Places

Date: [1970-1995]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-7285-09

Description: Clippings relating to aspects of the history of Christchurch and of Banks Peninsula Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1842

By: Mathew, Felton, 1801-1847

Reference: A-220-002

Description: Coastal profiles of New Zealand coastlines Copied from pencil drawings Other Titles - North Island Inscriptions: Signed Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of survey drawings

Date: 1849-1851

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

Reference: MS-Papers-1009-2/72

Description: Contains correspondence about religious topics, including a request for texts, queries about the availability of ministers and a trip by Tamihana Te Rauparaha on church business signed by leading chiefs of both Ngati Raukawa & Ngati Toa at Otaki; also includes letters about Maori society and Maori language Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1868 - 1869

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Central Otago goldmining areas, 2 dated 1880]

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-032-q-3-020

Description: View from the sea looking towards a headland and Otanerito Bay, with the rock formation known as Pompey's Pillar at the furthest point to the left. Below this is another drawing of the easternmost point of Banks Peninsula. The drawings numbers E-032-q-3-014-1 to E-032-q-3-020 were originally in the back pocket of the sketchbook numbered E-032-q-2 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 74 x 125 mm

Date: 1879-1880 (transcribed 1990)

By: Rainbow, Alec, active 1990

Reference: MS-Papers-4360

Description: The journal, written for Rainbow's fiancee in England, covers the period 23 Dec 1879-May 1880. It describes the voyage out to New Zealand on the Palala and gives Rainbow's first impressions of Christchurch and Banks Peninsula. The journal was transcribed and annotated by Alec Rainbow in 1990. Source of title - Supplied title Willaim Rainbow and his family sailed from London on board the `Palala' on 26 Dec 1879 and landed at Lyttelton on 13 Apr 1880. After a period spent at French Farm, Banks Peninsula, he left to take up a teaching post north of Dunedin on 25 May 1880. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 119 leaves. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Alec Rainbow

Date: 1840 - 1843

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

Reference: MapColl-CHA-5/11/25-28-Acc.38157-60

Description: Identifies mission stations in the lower South Island Quantity: 4 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Ink drawings on cream paper, one on black paper. Scale indeterminable. 45.5 x 71 cm. and 45,5 x 61.8 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1855-1868

By: Latter family

Reference: MS-Papers-3502

Description: Letters from Lyttelton and Banks Peninsula, between Sophia Latter, wife of Robert Latter, and Sophia Circuit Latter, later Mrs Robert Heaton Rhodes. Describes life in early Lyttelton and a visit to Port Levy with Bishop Selwyn, as well as Latter and Rhodes family matters. Includes an envelope `saved from the wreck of the Colombo'. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (6 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss

Date: 11 Dec 1858-10 Mar 1859

By: Seon, John Anthony Joseph, 1800-1875

Reference: MS-Papers-3848

Description: Contains a record of baptisms, confirmations and marriages which he performed. The original is chiefly in English; the French has been translated by Mavis Donnelly-Crequer. Source of title - Transcribed title Accompanying material - With Western Oceania Mission (Akaroa) Register of baptisms, confirmations, marriages and burials 1840-1844 (shelved at MS-Papers-3847) Father Seon visited Banks Peninsula and Christchurch 1858-1859 as part of his missionary activities for the Western Oceania Mission. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (14 leaves). Physical Description: Typed transcript (photocopy) Provenance: Transcribed and indexed by Mavis Donnelly-Crequer in 1985 from the original.

Date: 1841-1847 (transcribed, 1993)

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Greenwood, Joseph Hugh, 1819-1849

Reference: MS-Papers-4882

Description: Typed transcript of diary of a voyage to New Zealand on the `Lady Nugent'; farming at Lowry Bay, 1841-1843, at Purau, Banks Peninsula, 1843-1845 and at Motunau from 1845. Contains details of farming, trading and community activities and describes other Banks Peninsula and Wellington families. Also contains an account of journey from Lowry Bay via Wanganui to New Plymouth, Feb 1843 for trading reasons and up the Wairarapa coast in search of pastoral land. Diary refers constantly to Greenwood's older brother James Dent Greenwood who farmed with him. Source of title - supplied title Relationship complexity - Original at MS-0878. Microfilm at MS-Copy-Micro-0345, photocopy of original at qMS-0885. Quantity: 1 folder(s) 163 pages.. 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Marsha Donaldson, Wellington, 1994

Date: 1870 - 1879

By: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850-1935; Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965; Forbes, Josephine Knyvett, 1917-2005

Reference: E-044-q-1

Description: Views of Yorkshire, Tristan da Cunha, Banks Peninsula, Governor's Bay, Lyttelton, Wellington, Patea, Hawera, Mt Egmont, Mt Eden, Auckland Harbour, New Plymouth, Queen Street (Auckland), Rotorua and Lake Rotoiti, Tauranga and Mt Maunganui, Ohinemutu, the White Terraces, Taupo, Napier and Mokoia Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: 50 pages, ¼ leather, blue buckram boards, page size 225 x 290 mm

Date: 1857-1860

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-080

Description: See MS-Papers-1187-079 for details This volume contains draft copies of notices, articles and advertisements that featured in Te Karere Maori. The drafts deal with the following topics; messages from the Queen to Maori, information about agriculture and market prices, news about the mail service, farewells to departing politicians, the establishment of the Maori King movement, peace-making at Rotomahana following intertribal conflicts there, and a report about a Maori meeting at Banks Peninsula Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: n d

From: McNab, Robert, 1864-1917 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0047-27

Description: Marsden and our first settlement, 1814; how and where New Zealand's early history was unearthed; Captain Cook's landing, 1769; the coming of the first Europeans to Taranaki; the sealer's state; and Banks Peninsula and its neighbours Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1868-1870

By: Dawber, Robert, 1820-1892

Reference: MS-0674-0676

Description: Describes his voyage from England to New Zealand on `Tasmanian' and transshipping to `Kaikoura' in 1868, brief visits to Wellington and Nelson, farm life at German Bay, Banks Peninsula, and return to England for his wife and family. Includes Rebecca's diary of the voyage to Lyttelton with her husband, Robert, and family on the Ceres, 21 Feb-20 Jun 1870. Rebecca continued her daily diary until 19 Oct, noting progress of farm stock and the output from her dairy. Recipes also included. Publication - Robert and Rebecca Dawber / A R Dawber (1968) Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 3 volume(s). 0.06 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs (various sizes and bindings, green hinged box)

Date: Mar 1852

By: Boleyn, James, 1830-1912

Reference: MS-Papers-2121

Description: Unfinished letter describes topography of Banks Peninsula and Canterbury Plains. There follows an account for timber sold to one E J Jans Arriving in Lyttelton in 1851, Boleyn moved to Little Akaloa shortly after Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: 1950

By: Black, Dorothy, active 1947-1989

Reference: qMS-0235

Description: Series of short talks about women who came to New Zealand prior to the emigration schemes of the 1840s. Includes accounts of the lives of missionaries Ann Turner, Mary Stack, Susan Maunsell, and Hannah Watkin. Also Betty Guard who first came to New Zealand with her whaler husband in 1828 and settled at Te Awaiti. In 1834 Betty and her children were taken captive by Maori when their ship ran aground off the Taranaki coast. Two women who settled with their families at Banks Peninsula, Elizabeth Sinclair and Mrs Ebenezer Hay, are also included. There is also information about three Maori women: the wife of Captain Blenkinsopp of Cloudy Bay (she is unnamed); Kuika Rangiawa who married a Dutchman named Wynen who had settled at Cloudy Bay; and Te Rongo of Ngati Toa who was wife of Te Whaiti and then of Rangihaeata. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (some carbon) with annotations (37 cm, blue pam case)