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Date: 1873-1928

By: Baker, Josephine Harriette Anne, 1858-1913

Reference: MS-Papers-0167

Description: Mainly diaries and inward correspondence from her husband, relations and friends including Flora Acland, 1879-1885; Fanny Bagot, 1875-1876; her grandmother, F. A. Dicken, 1879; sister Ada Dicken, 1876-1899, Beatrice `Bebe' Knight, 1899, and Eleanor Inman, 1873-1899; Emma Packe, n.d.; her aunt Augusta Parker, 1875-1889; and Amelia Soder, 1885; referring to domestic events. Includes reminiscences of her childhood in England written between 1891 and 1905. Also essays, recipe books, poetry, sketches and other writings, as well as some personal material associated with her husband who had a private school for boys at French Farm, Akaroa Includes shipboard diary kept by T S Baker on board the Dallam Tower, 11 May-26 Jul 1873, and a fragment of the original passenger list. The ship left London in May 1873. The ship encountered a cyclone in July 1873 which dismasted the ship. Some passengers were transshipped to the `Cape Clear' for Sydney and others stayed on the `Dallam Tower' to Melbourne where they transshipped to the SS Albion for the final voyage to New Zealand Josephine `Dodo' Dicken emigrated from England in 1873 with her father Thomas and sisters and brothers. The Family settled on a property at French Farm, Banks Peninsula. She married Thomas Southey Baker in Christchurch, 17 December 1878. They had four daughters. Quantity: 86 folder(s). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, Mss Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1999-2000, [ca 1860-1930]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-10799-002

Description: Correspondence, notes, transcripts, printed material and other papers relating to the Coghill family, who arrived in Dunedin 1860, and to whom Jocelyn Chisholm was related. Contains material on the early Dunedin artist, Robert Brunton Coghill Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1864-1865

By: New Zealand Exhibition (1865: Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: MS-Papers-0707/1

Description: Inward correspondence concerning the exhibition from intending exhibitors, jurors, etc and Agent-General for New Zealand in London. Source of title - Transcribed title Quantity: 1 folder(s) (119 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopies)

Date: 1948

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to history, jubilees, centennials, anniversary celebrations in New Zealand]

By: Otago Centennial Association (Inc)

Reference: Eph-A-HISTORY-Otago-1948-02

Description: Souvenir certificate in red cover with provincial crest on the cover. The inside spread shows a sailing ship and a steamship on either side of the Orago crest. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Certificate booklet, folded to 90 x 59 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in November 2002.

Date: 1948

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to history, jubilees, centennials, anniversary celebrations in New Zealand]

By: Otago Centennial Association (Inc)

Reference: Eph-A-HISTORY-Otago-1948-01

Description: Booklet includes a message from Bernard Freyberg, and a foreword by the Mayor, Mr D C Cameron. The programme of events is given in detail, with particular emphasis on Carnival Week 23-28 February, Anniversary Week 21-27 March. A central spread shows a map of the route of the "Cavalcade of Progress", and the order of the Pageant is given in detail, describing each of the 64 floats. There is a complete list of the firworks to be lit at the Pyrotechnics display on 28 February. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 32 pages, 246 x 184 mm.

Date: [1928], 1992

By: Barr, Avon Sinclair Dalrymple, 1929-

Reference: MS-Papers-6851

Description: Comprises family tree for the Trotter family compiled by Tony Trotter in 1992 and photocopy of transcript of reminiscences by Alex Trotter, following on from 1859. Trotter's reminiscences describe his family and their life in Southland while they lived in Appleby, Invercargill, Woodlands, his schooling in Dunedin. He writes of his work on a high country run at Kingston, the Roslin estate and other properties, of surveying, journey to Australia, working as a traveller for the Southland Farmers' Coop, farming, establishment in business, settling down at Waikanae and various trips around New Zealand. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (14 leaves, 2 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts with corrections

Date: 2011

Reference: Eph-A-GOLD-2011-01

Description: Composite booklet with the programmes for both the Dunedin and the Gabriel's Gully celebrations, with historical notes and photographs about each. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 24 pages, 212 x 150 mm. Provenance: Donated by Jocelyn Chalmers, Wellington, in 2011.

Date: 1859-1860

By: Reynolds, William Hunter, 1822-1899

Reference: MS-Papers-3442

Description: Documents relating to the lease of land for a bonded store adjacent to Jetty Road, Dunedin. Includes letter from James Macandrew, Superintendent of Otago, 10 May 1860 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1995-2000, [ca 1860-1930]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-10799-006

Description: Correspondence, notes, transcripts, printed material and other papers relating to the Coghill family, who arrived in Dunedin 1860, and to whom Jocelyn Chisholm was related. Contains material on the early Dunedin artist, Robert Brunton Coghill. Includes material on the Coghill family reunion in Australia 1995 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1850-1876, 1918?

By: Fry, James Arthur Barrett, 1850-

Reference: Micro-MS-0856

Description: Cover James' birth, childhood in London, the voyage to New Zealand on the `African' in 1861, his work on the `Southern Cross' newspaper in Auckland, impressions of Dunedin and New Zealand in general, his employment as a shearer, station hand, miner, gardener and carter in NSW and Victoria 1865-1876. Includes sketch maps detailing his travels in Australia and an undated photograph of farm labourers. Source of title - Transcribed Relationship complexity - Micro-MS-0860 includes his shipboard diary kept on the `African' James Fry was born in England. In 1861 the Fry family emigrated to New Zealand settling in Auckland, then Dunedin, where James' father became a storekeeper on the goldfields. In 1865 the family moved to Melbourne. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Physical Description: Mss and typescript Finding Aids: Detailed index at front.

Date: 1851-1858 (1910)

By: Mieville, Frederick Louis, 1830-1922

Reference: MS-1638-1642

Description: Reminiscences written in 1910 of Mieville's life in New Zealand, mainly in the Mataura Valley, Southland, on Glenham Station. Includes 2 pages of photocopies of sketches by Mieville; and a Mieville and a Richardson family tree Includes shipboard accounts of the voyage to New Zealand on the Dominion, and a voyage home to England via Melbourne, on `Thomas and Henry' and `Royal Charter' in 1857, and return voyage in July 1858 on the `Agra'. Includes diary entries written by his wife, 1854 Publication - Extensive extracts used by Herries Beattie in his histories of Southland Mieville and his future wife Fanny Richardson both immigrated to Lyttelton in 1851 on board the `Dominion' Quantity: 5 volume(s). Physical Description: Holographs (in red buckram hinged-lid box) Sketches by Mieville

Date: 1855-1912

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2989

Description: Selected records (mainly correspondence) from members of the Smith family relevant to Australia and New Zealand Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1990

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

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-039

Description: The essay details the background and life of Henry and Martha Mackintosh (nee Holmes) and their children Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available.

Date: 1847-1855

By: Bannerman, Jane, 1835?-1923

Reference: qMS-0131

Description: Undated reminiscences of emigrating to New Zealand with her family by Jane Bannerman. Jane was twelve at the time of the journey. Reminiscences describe voyage on the Philip Laing, parting with friends and relatives in Glasgow and life in Otago including a description of the house in Dunedin the family lived in and in particular the kitchen. Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 5 Aug 2001 - 05 Aug 2001

From: The stitch of history oral history project

By: Hoskins, Edna, 1920-

Reference: OHInt-0727/01

Description: Edna Hoskins recalls first involvement with embroidery when a friend invited her to classes to learn how to do Hardanger work. Refers to Miss Helen Moran at Dunedin King Edward Technical College. Outlines the formation of the Otago Embroiderers' Guild with the first meeting in Carnegie Hall, 1961 and Miss Helen Moran first President and Mrs S Arnoid Honorary Secretary. Speaks about Mrs Kay du Toit. Recalls acquiring materials from the following stores, Penrose, DIC, DSA, Brown Ewings, and a shop owned by Miss Helps. Refers to the changing cityscape. Describes Helen Moran. Refers to cloths made by women for their `Glory Boxes'. Mentions community classes at the School of Art run by Mrs Desi Allen. Discusses the influence of Maori design and adapting a Maori design from a child's book. Refers to the use of native plants to dye wool. Discusses types of embroidery and principles of colour including traditional embroidery. Recalls being president (1973-1974) and remembers a bomb scare at the Y W C A where they had their meetings. Refers to visit of Mr Muldoon, Leader of the National Party on the same night. Backgrounds moves to form a New Zealand Association of Embroidery Guilds (ANZEG). Talks about `Kneeler Project', the first set being given to the Hospital Chapel at Dunedin Hospital and expresses grief that after a flood at Waraki Hospital the kneelers where burned in the furnace. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Janice Wilson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011756-011757 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4079.

Date: 1997-1998

By: First Church of Otago; Henry, Pepe Nooroa, 1937-; Rouvi, Kopu Maiki, 1941-; Leffly, Dorothy, 1921-2009; Vaitapu, Ninevah, active 1998; Aitken, Joanne, 1969-

Reference: OHColl-0441

Description: Project was commissioned to celebrate the 150th anniversary of First Church in 1998. Interviewees were selected to give as broad a picture of the Church and its history as possible and include former ministers, minister's wives, members of the congregation who have attended since before World War I and members of the Pacific Island community. Interviewees are Isobel Allan, Denzil Brown, Joyce Dyer, Dawn Ibbotson, Arthur Ibbotson, Dorothy Leffly, Alan Lion, Jean Lion, Adelaide McLean, Don Pearce, Pat Thorn, Selesa Akeripa, Fala Muliau, Pepe Henry, Tasi Lemalu, Keni Moera and Kopu Rouvi. Project received an Award in Oral History grant and was supported by a Task Force Green worker. Interviewer(s) - Pepe Henry, Kopu Rouvi, Dorothy Leffly, Tuuamaalii Ninevah Vaitapu and Joanne Aitken. Project Manager - Helen Frizzell. Quantity: 54 C60 cassette(s). 17 printed abstract(s). 17 interview(s). 3 audiocassette(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Search dates: 1997 - 1998

Date: 1849 (1943)

Reference: MS-Papers-3617

Description: An account of his treatment of a cholera outbreak during the voyage, plus brief reference to his later work in Dunedin William Purdie, one of the first doctors in Dunedin, arrived in the `Mooltan' in 1850 at the age of 52 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (carbon copy)

Date: 1851-1858, 1910 (2000)

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Mieville, Frederick Louis, 1830-1922

Reference: MS-Papers-6938

Description: Reminiscences written in 1910 of Mieville's life in New Zealand, mainly on Glenham Station in the Mataura Valley, Southland, and in Dunedin; transcribed and indexed by Marsha Donaldson. Includes shipboard accounts of the voyage to Port Chalmers on the 'Dominion' in 1851 with the Richardson family, a voyage home to England via Melbourne on the 'Thomas and Henry', and 'Royal Charter' in 1857, and the return voyage to Port Chalmers in 1858 on 'Agra'. He includes some of his wife's diary entries in his reminiscences. His first year in New Zealand was spent at Otepopo on the sheep station owned by Charles Suisted. He married Fanny Richardson in Dunedin in 1854. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (106, 7 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Accompanied by index to people and ships mentioned, and some places. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Marsha Donaldson, Upper Hutt (Nov 2000)

Date: 22 Sep-21 Dec 1876, 31 Dec 1876-2 Jan 1877

By: Hunter, Jane, 1851-

Reference: MS-Papers-1678

Description: Besides more general matters, the diary records the mental breakdown of a fellow passenger Lizzie, the birth and subsequent death of an illegitimate daughter to a young Irish woman and a measles epidemic resulting in the death of several children. On its arrival at Port Chalmers on 16 Dec 1876 the ship was quarantined for three weeks. The diary ends with her safe arrival in Dunedin Jane Finlayson was a young Scottish woman who emigrated from Greenock, Scotland to Port Chalmers on the Oamaru, accompanied by her friend Agnes Quantity: 1 folder(s) (12 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 1948

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to women, women's roles, activities, issues, in New Zealand]

By: National Council of Women of New Zealand Incorporated

Reference: Eph-A-WOMEN-1948-01

Description: Programme for an Otago Centennial celebration by Otago women. Speakers and performers included Miss Winifred McNaughton, Miss Meda Paine's Choir, Mrs John Harris, Mrs O Campbell, Mrs Leicester Webb. The back page contains an invitation to attend a session of speakers Mrs Leicester Webb, Mrs John Harris and Miss Winifred McNaughton on the Home, the Working Front and the Arts, at the Town Hall Concert Chamber on 9 June 1948. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, on folded pamphlet, 228 x 145 mm.