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Date: 1856-1861 (transcribed 2009)

By: Igglesden, Charles Moore, 1832-1920

Reference: MS-Group-1790

Description: Collection comprises typed transcriptions (analogue & electronic) of three letters from C M Igglesden in Wellington to his father in Chatham, Kent, describing the situation in New Zealand with the start of the New Zealand wars in Taranaki; he discusses the points of view of the settlers, the government, the Maori, his feelings about the destruction caused by war, the place of Christianity, his impression of Donald McLean and related matters. Igglesden kept a diary-letter during his 81-day voyage from England to Melbourne on the Mermaid and the extracts cover his experiences from when he reached the Australian coast in Feb 1856, and also from a letter written after his arrival at Wellington in 1857; he discusses the situation for new migrants. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcript & electronic records

Date: 12 Jan 2007

From: Otari Wilton's Bush oral history project

By: Waugh, Helen Mary, 1940-

Reference: OHInt-0830-14

Description: Interview with Helen Waugh (nee Gordon), born Ashburton, 1940. Describes spending all her school holidays in Wellington with her grandmother and aunt in Wilton after her father died in 1947. Recalls visits to the old Wilton homestead, and roaming the bush with local children. Describes her aunt Ethel's love of the bush and the timelessness of the Wilton bush. Describes training as a secondary school teacher, marrying and having three children, and living in various places until she returned to Wellington in 1990 to care for her aunt. Discusses researching the Wilton family history and outlines the history from their arrival in Wellington in 1841. Describes how the Wiltons decided to leave the steepest 17 acres of their farm in bush, and how the bush was used for large picnics. Explains that the Wilton farm bush block was sold to Wellington lawyer Martin Chapman. Discusses the history of Wadestown and Wilton and the development of roads and subdivisions in the area. Mentions Job Wilton and local mayors campaigned to make Otari Native Reserve a scenic reserve, and how this happened in 1906. Refers to Wilton's Bush passing to City Council ownership in 1925 after Martin Chapman died, and its being incorporated in the reserve. Discusses the name of the reserve and mentions that it was changed to Otari Native Botanic Garden and Wilton's Bush Reserve in 1999. Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Kennett Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 1 C60 cassette(s). 58 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5574. Search dates: 1940 - 1840 - 1990 - 2007

Date: Oct 2007

From: Rhodes, Valerie June, 1932- : Spencer and Rhodes family histories

Reference: MSY-6677

Description: Family history of the Spencer and Saunders families. Part 1 - Henry Gordon Spence, his military service during WW1 and letters he wrote home from Featherston Military Camp, England and France, marriage to Gladys Emily Collins, their family and descendants. Family names added to name field. Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: [1880-2002]

From: Olsson family :Photograph albums

By: Olsson family

Reference: PA1-f-266

Description: Photographs and historical documents chronicling the establishment of a branch of the Olsson family in New Zealand and its later link with the Burnett family. Begins with the arrival from Sweden and settlement of Hans Olsson in 1871; he became a toll collector in the Manawatu Gorge, 1891 until early 1900s. Shows the contemporary Gorge area. Includes photographs of wife Anna Stina (nee Stenberg) and their two sons Alfred and Joseph Gottfred. Among these are school photographs and later home in Woodville. Documents Alfred Olsson's overseas service as rifleman in the New Zealand Rifle Brigade during World War I. Contains images of his marriage to Louisa Emma Lacey and their life together in Woodville from 1920s to late 1940s. Includes photographs of Alfred and Emma's children: Bertram Henry, Arthur Leslie and Edna Louisa Olsson. Shows family home in Woodville. Contains photographs of Bert Olsson as a young man and his involvement with the Young People's Fellowship and his marriage to Monica Burnett at the Terrace Congregational Church, Wellington in 1944. Shows house in Fairlie Terrace and children: Waveney Helen, Derek Arnold and Janet during 1940s and 1950s. Also includes photographs taken in England and Scotland during Monica and Bert's visit there in 1953. Shows later holidays with family and friends, as well as later home in Devonport until 2001 when Monica and Bert moved to Peka Peka property. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark blue album with gold metallic corners on front cover and title in gold letters, 35 x 36.5cm