Places

Date: 1840 - 1844

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-5/9/9-Acc.37938

Description: Includes reference giving coloured symbols identifying Church Missionary Society, Wesleyan Missionary Society, Roman Catholic Mission, Presbyterian Missions and North German Missionary Society stations. Also station outposts and religious frontier posts for Church Missionary Society, Wesleyan Missionary Society and Roman Catholic. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on cream card. Scale indeterminable. 106.5 x 71 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1840 - 1843

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-5/11/29-Acc.38161

Description: Identifies, in colour, mission stations and outposts of the Church Missionary Society, Wesleyan Missionary Society, Roman Catholic missions, North German Missionary Society and Presbyterian Church in New Zealand. Robin Kaye R224 Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on greaseproof paper. Scale indeterminable. 42.2 x 30 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1840 - 1843

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-5/11/21-24-Acc.38153-6

Description: Identifies mission stations, station outposts and religious frontier-posts in the Upper South Island for Church Missionary Society, Wesleyan Missionary Society, Roman Catholic missions and North German Missionary Society. Some place names spelt incorrectly, one copy has pencilled corrections Quantity: 4 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Ink drawings on cream paper, one on black paper. Scale indeterminable. 45.5 x 67.3 cm. and 45.5 x 59 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1827 - 1844

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-5/9/4-Acc.37933

Description: Identifies mission stations by colour for Church Missionary Society; Wesleyan Missionary Society; Roman Catholic Missions; Presbyterian and North German Society. Shows aproximate areas of influence for CMS, Wesleyan and Roman Catholic. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on cream linen. Scale indeterminable. 88 x 68 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1823 - 1843

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-5/9/3-Acc.37932

Description: Identifies mission stations by colour for Church Missionary Society; Wesleyan Missionary Society; Roman Catholic Missions and North German Society. Areas showing influence or extent of mission circuit identified by coloured shading. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on grey linen. Scale [ca. 1:1 013 760] 87 x 65 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1853 - 1859

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster collection and papers / of Kenneth Athol Webster

Reference: MS-Papers-1009-2/74

Description: Contains correspondence (and translations into English of correspondence) about religious topics, including the availability of missionaries and the establishment of a college at Porirua, and correspondence about land and political issues Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2001

From: Chisholm, Jocelyn Bell, 1928-2010 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7002

Description: Transcript of Statement of J A [sic] Ross Esq. MD, 1 Aug 1837 concerning the thwarting of his attempts to purchase land by the missionaries, 1833-1837. He bought land at Onewero in 1835 and describes boundary dispute with James Busby. Includes copy of letter to T McDonnell from Mana, a chief of Kororarika [sic], regarding missionary land purchases; also additional notes by Jocelyn Chisholm and letter from Jack Lee commenting on the statement by Ross, 1991 Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - Original at qMS-1722 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (9 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Jocelyn Chisholm, 2001

Date: 1835-1848

From: Petersen, George Conrad, 1900-1978 : Papers relating to a biography of William Colenso

Reference: 80-038-22

Description: Transcripts of letters by Colenso held in the Hocken Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 9 Nov 1927-3 Dec 1934, 28 Aug 1985

From: Tyndale-Biscoe family: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11956-07

Description: Contains outward correspondence from Phyllis Long to her friend Doreen Ross of Waitomo. Long writes from England and Srinagar in Kashmir about her life. Includes descriptions of teaching and schools in both England and India, Long's engagement to Eric Tyndale-Biscoe, wedding, and birth of their son Hugh (and raising him by Truby King's method) and daughter Ann. Description of Kashmir include where they live; having servants; lakeside and houseboat holidays as well as skiing, hiking, and horse riding trips in the mountains; the family donkey and teaching the children to ride; riots by the Muslim population; and still and film photography. Long also reacts to the news from New Zealand including the health of friends, slump in wool prices, and construction of Tongariro Chateau at Mount Ruapehu "it sounds to us the place must be entirely ruined with this new hotel". Also describes returning to England to live with her parents in Cambridge and travelling around the United Kingdom with Tyndale-Biscoe as he gives talks about Kashmir. Also contains an official bulk letter from Tyndale-Biscoe in his position at the CMS Schools relating news that Hindu widows may now be remarried, the 1928 flood in Srinagar, and the religious riots. One letter sent from Doreen Ross to Eric Tyndale-Biscoe (dated 29 Aug 1985) describes finding Phyllis's letters under the bed. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript

Date: 2002-2011

From: McDonnell, Hilda Mary, active 1944-2022 :Research papers

Reference: Series-5575

Description: Comprises research notes on Anne Catherine Wilson (1802-1838), a New Zealand missionary wife. Notes compiled in four holgraph notebooks and one folder of typescripts. Also research files (in electronic format). Includes a chronology and genealogical material on the Wilson family. Includes a transcript of the surviving page of Benjamin Clarkson's daughter Clara Clarkson's diary, (1831). Quantity: 2 folder(s). 7 Electronic document(s).

Date: 1854-1857

From: Ronaldson, William, 1823-1917: Diaries

Reference: MS-1829

Description: Contains diary entries by Ronaldson that deal principally with his missionary activities among Wairarapa Maori, and among Pakeha squatters in Wairarapa; the entries deal with Ronaldson's daily round of activities, including baptisms, sermons, lectures, marriages and funerals; there is also some incidental information about the social life and customs of Wairarapa Maori at the time Arrangement: MS-1828-1829 are boxed together

Date: 1840 - 1844

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-5/9/10-Acc.37939

Description: Identifies Wesleyan, Church Missionary Society and Roman Catholic mission stations, outposts and sphere of influence in the South Island 1840-1844 and North German Mission station. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on cream card. Scale indeterminable. 100 x 88 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1833 - 1855

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-5/9/2-Acc-37931

Description: Includes reference giving coloured symbols identifying Church Missionary Society, Wesleyan Missionary Society, Roman Catholic Mission, Presbyterian Missions and North German Missionary Society stations. Also station outposts and religious frontier posts for Church Missionary Society, Wesleyan Missionary Society and Roman Catholic. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on cream paper. Scale [ca 1 633 600. 118 x 153 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1844, 1847

From: Mair, Gilbert, 1799-1857 : Inward letters

Reference: MS-Papers-10823-4

Description: Letter of 10 Feb 1844 describes Baker's life at his new station at Tolaga Bay; that of 25 Sep 1847 is written fron Auckland; Mrs Baker's health; arrangements made to for the care of his family while absent; hopes to return to Bay of Islands; approves of his William making overtures to Mair's daughter Caroline Quantity: 1 folder(s) 2 letters.

Date: 1930 - 1820 - 1939

From: Goodwin, Arnold Frederick, 1890-1978 :[Historical incidents in New Zealand in 1820]. By courtesy John Walker & Sons, Ltd., Distillers, Kilmarnock [Edinburgh? 1930s]

Reference: A-236-005-a

Description: A Maori man working the land with a digging stick (ko) in the foreground, a gourd covered in flax ropes at his side, while two European men in the background by a cabbage tree point out to two Maori men the plough they have brought to New Zealand. Church Missionary Society Missionaries were the first to introduce the plough. Picture supplied by courtesy John Walker & Sons, Ltd., Distillers, Kilmarnock. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 211 x 157 mm Provenance: Donated by Mr B N Lindsay of Wellington, in 1984. Transfers: Transfer from MSS&A 84-145, Macdonald family papers, in 2003..

Date: 1800 - 1845

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-5/9/5-7-Acc.37934-6

Description: Identifies early Missions to 1845 - Church Missionary Society, Wesleyan Missionary Society, Roman Catholic Mission, Presbyterian Missions and North German Missionary Society stations. Also identified approx areas of influence of CMS, Wesleyan and Roman Catholic Societies. Two copies have slight alterations Quantity: 3 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on grey linen. Scale indeterminable. 96 x 75 cm., 90 x 68 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1820 - 1906

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster collection and papers / of Kenneth Athol Webster

Reference: MS-Papers-1009-2/76

Description: Contains CMS correspondence in Maori and English about Maori religious convictions and activities, brief minutes of a conference of missionaries, and further letters about Maori land tenure Includes an invitation from King Mahuta to Sir John Gorst to visit Waikato dated 1906, and an account of the reasons why Hongi Hika and Waikato went to England in 1820, apparently written in the hand of Thomas Kendall (information from Phil Parkinson) Also includes a draft Maori language reading primer prepared by Joseph Matthews, and a copy of the confession in Maori and English, in the hand of Rev Thomas Chapman (information from Phil Parkinson) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1950 - 1850 - 1959 - 1852

From: Alexander, John Hood, 1916-1975 :[Twenty drawings, including of historic houses, churches, Mangapohatu, Waimate North, the first Bank of New Zealand in Auckland, and Auckland Public Library 1880. 1950s-1960s]

Reference: B-192-014

Description: Shows the interior of the home of James Kemp, of the Church Missionary Society. Includes a desk with folding leaves, a rocking chair and an organ. There are ornaments on the mantelpiece and a picture on the wall Other Titles - Mission House Extended Title - In: Alexander, John H: Historic Bay of Islands (Wellington [N.Z.] : A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1960) p.11 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on page 170 x 250 mm

Date: 1880 - 1900

Reference: PA3-0367

Description: A card showing images from Opotiki in memory of Carl Sylvius Volker. Comprises: `Rev Volkner's house', `Rev Volkner's church', Memorial gravestone of Rev Volkner, `The Gallows Tree', 'Stern-post of war canoe', Baler, 'Head-gear of war canoe', and photograph of Opotiki Inscriptions: Recto - Memories of a martyr Carl Sylvius Volkner born in Kassel, Germany, trained as a missionary and was one of several missionaries sent to New Zealand by the North German Missionary Society. He arrived in New Zealand August 1849 and initially worked in Taranaki with fellow German Protestant missionaries before offering his services to the Church Missionary Society (1852). He took charge of the CMS mision station at Opotiki (August 1861). Despite hostilities and ignoring warnings he remained at Opotiki until 1865, when he was taken prisoner , charged with being a spy and was taken to a willow tree and hanged. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 8 May 1903

From: Duncan, Russell James, 1855-1946 :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-141-89

Description: Site of John King's house at Te Puna, Bay of Islands, photographed 3 May 1903 by Russell James Duncan. Inscriptions: Mount recto - above image - #89 Bay of Islands; Mount recto - beneath image - Te Puna. Where missionaries landed. Dec 1814. Site of Mr John King's house where handkerchief is laid.; Mount verso - bottom right - Taken by Russell Duncan, 8 May 1903 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Toned gelatin silver print 14.1 x 20.4 cm, mounted on album page