Places

Date: [1975-1979]

By: Smedley, Beryl (Lady), 1922-2011

Reference: MS-Group-1153

Description: Comprises papers relating to Lady Smedley's book `Homewood and its families, a story of Wellington'. Includes research papers and correspondence. Also includes papers relating to the John Johnston family and correspondence re illustrations. Includes Featherston family tree. Publication - Published as Homewood and its families : a story of Wellington (Wellington, Mallinson, Rendal, 1980) Homewood, a historic Karori house, is the residence of the United Kingdom high commissioner Quantity: 1 box(es). 1 folder(s). 0.33 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Lady Smedley, 1980

Date: 30 Dec 1896-13 Oct 1920

By: Kapiti (N.Z.). Borough Council

Reference: MSY-2899

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.05 Linear Metres.

Date: 1865-1871

From: Church of the Province of New Zealand. Wellington Diocese : Central and parish records

Reference: MSY-1283

Description: Variations in title - Title page reads Register of baptisms and burials for the parishes of Johnsonville. Porirua Road. Karori and Makara Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: [1870s]

From: Smith, Helen Rachel Mary, 1974-: Collection

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Ka/[187-?]/Acc.39863

Description: Copy of part of an unidentified cadastral map of Karori, Wilton, part of Ngaio and sections adjacent to the Makara Stream in the Hutt County. Subdivisions are numbered and include acreages and names. Includes some roads and names of the Karori and Parkvale roads have been added at a later date. Streams are marked but are un-named. Otari Scenic Reserve is named. Names include Graeme Hari?, E.G. Wakefield, R. Ker, Thos. Raku, Sir J.I. Coleridge, Rev. I.I. Penrose, S. Lancaster, B. Sorell, S. Brooks, T. Dyke, R. Farr, W.H. Rawson, Jas. Wallace, Edward Batterson?, John Crawford, Frederick Ibbotson, C. Cass, J.B. Reading, E. Irons, C. Broderick, Joseph Hurley, Stevens, Robt. Pemberton, J. Carroll, Burnard, J. Higginson, William Quilter, I. Robinson, J. & H. Kilminster, R.H. Huntley, Fillis, E.S. Halswell, Edward Hinton, J.E. Wainhouse, J. Thompson, Wm. Fowler, W. Shepherd, J. Fray, J.White, B.M. Smith, W. Finnimore, J. Semp, W. Barnes, J. Johnston, Samuel Maxton, Robinson, B. Holmes, Thos. Lewis, J.T. Wingfield, Henrietta Johnston, E. Standen, T. Benton, R.D. Mangles, S. Gawith, J. Diamond, R. Canian, E. Allington, June Burrows, E.R. Burnett, J. Campbell, G. Graham, John Pirbie?, G. Burnard, G. Baker, J.E. Boulcott, Mitchell Title provided by Library. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale not given, 29.3 x 20.2 cm.

Date: [1880s]

From: Hawkins, C T, fl 1976 :Photographs, mainly New Zealand scenes by the Burton Brothers

Reference: PA7-34-26

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card.

Date: [1894-1900?]

From: Denton, Frank J, 1869-1963 :Collection of negatives, prints and albums

Reference: PA1-o-132

Description: Photographs, chiefly of the Wellington area, probably taken by Frank J Denton. A number show the house `Fernhill' in Woolcombe Street (now part of The Terrace), Wellington, views from the house and its gardens. Portraits in clude Laurie Denton, Tom Tolley (locksmith), Alfred Bennett and his family, Mrs Denton Snr, Mrs Waters (had a grocery shop in Dixon Street), G L Adkin (as a boy), Miss Dixon (of the aerated water family, the Dixons of Dixon Street), George Butler (artist), and Beaglehole (David Ernest Beaglehole, father of Professor Ernest Beaglehole, and Professor John Cawte Beaglehole). Also includes photograph of a portrait painted by George Edmund Butler of his father Joseph Cawte Butler (maternal grandfather of John Cawte Beaglehole). Other Titles - Wellington I Album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Maroon cover decorated with painted leaves, 22 x 26 cm

Date: [Between 1890s and 1900s]

From: Hamerton, N & G (Misses), fl 1967 :Photograph albums of Wellington scenes

Reference: PA1-o-540

Description: Album of photographs of early Wellington, circa 1880s to 1890s. One view shows the wreck of the Oliver Lang at Kaiwharawhara. Other views of ships show the RMS Ruapehu on arrival in Wellington; the ship Pleione in port, and the Opawa on the patent slip at Evans Bay. Other views in the album include one of the tram track on the way to Oriental Bay; Te Aro (1883); Wellington from Bolton Street; Government House and Offices; a view from "Gaol Hill" (near the Te Aro Prison at the junction of The Terrace and Abel Smith Street); a tram run by the Wellington Tramway Company in front of Government Buildings; the corner of Featherston Street and Lambton Quay with the Union Bank of Australia and Johnny Martin's fountain; the tombstone of Mete Kingi Paetahi at Whanganui; the memorial to Te Wharepouri at Ngauranga; the Karori Reservoir; and a view of the mouth of the Hutt River from the eastern hills. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cloth cover, entitled "Sketched by the sun"; 17.5 x 21.5 cm

Date: 1888

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Ka/1888/Acc.14441

Description: Cadastral, surveyed map, showing Karori subdivision of Section 34, bounded by MacDonald Street (now Messines Road), Karori Road, Vera Street, and Duthie Street. Numbered lots show acreage, and some owners, including Riddiford's land (to later become site of Marsden College), McBell's property, Chas Johnston's property, some annotations difficult to decipher. Some sections are marked sold. Pencilled note on map: 'For subdivision of this block see plan 109'. Another reads 'See plan 66' and 'See 649' Measurements in links Marks a brick store and a church Title in square brackets supplied by cataloguer Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, part coloured on paper, encapsulated in transparent paper, scale indeterminable, 50.2 x 66 cm

Date: [1975-1979]

From: Smedley, Beryl (Lady), 1922- : Papers relating to Homewood and its families

Reference: 80-181

Description: Comprises papers relating to Lady Smedley's book `Homewood and its families, a story of Wellington'. Includes research papers and correspondence. Also includes papers relating to the John Johnston family and correspondence re illustrations. Publication - Published as Homewood and its families : a story of Wellington (Wellington, Mallinson, Rendal, 1980) Homewood, a historic Karori house, is the residence of the United Kingdom high commissioner Quantity: 1 box(es). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: 1852 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-040-2

Description: 'Homewood' viewed through the arching branches of trees. A cow is in a fenced area in the foreground, as are two men, one on horseback. The house, with a bush background is set against a hill and is shown as a large one-and-a-half storey building, with a verandah. There is a roadway or cleared area in the immediate foreground Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & ink, 130 x 74 mm

Date: 1843-1851

By: Chapman, Henry Samuel, 1803-1881

Reference: qMS-0418-0420

Description: Letters mainly to his father and aunts in England covers in detail Wellington incidents of the period, with full references to William Wakefield, Charles Barraud, E J Eyre, R Fitzroy and Sir George Grey Quantity: 3 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss (34 cm; ¼ brown morocco) Finding Aids: Index available at qMS-0421-0422, compiled by Glen W Macmorran, 1943.

Date: 1847, 2007

From: Alington, Margaret Hilda, 1920-2012 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8897-66

Description: Includes card from Charles Fearnley Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs, manuscripts

Date: 1895

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Sketchbook of Mary C. Medley nee Taylor...1895. No. 14.

Reference: E-379-027

Description: Shows Homewood, residence of C Johnston at Karori ca 1895 Other Titles - Homewood residence ... Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Holmwood C Johnston residence - Karori Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 130 x 225 mm (page size)

Date: 1854-1989

By: Reading family

Reference: MS-Group-0648

Description: Comprises letters from John Brown and Elizabeth Reading, and their son George F, to members of the Reading family in Birmingham, Walter Reading and Mrs Elizabeth Jones, and John Reading. Included is a list of the NZ family's children; a list of goods to be purchased (1858); a covering letter from John Sangster to W Reading & Co (1858) re an assignment sent to Bethune and Hunter; an article by Judy Rudoe, `From Oroide to platinageld: imitation jewellery in the late nineteenth century' (1989), centennial booklet of N C Reading & Company Ltd (Birmingham, 1947) and `Jeweller & metalworker' with advertisements for N C Reading (no 677, vol XXVIII, 15 Jan 1902). Source of title - Supplied Other Titles - Jewellery Studies (vol 3, 1989) Other Titles - Jeweller & Metalworker (no 677, Vol XXVIII, 15 Jan 1902) The Reading family came from Birmingham where the family had a jewellery business, N C Reading & Co Ltd Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter (some photocopies) Advertisements of jewellery in `Jeweller & metalworker' and in N C Reading & Company's centennial pamphlet

Date: ca 1896

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 16

Reference: PAColl-7344-17

Description: View of Karori reservoir showing the valve tower and the house in the surrounding grounds. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1874

From: Karori Historical Society :Photocopies of manuscript maps of Karori and Makara held by Land Information New Zealand and Karori Historical Society [ms maps]. 1860s-1997

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Ka/1874-/Acc.43330-35;43350-2

Description: Copy of cadastral plan of Karori with numbered land blocks each with owner's name. Some roads and topographical features also shown. Quantity: 2 map(s) in 9 segments. Physical Description: Photocopy, scale and size of original indeterminable, each segment of copy 30 x 42 cm.

Date: 1852

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: B-084-002

Description: Shows lawns, flowerbeds and a gazebo in the garden of the Homewood residence in Karori, viewed between trees. There are some tree stumps in the centre foreground. Henry Samuel Chapman lived in this house. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 245 x 308 mm.

Date: [ca 1888-1923], [ca 1980s-1999]

From: Gordon, Ian Alistair, 1908-2004: Papers

Reference: fMS-Papers-6984-6

Description: Includes newspaper articles re Katherine Mansfield's life and works, Karori and Wellington city. Also includes Word from Marsden Collegiate School (April 1966; August 1977). Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres.

Date: 1995

From: Ted Gilberd Literary Trust : Essay competitions

Reference: MS-Papers-5757-28

Description: Story of Stephen Lancaster, who arrived in Wellington on the `Indian Queen' in 1857, on a two year contract with the Provincial Government as foreman of road works. In 1859 he married Sarah Eagle and the couple settled in Karori and took up farming. They built a house on their land which they named Chesney Wold (Karori Road). From the time of his arrival in Karori Stephen was involved in public affairs, and in 1891 when the Karori Borough Council was established, he became the first mayor. Includes details of the Lancaster family in Lancashire and Yorkshire; the Eagle family; the children of Stephen and Sarah. Includes a bibliography. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1844-1864

By: Parnell, Samuel Duncan, 1810-1890

Reference: MS-1761

Description: Parnell purchased 100 acres of land at Karori from the New Zealand Company in 1840. Diary and notebook giving dated entries for fruits and vegetables, stock etc. Source of title - Supplied title Carpenter, farmer, labour reformer Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 150 pages). Physical Description: Holograph (16 cm; ¼ red roan, marbled boards, in green linen tie case) Rear paste-down has several small ink sketches (Neg.138701)