McLaggan, John, 1810-1886

Date: 1854

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-048

Description: Front and back views of the artist's intended house (never built) at the foot of The Terrace Related material: A memorandum of agreement between builder John McLaggan and Pearse, drawings for a fence and a plan view of the house appear on the preceding pages Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink & watercolour, 158 x 303 mm and 171 x 267 mm

Date: 1852

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-046/047

Description: Agreement for John McLaggan to build John Pearse's house on Wellington Terrace for 376 pounds, written in the hand of John Pearse. It includes details of each room (three bedrooms and a two-storied house). There is also a letter from John McLaggan dated Nov 21 1854 offering to build Pearse's 'proposed cottage' for £140, excluding 'the porch and dormal window'. Related material: The following pages contains Pearse's drawing of a floor plan, fencing and the front and back appearances of his proposed house. Quantity: 2 holograph. Physical Description: Ink on blue paper, sheet size 323 x 205 mm

From: Alington, Margaret Hilda, 1920-2012 : Bolton Street Cemetery transcripts, notes and papers / compiled by Margaret Alington and others

Reference: MS-Papers-2260-050

Description: Surnames on headstones: McKenzie; McKinstry; McLachlan; McLaggan; McLennan; McMillan; McMurtrie; Maginnity; Magniac; Mainwaring; Maitland; Major. Names of most individuals added to Name Field Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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-25547-16-F

Description: The grave of the McLaggan family at plot 168.P, Sydney 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-049, page 57. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) individual frame on 35mm strip. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative

Date: 14 March 1840

By: New Zealand Company

Reference: fMS-Papers-12194

Description: Holograph manuscript letter signed by six individuals on behalf of 29 named steerage passengers on the 'Bengal Merchant' dated Port Nicholson, 14 March 1840, addressed to Samuel Revans, Secretary of the New Zealand Company at Port Nicholson. The letter is signed by John Turner, James Wilson, Thomas Richie Simson, James Cullen, Peter Brown, and Peter Dorreen Senior. The letter outlines shortcomings of service and provisions on board during the voyage to New Zealand, with details of rations - both quantity and quality - received. The letter is addressed: "Samuel Ravens Esq. | Secretary to the New Zealand | Land Coy | Port Nicholson" The letter reads: "Port Nicholson 14th March 1840 Sir We the undersigned Steerage passengers per Bengal Merchant Ship, feel it our duty to inform you of the following deficiencies of our rations which have been kept back from us by the Superintendant [sic] Captain and others of the said Ship. And when reference was made to the Commitee [sic] regarding our rations beign [sic] kept back they got nothing but abuse for so interfering of which we refer you to the Gentlemen themselves. Beef and Pork considerably above one third Rice - - - D[itt]o - - - [and Pork considerably above one third] Oat Meal & Flour D[itt]o [considerably above] one third (The above deficiency was only to the 6th of Jan[uar]y 1840) Coffee one third during the whole Voyage Mustard we had three weeks allowance altogether Pickles - - [we had] Six weeks [allowance altogether] Suet - - [we had] Six weeks [allowance altogether] One Cwt. Bag of Biscuit was served us every Second day until they became so Bad that we had two bags Bags [sic] which we had to pick the best off the refuse was sent Back which was about the one half and this sort would serve us three days. The allowance of biscuit the Eleven Messes should have got each day was 96 lb so that we did not consume near two thirds of them 1 James Lansdale 2 David Galloway 3 Andrew McEwen 4 David McEwen 5 James Riddle 6 David Dick 7 William Brash 8 John Turner 9 Adam Brown 10 William Tannahill 11 James Turner 12 David Reid 13 John McBeth 14 Alexander Yule 15 John McLaggan 16 Mathew Cook Senr. 17 William Cook 18 Mathew Cook Junr. 19 Thomas Dorrain 20 Thomas Pollock 21 Peter Dorrain 22 John Bryce 23 Samuel Burnet 24 George McLatchie 25 Malco[l]m Brown 26 W[illia]m Golder 27 Hendry Scullers 28 John McGeachy 29 William Leckie Samuel Wilson T[homas] R[ichie] Simson James Cullen John Turner Peter Brown Peter Dorreen Senr." Note this was first published as a digital facsimile copy (showing both recto and verso) illustrating a blogpost with the title 'Message in a bottle' by Dr Barbara van Benthem (See http://autographen.blogspot.co.nz/2016/06/message-in-bottle.html). Additional orthographic details for passenger names taken from passenger list published in Louis E Ward, 'Early Wellington', Auckland: Whitcombe and Tombs Limited, 1928. The 'Bengal Merchant' was the first emigrant ship to leave Scotland for New Zealand chartered by the New Zealand Company, under the command of Captain John Hemery (1813-1881), the ship left Glasgow on 30 October 1839 and arrived at Port Nicholson on 20 February 1840. Quantity: 1 folder(s) 1 manuscript letter. Physical Description: Holograph letter, ink and pencil on single folded leaf of "London Superfine" paper (bifolium), 23.1 x 37.7 cm. Provenance: Douglas Stewart Fine Books Ltd purchased this manuscript from Eberhard Köstler of Tutzing, Germany, in 2016.