Presbyterian minister. Born in India; arrived in New Zealand in 1873. Minister at Timaru, and then at Hanmer and Waiau, North Canterbury. See DNZB (Vol 2, 1870-1900, p75)
Campbell, William Rickarby, 1840-1918
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William R Campbell - Letters
Date: 1881-1897
From: Letters relating to New Zealand
Reference: MS-Papers-6200-02
Description: Comprises letters from Rev W R Campbell, of Waiau, to his cousin, Patrick Campbell, of Edinburgh, re financial problems, family affairs, requesting money, describing a new church at Culverden, a promise from the Minister of Lands for a church at Hot Springs, schooling and his children, his assisstant, Rev A Treadwell and other matters; also includes three receipts for money received from Patrick Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Campbell family letters
Date: 1891-1894
From: Letters relating to New Zealand
Reference: MS-Papers-7057-1
Description: Letters from the Reverend W R Campbell of Waiau to Patrick Campbell in Edinburgh re drafts received, leasing site of church at hot springs and planning a trip home Accompanying material - Essay from DNZB on W R Campbell Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Letters from William R Campbell
Date: 1875-1883
From: John Martin, Solicitors of Edinburgh : New Zealand letters
Reference: MS-Papers-6509-02
Description: Letters from William Campbell, the Presbyterian minister at Hanmer and Waiau, North Canterbury, to his brother, Patrick, in Edinburgh. Requests money for his investment account, complains of lack of a house and of good books; describes trying to find a living for Henry Carpenter, who can only do light work. Also describes sinking wells and setting up his household and farmlet, and local news, such as the rise in the population of the area, and the building of a bridge over the Waiau River. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Campbell family : Papers
Date: [ca 1822-1949]
By: Campbell family
Reference: 82-003
Description: These papers relate to two families (1) William Rickarby Campbell, Presbyterian Minister of Waiau which includes a great deal of correspondence from his wife's family in Britain, the Carpenters (W Boyd Carpenter) And (2) the Brown family; W R Campbell had two daughters, Annie and Agnes, and Annie married Tythe Brown and the papers relate to her early college days in Canterbury, her nursing career, the setting up of the Student Nurses' Christian Union, her experience during the First World War with the troops, etc. Also includes some printed material relating to trips overseas. Source of title - Supplied Arrangement: Preliminary sort Quantity: 6 box(es). 1.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Brief listing in Back file. Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts; material transferred to other sections from here - To Cartographic Collection - 4 published maps for appraisal (Oct 2008) - To Ephemera Collection - Several miscellaneous items - To Book Collections - Several publications [PR-08-0513] - To Serials Collection - Several items [PR-08-0515].
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John Martin, Solicitors of Edinburgh : New Zealand letters
Date: 1863-1895
By: Martin, John, active 1863-1915
Reference: MS-Papers-6509
Description: Correspondence from clients in New Zealand. The letters, as well as monetary and legal matters, discuss aspects of farm and station life in New Zealand, general news and some political matters. Also included are insurance certificates for kauri gum shipments. Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See also MS-Papers-5711 and MS-Papers-6200 for papers from the same source. Quantity: 4 folder(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter Finding Aids: See Stephen Murray Back file.
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Roseneath Presbyterian Church - Our Lord's entrance into Jerusalem / William R Campbell
Date: Apr 1864
From: Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand : Records of the Wellington and Wairarapa Presbyteries
Reference: 88-017-63/16
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Letters relating to New Zealand
Date: [1865-1970]
Reference: MS-Group-0927
Description: Comprises letters referred to as the Bartle documents (1891-1892); Rev W R Campbell letters (1881-1897); the Clarke documents (1879-1882); the Dundas, Hankinson, Leigh, Lyle and Margetts letters (1865-1900); William Law Riddell documents (1892-1912); a miscellaneous group with a letter from Lachlan Macquarie (1881), a debenture of Northern Investment Company of NZ (1882), a letter from S Maclaren to P Campbell of Edinburgh (1882) and a letter from Winnie to Miss Masketer (1939-1940); and the letters of Hilda Grace Longworth to Eileen written while cruising across the Pacific from Peru to Chile, Fiji, Panama, Tahiti, the Solomon Islands, New Guinea, Stewart Island, Invercargill and Korea (1955-1963) A further collection of documents relating to the Beckett family of Christchurch (1875-1892), the Galloway family in various parts of New Zealand (ca 1896-1901), a Gibson marriage settlement (1973) and several documents relating to Hutton Troutbeck of Hawke's Bay (1861-1876) A further collection of letters and papers comprise letters relating to Rev W R Campbell, Annie Clark, Sarah Dundas, O Hurst, Hilda Longworth, the Margetts, prospectus for the Refractory Gold and Silver Ores Treatment Company, Stewart famiily legal documents and Taylor family letters and legal documents See Stephen Murray Back file Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See also MS-Papers-5711 for letters between J Dundas, John Martin and J Lyle, with same provenance Quantity: 26 folder(s). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter Provenance: These documents have been retrieved by Stephen Murray from a solicitor's office in Edinburgh Transfers: To Cartographic Collection - Sketch plan of freehold property in Russell and Brown Streets, Dunedin (n d).