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[Creator unknown] : Te Kooti's campaigns 1868-1871 [copy of ms map].
Date: 1868 - 1871
Reference: MapColl-832hkm/1868-71/Acc.5976
Description: Map showing the East Cape, Bay of Plenty, Tauranga, Northern Hawkes Bay and just south of Taupo. Shows Te Kooti's approximate route, and direction (arrows on line) and his engagements with the Hauhau people. Stops at certain pa are dated, some added text (before photocopy) e.g. "Final escape to King Country", "Visit to Takangamutu". Key stops included Opape, Tologa Bay, Turanga, Whakatane, Rotorua, Te Pourere, Puketapu. The linking areas for all these points was the Urewera country. Te Kooti was a Rongowhakaata leader, military leader, prophet, religious founder, pursued by colonial forces, eventually took refuge in the King Country where Te Kooti remained until pardoned in 1883. Language - Place names Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, linen backed, scale [1:700,000], 26 x 34 cm
H T Whatahoro Jury - Whakapapa book
Date: 1883-1890
From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0189-125
Description: Contains whakapapa and notes about conflicts involving various Wairarapa and Hawkes Bay hapu in the early 19th century Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss
Williams, Jane (Nelson), 1801-1896 : Journals
Date: 1840-1870
By: Williams, Jane, 1801-1896
Reference: MS-Papers-1527
Description: Record kept at irregular intervals of mission work, domestic affairs and social activities of the wife of William Williams, Bishop of Waiapu, at Turanga, Poverty Bay, 1840-1865, Paihia 1866, and in Napier 1870. Includes visit to England in 1851. Quantity: 8 folder(s). 0.10 Linear Metres. 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..
Journals
Date: Jan-May 1846
From: Colenso, William, 1811-1899 : Journals and correspondence
Reference: 91-169-1/1
Description: Contains loosely inserted pages of closely written notes regarding explorations and mission activity among Maori in the Wairarapa and Hawkes Bay; Colenso details his encounters at various villages, his religous activites, and his observations of the Maori people that he meets and their social and cultural condition. He also discusses the wreck of the United States ship `Falco'. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
McLean, Donald (Sir) 1820-1877 : Miscellaneous papers
Date: 1858-1880
Reference: MS-Papers-3961
Description: Mainly inwards letters to and copies of outwards letters from Donald McLean re personal and family matters, Maori land purchases (Ngatarawa Blocks 4 & 5) and financial concerns, and his own purchase of Akitio Station 1874-1885; account for legal fees made out to R D D McLean of Napier, 1880; list of stores for Akitio Station for 1869; draft of a letter to Judge Johnston from an unknown writer, dated 11 May 1859; and a plan on linseed paper of surveyed blocks in the East Coast area. Language - (and English) Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (30 items). Physical Description: Holographs and mss Provenance: Found in Manuscripts Section
Evangelical Lutheran Emmanuel Convention of New Zealand : Papers
Date: 1888-1957
By: Evangelical Lutheran Emmanuel Convention of New Zealand
Reference: MS-Papers-2202
Description: Contains miscellaneous material removed from Lutheran Church records (see MS-Papers-2200) held by the Library. Includes essays and papers of Pastor Christopher Gaustad, correspondence of the Convention, minute book for the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Dannevirke, newspaper cutting and pamphlets on religious topics Relationship complexity - For main collection of Convention records see Ries family papers (MS-Papers-2272). See 84-237 for translations from Danish to English of items in these papers Convention formed in 1890 as a result of expansion of Danish Lutheran Church in Hawkes Bay area Quantity: 9 folder(s). 0.09 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter
Williams, William 1800-1878 : Journal
Date: 1825-1855 (1964?)
By: Williams, William, 1800-1878
Reference: qMS-2248-2251
Description: This is a copy of the journal sent home to the CMS, and is a fuller account than that contained in the Private journal held in the ms collection Quantity: 4 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescripts (34 cm; ¼ brown morocco, brown buckram)
General Government Agency Public Meeting : Minutes of a public meeting, Oddfellows Hall...
Date: 1869
By: General Government Agency (N.Z.)
Reference: qMS-0832
Description: The meeting was called `the enable the inhabitants of Napier and its vicinity to express their opinion upon the withdrawal from Mr McLean of the powers heretofore exercised by him as General Government agent...' and discussed was McLean's record of service in Maori/Pakeha negotiations and politics by various residents Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (57 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (27 cm, red buckram)
Whakapapa
Date: 1898-1933
From: Te Whaiti family : Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-6571-072
Description: Contains Ngati Kahungunu and other whakapapa for Mere Mohi and related hapu written in an unknown hand, together with some waiata in the same hand; also contains whakapapa for the Te Whaiti family from Ngati Kahungunu and Ngati Toa, written by Henare Te Whaiti; also contains whakapapa contributred by Poihaere Hue; also contains information about Ngati Kahungunu, including the conflict and subsequent peacemaking between Wairarapa Maori and Te Ati Awa in the 1830s and the death of Nga-oko-i-te-rangi at an earlier time Also contains notes in Maori about the signs of the Zodiac
Bedingfield, Henry Derisley, 1898-1992: Reminiscences
Date: 1898-1921 (1982?)
By: Bedingfield, Henry Derisley, 1898-1992
Reference: MS-Papers-4352
Description: The reminiscences cover the period 1898-1921 and contain an account of Bedingfield's early life in southern Hawke's Bay. Bedingfield grew up on a farm at Matamau and attended school at nearby Makotuku. After leaving school in 1914 he worked briefly as a labourer before becoming a clerk at the Waipawa and Waipukurau branches of the Bank of New Zealand. He transferred to New Plymouth in 1921. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (23 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)
Joyce MacKenzie - Anne Humphries
Date: 1990
From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
Reference: MS-Papers-4280-047
Description: Anne Humphries is the central figure of the essay but an account is also given of her parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, brothers and sisters, husbands and children from the time they came to New Zealand until Anne's death Includes four generation family tree Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published inventory available.
The Russell Saga Vol 2
Date: 1861 - 1895
From: Gambrill, Reginald Frank 1890?-1975 : The Russell saga
Reference: qMS-0821
Description: Deals with various land transactions in which the Russell family was concerned, especially the acquisition of Tunanui and Flaxmere (1961-1895); includes appendix of letters from William Russell Russell of England (1861-1895). The contents list is (1) `The family fortunes'; (2) `Land' with sections on Mangakuri, Redclyffe, Moorlands, The Curragh (Fairfield), Dunmore, Craigdean (Partnership), Mount View and speculations; and Tunanui (including freedholding), Flaxmere, Russell Bros partnership (1861-1895); Guy as manager of Tunanui and Twyford's (Ham's share) (1895-1909); the sale to Guy and Guy as owner (1909-1914); and (3) selected letters from William Russell in NZ to his brother and co-partner Andrew Hamilton Russell (Ham) in England and Europe (1875-1895) Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Williams, William 1800-1878 : Extracts from letters to Mrs Heathcote, England
Date: 1865-1881
By: Williams, William, 1800-1878
Reference: MS-2437-2438
Description: Includes letters from Jane Williams. Extracts copied by an unidentified compiler. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 2 volume(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (25cm, brown morocco)
Ormond, Hannah, 1833-1929 : Diaries
Date: 6 Sep 1858-31 Aug 1859, 1 Jan 1864-9 Aug 1872
By: Ormond, Hannah, 1833-1929
Reference: MS-1737-1738
Description: First diary contains lengthy daily entries describing shipboard life and daily life at Napier with her family. The second diary contains brief entries describing daily life at Wallingford, raising children, social affairs, weather and visitors, etc. Few entries for years 1865 and 1871. 1858-1859 diary contains 3 loose pages and some torn out of volume Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - Further Hannah Ormond diaries from a different provenance are held at MS-1739-1746 Scottish-born Hannah Richardson emigrated to New Zealand with her mother on board the Evening Star which left Gravesend on 11 Sep 1858 and arrived at Auckland on 21 Dec 1858. They then travelled by schooner to Napier where they joined George Richardson, Hannah's brother, who had emigrated the year before. Hannah married John Ormond, a well-known political figure in the area, on 4 Dec 1860 and settled at Wallingford Station near Waipukurau, Hawkes Bay Quantity: 2 volume(s). Physical Description: Holographs (19 cm; green cloth, in grey phase boxes)
Maori letters to Colenso
Date: 1850
From: Bagnall, Austin Graham, 1912-1986 : Papers
Reference: 88-103-2/10
Description: Contains letters from maori to Colenso, with reports about the activities and plans of Maori teachers, parishioners and others, and news about some religious dissent Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Maori letters to Colenso
Date: 1848
From: Bagnall, Austin Graham, 1912-1986 : Papers
Reference: 88-103-2/07
Description: Contains letters from Maori to Colenso with reports of the activities and plans of Maori teachers, parishioners and others, requests for religious texts, medicines, and other items, notes about the erection of chapels, and reports of deaths and illnesses Quantity: 1 folder(s).
H T Whatahoro Jury - Notebook
Date: 1873-1876
From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0189-B040
Description: Contains a list of owners of blocks of land in the Wanganui district, and a number of narratives about; significant events in the history of Ngati Kahungunu, Moriori settlement on the Chatham Islands, events in Hawaiki and subsequent migrations and settlements, the burning of the Te Arawa canoe, and conflicts in the 1820s and 1830s involving Ngati Kahungunu, Ngati Porou, Ngapuhi, Rangitane, Ngati Tuwharetoa, Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa and Te Ati Awa Physical Description: ¼ maroon black boards, 33 cm., vol numbered 26
Accounts and whakapapa
Date: 1888-1909
From: Te Whaiti family : Collection
Reference: MSY-4809
Description: Contains farm accounts from the Wairoa (Otene and Tuehu Pomare) and Hawke's Bay districts (Te Akonga Mohi); also contains Ngati Kahungunu whakapapa from these districts
Sinclair, William, 1855-1922 : Legal and commercial documents and letters
Date: 1864-1920
By: Sinclair, William, 1855-1922
Reference: MS-Papers-0003
Description: Papers of a practice centred largely in Blenheim and Wellington Quantity: 27 folder(s) (217 pieces). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Thomas, Charles Steven, fl 1869 : Letter
Date: 1869
By: Thomas, Charles Steven, active 1869
Reference: MS-Papers-1715
Description: Thomas describes to Miss Earp the expedition against Te Kooti and his followers from Petane to Te Waka range; Hawke's Bay landscape and Napier personalities Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)