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Manuscript

Margaret Aroha Skelton - The Clarkson family

Date: 1990

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

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-082

Description: Title continues:`...pioneers of Port Nicholson and Port Cooper'. The essay covers verified facts about Clarkson's great-great-grandparents, their emigration to NZ, and the seafaring career of their son, Thomas. Some of the family arrived on the `Bolton' at Port Nicholson in 1840 and another group on the `Sir Edward Paget' at Port Cooper in 1856. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Includes photographs of Capt Thomas Nicolson Clarkson, 1890; Caroline Clarkson, 1898 Processing information: Name heading for Clarkson family removed following information from staff member, August 2023.

Other

Colley, Mrs Lucy, fl 1907 : The life of the Hon Henry W Petre and Eleanor Walmesley, hi...

Date: 1907 (1948)

By: Colley, Lucy Anges, 1851?-1923

Reference: MS-0593

Description: Title continues:`...written by their eldest daughter, Mrs Philip Wellesley Colley (Lucy Petre)'. With notes on their children and grand-children from authentic sources and family papers; preface by JBP. Printed privately (1907). Comprises extracts from the book, typed in the Alexander Turnbull Library (Dec 1948). Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (viii, 58 pages). 0.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; blue cloth)

Manuscript

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

Image

[Various artists] :Three panoramas. Christchurch, Avon Fine Prints, 1973.

Date: 1973 - 1892 - 1894

By: Cockerell, E A, active 1890s; Hawcridge, Robert, 1866-1920; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: D-001-014/016

Description: Auckland, New Zealand, panoramic views of city and harbour from Birkenhead, by W.D.S. 1892; Wellington, New Zealand, panorama of city and harbour, by E.A. Cockerell. 1893; Dunedin, New Zealand, panorama of city and harbour, by R.H. Hawcridge. 1894. Issued with descriptive text sheet. First published as col. chromolithographs, reproduced from paintings, in Christmas issues of Weekly graphic, 1892-94, Auckland, New Zealand Graphic and Star Printing. Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Col. photolithographs 262 x 748 mm; 261 x 748 mm; 257 x 748 mm, on sheets 427 x 890 mm

Manuscript

Major, Charles Edwin 1859-1954 : Seventy years of life in New Zealand

Date: [ca 1874-1944] (1953)]

By: Major, John Edwin, 1859-1954

Reference: qMS-1232

Description: Accounts of life in Wellington, Manawatu, Gisborne and Taranaki, and many political recollections and comments. There is a chapter on old-time racing, including the days before the book-maker was banned. There are also references to visiting celebrities, among them Mark Twain, Frank Bullen and Paderewski, and memories of many theatrical shows. Included is a summary of the career of the late Henry Hayward, a pioneer in cinema entertainment in NZ. Source of title - Transcribed He was a store-keeper, law clerk and land agent; member of Parliament for Hawera for six years; mayor of Hawera for thirteen years and member of other local bodies in Taranaki. He was a noted runner; played Rugby football for these provinces; and as owner and spectator was keenly interested in horse-riding. He was one of the founders of a number of clubs and societies, including the Philatelic Society and the Polynesian Society. He was also a friend of the Maori and a student of his culture Quantity: 1 volume(s) (273 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (26 cm; blue linen)

Manuscript

New Zealand Engineers' Union Inc : Records

Date: 1898-1993

By: New Zealand Engineering Union

Reference: MS-Group-0371

Description: The records include minute books, case files and correspondence for the Wellington Branch and the Head Office. There are also some records of the Hutt Valley, Masterton and Auckland branches. Included is a minute book for the Wellington Trades Council, 1898-1900. For the history of the union see the name entry, and Roth, H R: Advocate, Educate, Control, the history of the New Zealand engineers' union 1863-1983 Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 30 volume(s). 6 box(es) (106 folders). 3.60 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, NZ Engineers Union Inc, 1995

Manuscript

Church of the Province of New Zealand. Diocese of Wellington : Records - Maori & European

Date: 1840-1855, 1934

By: Church of the Province of New Zealand. Diocese of Wellington

Reference: fMS-Papers-1432

Description: Contemporary copy of register of marriages (1840-1845), burials (1840-1845), and baptisms (1840-1844), of original register in St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington. Lists of Maori confirmations at Pipitea, Wainui and Waikanae in 1855 and 1856; list of births, baptisms, marriages and deaths in Kapiti parish (1845-1846), compiled by Rev O Hadfield for census of the Ngatiawa tribe; Wanganui church return for 1844. Includes a canticle by Robert Parker. Note, the names appended are indicative only. Researchers should refer to the contents as there are too many names to list. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (7 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres.

Manuscript

Couchman, Charlotte, b 1829? : Diary of voyage to New Zealand

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)

Manuscript

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

Map

Beere, Edward Holroyd, 1843-1906 :Plan of the township of Kilbirnie, shewing amended su...

Date: 1877 - 1889

By: Beere, Edward Holroyd, 1843-1906; Lyon & Blair Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Ki/1877-89/Acc.10637

Description: Cadastral map of Evans Bay to Kilbirnie, also to Constable and Owen streets, Newtown, Wellington. The area includes the coastline with Patent Slip and proposed jetties near Belvedere Road to Rodrigo Road, Kilbirnie. Numbered sections include acreages and some sites of houses. Roads are named and a stream with a bridge is marked. A note states 'right to water' at Busaco Road. A track to Lyell [sic] Bay is noted, as is a road to the Pilot Station. The town belt is marked. The lithographer is named as Lyon & Blair. Additions to the map are prominently marked sections at Evans Bay with various dates and names of Short, Williams, Ferguson, Harcourt, B. Smith, Rhodes, Rae, McCarthy, Boon, Earl, Knowles, Barber, Tait, White, Edw. Barton. The name of Lyon is marked in sections at Kilbirnie. Coloured sections are listed in key and refer to sections transferred by Mr. Pearce to various purchasers, which include Lot numbers, names and dates. Names include Sarah Ann Rhodes, W. Kemp, Ann Compton, McCarthy, Easby, McLennan, P. Farr, Moody & Smith, Adams, Jens Peter Jorgeson, Jane Compton, Geo. Zannin, M. Alexander, William Hayman, Ellen Stafford, Whitcombe, Church Trustees, T. Ladd, H. Green, Ferguson, Mary Elizabeth Salmon, Wm. Salmon, E. O. Gibbs, Keasbury, Margaret Price, E. H. Hurst, W. J. L. Travers, Marion Orr, Andrew Orr, C. L. Zohrab, John Earl, J Lockhead, A. J. Bredahl, Baker, J. B. Harcourt, W. K. Williams, Lyon, J. Bradbury, H. Alexander, McAllister, Travers, W. M. Muir, H. J. Whircher, Brandon & Sons, McDermott, Mary Love, J. Dransfield, Ella Rollison, E. W. Lowe, Pedgen, Crease, J. Wagg, J. Knowles, Cath Rae, J. Mills, J. Higginbottom, Murray, John Vine, Richardson, Short. Scale of original: [1:3 168] Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and coloured pencil on duplicate plan, coloured, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 71 x 50.1 cm.

Image

Photographs of people and events

Date: 1983-1985

From: Hames, Jenny :Negatives and photographs

Reference: PAColl-5811-1

Description: Greek Week in Wellington, reading recovery teachers and pupils, Sir Graham and Lady Latimer, piano teacher Judith Clark, Wellington City buses, Author Fiona Kidman, Kristelle Plimmer bringer of gorilla grams, the Heng family from Cambodia, Children's author Lynley Dodd, teacher and students at Kimi Ora school Wellington, Election night 1984 including Bob Jones, artist Janet Paul, editor Margaret Moony, Buskers on Wellington's streets. Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).

Manuscript

Davy, P, fl 1895-1896 : Diary of a voyage to New Zealand

Date: 16 Nov 1895-5 Apr 1896

By: Davy, P, active 1895-1896

Reference: MS-Group-0708

Description: Comprises holograph diary kept by P Davy on the `Ruahine' and during his tour of New Zealand. After disembarking at Wellington where he visited relatives he toured to other parts of New Zealand. He describes a gathering of Maori following the settlement of fishing rights on Lake Wairarapa, a visit to a freezing works at Belfast, gold mining on the West Coast and Rotorua where he visited a pa, saw geysers and bathed in the hot pools. His journal ends on the return journey to England when staying at Sydney. Also includes transcript of part of the diary (16 Nov 1895-3 Jan 1896). Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - Full transcript of diary at MS-Papers-4391 Davy and his Aunt Harriet boarded the `Ruahine' at Plymouth 16 Nov 1895 and disembarked 12 Jan 1896 at Wellington where they stayed with relatives. After travelling around New Zealand they left Auckland for Sydney, 18 Mar. The writer of the diary is presumed to be P Davy, a passenger on the `Ruahine'; he visited members of the Davy family while in Wellington. He was probably one of the Devonshire Davys, a nephew of George Boutflower Davy, an official of the Land Registration Court of NZ, and the son of Edward Davy (1806-1885), an experimental chemist who emigrated to Australia. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 1 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typescript Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photograph of the `Gaul' with unidentifed tender vessel.

Manuscript

Sherriff family: Papers

Date: 1877-[ca 1900]

By: Sherriff family

Reference: MS-Papers-9889

Description: Comprises handwritten text of sermon, delivered on Easter 1877 at All Saints' Church, Foxton, by Rev Francis Sherriff. Also, primary school textbooks on geography and spelling, both not dated, inscribed with the names of Audrey Sherriff and Hilda Sherriff Source of title - Supplied by Library Relationship complexity - Other sermons by Rev Francis Sherriff may be found at MS-Group-0026 Between 1873 and 1877, Rev Francis Sherriff was vicar at All Saints' Church, Foxton Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, printed matter Provenance: Found by Claire Baillie under house at 35 Grant Road, Thorndon Transfers: Poster transferred to Ephemera Section - To Ephemera Collection - Poster.

Manuscript

Administration of native affairs

Date: Sep-Dec 1863

From: Mantell family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0083-222

Description: Notes about funding for the erection of a residence for Native Chiefs visiting Wellington, 1863. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Image

Cockerell, E. A. :Wellington, New Zealand. Panorama of city and harbour. Lithographed a...

Date: 1893

By: New Zealand Graphic and Star Printing Works; New Zealand Graphic and Ladies' Journal

Reference: D-001-005-a

Description: See D-001-005 for details Same as D-001-005, -005-b & -005-c and a framed copy at G-385. The copy at D-001-005 has been digitised Extended Title - Supplement to the Christmas number of the New Zealand Graphic, 1893 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 360 x 940 on sheet 455 x 1015 mm

Manuscript

Historical notes chiefly relating to Wellington

Date: [1894-1940]

From: Baillie, Herbert, 1863-1941 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0013-2

Description: Exercise book labelled `Baillie papers; historical notes, chiefly relating to Wellington'; typescripts, `Seventy-four years' history' on Upper Hutt settlement and `Death of an old resident', re Mrs Ames; drafts; references; extracts; list of council references from Louis E Ward; references supplied by H A from newspapers Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Other

Marshall, Mary Frederica, 1826-1854 : Letters of Mary Frederica Swainson to her grandpa...

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.

Image

[Various artists] :Three panoramas. Christchurch, Avon Fine Prints, 1973.

Date: 1973 - 1892 - 1894

By: Cockerell, E A, active 1890s; Hawcridge, Robert, 1866-1920; Avon Fine Prints; Schmidt, William Shaw Diedrich, 1870-1968

Reference: D-001-014-a/016-a

Description: Auckland, New Zealand, panoramic views of city and harbour from Birkenhead, by W.D.S. 1892; Wellington, New Zealand, panorama of city and harbour, by E.A. Cockerell. 1893; Dunedin, New Zealand, panorama of city and harbour, by R.H. Hawcridge. 1894. Issued with descriptive text sheet. First published as col. chromolithographs, reproduced from paintings, in Christmas issues of Weekly graphic, 1892-94, Auckland, New Zealand Graphic and Star Printing. Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Col. photolithographs 262 x 748 mm; 261 x 748 mm; 257 x 748 mm, on sheets 427 x 890 mm

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[Music programmes and fliers for concerts in 1880].

Date: 1880

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-1880

Description: Includes programmes featuring: St Andrew's Church Cambridge. Concert in aid of the building fund. 18 August 1880. Programme. St Peter's Church. Special service. Selection from Handel's grand oratorio "The Messiah". Organist and conductor Mr Angelo Forrest. Programme / flier. Camilla Urso. Programmes for concerts. Theatre Royal Wellington. 15 May 1880, and 16 May 1880. Quantity: 3 programmes or flyers.. Physical Description: Printed programmes or flyers, up to octavo size, some illustrated.

Manuscript

Thomas, Godfrey John (Sir), 1824-1861 : Journals and letters / Sir Godfrey J Thomas

Date: 1844-1853

By: Thomas, Godfrey John (Sir), 1824-1861

Reference: Micro-MS-0285

Description: Journals 1846-1853, contain comments on public and private affairs and copies of letters written by Thomas, including those to his half-brother, Sir George Grey. Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - Photocopy held at MS-Papers-2428 Thomas held government appointments in South Australia, 1844-1846 and in Auckland and Wellington, 1846-1852, including the post of Secretary to Governor Sir George Grey, his half-brother. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Physical Description: Holographs and printed matter (microfilm of photocopies) Finding Aids: Inventory available.

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