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Date: 27 Aug-24 Dec 1879

By: Couchman, Charlotte, 1829?-1902

Reference: MS-Papers-4174

Description: This letter to Couchman's family is written in the form of a diary and covers the period 28 August 1879 to 24 Dec 1879. Couchman describes the trip out to New Zealand, the family's initial job and living situation when they arrived in Wellington and then Bulls. The covering page includes some genealogical information. Source of title - Supplied Charlotte Couchman came to New Zealand on board the `Arethusa' along with some members of her family. They landed at Wellington but travelled on to Bulls. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (11 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 1832-1838, 1984

By: Armstrong, Max G, active 1975-1996

Reference: MS-Papers-3943

Description: Letters and journal of Anne Catherine Wilson, edited by M G Armstrong, with appendices, list of mss and printed sources consulted, genealogical notes re Wilson and Hawker families, photographs (photocopies) of family members and residences. Photocopies of holograph letters of Anne to her husband, 1835-1838; and photocopy of Anne's shipboard diary for 1832. Anne Wilson was the wife of the missionary, John Alexander Wilson who was attached to the Church Missionary Society. The couple left England on board the `Camden', a convict vessel bound for NSW in 1932, and arrived in the Bay of Islands in 1833. Anne spent most of the next five years at the mission station at Puriri, near Thames, with other missionary wives involved in raising her children, school teaching and household chores. She was constantly separated from her husband who spent long periods travelling through troubled areas of Tauranga, Matamata and Roturua. The harsh life took its toll on Anne, and after a long illness she died at Tauranga in Nov 1838. Source of title - Supplied title Other Titles - My hand will write what my heart dictates... Quantity: 4 folder(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopies) and typescripts

Date: 9 Jul-26 Sep 1872

By: Coleman, Catherine Jane, 1842-1916

Reference: MS-Papers-5320

Description: The journal begins retrospectively a fortnight into the voyage. Coleman describes the passengers, conditions on the ship, the weather, activities on board and there are small illustrations, eg the Southern Cross and fish. She also describes her first visit ashore to Lyttelton. Accompanying material - Typed transcript arriving shortly, to be added to this collection. Incorporated 21 September 1995. Accompanying material - Donor has included biographical information about the Maile/Coleman families and additional information about the `St Leonards' Source of title - Title supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (40 pages, 19 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (In handmade booklet) Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms R C Belton, Waikanae and Ms J G Belton of Amberley, 1995 Coleman has made a few illustrations, mostly of fish

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: 1884-1889

By: Francois, Bridget Madge Isabel, 1902-1992

Reference: MS-Papers-10490

Description: Includes index to names and places mentioned provided by Marsha Donaldson. Original has been attributed to Hannah Seymour; diary transcribed and edited by B Ristori describes voyage on Zealandia, 1884, and life in Wanganui to 1889. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1850-1852

By: Adams, Martha, 1815-1906

Reference: MS-0005-0006

Description: The diary of Martha Adams gives a daily account of the voyage to New Zealand in the `Eden' accompanied by her husband and two children, with a list of passengers and their destinations. There is a detailed account of domestic and social life in Nelson, with some reference to William Adams' legal activities. The journal covers the period Nov 1850- Feb 1852. The short journal of William Adams is in a pocket at the back of the book and covers the period Nov-Dec 1851. The second volume is a typed transcript Quantity: 2 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph and typed transcript

Date: 1842-1984

By: East, Alice, active 1984

Reference: MS-Papers-2855

Description: Memories of the tales of Mrs East's grandmother, Sophia Thomas, who arrived in NZ in 1842 aboard the `London'; tales relate to her experiences living with her family in Wellington, Wanganui and Napier. Edited by C E Fordham. Source of title - Transcribed from item Other - Photocopy of a holograph transcript of this diary is located at qMS-0641. The two copies are not identical. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (17 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by C E Fordham, 1984

Date: 9 Jul-26 Sep 1872

From: Buckingham, Louise, 1937- : Papers

By: Coleman, Catherine Jane, 1842-1916; Buckingham, Louise, 1937-

Reference: MS-Papers-8916-1

Description: Photocopy of original journal that begins retrospectively a fortnight into the voyage. Coleman describes the passengers, conditions on the ship, the weather, activities on board and there are small illustrations, eg the Southern Cross and fish. She also describes her first visit ashore to Lyttelton. Relationship complexity - Original diary and typescript (MS-Papers-5320) Incorrectly identified by Louise Buckingham as the journal of Mr Lance. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photocopy mss

Date: 21 Sep-15 Dec 1870

By: Whitson, Isabella Hay, -1905

Reference: Micro-MS-0564

Description: Diary kept on board the SS Otago on a voyage to Dunedin from Gravesend, while travelling as a young girl with her parents to settle in New Zealand; gives a detailed account of daily activities and descriptions of persons on board Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (ca 180 pages).

Date: 1990

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

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-094

Description: The essay covers the period 1842-1939 and details the lives of Mary Jane and Thomas Moses who came to New Zealand on the `Waikato' in 1878 and settled at Otaio, Canterbury; and David and Elizabeth Hampton who arrived on the Victory in 1859 and also settled at Otaio in Canterbury. The story then traces the lives of their off-spring Annie Moses who married Henry Hampton, and the couple eventually moved to Australia. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published inventory available. Photographs of David and Elizabeth Hampton; Henry and Annie Hampton; Ted and Ettie Smidt on their wedding day; Moses family in 1897 standing outside their home

Date: 1850-1959

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

By: Ballance, Ellen, 1846-1935

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2081

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory 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: 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: 1883

By: Dempster, Elizabeth Aitken, 1863?-

Reference: MS-Papers-4162

Description: Diary kept by Dempster of her voyage from Plymouth to Napier (1883) at age 20 years old. Includes `Lizzie's farewell song Source of title - Supplied Accompanying material - Accompanied by `Lizzie's farewell' [song], by Elizabeth A Dempster (2 leaves, mss) Dempster, a single woman, left Ireland in Jan 1883 and sailed from Plymouth the same month on the `Rangitikei', arriving in Auckland in May 1883. She then travelled to Napier. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (28 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: 14 Jun-3 Dec 1853

By: McGlashan, Jane Gilchrist, 1827-1894

Reference: Micro-MS-0083

Description: Diary of a voyage out to New Zealand on the Rajah and arrival at Dunedin. Jane records her first impressions of Dunedin and gives advice to intending immigrants on clothing and provisions for the voyage Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (67 pages).

Date: 1851

By: Bowen, Georgiana Elizabeth, 1810-1902

Reference: qMS-0264

Description: In these two letters Mrs Bowen describes her family's arrival at Lyttelton on the `Charlotte Jane' on 16 Dec 1850, and the early attempts of the settlers to make homes in Canterbury. She discusses the cost of living and the roughness of accommodation in considerable detail. Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 volume(s) (4 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (carbon) (34 cm, grey pam case)

Date: 1858-1943

By: Beard family

Reference: MS-Papers-2550

Description: The collection consists of one letter from James Beard to his father, 1858, the opening lines of another letter addressed to 'father' but in a different hand (presumably Ann's) and copies of photographs. Also letters from family in England to James and Ann. Most of these were written by Ann's father, Charles Potts, and a cousin, Elizabeth Bowker and cover the period 1858-1886. The collection also contains genealogical notes which appear to have been prepared by one or more of James's and Ann's children early in the twentieth century Included are letters from Ann's sister Emma Hardman and cousin Elizabeth Bowker in Stockport, 1867-1886. The letters are concerned chiefly with family news. Source of title - Supplied title Arrangement: The letters are arranged in chronological order with three undated letters placed at the end James and Ann Beard emigrated from Stockport, England to New Zealand in 1857. They settled in the Wairarapa at Greytown Quantity: 5 folder(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (some photocopies) Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Negatives of photographs in Folder 1.

Date: 1990

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

By: Rolleston, Sarah Jane, active 1990

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-065

Description: The story of the Penberthy family in Christchurch. Henry and Grace Penberthy (nee Bennetts), their family and two Symons relatives came to Canterbury as assisted immigrants on the `Huntress' in 1863. The essay traces their lives and those of their descendants. It looks at their connections with the Wesleyan Church in Christchurch with particular reference to the Wesleyan Day Schools in High Street and Durham Street North. The conditions many of the family encountered working in the clothing industry are looked at. Reference is made to the Merivale Rugby Football Club and the 1901 Cheviot Earthquake. Includes references to Anna Buller and her father Rev James Buller, George Gould, John and Mary Jane Cumberworth, Thomas Bone, William Jewell and family, William Strange Six generation family tree, and extensive bibliography Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published inventory available. Includes photographs: Henry Penbarthy FitzGerald, Mary Elizabeth FitzGerald & Geraldine FitzGerald; group of young girls at Phillipstown Primary School, Christchurch, ca 1904-1908; William Symons Penberthy, Elizabeth Hannah Penberthy (nee Butcher), Dorothy Phyllis Penberthy & Marjorie Mary Penberthy, ca 1897; a tailor's workshop, Christchurch, undated

Date: 1885, 1989

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Olding, Jane Sophia, -1902

Reference: MS-Papers-4178

Description: The diary describes the latter part of Jane Olding's voyage to New Zealand on the `Aorangi' and gives her first impressions of life in the Kuripapango district. At the back of the diary are several pages of newspaper clippings. Also included is a transcript of the diary by Eliza Fielder in 1886? and Marsha Donaldson in 1989. Source of title - Supplied Accompanying material - Accompanied by explanatory letter from donor Jane Olding sailed from London to Auckland on the `Aorangi', disembarking at Napier Nov 1885. She joined her brother, Robert Batley on his farm 56 kilometres past Kuripapango on the Napier-Taihape road, at "Moawhanga" [Moawhango]. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (55 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typed transcripts (photocopies) Provenance: Donor's great-great-grandmother, Eliza Fielder, was a good friend of Jane Olding; this diary was found at the back of Eliza Fielder's journal (MS-Papers-4180)

Date: 1874-1875

By: McGregor, Peter, active 1874-1930s

Reference: qMS-1181

Description: Diary in the form of a letter, sent home to his parents in England, containing details of the daily lives of McGregor and his wife, Emma on board ship. Also a brief account of their first view of Port Chalmers. Diary is partly written by Emma McGregor Source of title - Title from first page Relationship complexity - McGregor letters (MS-1173) have same provenance Peter McGregor was a school teacher, first at Maheno (North Otago) and later in Dunedin Quantity: 1 volume(s) (44 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (27cm; blue linen)