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Date: 1870-1875, [n d]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1001F

Description: Papers are mostly correspondence and accounts relating to land transactions in the Wellington and Wanganui areas. Some names have been entered in the Name field. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1866-1867

By: Illingworth, J E, active 1866-1867

Reference: MS-1068

Description: Gives much political and social gossip of Wellington, describes sheep runs in Hawke's Bay and the Wairarapa, as well as his trips to Christchurch, Auckland, Parewanui and Wanganui Source of title - Transcribed Illingworth came to New Zealand with H J Kennard who was representing Kennard Brothers in negotiations with the Wellington Provincial Council over the patent slip at Evans Bay; he made brief trips to Auckland and Christchurch and in Dec 1866 was present at the Manawatu purchase meeting at Parewanui Pa, after which he visited Wanganui and travelled by canoe on the Wanganui River. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (409 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (22 cm; ¼ brown calf, brown morocco boards)

Date: 1848

By: Kemp, Henry Tacy, 1818-1901

Reference: MS-Papers-2846

Description: Copy of `Wanganui deed' in Maori and English with signatories' names included and correspondence. Also includes copy of Ngai Tahu deed of sale. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Processing information: Previously Misc MS K12

Date: 1885

By: McDonnell, Thomas, 1832?-1899

Reference: MS-1171

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph (15 cm; marbled end-papers, green cloth, marbled edges)

Date: 1822-1891

From: Stewart, Frances E V, fl 2005 : Histories of the Ranby, Withersgill, Burr and McKay families

Reference: MS-Papers-5229-2

Description: History of the Wintersgill family, and in particular of William Wintersgill; includes account the Burr family who lived near the Wintersgills at Foxton Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1860-1862

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1001D

Description: Papers are mostly correspondence relating land transactions in the Wellington and Wanganui areas. Some names have been entered in the Name field. Letter from C A Calvert, Registrar of Supreme Court of Canterbury re probates and management of intestate estates with reference to the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Great Britain Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1836-1872

By: Taylor, Richard (Rev), 1805-1873

Reference: MS-Papers-0254

Description: Material sent by Richard Taylor to the Church Missionary Society, 1836-1866; consisting of letters between Taylor and others; various documents; extracts from Taylor's journal (showing considerable variation from the original); Family register; Taylor's notebook relating largely to New Zealand geology and natural history Quantity: 51 folder(s). 1 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available. Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Rev Richard Taylor. Sketchbook, loose sketches and scrapbook transferred to Art Collection (E296 and Micro Art 7).

Date: 1855-1859

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1001C

Description: Papers are mostly correspondence relating to land transactions in the Wellington and Wanganui areas. Some names have been entered in the Name Field. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1860-1862

From: White, John, 1826-1891 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0075-003

Description: Correspondence relating to the purchase of Maori land by the Native Land Purchase Dept. Language - engl

Date: 1844-1872

By: Hart & Buckley (Firm)

Reference: MS-Papers-2158

Description: Miscellaneous documents and letters in the practice of Hart and Buckley, Wellington solicitors; primarily concerned with the interests of absentee owners of land in Wellington and elsewhere. List of Crown grants for town acres in Wellington, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Picton & Nelson, and rural land at Rangitiki, Turakina, Horikiwi, Porirua, Makara, Ohariu, Lower Hutt, Nelson Quantity: 1 folder(s) (9 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs

Date: 1878

By: Field, Henry Claylands, 1825-1912; Willis, Annie, active 1906

Reference: MapColl-832.41gbbd/1878/Acc.36726

Description: Cadastral map of the subdivisions in the Country Section no. 164, left bank, Wanganui District alongside the Whanganui River. Shows river bank and Upokongaro-Mangawhero roads, a redoubt, Upokongaro and Makirikiri Streams, the Waipakura Maori Reserve and the subsections 1-8 which include acreage. Pencil annotations on map include some names (hard to decipher) relating to land blocks including George Wilks, Agnes Alcock, George Allen, Brookes, Henry Allen. Other Titles - showing Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, part coloured, linen backed, scale [ca. 1: 2 376], 49.4 x 59.8 cm. Provenance: Written on reverse: '1906 Annie Willis papers'.

Date: 23 Nov 1844

By: FitzRoy, Robert (Capt), 1805-1865

Reference: qMS-0793

Description: FitzRoy states that he cannot visit the chiefs at Wanganui at present; he has had to go Auckland and the Bay of Islands. He says that he is sending Mr Symonds as his representative and goes on to say that the "bad...men" (of the New Zealand Company) will soon leave. "No land shall be taken from you against your consent." Quantity: 1 volume(s) (1 leaf). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (26 cm, grey pam case)

Date: [ca 1855-1870]

Reference: MSI-Papers-2794

Description: Two documents listing names. Once relates to the Wanganui area. Also includes a small piece of paper containing a part of a letter or other document in Maori. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1840-1843

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1001

Description: The papers mostly comprise correspondence relating to land transactions in the Wellington and Wanganui Regions. Some names have been entered in the Name Field. Includes document re management of native reserves and church land at Wanganui, signed by Bishop Selwyn, 1 Nov 1842 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1858-1862

From: White, John, 1826-1891 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0075-005

Description: Maori letters (most with translations) to Crown agents re: land purchases and various miscellaneous matters. Also includes lists for Native Assessors, Wardens and Police from the Whanganui district for 1862. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1840

From: White, John, 1826-1891 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0075-106C

Description: Contains official copies of correspondence relating to land claims from Te Tai Tokerau and Pewhairangi (i.e. Bay of Islands, the word is a transliteration), Waikato and Whanganui. Includes various documents relating to Whanganui giving extensive lists of names for the purchase of guns, powder and flint by Whanganui Maori; lists of Whanganui Maori working for the Regional Magistrate and their salaries; census of friendly natives, Whanganui district. The last document is the original of the deed by which Nopera Parakareao and other Te Rarawa chiefs sold the Muriwhenua lands of Te Aupouri to the Rev Richard Taylor, witnessed by William Gilbert Puckey, 20 January 1840. A translation of this in Taylor's hand is in MS-Papers-0075-106E. Written only two weeks before the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi to secure private property rights for Taylor (before the arrival of Hobson and the signing of the Treaty) but the publication of Gipps's proclamations of 14 January 1840 invalidated the sale. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1878-1972]

By: Smart, Maxwell James Grant, 1898-1972

Reference: MS-Papers-1008

Description: Correspondence, articles, speeches, notes, newspaper cuttings and manuscript material from research on Wanganui history resulting in several publications. Director, Wanganui Museum and local historian Quantity: 50 folder(s). 26 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript, and printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available. Transfers: From Newspaper Collection - Wanganui Chronicle and Rangitikei Messenger, Vol 4 No 48, 20 Aug 1857 - To Cartographic Collection - 5 Automobile Association North Island maps.

Date: 1863-1869

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1001E

Description: Papers are mostly correspondence relating to land transactions in the Wellington and Wanganui areas. Some names have been entered in the Name field. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1850-1854

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1001B

Description: Papers are mostly correspondence relating to land transactions in the Wellington and Wanganui areas. Some names have been entered in the Name field. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1853

By: Swainson, George Frederick, 1829-1870; Bagnall, Austin Graham, 1912-1986

Reference: MapColl-832.4gbbd/1853/Acc.24902

Description: Sketch map of the province of Wellington, with topographical features including rivers, and depicting three major pieces of information as at December 1853 (tinted blue): the quantity of land purchased from the Maori (as at July 1953 1,469,700 and tinted pink and as at December 1853 3,168,600), the estimated quantity of available land (5,172,084), and the estimated quantity of waste land (2,161,317) as per Commissioner Donald Mclean's statement. The total of these lands is given as 10,502,001. A note on the map states that 'the contents of the purchases tinted blue are only approximated - not having been surveyed'. The land blocks identified include Ahiaruhe, Puketoi, Hapuka, Ahuriri, Mohaka, Whanganui and Rangitikei. Please note that the blue and pink tints on the map are indistinguishable due to the copy being in black and white. Map signed by the draughtsman, GF Swainson and by M Fitzgerald, surveyor in charge, 1853. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale [1:1 267 200], 31 x 38 cm. Provenance: Donated by A.G. Bagnall.