Born in Swansea, Wales. In 1841 he was appointed landing waiter at the Bay of Islands. He resigned in 1842, and moved to Nelson to take up the posts of sub-collector of customs and landing waiter. In 1843 the Custom's Department also took over postal services in Nelson. In 1849 Carkeek became collector of customs in Wellington, and in 1851 was called to the Legislative Council to serve as Collector of Customs (see Max Lash `Nelson notables 1840-1940' Nelson 1992). He retired to a small sheep run which he purchased near Featherston, and lived there until his death. Left his wife Martha, two daughters (Mrs Frances Ann Stewart, Mrs Ellen Sheath) and two sons, both engineers. Died in 1878 aged 63 years [Source: Historical online BDM]
Carkeek, Stephen, 1815-1878
Saxton, John Waring, 1807-1866 : Diary
Date: 16 Dec 1841-9 Jun 1851
By: Saxton, John Waring, 1807-1866
Reference: qMS-1758-1762
Description: Saxton recorded both the minutiae of his daily life, such as food, crops he was growing, as well as observations on local politics, New Zealand Company affairs, negotiations between the Company, government officials and settlers and especially describes the discomforts and lowered expectations of being an immigrant. Not all persons mentioned frequently have been entered (see index for full list). Relationship complexity - Some original fragments at MS-Papers-0107 and typescript of fragments at MS-Papers-4417 Quantity: 5 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescript with annotations by transcriber (36 cm; green linen) Finding Aids: Index is part of collection (qMS-1762). Provenance: The diaries were intended to be destroyed at the death of the diarist. However, they survived and Dr F A Bett, whose collection is now in the Nelson Provincial Museum, transcribed the extant diaries. There are two sets, one in the Bett Collection in Nelson, the other in the Turnbull Library. The Turnbull copy has many annotations by Dr Bett, generally with additions to the text. It is understood that parts of the diaries were in Greek and Hebrew but it is not known how much Dr Bett translated or how much of the diaries he retained.
New Zealand. Treasury. Nelson Office : Accounts
Date: Nov-Dec 1848
By: New Zealand. Treasury. Nelson Office
Reference: MS-Papers-8202
Description: Page from Nelson government accounts volume, Nov-Dec 1848, kept by Stephen Carkeek, sub-treasurer Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph
Nelson. Police Department : Accounts
Date: May 1845-Oct 1848
Reference: Micro-MS-0768
Description: Kept by Stephen Carkeek, District Treasurer and checked by Donald Sinclair, Chief Police Magistrate. Payments and receipts for police, Sheriff's customs and harbour departments, for Nelson militia, public works department, constables' widows and Court of Request. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (ca 100 frames).
Pre-1857 in-letters (A154 - H876)
Date: 1816-1856
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2322
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Correspondence
Date: 5 Jan-16 Mar 1860, ?1860
From: Richmond-Atkinson family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-4298-014
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Correspondence
Date: 1860
From: Richmond-Atkinson family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-4298-017
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Domestic affairs of the Customs Department, Wellington
Date: 1854-1857
From: Catchpool, Edward, 1806-1874 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0077-3
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: See inventory for full description of contents of this folder.
Thomas King - Papers relating to his membership of the House of Representatives
Date: 1854-[1860]
From: King family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-5641-42
Description: Comprises an official memoranda from James Edward Fitz Gerald (1854); circular from the Colonial Secretary, petition and letter to C W Richmond from the electors of New Plymouth and letter from S Carkeek, Collector of Customs re passage to attend General Assembly (1855); proclamation re meeting of General Assembly (1854); letter re `Mountain Maid' chartered to bring King to Auckland (1854); letters re expenditure on Mangorei Road; letter re proclamation (1858); circular letters from J E FitzGerald and House of Representatives (1853-1854); invitation to dinner to meet McLean (1854); report of meeting, Richmond in the chair (1860?); letters to and from Josiah Flight, re road between Huatoki and Henui (1851, 1853); letter re from Halse re public road (1855) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Correspondence
Date: 2 Jul-31 Dec 1859
From: Richmond-Atkinson family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-4298-013
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Meeting, tonight, Thursday ... charges of peculation and jobbery which have been made b...
Date: 1855
By: Wellington independent (Newspaper)
Reference: Eph-D-POLITICS-Wellington-1855-01
Description: Exhorts attendance at meeting. Other Titles - The committee for securing the return of Messrs Hart and Carkeek having declined to co-operate with the committee fore securing the return of Messrs Featherston, Fitzherbert, and Clifford, the supporters and friends of [the latter group] are invited to attend at the Hall of the Nations, this evening...Invitations have been sent to Mr E J Wakefield, F D Bell, R Park. It will be proposed that Mr Raymond, who has consented, do take the chair. [Signed] W Waring Taylor, J G Holdsworth. Printed at the Independent Office. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress print, 570 x 452 mm.
Inward letters - Surnames, Cam - Car
Date: 1858-1876
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0205
Description: Correspondents: C Campion, Rangitikei, 1858 (1 letter); J D Canning, Porangahau, 1857-1865 (5 letters); J L M Carey, Wellington & Auckland, 1869-1872 (8 letters); R Carey, Wellington, 1860-1861 (4 letters including draft reply from McLean); Robert Carey, London, 1869 re Captain Humphrey of Napier (1 letter); Dora Cargill, Dunedin (undated letter); W W Cargill, Dunedin, 1872-1873 (4 letters); Cargill & McLean, Dunedin, 1869 (1 letter); Stephen Carkeek, Wellington & Wairarapa, 1858-1870 (5 letters); Hugh Carleton, Auckland & Bay of Islands, 1870-1876 (3 letters); J W Carlile, Napier, 1876 (3 letters); W W Carlile, Napier, 1872 (1 letter). Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Stephen James Carkeek
Date: [ca 1865]
From: Carkeek, D fl 1971 :Photographs of Arthur Wakefield Carkeek and Stephen James Carkeek
Reference: 1/2-038563-F
Description: Stephen James Carkeek, circa 1865. Photographer unidentified. Dated on the assumption the subject is circa 50 years old Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Maori letters (translated)
Date: 1862-1866
From: Mantell family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0083-192A
Description: Contains Maori letters, some translated by Michael Rotohiko Jones. Mentions the recent death of the Ngati Raukawa chief Nepia Taratoa and inquiry by Tamihana Te Rauparaha about the question of Mana Island. Also includes a series of letters about a Ngati Raukawa (Otaki) person named Hapeta who has been requested to appear before the magistrate in Wellington for an unmentioned crime, with assurances by Buller that he won't be imprisoned. Correspondence to Mantell about meetings to discuss the sale of the Rangitikei Block and discussion about price per acre and total payment for the block, particularly by the Ngati Raukawa. Includes correspondence between Hohepa Tamaihengia and Matene Te Whiwhi regarding Maori reserved lands in the Wellington district. Language - With translations by M R Jones Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.
A W Shand - Diary
Date: 1847-1850
From: Burt, William Beverland, 1912-1992 : Chatham Islands collection
Reference: MSY-6658
Description: Journal entries Dec 1847-31 Jan 1848, followed by a number of pages cut from the volume. Continues with entries 19 Feb-Jul 1850. Entries pertain to events in Wellington and Dunedin. The 1850 entries include a precis of his outward correspondence to Carkeek, Hoggard, Hart, Catchpool, A C Strode, Capt Stokes, Hickson, Jones (Waikawaiti), Grace, his wife Eliza, Alexander, Grimstone. Inside front cover: Newspaper cuttings, 1842-1843, 1864 (on his departure from Chatham Islands). Another relates to his father James Shand of Tain, 1846. Also part of a letter addressed to `My dear Archy' written from Tain, 25 Aug 1839. Inscription (at bottom) dated 6 July 1876 - "To my namesake on his 16th birthday anniversary from his affectionate father A.W.Shand". Inside back cover: Letter to Archibald from J Shand, 12 Dec 1843, Tain, and fragment of another letter from his father J Shand (undated) Reference to the death of Charles Cator, Wellington solicitor in 1848 Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph Processing information: Originally located at MS-Papers-0434-38