Places

Date: 1900

By: Kenning, Winifred, 1897-1977

Reference: MS-Papers-1857

Description: Reminiscences about life and people in the Hokianga area, 1820 till the present (1973) Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (68 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 25 Jul 1822

By: Lawry, Walter (Rev), 1793-1859

Reference: qMS-1143

Description: Letter written a fortnight after the writer's arrival in New Zealand; contains a short account of the conditions then existing in New Zealand Source of title - supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (9 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (36 cm; dark green cloth)

Date: 1826-1935

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2991

Description: Comprises photographs of the Smith family, details of the Paddy Henderson fleet, passenger lists 1871-1880, various shipping papers, family correspondence, all relevant to Australia and New Zealand Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1822-1824

By: Williams, Henry, 1792-1867

Reference: MS-2409-2410

Description: Covers journey to New Zealand and life and relations with Maori at Bay of Islands; interval in Australia Feb-Aug 1823 Source of title - Transcribed Extracts copied by an unidentified compiler; vol 2 is apparently in a different hand. Quantity: 2 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (24-22cm, ¼ brown morocco, brown buckram)

Date: 1995

From: Ted Gilberd Literary Trust : Essay competitions

Reference: MS-Papers-5757-17

Description: Story of the children of Gilbert and Elizabeth Gilbert Mair (nee Puckey) who were all born in the Bay of Islands or Whangarei. Biographical details of their 12 children and off-spring: Caroline Elizabeth (1828-1917); Robert (1830-1920); William Gilbert (1832-1912); Marianne (1834-1893); Henry Abbott (1836-1880); Charlotte (1838-1891); Jessie Eliza (1840-1899); Gilbert (1843-1923); Matilda Helen (1845-1927); Emily Frances (1848-1902); Sophia Marella (1850-1884); Lavinia Laura (1852-1936) Quantity: 1 folder(s) (43 pages).

Date: 1823-1878, 1880

By: Williams, Henry, 1792-1867

Reference: MS-2413-2414

Description: Extracts from Williams family letters and diaries covering the period 1823-1878 Source of title - Transcribed Other Titles - Full title: Records of two brothers, being passages from the lives of Henry and William Williams Quantity: 2 volume(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (Various sizes, ¼ brown morocco, brown buckram and black calf; MS-2413 in blue case)

Date: 28 Oct 1819-31 Aug 1820

By: Downie, James, active 1819-1822

Reference: qMS-0632

Description: Downie's entries primarily relate to weather, sea and ship with brief references to timber, topography, Marsden and Maori The `Coromandel' took convicts to Australia then visited Bay of Islands, Coromandel Peninsula and Thames Firth to cut and load Kauri timber. Samuel Marsden accompanied the ship to Thames. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (192 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms (35 cm; navy buckram)

Date: 1829-1874

By: Arnould, Joseph, 1814-1886

Reference: qMS-0085

Description: Discusses literary, political, religious and social matters in England; comments on Domett's impressions of New Zealand, and writer's life as English barrister and later as Chief Justice of Bombay; volume includes 3 letters from William Curling Domett describing life as a coffee planter in Ceylon 1843-1844 Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (36 items). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss (31cm, ½ maroon morocco box)

Date: 1990

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

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-035

Description: The essay details his life as well as that of his third wife. The writer follows the lives of the two families separately and the younger family together through their struggles in New Zealand. Includes family trees and photographs. The background of William Catt is a bit of a mystery and the rumour of money in Chancery and the forfeiture of William's inheritance because he came to New Zealand and did not return to claim it intrigued many of his descendants who gathered at least two expeditions to search for it. William had married twice before he came to New Zealand in 1857 and married for the third time as `a bachelor'. His two daughters left in a workhouse when he immigrated, arrived later in New Zealand, to the consternation of several. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published inventory available.

Date: 1824 (1839) (1964)

By: Lesson, Rene Primevere, 1794-1849

Reference: MS-1147

Description: Translation of chapter 21 and part of chapter 22 of P Lesson's `Voyage autour du monde' (Paris, 1839) in which he describes the country, Maori disparages, missionary activities especially those of Mr Clerk, but praises Kendall's intelligence Publication - Lesson, P. Voyage autour du monde. Paris 1839 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (92 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (holograph corrections) (26 cm; orange buckram)

Date: 1827-1867

By: Baker, Charles (Rev), 1803-1875

Reference: qMS-0109

Description: Describes in detail his career as a missionary in the Bay of Islands, Gisborne, the East Coast, and in Tauranga and the Bay of Plenty; covers his missionary work, personal life, Maori and settler life and events such as the war in the Bay of Plenty region Accompanying material - Copy of letter dated 28 Jul 1959 from librarian at Auckland Institute and Museum describing circumstances of the copying Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (34cm, blue linen) Processing information: Copies of the five originals have been bound into one volume

Date: [ca 1949]

From: Anderson family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-10737-2

Description: A history of the Kawhia district written by William Edward Anderson from first contact by Europeans and including Maori and pakeha history up to the time Anderson is presumed to have written it Other - See slightly longer version by Anderson at MS-Papers-8124 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1829-1836, [2004]

By: White, Eliza Leigh, 1809-1883

Reference: MS-Group-1374

Description: Transcript by Frances Porter of journals kept by Eliza White from 1829 to 1836, with index; from MS-Papers-0612-03 Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 2 folder(s). 511 kilobyte(s) textual material. 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 1825-1831, 1856-1857

By: Williams, Henry, 1792-1867

Reference: qMS-2228-2229

Description: Extracts from letters and some journal entries copied by an unidentified compiler. They describe pioneering life, missionary actiovities and relations with Maori in the Bay of Islands - also East Coast for the later period Variations in title - Dates on spine: 1822-1864 Quantity: 2 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss (36 cm; blue calf)

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: 1823-1878 (1965)

By: Williams, Henry, 1792-1867

Reference: qMS-2239

Description: Extracts from Williams family letters and diaries compiled by Mrs E L Gardiner and Miss Fanny Marsh, ca 1880 Relationship complexity - Ms of extracts at MS-2413-2414 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (141 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript (34 cm; blue buckram)

Date: 1820

By: McCrae, Alexander, 1799-1861

Reference: qMS-1172

Description: Comprises copies of McCrae's diary (pp1-24); a similar diary, extending somewhat later, and perhaps complete, with variations in the text as if both were written from some shorter memorandum (pp25-39c); parts of a sea-diary, evidently in McCrae's handwriting describing the voyage of the `Dromedary' to the landing of the convicts (ie the outward voyage) (pp39d-39f); a list of native chiefs in NZ (pp 40-42); notes on NZ (pp43-49); some scraps of notes (pp50-51) McCrae visited the Bay of Islands, Whangaroa and Hokianga harbours and writes of his experiences meetingt Maori and missionaries and describes many of the personalities he met including Kendall and Hongi Hika Language - Some notes in Maori (pp 40-42) Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (51 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (34 cm; ½ brown calf, brown linen) Provenance: McCrae's sister, Mrs Thomas, sent the originals to Sir Frederick Chapman; this typescript was made by Miss Hardie in 1925

Date: 21 Sep 1824

By: White, William, 1794-1875

Reference: MS-2388

Description: Holograph letter bound in with a typescript copy; letter to his brother describes his arrival in New Zealand, work among the Maori, life on the mission station at Kaeo; also includes accounts for stores ordered by members of the station Source of title - Transcribed White joined the mission at Kaeo in 1823, and was subsequently senior missionary until dismissed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (55 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, typescript (27cm, ½ blue morocco, faded light blue boards)

Date: 1820-1896

By: Hirst family

Reference: MS-Papers-0282

Description: Letters exchanged between members of the Bracken family in England and the Hirst family in New Zealand, including Grace's correspondence to her husband Thomas Hirst, and to her mother and sisters. In letters home to her family Grace discusses business affairs, frequently requesting goods to be sent out for sale in their shop; the breaking in of land at Bell Block, and construction of their home `Brackenhirst'. She records the details of domestic and farm life, and the progress of the war in the 1860s. The family retreated from Bell Block to the safety of New Plymouth from where Grace continued her letters. By May 1860 Grace was writing from Wellington, waiting for a passage to England. On the return voyage to New Zealand the following year, Grace and Thomas' ship the `William Brown' was destroyed by fire in the Bay of Biscay. Grace described the fire and their subsequent rescue. Thomas and Grace returned to England. Thomas made the return voyage to New Zealand on the `Ravenscraig' but Grace remained for a year before setting out for New Zealand on the `Silver Eagle', recording the voyage in a letter-journal up to her arrival in Auckland in January 1863. Grace continued her correspondence to English relations to 1896, her letters being supplemented by those of her daughters Annis, Harriet and Mary, all of whom married and settled in New Plymouth The collection also includes newspaper cuttings, 1886-1896, 1950s; and a family tree of the Appleyard family which provides information about the Hirst family Grace and Thomas Hirst immigrated from West Riding Yorkshire, arriving at Auckland in 1852 with five of their eight children. Their eldest son, James, had come out in 1851 to prepare a place for them at New Plymouth. Two of their children stayed with Grace's sisters in England. They settled at New Plymouth, trading as general merchants and at the same time broke in a farm at Bell Block, where the family home `Brackenhirst' was built. During the Taranaki war they retreated to new Plymouth. Thomas died in 1883 and Grace lived on in New Plymouth until her death. Quantity: 40 folder(s). 0.40 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1875-1876

By: George, James, 1813-1878

Reference: MS-0825-0826

Description: George describes his life from his birth in England and emigration to Australia in 1823 and life there until he reached Auckland in 1840. George led an active life and comments on the various events occurring and people in the news. Quantity: 2 volume(s) (Pages 1-299 (v1), pages 300-603 v2). 0.06 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (21 cm; blue cloth)