Nanto-Bordelaise Company

Nanto-Bordelaise Enterprise

Formally La Compagnie de Bordeaux et de Nantes pour la Colonisation de l’Île du Sud de la Nouvelle Zélande et ses Dépendances - was a French company inaugurated in 1839 by a group of merchants from the cities of Nantes and Bordeaux, with the purpose of founding a French colony in the South Island of New Zealand.

The company was formed after negotiations in August 1838 between whaling boat captain Jean-François Langlois and several Ngai Tahu Māori chiefs for the purchase of several thousand acres of land on Banks Peninsula, for which Langlois promised to pay a total of 1000 francs. Upon returning to France in 1839, Langlois set about founding a company with the help of several financial backers, the eventual aim of which was to claim the entirety of the South Island for France.

On 30 June 1849 the company's remaining New Zealand properties were bought by the New Zealand Company for the sum of £4,500.

There are 10 related items to this topic
Manuscript

Piece records 608-661

Date: 1840-1842

From: Great Britain Foreign Office : Records relating to French affairs in the Pacific

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-07-3590

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

Manuscript

Nanto-Bordelaise Company : Actes de vente. Deeds of sale at Akaroa

Date: 1841-1845

By: Nanto-Bordelaise Company

Reference: qMS-1407

Description: Contents: Two lots of deeds, one containing 8 and the other 14 items, and other single items, consisting of deeds and plans, numbered 21-68 Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss (36 cm; case in ¼ green morocco & green cloth) Transfers: To Cartographic Collection - Three colour sketch maps of French Bay (Paka Ariki), Akaroa: [Nanto-Bordelaise Company. Maps of land sales at Akaroa. MapColl-Collection-Nanto-Bordelaise]..

Map

Nanto-Bordelaise Company :Maps of land sales at Akaroa

Date: 1841 - 1845

By: Nanto-Bordelaise Company

Reference: MapColl-Collection-Nanto-Bordelaise

Description: Hand-drawn coloured maps of land blocks at French Bay (Paka Ariki), Akaroa Quantity: 3 map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on paper Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Nanto-Bordelaise Company. Actes de vente. Deeds of sale at Akaroa. Reference qMS-1407.

Map

Nanto-Bordelaise Company :Croquis d'une partie de la bai Paka Ariki ou baie des Francai...

Date: 1841 - 1845

From: Nanto-Bordelaise Company :Maps of land sales at Akaroa

By: Nanto-Bordelaise Company

Reference: MapColl-834.44gbbd/[1841-5]/Acc.48867

Description: Map showing 17 parcels of land at French Bay, with the lots sold to Pierre Louis Guesdon and Mr Dufour are identified. Signed by J de Belligny and Guesdon. Areas of bush and several streams are also marked. Other Titles - Sketch of a part of the bay Paka Ariki or French Bay (Akaroa, New Zealand). Annex to the bill of sale, under private signature, today twentyfifth August 1841 between Mr de Belligny, in the name of and representative of the Nanto-Bordelaise Company on the one part, and Mr Eugene Auguste Dufour, on the other part Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on rag paper, scale 1:3 000, 47.3 x 34.4 cm.

Map

Nanto-Bordelaise Company :Croquis d'une partie de la baie Paka Ariki ou baie des Franca...

Date: 1841 - 1845

From: Nanto-Bordelaise Company :Maps of land sales at Akaroa

By: Nanto-Bordelaise Company

Reference: MapColl-834.44gbbd/[1841-5]/Acc.48868

Description: Map showing 17 parcels of land at French Bay, with the lots sold to Eugene Auguste Dufour, Mr Petellier [i.e. Le Cellier] and Bouriaud identified. Signed by J de Belligny and Eugene Dufour. Areas of bush and several streams are also marked. Other Titles - Sketch of a part of the bay Paka Ariki or French Bay (Akaroa, New Zealand). Annex to the bill of sale, under private signature, today twentyfifth August 1841 between Mr de Belligny, in the name of and representative of the Nanto-Bordelaise Company on the one part, and Mr Eugene Auguste Dufour, on the other part Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on rag paper, scale 1:3 000, 47.2 x 34.4 cm.

Manuscript

Buick, Thomas Lindsay, 1865-1938 : A chapter in the history of Banks Peninsula

Date: n d

By: Buick, Thomas Lindsay, 1865-1938

Reference: MS-0344

Description: Discusses the manner in which the land claims on the Peninsula were settled by the government after the French claims had been extinguished. Historian Quantity: 1 volume(s) (68 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; blue cloth)

Map

Nanto-Bordelaise Company :Croquis d'une partie de la baie Paka Ariki ou baie des Franca...

Date: 1841 - 1845

From: Nanto-Bordelaise Company :Maps of land sales at Akaroa

By: Nanto-Bordelaise Company

Reference: MapColl-834.44gbbd/[1841-5]/Acc.48869

Description: Map showing 17 parcels of land at French Bay, with the lots sold to Mr Le Cellier, Sr Libaud, Sr Le Cellier and Sr Gendrotare identified. Signed by J de Belligny and Le Cellier. Areas of bush and several streams are also marked. Other Titles - Sketch of a part of the bay Paka Ariki or French Bay (Akaroa, New Zealand). Annex to the bill of sale, under private signature, today twentyfifth August 1841 between Mr de Belligny, in the name of and representative of the Nanto-Bordelaise Company on the one part, and Mr Joseph Marie Le Cellier, on the other part Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on rag paper, scale 1:3 000, 47.3 x 34.4 cm. Transfers: Transferred from Manuscript Section - Nanto-Bordelaise Company. Actes de vente. Deeds of sale at Akaroa. qMS-1407.

Manuscript

Piece records 662-690

Date: 1842-1844

From: Great Britain Foreign Office : Records relating to French affairs in the Pacific

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-07-3591

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

Other

Campbell, James 1783-1858 : Outward letters

Date: 15 Oct 1851-2 Jan 1852 (1961)

By: Campbell, James, 1783-1858

Reference: qMS-0368

Description: Letters relating to land claims and the Nanto-Bordelaise Company, written when Campbell was Commissioner of Crown Lands, Canterbury Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 volume(s) (17 pages). Physical Description: Typed transcripts (34 cm; blue pam case)

Manuscript

Correspondence (Wick-Williams)

Date: 1920-1932

From: Alexander Turnbull Library (Wellington) : Correspondence files

Reference: MS-Papers-0181-092

Description: Names of correspondents not entered in Name Field include: Miss Wickham; Rev Charles Wickham; Mrs Arthur Wicks (Warrenton, Oregon); Mrs Alice Wiggins; Miss Dora Wilcox re Charles Meryon; Rev Canon J R Wilford; Mrs T M Wilford; F W Willey; Mrs Bradney Williams; Miss Helen Williams; W Williams (Christchurch); James H Williams; James H Williams re Nanto Bordelaise Company. Also narrative entitled `Violin made from the teak of the `Endeavour' by James Williamson of Wadestown, Wellington, 1917' and signed JCA. Quantity: 1 folder(s).