A surveyor and artist. He made his home in Hawke's Bay in 1850 and entered the service as staff surveyor for the New Zealand Government. He began the survey of the Porangahau Block in 1855. Then he took up Woodthorpe Station. In 1869 he moved to Poverty Bay to carry out the survey of the southern boundary of the site for the Gisborne township. He was also responsible for the survey of the external boundaries of Patutahi Block. [Source: Historic Poverty Bay / J A MacKay, p 456]. He also drew a building in Napier, probably the Hawkes Bay Provincial Council Building, now in the British Library at Add. MS 19954, folio 48 (55)
Bousfield, Octavius Lawes Woodthorpe, 1830-1882
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Bousfield, Octavius Lawes Woodthorpe, fl 1856-1870 :Sections of Ngatapa Pa, Poverty Bay...
Date: 1869
By: Bousfield, Octavius Lawes Woodthorpe, 1830-1882
Reference: Plans-80-1219
Description: Three cross-sections of this hilltop pa, relating to the plan held at Plans-80-1218. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 302 x 505 mm
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Bousfield, Octavius Lawes Woodthorpe, 1830-1887 :[Hawkes Bay Provincial Council buildin...
Date: 1855 - 1860
From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].
By: Bousfield, Octavius Lawes Woodthorpe, 1830-1882
Reference: E-144-048
Description: A front view of a large single-storied building with three gables. The building is surrounded by a low picket fence. Hills are in the background Possibly a perspective drawing done ahead of the erection of the building. The Hawkes Bay Provincial Council Chambers were at the foot of Shakespeare Road Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - O L W B del Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of pen and ink drawing , original 10.6 x 20 inches
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Bousfield, Octavius Lawes Woodthorpe, fl 1856-1870 :Plan of Ngatapa Pa, Poverty Bay tak...
Date: 1869
By: Bousfield, Octavius Lawes Woodthorpe, 1830-1882
Reference: Plans-80-1218-a
Description: Map of the Pa, showing the defensive positions of Major Fraser, Hotene with Ngatiporo, Major Roberts, Wickliffe, Ropata with Ngatiporo, the mortar battery, and Colonel Whitmore. Also shown are the earthworks including rifle-pits within the pa, a chapel and deforested land covered with stumps and branches Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 442 x 282 mm
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Bousfield, Octavius Lawes Woodthorpe, fl 1856-1870 :Plan of Ngatapa Pa, Poverty Bay tak...
Date: 1869
By: Bousfield, Octavius Lawes Woodthorpe, 1830-1882
Reference: Plans-80-1218
Description: Map of the Pa, showing the defensive positions of Major Fraser, Hotene with Ngatiporo, Major Roberts, Wickliffe, Ropata with Ngatiporo, the mortar battery, and Colonel Whitmore. Also shown are the earthworks including rifle-pits within the pa, a chapel and deforested land covered with stumps and branches Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 442 x 282 mm
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Bousfield, Octavius Lawes Woodthorpe, fl 1856-1870 :Plan of Ngatapa Pa, Poverty Bay tak...
Date: 1869
By: Bousfield, Octavius Lawes Woodthorpe, 1830-1882
Reference: Plans-80-1218-b
Description: Map of the Pa, showing the defensive positions of Major Fraser, Hotene with Ngatiporo, Major Roberts, Wickliffe, Ropata with Ngatiporo, the mortar battery, and Colonel Whitmore. Also shown are the earthworks including rifle-pits within the pa, a chapel and deforested land covered with stumps and branches Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 442 x 282 mm
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Biographical material re The Pioneer land surveyors of New Zealand
Date: [ca 1923-1987]
From: New Zealand Institute of Surveyors : The Pioneer land surveyors of New Zealand by C A Lawn and related papers
Reference: MS-Papers-7163-2
Description: Mainly printed material re Percy W M Holt, O L W Bousfield and Christ Church, Taita; John Rochfort; Thomas Cass; Arthur Carkeek; Leopold Lessong; John S Browning; William Hughes Field; Sir Arthur Dudley Dobson; A C F Koch senior & junior; Andrew Sinclair; Te Puea Herangi; Thomas Oldfield; A J Mountfort; F J Williams; Edward Tregear; Lawrence Cussen Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Manuscript
Inward letters - Surnames, Bou
Date: 1856-1877
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0168
Description: Correspondents: Edmond Bourgeois, Christchurch, 1877 (1 letter in French); Dora Bourke, Napier (undated letter); Peter Bourke, Napier, 1864-1865 (3 letters); H Bourne, Turanganui (undated letter); O L W Bousfield, Hawke's Bay, 1856-1868 & undated (7 letters). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
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Bousefields, Octavius Lawes Woodthorpe, 1830-1882 :Ahuriri district, sketch survey of p...
Date: 1856
By: Bousfield, Octavius Lawes Woodthorpe, 1830-1882; Wilson, J G, active 1850s
Reference: MapColl-832.3gbbd/1856/Acc.3009
Description: Relief map of the area between Parimahu and Waimate Stream, showing numerous settlements, the majority having Māori names. Some relief features are described and notes about the coast give information about an anchorage and a good place to land goods. Land blocks include acreages. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 37.1 x 48.7 cm. Provenance: Signature at bottom right: Bousefields Note at bottom right: (copy of tracing supplied by J.G. Wilson Esq., Hautama.) G.T.R. Note on catalogue card states: Tracing belongs to J.G. Wilson, Esq., Hatauma, H.B.