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Patricia Diana C Frykberg - Captain William Bendall; his life, his family and his times
- Date
- 1990
- By
- Frykberg, Patricia Diana, active 1988
- Reference
- MS-Papers-4280-043
- Description
Additional material included with the essay includes Captain Bendall's shipboard diary kept on board `City of New York', `Zealandia', 1876; letter from William Edward Bendall re stranding of the `Ellerton', 1883; list of vessels Captain Bendall is known to have been master of; family trees
Captain Bendall and his wife Mary, nee Taylor, arrived in Dunedin from Launceston, Tasmania on the `Three Sisters' in 1862. From that date until 1878 he was master of several coastal traders and New Zealand pilot for Pacific steamers. He was appointed Marine Surveyor and Lloyds representative in Wellington and salvaged several wrecked or stranded vessels. The couple had nine children. One daughter who lived for 107 years, died in 1986
Relationship complexity - Transcript of Captain Bendall's shipboard log, 1876 is at 88-155
Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Finding Aids: Published guide available.
Photographs
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
- Format
- 1 folder(s), Manuscripts, Illustration: Photographs
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