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Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-082

Description: Title continues:`...pioneers of Port Nicholson and Port Cooper'. The essay covers verified facts about Clarkson's great-great-grandparents, their emigration to NZ, and the seafaring career of their son, Thomas. Some of the family arrived on the `Bolton' at Port Nicholson in 1840 and another group on the `Sir Edward Paget' at Port Cooper in 1856. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Includes photographs of Capt Thomas Nicolson Clarkson, 1890; Caroline Clarkson, 1898 Processing information: Name heading for Clarkson family removed following information from staff member, August 2023.

Date: 1838-1839

From: Colenso, William, 1811-1899 : Correspondence

Reference: MS-Papers-10533-1

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) (14 pieces). Finding Aids: See listing in folder for details.

Date: 1839-1932

From: Ward family : Papers

Reference: MSI-Papers-1869-09

Description: Cadastral plans of Wellington with Ward's hand written lists of the original owners of the Town Acre lots sold by the New Zealand Company, 1839-1840; plan of Wellington, 1841; map of electoral district of Nelson, 1902; Upcot (Tapuaenuku) Survey district; town of Bulls; C E Fook's map of Christchurch, 1862; and tracing of Bolton Street cemetery, 1932 Other Titles - Early Wellington Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1839 - 1841 - 1846 - 1848

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department; Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Page, George Hyde, 1823-1908; Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Fox, William, 1812-1893; Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938; Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-003-029-a/040-a

Description: Set of looseleaf offprints originally published as a set of 12 prints in "New Zealand calendar 1974". Contents: Goldmining at the Thames [i.e. Goldmining at Thames] / J.B.C. Hoyte. - Nelson Haven, 1841 / Charles Heaphy. - The Pink Terraces, 1874 [i.e. The White Terraces, 1888 (detail)] / C.D. Barraud. - St Mark's Church, Remuera [i.e. S. Mark's, Remuera & Mt Eden, 1859] / Rev. John Kinder. - The Barracks, Napier / C.D. Barraud. - Auckland, 1848 [i.e. Auckland, New Zealand, 1848] / Lt. Gen. G.H. Page. - The Aglionby or Matukituki Valley [i.e. In the Aglionby or Matukituki Valley, looking into the Otapawa, 20th Feb. [1846]] / Sir William Fox. - In Otira Gorge, 1864 [i.e. Otira Gorge, 1864?] / Sir William Fox. - Dunedin, Otago, 1861 [i.e. Part of the town and harbour of Dunedin, Otago, N.Z. [1861?]] / W.S. Hatton. - Kahu Kahu, Hokianga River [i.e. View of the Kahu-Kahu Hokianga River [December] 1839] / Charles Heaphy. - Taranaki, New Zealand, 1860 [i.e. Mount Egmont, Taranaki, New Zealand, 1860] / Lt. Gen. C.E. Gold. - Bream Head, Whangarei / Charles Heaphy. Title from cover of calendar. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title and artist]; Recto - bottom left - Alexander Turnbull Library, / Wellington, N.Z.; Recto - bottom right - A.R. Shearer, Government Printer, / Wellington, N.Z., 1973. Quantity: 24 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 24 photolithographs, (2 sets of 12), variously sized from 157 x 238 mm, to 240 x 304 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright in the 1970s.

Date: 1839-1965

By: Stevens, Kenneth Murdoch, 1892-1978

Reference: fMS-232

Description: Draft history of the Maungatapere district from the arrival of the Walton brothers in 1840, with descriptions of the Maori and their local wars, of early settlers and of social and economic activities during the years. Part two contains reminiscences of his fighting at Gallipoli in World War I and his visit to the area in 1961 Physical Description: Mss (photocopy) (40 cm; black buckram)

Date: 1847-1850

From: Burt, William Beverland, 1912-1992 : Chatham Islands collection

Reference: MSY-6658

Description: Journal entries Dec 1847-31 Jan 1848, followed by a number of pages cut from the volume. Continues with entries 19 Feb-Jul 1850. Entries pertain to events in Wellington and Dunedin. The 1850 entries include a precis of his outward correspondence to Carkeek, Hoggard, Hart, Catchpool, A C Strode, Capt Stokes, Hickson, Jones (Waikawaiti), Grace, his wife Eliza, Alexander, Grimstone. Inside front cover: Newspaper cuttings, 1842-1843, 1864 (on his departure from Chatham Islands). Another relates to his father James Shand of Tain, 1846. Also part of a letter addressed to `My dear Archy' written from Tain, 25 Aug 1839. Inscription (at bottom) dated 6 July 1876 - "To my namesake on his 16th birthday anniversary from his affectionate father A.W.Shand". Inside back cover: Letter to Archibald from J Shand, 12 Dec 1843, Tain, and fragment of another letter from his father J Shand (undated) Reference to the death of Charles Cator, Wellington solicitor in 1848 Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph Processing information: Originally located at MS-Papers-0434-38

Date: 1839 - 1966

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: C-058-002

Description: A view of ships in the Hokianga at Kohu Kohu. A reproduction of a watercolour in the Library's collection Other Titles - Kohu Kohu Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured offset lithograph (4 copies on 1 sheet)

Date: 1839, 1842, 1848, 1851

From: Crawford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1001-084

Description: F A Molesworth, 4 Jul 1842 re J C Crawford's Wellington affairs; F D Bell to J C Crawford and Rev Vesey Hine, 1848 re land on Watt's Peninsula. Agreement with Alvah Smith to build a house, Port Nicholson, 1839. Letter, dated 1851, re land on Watt's Peninsula Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1920]

By: Taine, James John, 1817-1914

Reference: qMS-1974-1976

Description: The reminiscences cover the period 1839 to 1914 and most are based on Taine's own experience although they contain also an outline of the early history of the colony from other sources. He came to New Zealand aged 22 on the `Adelaide' and lived in Wellington till 1862 when he moved to Dunedin. After 1879 Taine lived in Auckland. At the end of volume 3 there is a section on early Wellington street names. Also (volume 3 p 515) there is a note on the history of Waiwera which Taine frequently visited. Variations in title - Spine title: Reminiscences Taine married Leocadia de Oliveira, ward of Edward Gibbon Wakefield Quantity: 3 volume(s). 0.90 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) (33 cm; ¼ blue morocco) Includes illustrations

Date: 1 Sep 1839, 1963

By: White, Ta, active 1839

Reference: MS-Papers-3476

Description: Between Ta White, chief, and John Guard, whaler. Typed list of other land purchases in the area (Information supplied by Marlborough Historical Society, 1963) - Purchases made by N J Rodgerson; J N Flood; George Jackson; John O'Brien; John Davis; Michael Aldridge; Edward Harris; George Moore; Charles Guard; William Budge; Henry Davis. Accompanying material - Letter from Chief Archivist, Naitonal Archives, describing provenance of items Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcript

Date: 23 Feb 1839

From: Treadwells : Legal documents

Reference: MS-Papers-2634-1/03

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: See inventory for description of contents of this folder.

Date: [1986-1990]

From: Campion, Richard Merkiff, 1923-2013:Theatrical papers and recordings

Reference: MS-Papers-7351

Description: Story and script for documentary drama, `Waitangi - I was there' first performed in Wellington in 1986 with assistance from various theatre groups and the newly formed Maori Theatre Trust. Campion proposed this project for Waitangi Day 1986 in the first New Zealand International Festival of the Arts and for the 1990 150th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: [ca 1904-1909]

By: McNab, Robert, 1864-1917

Reference: MS-1139

Description: Material extracted by Robert McNab from New Zealand material in French archives (including the archives of the Ministere de la Marine) concerning Lavaud and his vessel l'Aube Contains significant parts of two essays written by Lavaud, commandant of L'Aube. These essays describe the attempts of colonisation of the South Island of New Zealand by the French, principally in Akaroa. Some passages try to rehabilitate Baron de Thierry. Contains various letters, most of them to Lavaud, among are which letters from Bishop Pompallier about Wallis and Futuna, letters from William Hobson and letters from C B Robinson (postmaster at Akaroa). Although most of the volume is in French, some letters are in English. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (pp 248-385). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; blue buckram) Provenance: Collected by Robert McNab, probably during 1904-1909 when he was doing archival research into early New Zealand history. The handwriting is not by McNab, which suggests the document was compiled for him in France. Processing information: Previously catalogued under Lavaud, Charles Francois

Date: 1982 - 1839 - 1843

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Whites Aviation Ltd

Reference: A-007-016

Description: An aerial view of Wellington Harbour taken from the same spot as Charles Heaphy's lithograph 'Birds-eye view of Port Nicholson, 1839' See also details in entry for copies of the Heaphy held by Library (C-029l-006, 006a) Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Photoprint, sepia; image 186 x 357 mm on sheet 330 x 410 mm + 1 information slip (4 x 10).

Date: 1826 - 1839

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

Reference: MapColl-CHA-5/10/9-Acc.37949

Description: Pre 1840 European Settlement giving dates Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on cream linen. Scale indeterminable. 59 x 42 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1839 - 1977

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: C-028-058-b

Description: Six men in a rowboat on the Wairoa River, with dense kauri forest on the opposite bank. The men include the artist, Colonel William Wakefield, and Drs John Dorset and George Robinson Reproduced in an edition of 2500 from an original watercolour in the Library (C-025-024). The illustration on the folded cover of the set of reproductions Other Titles - Kauri Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph 286 x 455 mm on folder, 448 x 600 mm

Date: 15 Nov 1839

From: Treadwells : Legal documents

Reference: MS-Papers-2634-1/09

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: See inventory for description of contents of this folder.

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-062

Description: William and Agnes Syme came from Dollar in Clackmannan, Scotland in 1875 with seven of their three children in the Forfarshire. Farmed first at Egmont Village and later at Onaero, Taranaki. William helped to build the breakwater at New Plymouth. Most of the family took up farming. Syme's Beach at Onaero is named after them. Includes details of their children and photograph of William and Agnes taken in May 1861, the farm house at Onaero, ca 1896, Amelia and Mabel Syme, Wellington, 1890 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available.

Date: 1839-1863

By: Dieffenbach, Johann Karl Ernst, 1811-1855

Reference: MS-Papers-1109

Description: Letters to and from Dieffenbach, including three to his family describing his journey to New Zealand on board the `Tory' and his time at Queen Charlotte Sound. Letters mainly in German, some translated by Dr Gerda Elizabeth Bell (1903-1992). Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 5 folder(s). 0.10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, manuscripts, typescripts, and printed matter (photocopies).

Date: 1839 - 1941

From: Taylor, Richard 1805-1873 :Drawings and sketchs[sic]. 1830.

By: Johnson, John (Dr), 1794-1848

Reference: E-273-q-016

Description: Shows view from hillside overlooking township of Waimate North, showing church at left. Taylor has mis-spelled the artist's name Other Titles - Dr Johnston Other Titles - Waimate Other Titles - The mission school at Wamati Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Dr Johnston; Recto - beneath image - [Title erased and only partly visible].] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink and wash on album page, 177 x 256 mm.