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Date: 1840-1854 (1960)

By: Marshall, Mary Frederica, 1826-1854

Reference: qMS-1337-1339

Description: Letters deal mainly with social and political events in and around Wellington and Hutt Valley Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 3 volume(s). 0.06 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (28 cm; red linen) Finding Aids: Index at qMS-1340-1343.

Date: 18 Dec 1842

By: Dowdeswell family

Reference: MSI-Papers-4267

Description: Letter, written from Parrurua [ie Porirua] Road, describes the voyage to New Zealand, their arrival in Wellington, setting up their accommodation house and life in Wellington. Bishop Selwyn's visit is also described in the letter. Accompanying material - Photocopy of letter (4 leaves), envelope with annotations in unknown hand, and photocopies of correspondence between Library and Mrs B Kay, great grand-daughter of Susannah Wall, Pukerua Bay Other - Published in part in Tawa Flat and the old Porirua Road / A H Carman (1970) Susannah Wall arrived in Wellington with her husband Anthony Wall, four sons and one daughter, on the Lord William Bentinck in May 1841. They set up the Halfway House for travellers on the Porirua Road Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 pp on 1 folded leaf). Physical Description: Holograph (encapsulated) Provenance: Original held by Percy Wall family of Hinerangi, Hatuma, Hawkes Bay, for many years

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: [ca 1800s-1900s]

From: General Assembly Library : Miscellaneous manuscripts

Reference: MS-Papers-10077-3

Description: Includes a letter (circa 1850) from James Brown regarding an unidentified voyage and arrival in Auckland; New Zealand Company share certificate made out to John Henry Lance of Chiswick (September 1847); a circular regarding the Free Presbyterian Church, Auckland (1853); notes on the history of Wellington Hospital; a list of early Pākehā settlers in Wellington; a list of Maori in the greater Wellington area; a list of Maori chiefs and leaders who were welcoming to the New Zealand Company and Europeans; letters regarding the oldest New Zealanders alive at the time of writing (1940); papers regarding a landing at Petone foreshore; notes regarding the baptism of Sir James Carroll together with his brothers and sister at Taradale; and letters from Sir Robert Stout, Sir David Monro, and F H D Bell. Other - Includes transcript of the James Brown Letter by M Donaldson, 2008 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1842-1855 [ca 1929], (197-?), 1918

By: Deane, Juliette, 1842-

Reference: MS-Papers-2379

Description: Her reminiscences cover the period 1842-1855. There are detailed descriptions of life in Wellington, including a list of friends and acquaintances and an account of the 1855 Wellington earthquake. Accompanying material - Genealogical chart of Captain Edward Daniell's family, dated 1918 Juliette Deane (née Daniell) was the daughter of Capt Edward Daniell. She was born in Wellington in 1842. The Daniell family lived at Te Aro after arriving from England. In 1843 they moved to their farm `Trelissick' in Ngaio, and later to the Hutt Valley. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (18 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcript & mss (photocopy) Provenance: Note on provenance published in the Onslow historian, v 2 (2), 1972, pp 3-8

Date: 1890-1892, n d

By: Hull, Charles William, 1868-1946

Reference: MS-Papers-4766

Description: Typescript of a diary written by Charles William Hull on board the `Ionic', dated 2 Oct-16 Nov 1890. Describes day to day activities on the ship. The second part of the diary is written by Charles' brother Horace Henry Hull, dated 27 Aug 1892 and describes their first few weeks in New Zealand in 1890 in Wellington and Dunedin. Publication - Edited diary extracts have been published in `Horace Henry Hull, 1873-1951; the story of the arrival of the Hull family in New Zealand from Warwickshire, England' / compiled by Michael John Hull [Upper Hutt, 1990] Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr M Hull, Auckland, 1993

Date: 1990

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

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-042

Description: The story of two related families, Barraud and Chapman, who came to New Zealand as pioneer settlers. It touches on their voyages out on the Bangalore in 1844 and the Pilgrim in 1849, raising their children and the difficulties they had to overcome settling in. Through the letters of 12 year old Jessie Sarah Barraud it describes their two year trip home to England in 1875, the places they saw and the relatives they visited. Later in New Zealand the story recounts the day to day happenings, people and events that took place, paricularly in and around Wellington, as well as Milton and Wanganui. Includes Barraud-Chapman family tree Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available. Photographs

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: 1839-1842

By: Wakefield, William Hayward, 1801-1848

Reference: qMS-2102-2103

Description: Diary is in the form of despatches and covers voyage of Tory from England and the founding of the NZ Company settlements; includes textual notes by Ruth Fletcher Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 2 volume(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (33 cm; blue cloth) Finding Aids: Index at qMS-2103.

Date: 1990

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

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-096

Description: The essay covers the period 1839-1957 and details the lives of two Sykes brothers who married Child sisters. William Sykes married Elizabeth (Betsy) Child, and George Skyes married Jane Child, all from Yorkshire. The two couples immigrated to New Zealand on the Bolton in 1839 and settled first in Wellington and then the Hutt Valley. The essay also details the life and family of Robert Wyeth who arrived in Wellington on the Cuba in 1839 and settled in Hutt Valley. Publication - In `Our lesser stars' Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available.

Date: 28 Sep 1841-6 Aug 1843

By: Hursthouse, John, 1811-1860

Reference: qMS-1028-1030

Description: This diary includes the last years in England, the voyage to, and his first years in New Zealand. It describes domestic life in England; arranging of passage to New Zealand with a list of items taken; an account of life aboard the `Thomas Sparks', giving a passenger list, and explaining seven weeks spent in Cape Town due to the ship grounding; describes Wellington, house hunting; a journey to Manawatu & then to Wanganui by river; the taking of his family to Taranaki by boat and their settling in Witera. Language - The first two months written in French Quantity: 3 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph & typed transcripts (32 cm)

Date: 1884-1885, 1935

From: Diaries and sketchbook

Reference: MSX-8404

Description: Volume is a compilation of an original manuscript diary (1884-1885) with pencil and watercolour illustrations which has been copied and revised (1935). The diary has been rebound with the original manuscript pages removed to be replaced by typescripts. The original illustrations and title pages appear intact. The diary begins with the departure from England on 29 Aug 1884 of the travelling party aboard the `S S Doric'. The party includes Georgina Gertrude Anderson, her mother, sister and maid. There is a brief description of the voyage, shipboard life and ports of call (Cape Horn, Teneriffe and Hobart). Wellington is reached on 17 Oct 1884. The diary continues with details of a visit around Wellington township then recalls an adventurous journey to Foxton by coach, followed by a train ride to their destination in Wanganui. Next day the travellers continue to family properties in the Makirikiri Valley. The chief reason for the author's visit to New Zealand is for her sister's wedding on 20 Oct 1884 in Wanganui. From here she journeys with her mother to Wellington via the inland route through Marton, Palmerston North and Masterton. From Wellington they ventured aboard the steamer `Wairarapa' to Port Lyttelton, then onto Christchurch. The next big event is Christmas 1884 in Wanganui and the dairy reccounts their preperations for the celebrations and church service. The next section details the last adventure through the North Island by steamer, coach and train visiting New Plymouth, Auckland, Cambridge, Rotorua, the Blue and Green lakes, Lake Tarawera, Te Wairoa and Napier. Included in this passage is a detailed account of visiting the Pink and White Terraces (a year before the 1886 eruption). On 13 Mar 1885 the return journey was made to England aboard the `S S Rimutaka' via the Straits of Magellan. Mention is made of the many icebergs they sailed past and the stopover in Rio de Janeiro and their sightseeing trips on land. Diary ends 26 Apr 1885 with the arrival at the Albert Docks, Liverpool. The diary recounts an eight month travel experience to New Zealand. The author is in a party of four visiting New Zealand to attend the wedding of her sister Helen Anderson to William Forster Mills. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Ms, typescript & illustrations Volume includes many watercolour and pencil illustrations. Themes for the sketches are local tourist spots of interest, New Zealand fauna, icebergs in the Straits of Magellan, and ports of call during the voyage to and from New Zealand. Processing information: Archivists notes - The author notes she was a young woman on this trip and that she returned to New Zealand for another visit 20 years later. This typescript is indicated as being 50 years after the first trip and includes annotated corrections.

Date: 1863-1898

By: Bradey, Frederick, 1833-1911

Reference: MS-Papers-1448

Description: The papers reflect his widespread interests based on landholdings in the various areas of Porirua, Plimmerton, Pauatahhanui, Palmerston North, Bunnythorpe and Wellington itself, where he appears to have owned the site leased by Kirkcaldie & Co, among others. Their most useful reference is to individuals settled throughout the Pauatahanui area and to general community development in which Bradey was involved - school and library committees, local sports groups, the A & P Association, and on the larger scene the Wellington Education Board and the Wellington Harbour Board. As an influential local landholder, his support appears to have been constantly solicited by campaigning Wellington politicians. The papers span the period 1863-1898, although the items prior to 1883 are very slight Frederick Bradey emigrated to New Zealand with his father Francis Bradey in 1840 on the Adelaide and took up his own land at Pauatahanui in 1855 Quantity: 9 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in reading room was removed on 10 December 2014 as it contained no extra information. A copy is available in the staff backfile..

Date: 1 Jan 1841-26 May 1847

By: Greenwood, Joseph Hugh, 1819-1849

Reference: MS-0878

Description: Diary of a voyage to New Zealand in the Lady Nugent, farming at Lowry Bay, 1841-43, and at Purau, Banks Peninsula, 1843-47. Account of a journey to Wanganui and Taranaki, Feb 1843, and some account of other parts of Wellington Province Part of SBDD project Other - The second diary was destroyed in a fire at Teviotdale in the 1930s Quantity: 1 volume(s) (373 pages). Physical Description: Holograph Finding Aids: Transcription available at MS-Papers-4882.

Date: 4 Aug 1842-20 Jan 1844

By: Petre, Mary Ann Eleanor, 1825-1885

Reference: MS-1772

Description: Ellen began her diary on board the `Thomas Sparks' in Portsmouth, bound for Wellington with her husband Hon Henry Petre, whom she had married on 6 Jun 1841. She records the routine of shipboard life and her favourable first impressions of Wellington on arrival, 31 Jan 1843. Ellen records the social life of Wellington and the raising of the volunteer militia in the aftermath of the Wairau affray. In Aug she and Henry moved to Petone where they farmed and bred horses. She describes domestic and social activities commenting on her relationship with local Maori. Includes genealogical tables Poem by Blanche? Petre inserted at back Part of SBDD project Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 200 pages). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (21 cm; ½ red, orange morocco) `Pitoni Road looking towards town' (ink and wash) is by William Mein Smith. View looking along the Hutt Road from Petone towards Wellington. Also see seperate watercolour by Smith, A-034-005.