Born in Yorkshire, and crossed from Sydney to Wellington, establishing himself as a coal merchant with large contracts with shipping conmpanies. Preferred to be known as Joe Dransfield. Became captain in the NZ Militia in 1868. Husband of Mary Dransfield (1828?-1896). Member of the Provincial Council, chairman of the Town Board, and Mayor of The City. Dransfield took the first steps towards reclamation of land from the harbour. Chairman of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce and a director of the New Zealand Steam Navigation Company. See DNZB / Scholefield (Vol 1, p219-220); and Cyclopedia of New Zealand (Vol 1, p287, 293, 330). Buried in the family plot at Bolton Street Cemetery, Wellington
Dransfield, Joseph, 1827-1906
Dransfield, Joe, 1827-1906
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Manuscript
C A Vallance - Accounts and receipts - C-D
Date: 1840s-1860s
From: Levin & Company Ltd : Records
Reference: MS-Papers-1347-5/17/16
Description: Selected names entered in name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Land Transfer Office : Wellington land deeds
Date: 1840-1890
Reference: fMS-256
Description: Mainly land deeds (conveyance, right of way, grants, leases, tenancy agreements, mortgages), includes certificates of New Zealand Company shares Includes discharge certificate from 65th Regiment of Foot for Private James McFadden, 1861 Variations in title - Spine title: Old land deeds of Wellington Quantity: 1 volume(s) (110 pieces). Physical Description: Mss (50 cm; brown linen tie folder) Finding Aids: Calendar of contents available.
Manuscript
Liverpool and London Fire and Life Insurance Company, Wellington agents - Inward corres...
Date: 1855-1866
From: Levin & Company Ltd : Records
Reference: MS-Papers-1347-6/4/3
Description: Correspondents include: John Gibson Brown, 1857; Amos Burr, 1865; J W Callcott, 1857-1858; Thomas Carter, 1857; H Churton, 1858; S Cimino, 1858; Hugh Cleland - Hutt sub-agents. List of policyholders and accounts, 1862-1866; James George Cox, 1858; James Crooks, 1859; Stephen Curtis & Co, 1860; Charles D De Castro, 1855; John Dinwiddie, 1863; J Dransfield, 1857; Andrew Duncan, 1861; G Edwards, 1858; I E Featherston, 1858; B Ferrers, 1859; F H Fitzgerald, 1859 Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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J Dransfield, Chairman 1877-1878 - Photograph taken by Ogilvie
Date: [ca 1870s]
From: Wellington Chamber of Commerce :Photographs of members and conference groups
Reference: PAColl-D-0862
Description: Three-quarters profile head and shoulders portrait of J Dransfield by Oglivie Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 530 x 370 mm on card 615 x 465 mm
Manuscript
Memorials - Surnames Doi-Dru
From: Alington, Margaret Hilda, 1920-2012 : Bolton Street Cemetery transcripts, notes and papers / compiled by Margaret Alington and others
Reference: MS-Papers-2260-022
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Agreements
Date: 1882-1887
From: Gear Meat Company : Records
Reference: fMS-Papers-6330-1
Description: Terms of agreement between James Gear and Joseph Beale and Joe Dransfield (1882); drafts of and reconveyances and releases between Gear and Beale and Isabelle Ling (1881-1883); assignment of a licenses of letters patent for the invention of an improvement of packing tins, and for the valuable improvements in machinery used for packing and pressing meat in tin cans (1882); and bond between the company and the Petone Town Board (1887)
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Joseph Dransfield
Date: [ca 1872]
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: PAColl-5936-57
Description: Joseph Dransfield, circa 1872. Photographer unidentified. Dated assuming the subject was circa 45 years old at the time this photograph was taken. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print
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Lyon & Blair :Vote for Sam Brown! We'll run him in. Wellington [1885
Date: 1885
By: Lyon & Blair Ltd
Reference: B-034-024
Description: Cartoon associated with candidates for Wellington mayoral election of 1885 and showing Samuel Brown in the centre, and with him J Dransfield, and either A W Brown or T W McKenzie. Humorous verse beneath cartoon Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph 432 x 267 mm
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Dransfield family grave, plot 5101, Bolton Street Cemetery
Date: [Between 1965 and 1969]
From: Shotter, P J E :Negatives and albums (with index) of graves in the Bolton Street and Sydney Street cemeteries, Wellington
Reference: 35mm-25512-33-F
Description: The grave of the Dransfield family at plot 5101 Bolton Street Cemetery. It was photographed in the late 1960s by the City Sexton, P J E Shotter, prior to its being dismantled to make way for the Wellington motorway. An original print from this negative is at PA1-o-046, page 53. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) individual frame on 35mm strip. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative