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William Christopher Bennett - Journal of a voyage to and stay in New Zealand and thence...
Date: 20 Jan-5 Jun 1854, 28 Sep 1854-20 Jan 1858
From: Bennett, Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd, 1872-1960: Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1346-371A
Description: Describes voyage to Lyttelton, New Zealand on the `Royal Stuart' arriving Jan 1855. He describes daily activities and mentions fellow passengers. Also time spent in Wellington (including a description of the earthquake and aftermath) and Napier, voyage from Wellington to Sydney on the `Waterwitch', Apr 1855, and time spent in New South Wales, at Sydney, Wollongong, Angels - Cateract River, Campbelltown, Cordeaux Creek, Bargo, Cross Roads, and Bathhurst. The back of the volume has been used as a Cash book (receipts & disbursements) 20 Jan-5 Jun 1854, and for surveying/engineering notes and mathematical calculations Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 volume). Physical Description: Holograph
Travels in New Zealand / transcribed by J A Bell
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
Album of New Zealand views
Date: 1880s
From: Three albums of New Zealand views
Reference: PA1-o-983
Description: Views of New Zealand, comprising Mt Egmont from New Plymouth Domain, Napier, bullock team hauling wool at Cheviot, Wellington, Manawatu Gorge bridge, Manawatu Gorge, Rimutaka railway, Mount Alexander, Otira Gorge, Lyttelton breakwater, Armagh Street bridge in Christchurch, and Christchurch Cathedral. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Webster album 6
Date: [Circa 1880s]
From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Lomer, Albert, active 1862-1900; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)
Reference: PA1-q-262
Description: Album of Australian photographs of Brisbane and Tasmania, and views of a range of sites in New Zealand, taken by various photographers circa 1880s. Names and places identified in the album are listed above. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, black corners and spine; 30.5 x 25.0 cm
Sigvertsen, Jeffery R :Album of Burton Brothers photographs
Date: ca1880-1903
By: Sigvertsen, Jeffery R, active 1990s
Reference: PA1-q-546
Description: Scenic views of New Zealand, New Zealand Cities and Maori Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Protestant Alliance Friendly Society of Australasia : Records
Date: 1879-1978
By: Protestant Alliance Friendly Society of Australasia
Reference: MS-Group-1133
Description: The Lodge claims to be the oldest in New Zealand, started at Thames in 1872. Others were formed later in NZ and earlier in Australia. A NZ Grand Council was started in 1880 with eight lodges. In 1978 the Society split into three to reduce administrative costs and negotiations were made to transfer the records to ATL. Records consist of fund and membership records, minute books, financial records, correspondence, etc. Includes the records of the following Lodges: Valley True Blue Lodge No 11, Queens Own Lodge No 36, Pride of Ngapara Lodge No 15, Star of Oamaru Lodge No 13, John Knox Lodge No 50, Triumph Lodge No 9, Loyal Excelsior Lodge No 41, Royal Standard Lodge No 61, Southern Cross Lodge No 21, Grand Lodge No 1, Star of Southland Lodge No 14, Star of Hastings Lodge No 12, Gilchrist Lodge No 19, Prince of Wales Lodge No 20, St Albans Lodge No 17. Quantity: 13 box(es) (179 folders). 12 volume(s). 5 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript and printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary list available. Includes rules (1902) and history of the Society, by J L Paulden, Grand Secretary, 1972. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr J Paulden (Secretary), Christchurch, 1980 Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts; material transferred to the Photographic Archive - To Photographic Archive - Photographs, mainly Conference delegates (PAColl-7821).
Photographs taken by Charles William Clift
Date: ca1855-ca1940
From: Nisbet, Eleanor M, fl 1980s-1990s :Photographs taken by Charles William Clift
By: Clift, Charles William, 1896-1984
Reference: PAColl-4889-1
Description: Clift and Jones family photographs. New Zealand towns and landscapes, in particular Wellington and Brooklyn. A record of the British aircraft carrier Indefatigable when it visited Wellington in November 1945. New Zealand houses and a very good wedding breakfast laid out in a private interior of the 1890s. There is a photograph of the Clift house in Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, and of a Christmas gathering at a house in Patanga Crescent associated with the Holm family of the Holm shipping line. Brooklyn and Makara churches and the interior of the Anglican cathedral in Dunedin Quantity: 1 container(s) photographic prints.
Deeds
Date: [ca 1863]
From: Mantell family : Papers
By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895
Reference: qMS-1306
Description: Index to blocks of land in Invercargill, Dunedin, Picton, Napier and Wellington, with notes for disposal. At end is a copy of the petition of Singleton Rochfort relative to H K Taiaroa. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (162 pages). Physical Description: Holograph (32 cm; ½ brown roan, brown marbled boards in ¼ blue morocco case)
Stone, Octavius C, fl 1876 : Diary
Date: 1876
By: Stone, Octavius C, active 1876
Reference: MS-Papers-0776
Description: Extracts from the diary describing Stone's NZ visit. In 1874-1876 Stone travelled around the world. The pages copied record his visit to NZ. He landed at Bluff and travelled north to Auckland; by land to Christchurch then to Wellington, and then, via Napier and Taupo, to Auckland. Brief descriptions are given of each place visited. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (38 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)
Colenso, William, 1811-1899 : On the Maori races of New Zealand
Date: 1865
By: Colenso, William, 1811-1899
Reference: qMS-0494
Description: At head of page 1: Ethnology. Ms of his essay written for the New Zealand Exhibition, Dunedin, 1865. Includes some notes not published, also correspondence regarding these, and Fergusson's and Mitchell's account for printing some of the essays written for the exhibition Publication - Essay was published in Transactions of the NZ Institute, volume 1 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (144 pages). Physical Description: Ms (33 cm; ½ brown morocco)
Off for a holiday or glimpses of Maoriland
Date: 24 Feb-31 Mar 1886
From: McNab, John, b 1855 : Diary and travel account
Reference: MS-Papers-6190
Description: The journal contains an account of McNab's journey with observations on the places he visited. Includes mention of McNab completing the census aboard the SS `Taiaroa' on the night of 28 Mar 1886. Variations in title - Spine title `Travels in New Zealand' Relationship complexity - Also transcript styled as "Travels in New Zealand" (MS-Papers-6235-3) and microfilm (Micro-MS-0930) In Feb 1886 McNab left his home in Timaru for a tour of the North Island. He travelled by train to Christchurch, by steamer to Wellington and from there by another steamer to Napier. From here he travelled to Taupo via Tauranga by coach and toured the adjacent thermal areas and visited the Pink and White Terraces. Back in Tauranga McNab proceeded by steamer to Auckland from where he took another steamer to New Plymouth. From there he travelled by train to Wanganui and then on to Palmerston North from where he proceeded by coach to Masterton. Arriving in Wellington by train McNab sailed by steamer to Lyttelton and returned home to Timaru by train. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph (photocopies) Copiously illustated with Burton Brother photographs of towns and places of scenic interest described in the text
Warren A Spence - The Munn family of Wellington and Napier
Date: 1990
From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
Reference: MS-Papers-4280-022
Description: The essay details the Scottish origins of Daniel Munn and Jessie McLaurin and their marriage in Australia; Daniel's voyage in the `Christina', the loss of the `Siren' and arrival in Wellington and subsequent voyage of the `Jewess' and other ships; Jessie and children's arrival in Wellington and Daniel's coastal voyaging; the Munn's catering and accommodation establishments; 1848 earthquake; move to Napier. Also includes details of their children and their lives Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available.
Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948 : A trip to the North Island, New Zealand
Date: 1882
By: Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948
Reference: MS-0969
Description: Describes Christchurch, Wellington, Picton, Nelson, New Plymouth, Auckland, the Thermal regions, and Napier Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 220 pages). Physical Description: Holograph (18 cm; black stiff boards, phase box)
Harris, George Frederick :Album of Wellington photographs
Date: 1861 - ca 1900
By: Harris, George Frederick, 1837-1909
Reference: PA1-q-541
Description: Photographs of Wellington and Napier 1860s - 1870s Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Purchased from dealer. Attributed to George Frederick Harris on basis of postcard addresses and newspaper clippings in back of album
Patricia Diana C Frykberg - Captain William Bendall; his life, his family and his times
Date: 1990
From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
Reference: MS-Papers-4280-043
Description: Additional material included with the essay includes Captain Bendall's shipboard diary kept on board `City of New York', `Zealandia', 1876; letter from William Edward Bendall re stranding of the `Ellerton', 1883; list of vessels Captain Bendall is known to have been master of; family trees Captain Bendall and his wife Mary, nee Taylor, arrived in Dunedin from Launceston, Tasmania on the `Three Sisters' in 1862. From that date until 1878 he was master of several coastal traders and New Zealand pilot for Pacific steamers. He was appointed Marine Surveyor and Lloyds representative in Wellington and salvaged several wrecked or stranded vessels. The couple had nine children. One daughter who lived for 107 years, died in 1986 Relationship complexity - Transcript of Captain Bendall's shipboard log, 1876 is at 88-155 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available. Photographs
Deeds relating to Wellington and the Hawkes Bay
Date: ca 1850-1860
Reference: AI-87-046
Description: Title deeds relating to some Lambton Quay and Napier properties Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Robyn Ellen Bradley - The Story of how a Jane family became part of New Zealand
Date: 1990
From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
Reference: MS-Papers-4280-028
Description: The essay is written in diary form from the point of view of two emigrant women, Elizabeth Jane and Sarah Sheppard, both English. They landed in Napier within a few months of each other. Related are the two voyages out and the tragedy, hope, suffering that followed. It is the story of how these two women progress and their families become one to continue life during the period 1875-1916 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available.
East, Alice, fl 1984 : The story of Sophia, or, How we happened to be here
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
Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925 :Pencil and watercolour drawings 1868-1891
Date: 1868 - 1891
By: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925
Reference: E-326-f
Description: A few British and European scenes. The remainder show Lake Wanaka, Nelson, Timaru, Bluff, Dusky and Doubtful Sounds, Chalky Inlet, Lake Waihola and numerous other South Island scenes; Wellington, Napier, Rotorua, Bay of Islands Title from spine Inscriptions: Some signed: K.H. ; K. Holmes Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour drawings 145 p. 290 x 490 mm ¼ red morocco, red linen
Bennett, Hemi fl 1950-1974 :Copy photograph of sketch of Paihia in 1835, photograph of ...
Date: [ca 1835-1880]
By: Bennett, Hemi Rangiahuata Te Tiwha, 1904-1979
Reference: PAColl-1761
Description: Photograph of Bishop Suter's wife, Amelia; prisoners of war from Omaranui in the quarry at the foot of Coote Road, Napier (taken by TBH); and the interior of Old St Paul's Cathedral, Thorndon. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 12 b&w original photographic print(s).