Maori related images

Date: 1841-1928

From: Alexander Turnbull Library : Maori Manuscripts Librarian working notes

Reference: MS-Papers-6373-01

Description: Contains photographic file prints from the Turnbull Pictures collection and photocopies of Maori images with some supporting correspondence Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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McNab, Robert George Colin : Octavius Hadfield, bishop and pioneer; a memoir / foreword...

Date: 1939

By: McNab, Robert George Colin, 1899-

Reference: MS-1366

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s) (208 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; blue linen)

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McIntosh album 9

Date: [Between 1899 and 1902]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-293

Description: Album of photographs probably taken by George W Barltrop (who was at one time president of the Nelson Camera Club), between 1899 and 1902. Scenes include group portraits of Labour Day celebrations by the Missions to Seamen in 1900 and 1901; Prince of Wales birthday celebrations in 1901; members of a camera club (possibly in the Hutt Valley, associated with a Mr Stevens); and views of Island Bay and French Pass, with close-up views of the anchor and a sailor standing at the steering wheel on a fishing boat. In the South Island there are views of the Blenheim Road, Havelock Road, Wakapuaka Road, Cable Bay, and Bishops Peninsula (?). Two images show Indian troops who came to New Zealand as part of the tour by the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York in 1901. A close-up view of the altar rail in Rangiatia Church in Otaki, shows maori carving in detail. Inscriptions: Album page - Geo W Barltrop Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, entitled `Photographs'; 16.0 x 22.5 cm

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Williams family : Further papers

Date: 1820-1976

By: Williams family

Reference: 75-001

Description: Comprise letters of Henry Williams, Jane Williams, Mary Williams, Samuel Williams and others; research notes on Samuel Williams and on the Williams family in general; papers relating to Te Aute College; diaries; records re property in Hawkes Bay, and an extensive collection of papers by and relating to William Gilbert Puckey. Includes papers in Maori. Source of title - Supplied title Other - C A Williams gave the papers in a number of separate donations in 1975; they have been combined under the present reference number. Quantity: 47 folder(s). 1 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter

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Wellington Maori Pastorate : Registers of baptisms, marriages and burials

Date: 1839-1967

By: Wellington Anglican Māori Pastorate

Reference: Micro-MS-0883

Description: Comprises baptismal, marriage and burial entries for Te Rangiatea, Wellington Maori Pastorate and Wairarapa Maori Pastorate Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

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