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Cooke, John George, ca 1819-1880 : Reminiscences
Date: 1876
By: Cooke, John George, 1819?-1880
Reference: qMS-0542
Description: Family and personal history in England until the settlement in New Plymouth, 1841, with references to Jane Austen and her family (pp. 20,21,34,35). Account of voyage to New Zealand on Amelia Thompson, 1841. General account of the colonisation of the North Island, especially Taranaki, and history of relations with Maori there; also of Wellington, Auckland, Rotorua, Taupo, Otaki, Manawatu, Wanganui, Waikato, Lakes Tarawera and Rotoaira, 1841-1850 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (90 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) (¼ blue morocco, blue buckram; 30 cm)
Davies, George Neville, 1921- : Not beyond redemption - The rehabilitation of Captain J...
Date: 1994
By: Davies, George Neville, 1921-2010
Reference: MSY-3842
Description: `Not beyond Redemption' by George Davies is a biography of Captain John Guard describing his early life in London, time in Newgate prison, work as a convict transportee, sealer, sea-captain and whaler based at Kakapo Bay in Port Underwood working between New Zealand and Sydney. John and Betty Guard and their two children were onboard the Harriet when it was wrecked off the Taranaki coast in 1834 and the biography details the subsequent experiences of the Guard family and the role the Alligator played in this incident, finishing with the subsequent farming career of John Guard at Kakapo Bay. The biography contains photographs and copies of illustrations of people and places mentioned. Source of title - title page Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and photographs (some photocopies)
Henderson, Phil fl 1970 : Ketemarae clearing and its pas and kaingas / transcribed by P...
Date: 1970
By: Henderson, Phil, active 1970
Reference: MS-Papers-5698
Description: Comprises account of Ketemarae locality near Normanby, Taranaki, and includes an index to names mentioned and a map. Henderson gives some background Maori history, he describes the Taranaki wars in the locality, early residents and some land transactions. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (14 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (carbon)