Places

Date: 1847-1849

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0758B

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1960-1961

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-49

Description: Contents comprise notes on native skeleton from Whakataki-Mataikona Coast, east Wairarapa per K R Cairns, with map; map of central part of the North Island showing route of tour via New Plymouth, Hamilton and northern end of Tauranga Harbour and return via Taupo, Desert Rd and Taihape; loose notes; map, New Plymouth area showing Maori place-names and sites, also routes, colour slides etc; map, Waihi Beach-Katikati coast, showing topography, Maori place-names and sites, colour slides etc; sketch plan of pa site at Kauri Point, Tauranga Harbour; map, east of Mt Taranaki, Hawera to Waitara showing pa sites; map, west of Mt Taranaki, showing pa sites and other features; map, Opunake coast showing Namu and Namu-iti pa sites; Arrangement: Notebook no 48 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: [1957]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-36

Description: Comprises notes on old occupation site at Kau Bay, Pt Halswell, Wellington Harbour (with maps); map of the Greytown area; map, pa near mouth of Waitotara River; map, Ohawe Village, Waingongoro River; Melanesian greenstone adze, Bethune's sale; new type of patu from Western Marlborough Sounds (with map); melanezoid adze; Maori place-names of Croisilles Harbour, Marlborough Sounds (with map); a series of maps of the NZ Company's 1st general survey, Wellington district; map, native garden, on Owhariu Stream Arrangement: Notebook no 35 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: 1842-1844, 1989

By: Wright, Sydney Evelyn Liardet, 1825-1897

Reference: MS-Papers-4282

Description: The journal extract covers the period 15 June 1842-26 Feb 1844 and describes the Wrights' voyage to New Zealand and his experiences in New Plymouth and Wellington Accompanying material - Accompanied by a list of ships mentioned in Wright's journal Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See also MS-2528-2540 for further Wright material Sydney Wright left London on the `Blenheim' on 16 June 1842 and arrived in Wellington on 5 Nov. Later that month he sailed for New Plymouth where he resided until returning to Wellington on 5 Sep 1843. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (41 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 1840-1844

By: Hine, Thomas B, active 1840-1845

Reference: qMS-0960

Description: Includes short descriptions of the voyage out to New Zealand on the `Martha Ridgway' in 1840, very brief accounts of settlements in Wellington, New Plymouth and Nelson, and of land sections held by the Hine family in those districts. Source of title - Supplied title New Zealand Company immigrant Quantity: 1 volume(s) (9 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; grey pam case)

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: 24 Oct 1866-27 Apr 1867

By: Turner, (Mrs), active 1860s

Reference: MS-Papers-7781

Description: Comprises 11 letters from Charles H Turner and Frank C Turner to their mother in England while they were sailing to New Zealand, travelling round New Zealand followed by a visit to Australia. Three of the letters are from Charles and eight are from Frank. They were written on board ship, the `Kent' and the `Tarama', and while they were travelling in New Zealand and Australia. Both sons describe life on board ship, the people they were travelling with, ports visited, activities on board ship and describe in some detail the various places they visited in New Zealand (Papakura, where their brother had a farm, Waikato, Lyttelton, Wellington, Bluff, Dunedin, Nelson, Auckland and Taranaki) and Australia (Melbourne, Sydney and Hobart Town). The letters have been transcribed by Mr Grant. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1850

By: King, William Cutfield, 1829-1861

Reference: MS-Papers-4424

Description: Diary covers the period 30 April 1850 to 20 July 1850 and gives an account of the journey King took with McLean during this time. It describes the overland and river journey from Waitara to Wellington, on to the Wairarapa and then back to Taranaki along the coast, with comments on people met and places visited. Source of title - supplied title Relationship complexity - Holograph transcript in T W Downes' hand at qMS-0630 William King was the only son of Captain Henry King and came to New Zealand when he was quite young. Receiving his education in New Plymouth, he took up farming on a considerable scale at Woodleigh. He married Elizabeth Mary Richardson in 1855. In 1857 he was elected to represent Omata in the Provincial Council. During the war in Taranaki he held a captain's commission in the Taranaki militia and in Nov 1860 he was elected to represent Bell and Grey in Parliament but he did not take his seat as he was killed in Feb 1861 at Woodleigh. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (32 leaves). Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy) Provenance: Diary was purchased by the Canterbury Museum as part of the A H Johnstone collection. Johnstone was a bookseller and it is suspected he obtained this diary from T W Downes' estate. It appears that T W Downes wrongly attributed this diary to Major Brassey and a holograph transcript of this diary in Downes' hand is part of Downes, T W `Whanganui River stories and Major Brassey's diary, 1850' (qMS-0630). Downes has written `Major Brassey's Diary, 1850' on the front page of the original King diary. Canterbury Museum provided Alexander Turnbull Library with a photocopy of the original.

Date: 1839-1894

By: Wright, Sydney Evelyn Liardet, 1825-1897

Reference: MS-Group-1054

Description: First 6 volumes concerned mainly with life at sea, but include a period of 9 months in New Plymouth 1841-1844 (Vol 3). The daily round in Lyttelton, Christchurch and Wellington, in the later volumes. Vol 11 is a journal of a period in Burma in 1848. Vol 12 consists of miscellaneous papers, logs etc, including a genealogical table (presented 1967, by O E Smuts-Kennedy, Wellington) of the Wright, Evelyn and Liardet families. Source of title - Supplied Sydney Wright travelled to New Zealand with his younger brother John (Jack) in 1842 on the `Blenheim'. They lived in New Plymouth until 1844 when they returned to England. Sydney married Georgina Amelia Pickford in 1857 and they returned to New Zealand on the `Cresswell' in 1858 Quantity: 16 volume(s). 0.24 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss (various sizes) Processing information: Vols 6, 11 & 12 are shelved at qMS-2299, qMS-2300, & qMS-2301 (Acc 121,894, 124,899 & 124,900)

Date: 1891, 1998

By: Harding, Rechab, 1844-1897

Reference: MS-Papers-7625

Description: Transcription by Nicki and Robert Harding from notes made by Rechab Harding of a journey he and his family took in 1891. He describes their departure from Waipukurau, going through the Manawatu Gorge, reaching Palmerston North, Otaki and going through Rangihaeata's and Te Rauparaha's territory, Wellington, Paekakariki, Wanganui, Nukumaru, Waitotara, New Plymouth, he gives his views on the Taranaki wars, taking a steamer to Auckland and travelling to the Waikato River where he also discusses the New Zealand wars, then going to Okoroire for bathing and where they spent eight days, then moving on to Kaipara where they sailed on the harbour. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1848

By: New Zealand Company; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Great Britain. Admiralty

Reference: MapColl-834.1at/1848/Acc.25967-8

Description: Topographical, exploratory map of the western part of the North Island from Taranaki southwards to Wellington, Cook Stait, and the northern part of the South Island, to Hokitika and Banks Peninsula. Shows the Taranaki, Wellington, Tasman, Nelson and Marlborough regions, with placenames, contours, coloured shading and some nautical information. Includes detailed notes about the exploration at the bottom of the map, however this text is not legible. Includes 14 aerial insets on the map, including the harbour of Otago, Port Nicholson, Nelson Haven, Waitohi Bay, D'Urville Harbour, ?West Harbour, Victoria Haven (some illegible), and 14 cross-section insets of coastline areas. See also second copy of map, MapColl-834.1at/1848/Acc.116 (photographic copy, 34.8 x 42.7 cm), of the middle third of the map only, from Wellington to the Tasman and Marlborough Districts only, with accompanying typed notes entitled 'Key to 1848 exploration of the Nelson District'. Other Titles - Chart of Cook Strait and the recent exploratory routes at the northern end of the Middle Island, New Zealand Quantity: 1 map(s) on 2 sheets. Physical Description: Photographic copy, coloured, scale indeterminable, 31 x 21.5 cm on sheets 17 x 25.2 cm

Date: 1850-1852

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0758C

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1930-1940]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-03

Description: Contents comprise Waikanae area (J D Climie's surveys of 1880 and 1884); Otaki River mouth (Carkeek's survey of 1887); New Zealand (showing Te Rauparaha's and Te Puoho's routes and raids); plan of Manukorihi pa, Waitara; Kaiapohia pa, locality and plan; Manawatu River and Gorge etc (NZ Company's survey of 1842); Lower Wairarapa and Port Nicholson (NZ Company's surveys of 1842); Tararua Range, including Rimutaka Range and southwestern hill system; Hutt Valley; southwestern hill system of Wellington; Oroua and Awahou blocks (J T Stewart's survey, 1860); Horowhenua Lake and vicinity (NZ Co's survey, 1842); list of English place names transliterated into Maori Arrangement: Notebook no 2 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: [1930-1940]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-05

Description: Contents comprise Great Island, Three Kings group; Poor Knights Islands; Tuhua (Mayor Island); Waikanae-Reikorangi area; Pa-o-Toata, Waikanae River; Kapiti Island; Otago Harbour and peninsula; Mokau River (mouth and lower reaches and upper course); and Maori adaptations of foreign place names Arrangement: Notebook no 4 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: 1861, 1863

By: Maskell, William Miles, 1839-1898

Reference: MS-1564

Description: Account of voyage to Lyttelton on the William Miles, 6 May-19 Aug 1860, and return to England by Chrysolite, 1 May-27 Jul 1863; impressions of Canterbury, Wellington, New Plymouth and Auckland 1860; comments on war in Taranaki and Maori fortifications; observations of Maori, settlers and work on Sir Frederick Weld's run at Flaxbourne, 1860, before taking up own property Source of title - Transcribed Variations in title - Spine title: Log to and from New Zealand, 1860, 1863 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (181 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (18 cm; ½ dark green morocco, green cloth) Processing information: Part of SBDD project (Shipboard diary digitisation)

Date: 25 Mar 1846-30 Jun 1847

From: Mantell family : Papers

Reference: MS-1526

Description: Covers residence in New Plymouth and Wellington Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph (16 cm; grey wraps, blue cloth) (2 copybooks bound together)