Places

Date: 1837-1852, 1958

By: Graham, George, 1812-1901

Reference: qMS-0869

Description: Graham records some aspects of his life in Australia where he was until 1840 when he came to Auckland, NZ. Includes mostly financial records of cash paid and debts due with some personal remarks summarising quarterly events during the year or whole years, or describing particular experiences, such as when Graham went to London in 1850 or the birth of his son, Robert, in 1850. He describes a great deal of property transactions. Accompanying material - Photocopy of photograph of Graham, taken about 1880, owned by Ms Sandra Westbrooke, London Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (62 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (34 cm, red linen, in case folder)

Date: Nov 2000-Jun 2001

By: Dunsford, Deborah (Dr), active 2001-2012

Reference: OHColl-0551

Description: Interviews with a number of people who spent their childhood in this rural district north west of Auckland City during the 1910s and 1920s. The area was long used as a portage by Maori between the Kaipara and Waitemata harbours. Pakeha initially settled during the mid to late 1800s and, after forest and gum clearance, the area was slowly developed into dairy farms. In 1915 nearly 5000 acres of scrubland at Kumeu North (renamed Huapai) were subdivided as orchards, mixed farms and weekend homes. There was an influx of new residents (including weekend only residents) following this. Huapai School opened in 1919. Interviewer(s) - Deborah Dunsford Quantity: 27 C60 cassette(s). 8 printed abstract(s). 8 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 1990

By: Brown, Joan, 1914-2006

Reference: MS-Papers-10575

Description: Life story of Joan Sedon written to inform her descendants about her generation of the Sedon family of Wanganui Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (10 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and printed matter (completed in typescript)

Date: 1886, 1993

From: McNab, John, b 1855 : Diary and travel account

Reference: MS-Papers-6235-3

Description: Title continues:`...off for a holiday, or, Glimpses of Maoriland'. McNab recounts his journey with technical details about the transport he took, various points of interest such as lengths of tunnels, Windy Wellington, and he includes poems; he names and describes each geyser at the Pink and White Terraces, particularly notes churches visited and people he met. Relationship complexity - Photocopy of original volume at MS-Papers-6190 and microfilm at Micro-MS-0930 In Feb 1886 McNab left his home in Timaru for a tour of the North Island travelling by train, steamer, and coach from Christchurch, Wellington to Napier, Tauranga, the Pink and White Terraces, Auckland, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Masterton, back to Wellington, Lyttelton, and home to Timaru Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 13 Feb 1928-17 Apr 1929

By: McGreal, John, 1881-1964

Reference: MS-Group-0847

Description: Diary kept by John McGreal, who farmed at Weymouth near to Manurewa on the Manukau Harbour. Brief daily entries describe farm life and social activities, many of which revolved around the Roman Catholic Church. Includes references to family, friends and neighbours. Also `Summary of the background history of the family derived from Jane Moran, Henry Kevey family, and Edward Roger family', 31 Aug 1993; `The Kevey/Rogers connection', 27 May 1993 Accompanied by letter from donor providing explanation to names and dates written on inside front cover, etc Quantity: 1 volume(s). 1 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typescripts (photocopies) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Maurice McGreal, son, Glenfield (A99-218)

Date: 16 Nov 1895-5 Apr 1896

By: Davy, P, active 1895-1896

Reference: MS-Group-0708

Description: Comprises holograph diary kept by P Davy on the `Ruahine' and during his tour of New Zealand. After disembarking at Wellington where he visited relatives he toured to other parts of New Zealand. He describes a gathering of Maori following the settlement of fishing rights on Lake Wairarapa, a visit to a freezing works at Belfast, gold mining on the West Coast and Rotorua where he visited a pa, saw geysers and bathed in the hot pools. His journal ends on the return journey to England when staying at Sydney. Also includes transcript of part of the diary (16 Nov 1895-3 Jan 1896). Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - Full transcript of diary at MS-Papers-4391 Davy and his Aunt Harriet boarded the `Ruahine' at Plymouth 16 Nov 1895 and disembarked 12 Jan 1896 at Wellington where they stayed with relatives. After travelling around New Zealand they left Auckland for Sydney, 18 Mar. The writer of the diary is presumed to be P Davy, a passenger on the `Ruahine'; he visited members of the Davy family while in Wellington. He was probably one of the Devonshire Davys, a nephew of George Boutflower Davy, an official of the Land Registration Court of NZ, and the son of Edward Davy (1806-1885), an experimental chemist who emigrated to Australia. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 1 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typescript Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photograph of the `Gaul' with unidentifed tender vessel.

Date: 1878-1879

By: Macauley, Samuel, 1861-

Reference: MS-Papers-4339

Description: The diary was written on board the Lady Jocelyn which departed from Belfast in May 1878 and arrived at Auckland in Aug 1878. Eleven leaves of the diary concern the voyage, the remaining entries are a `brief retrospective of his life'. Also includes a partial record of temperatures, 16 May-19 Jun 1878, recorded by the surgeon superintendent; abstract of the ship's log, 21 May-17 Aug 1878; partial list of single men on board; copy of printed brochure re Katikati settlement Samuel Macauley was born in 1861 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He travelled to New Zealand with his parents and sisters in 1879. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (29 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and printed matter(photocopies) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Mr R Macauley, Kohimarama, Auckland, Sep 1990 (A90-290)

Date: 1850-1875

From: O'Shea, Phillip Patrick, 1947- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5059-12

Description: Papers of William Williams, a merchant and farmer resident in Auckland, whose daughter married J C Firth; includes a deed between Williams and Thomas Douglas for the lease of premises in Queen Street, Auckland, correspondence over Williams' business in Hawaii, and acquisition of Lavin and Dobbel's land at Mohaka Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Collected by Mona Gordon for her biography of J C Firth

Date: 1895-1966

From: Everton, Margaret Eila, 1919-2010: Family papers and photographs

Reference: Series-4925

Description: Papers, including prose and descriptive writing (about places, people, and events), travel diaries and letters Quantity: 13 folder(s).

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

Reference: MapColl-CHA-4/4/1-18-Acc.37872-89

Description: Shows areas of battles and skirmishes in the North Island Base map - New Zealand Department of Lands and Survey, 1928-1935. New Zealand Four-mile series 18 sheets. Quantity: 1 map(s) on 18 sheets. Physical Description: Ink drawings on cream paper. Scale [ca. 1:253 440] 62 x 78 cm. or smaller Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1923 - 1925

By: Jones, C B, active 1963

Reference: MapColl-832aj/1925/Acc.10046

Description: Drawn on published map. Shows hydrographic corrections at Manukau Harbour, entrance to Auckland Harbour, Rodney Point, Ohena Island and Whangarei Harbour between 1923 and 1925. Base map: Capt. W Pudsey Dawson. 'New Zealand North Island - East and West Coasts. Sheet II. Maunganui Bluff to Manakau Harbour and Tutukaha Harbour to Mayor Island including Hauraki Gulf'. [Chart no.] 2543. (London: The Admiralty, 1919) Inscriptions: Recto - Port of London Chart Correction Bureau (1920 and 1921) Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, hand coloured annotations, scale indeterminable, 61 x 94cm.

Date: 14 Feb-14 Sep 1857, 23 Dec 1859

By: Herapath, Philip, -1892

Reference: qMS-0950

Description: Diary of voyage to Auckland on the Harkaway, kept by Philip Herapath who was travelling as a saloon passenger with his wife Emma. He gives a full description of events during the voyage and fellow passengers. Also description of Auckland, social conditions, predictions of the future of the country and the import of gold at Coromandel Letter by John March (? possibly John Marsh), 23 Dec 1859 describes voyage on the Flora to Mangawai (? Mangawhai) near Bream Tail, Northland, and thence to inspect allotment of land at `Te Iha Arunganui'. Relationship complexity - Original copy of journal held at State Library, New South Wales, (see scan and transcript at B 127, digital order no. a1350004 and a1350279) Quantity: 1 volume(s) (431 leaves). Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy) (35 cm; green buckram) Processing information: Archivists notes - John March previously identified as John Marsh.

Date: 1872-1874, n d

From: Phillips, Coleman, 1846-1925 : Papers

Reference: 73-150-02

Description: Draft of application for Phillips's admission as advocate, Supreme Court, Fiji; shipboard advertisement for missing piece of tatting on board the `Sea Gull'; bank orders and accounts; notes by Phillips on a voyage from wharf K, Auckland, to the Thames goldfields; on the slave trade, Liberia, trade, on Darwin on coral reefs, Tahiti, on Godefroy, method of skinning and curing sea-birds, Jame Gillies on New Caledonia, notes on settlement at Apia, re purchase of Nukulau, pros and cons of purchasing Smith's shipping business at Levuka, list of steamers for sale from Pothonier, ca 1874; paper, Pour traduction d'Anglais en Francais, 13 Mar 1872 from `de Cinq-Mars' chapitre six Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Preliminary listing in Back file.

Date: 1959

By: Aickin, Frances Ruth, 1900-1989

Reference: qMS-0028

Description: Gives short history of the Aickin family and especially of Dr T L Aickin, and his settlement in Auckland where he practised as a doctor Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (2 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (35cm, blue pamphlet case)

Date: 1878

From: Statutory Branch. Head Office. Department of Lands and Survey :[Aperture cards of] maps and plans

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey

Reference: MapColl-L&S-A1a

Description: Copy of a manuscript map which shows a sprinkling of numbered land blocks, some with owner's names. Quantity: 1 map(s) on 4 aperture cards. Physical Description: 35mm microfilm inserted into card, scale [1: 63 360], copy at same size as original Provenance: Donated by Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, November 1982

Date: 1866-1880

By: Maunder, Nicholas Thomas, 1848-1929

Reference: Micro-MS-0367

Description: Account of voyage out to New Zealand in the ship `England', 1866. Maunder settled in the Waikato, and in 1869 returned to England to bring out his family. He came out again by the ship `City of Auckland'. The diary continues with an account of their first months in the Waikato up to September 1871. Then there are brief entries, `Memoranda of farm operations' from 1875-1880. Some of his land was situated near Ohaupo Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 240 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

Date: [1835], 1847-1894

By: Speedy family

Reference: MS-Papers-2184

Description: Papers include holograph extracts from Speedy's diary of 1863 giving details of skirmishes in Waiuku area; letters to Speedy in his official capacity; letters to Sarah from her husband and relatives 1863-1890; letters from Sarah to her children 1890-1894; marriage certificate for Sarah and James 1835; miscellaneous letters to members of the Speedy family; mss list of birth dates for family members; envelope addressed to J H Jerram in Auckland (one of Speedy's daughters became a Mrs Jerram); and two photographs, one of the family home at Fairlea, Waiuku, and the other possibly of Major Speedy, ca 1860s James Speedy served as an officer in the British Army in India. He married Sarah Squire in Calcutta in 1835. By the 1850s the family had moved to NZ and settled in the Waiuku area. Major Speedy was Resident Magistrate and Native Agent for the Mauku, Waiuku and Pukekohe districts during the wars of the 1860s. In July 1863 he established and took command of the Waiuku Volunteer Force Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts (stencilled copies) and photographs

Date: [1953-1971]

By: Herbert family

Reference: MS-Group-1313

Description: Eleven diaries from 1953 to 1971 mostly written by Bobby Herbert while the family was living Ardmore and Papakura. There are domestic diaries and diary/scrapbooks combining domestic detail, invitations, events, aspects of Charles Herbert's career as a teacher and New Zealand events of the time. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 11 volume(s). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: 1827

By: Mudie, F, active 1827

Reference: MapColl-832.1aj/1827/Acc.16023

Description: Shows "Gulf of Shouraka" (Hauraki Gulf), Coromandel, Waiheke district, soundings, and some Maori and English placenames (sometimes mis-spelt). Shows Manukau and Waitemata harbours. River Thames refers to the Firth of Thames. Compiled largely from the work of Dumont D'Urville and crew of Astrolabe, 1827, during his exploration of New Zealand, and possibly others. Possibly taken from British Admiralty Chart of the same area published in 1836 - (from Brian Hooker). Drawn by Mudie for the Clint's Establishment, Sydney, ca. 1838 (see AT 13/13 8.7.91 (Hooker)). Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photograph, scale [ca.1:342,000], 45 x 33 cm.

Date: 1990

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

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-029

Description: A brief history of the Field and Thurlow families before John Henry Field and his wife Emma Field nee Thurlow sailed for New Zealand on the SS Siam in 1867 with their three children. John Field was prominent in local politics in Auckland and had a printing business in Albert Street. Contents include full charts of their children and their descendants. John Henry Field was born in Dublin in 1836 and died 1896. Quantity: 1 folder(s).