Missionaries - Vanuatu

Date: 1918-1928

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

Reference: PAColl-6056-10

Description: Photographs primarily taken in the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu by unidentified photographers compiled by missionaries of the Melanesian Mission, 1918 to 1928. Shows landscapes, peoples and communities of the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. Some subjects are named and many photographs include inscriptions on verso. Photographs also feature scenes of missionary life in the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 86 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: Separated from album at Library reference PA1-o-2075.. Processing information: Desscription updated December 2023. Previous title: Photographs of the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.

Date: 1935-1947

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1311

Description: Letters from Adam and Christina Wilson, mainly from the Tangoa Teacher Training Institute, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, to their family in Edinburgh Source of title - Transcribed from item Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2009

Date: 1896-1905

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1252

Description: Comprise two indexed press copy letter books running from 1896 to 1905. The letters are to the Foreign Mission Committee of the Presbyterian Church in Victoria, and to individuals passing on mission news, as well as orders for supplies, and observations on the people and languages of Malekula. Also, lists and details of teachers both European and indigenous, and reports on teachers and students. Source of title - Transcribed Leggatt served as a Presbyterian missionary for some 25 years in the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), mainly at Aulua Mission on Malekula. He is noted for his linguistic work and his ethnographic observations. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: See http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/. Printed list also available.. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2006

Date: 1884-1895, 1913-1915

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1123

Description: The Rev. Gray's manuscripts, pamphlets and press cuttings on the labour traffic; copies of some annual reports of the Queensland Kanaka Mission and the Queensland Department of Pacific Island Immigration; pamphlets by J G Paton, A C Smith and J Inglis attacking the labour trade; the Rev. Dr David Crombie's press cuttings on the New Hebrides 1913-1915; William Watt Erskine's recollections of his childhood in Tanna, lantern slides and photographs of missionary life in the New Hebrides ca 1880. Source of title - Supplied Gray, a New Hebridean missionary, conducted a vigorous publicity campaign against the `Kanaka' labour traffic. Quantity: 2 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 1998

Date: 23 Apr 1893-31 Dec 1908

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0032

Description: The journals give a day by day account of Paton's work as a missionary in the New Hebrides over a period of nearly 18 years. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also in "Complete Annotated Catalogue" (Canberra: PMB, 1991) which has an index. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB

Date: 1890s

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Kitch, George B D, active 1880s-1915

Reference: PA1-q-263

Description: Photographs of the ship HMS Ringdove, her crew, and various ports of call in New Zealand, Australia, Chatham Islands, New Hebrides (Vanuatu), and Cook Islands. Some of the people are identified, and include men and women at the ports of call. Views in the Chatham Islands include Mrs Chudleigh and Emma Hodgson at the Chudleigh home, and a house built of ponga logs. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album lacking cover; 30.0 x 24.5 cm

Date: [ca 1878-1920s]

By: Michelsen, Johan Oscar (Rev), -1936

Reference: PA1-o-1870

Description: Reverend J Oscar Michelsen's photograph album relating to his time as a missionary in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), circa 1878 to 1890s. Also some photographs relating to the Sprague family of Dunedin, New Zealand, taken circa 1900s-1920s. Photographer unidentified. Michelsen has written a short caption under each image. - Vanuatu images are mainly taken on the island of Tongoa. Other locations include the islands of Nguna, Efate, Epi, Emae, Erromanga, Aneityum, and Aniwa. Buildings featured include mission houses, churches and some private residences (both European and indigenous). There are also some images of boats, road building, a banyan tree and other flora, scenic landscapes (mainly beaches and harbours), men in traditional dress, traditional drumming, and a scene from a meeting regarding the purchase of land for Tongoan mission station. Single print of collaged images relating to Michelsen's life is entitled "Autobiography in Photography" and includes portraits of Michelsen and a Bible & Tract Depot. Also contains one photograph of a sketch of Futuna Island. - Contains images of clergy and their wives and children: Rev D McDonald (from Victoria), Rev Robert M Fraser and his wife, Rev H A Robertson (from Canada), Lily (Michelsen's baby daughter); Rev Charles Murray and his wife, Mr Milne and his four children; Rev J W MacKenzie (of Canada); Captain McLeod; and Rev J G Paton. Identified indigenous people include Taripoamata and Timataso (Tongoan chiefs); Kaiasi (cook of Rev Fraser); Tarisaliu (a Tongoan chief) and his wife; teachers Taripoa, Tarisogoliu, and Man[ooi?] (the first Tongoan martyr); Manamlaka (Tongoan chief and teacher) and his wife Leriki; teacher Maripan; Matokoali (a Ngunese chief and teacher) and unidentified Ngunese Christians; [Nalemahina?] servant of Mr Milne; Tongoan teachers Manutae, Tanioto, and [Tinafuna?]; and Tongoan chief Mataputi and his family. - Also includes [family?] photographs taken circa 1890s to circa 1920s, many of which are in Dunedin, New Zealand. Identified figures are Mr A Boles, Vera Burgess, Mrs Jock Campbell (nee Maggie Moffett), Mary Smyth, Mrs Lewis, baby Bill Lewis, Albert Smyth, Cecil [Smyth?], Ernie Sprague, Sprague family portrait (man and five children), Newton Sprague, and Francis Walter Sprague. There are many portraits of unidentified men, women, and children. Other photographs show Signal Hill, Dunedin Botanic Gardens (with band rotunda), Dunedin cityscape and street scenes, Smyth's dairy factory, Otago Harbour, coastal scenes, man driving a horse and trap, greenhouse (interior and exterior), rowboats, and a dog and girl on the beach. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Accompanying material - contains printouts on the background of the New Hebridies Mission which were interleaved in the album when it arrived at the Library Inscriptions: Album page - top right - first page inscription reads: "To Mrs Rang[imina?] with affectionate regards from her son-in-law OM" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with reddish brown cover embossed in black and faded gold with a cameo at the centre, 24 x 19 cm Provenance: Purchased 2014. Vendor purchased the album at an auction a few months before selling it to the Library.

Date: 1870-1924

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau: Digitised records from the Pacific Area

Reference: PMB-MS-1402

Description: Contains Revend Peter Milne’s diaries containing daily notes relating to the New Hebrides mission from 19 July 1870 to 27 September 1924. Reverend Peter Milne was born at Stains, Aberdeen on the 17 May 1834. He trained and was ordained as a missionary to the New Hebrides (Vanuatu) with the Free Church of Scotland, under the Presbyterian Synod of Otago and Southland. He married Miss Mary Jane Veitch in December 1868 and they quickly departed for the New Hebrides via Dunedin, settling on Nguna Island in 1870. Mary Milne left the island for Dunedin in 1906 but died of a malarial illness in 1908. The Reverend Milne continued his missionary work on Nguna until his death in 1924 at age 90. Quantity: 12 Electronic document(s). Finding Aids: See Pacific Manuscripts Bureau catalogue record at https://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/catalogue/index.php/diaries-37.

Date: 1836-1876

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0417

Description: Comprises diaries 1835-1876, covering his missionary career from commencement to to his retirement; hymns in the Samoan language, letters to his second wife, Lydia Lantoret 1870-1876, together with some of her own letters to the family 1870-1882. Source of title - Transcribed Nisbet served as a LMS missionary on Samoa and the New Hebrides for much of his life. Quantity: 3 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also `Complete Annotated Catalogue' (Canberra, PMB, 1991) which has an index. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB

Date: 1857-1938

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0031

Description: A detailed account of Presbyterian missionary activity in the New Hebrides from 1857 to 1938. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also in "Complete Annotated Catalogue" (Canberra: PMB, 1991) which has an index.

Date: 1908-1918

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1358

Description: Comprise four diaries, kept by Filmer while he was a missionary with the Church of Christ Mission on Pentecost Island, New Hebrides Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: See http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/catalogue/. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2011

Date: 1947-1973

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1140

Description: The papers comprise 3 `volumes'. Vol 5 describes Miller's journey to Tangoa and work as Principal of the Teachers Training Institution, his LIVE books, photographs, lectures and the relationship with the condominium authorities. Vol 6 includes selected classroom notes on teaching the bible, English, Christian conduct, practical training, church work, teaching method, preaching class and Christian doctrine. Vol 12 describes his return to Tangoa, plans for the Bible College, publications, student life, fieldwork, refresher courses, conferences, appointments, the Silver Jubilee of the Prebyterian Church of the New Hebrides and the 10th anniversary celebrations of the College in 1981. Source of title - Transcribed Dr Graham and Flora Miller, New Zealand Presbyterian missionaries in Vanuatu, were on Tongoa (Shepherd Group) 1941-194, before moving to Tangoa where Dr Miller was made Principal of the Tangoa Training Institute (TTI) 1947-1952. In 1971 he helped establish a Presbyterian Bible College on Vanuatu. As a member of the New Hebrides Synod he was involved with the indigenization of the Presbyterian Church in Vanuatu. Quantity: 2 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, 1999.

Date: 1930-1948

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

By: Leishman, Helen (Sister), 1902-1995

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1244

Description: Correspondence covering all aspects of missionary life from arrival on Siota Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Complete listing at http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/finals/searchlong.php. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2005

Date: 1869-1893

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0197

Description: There are 33 letters. The first four were written in New Zealand, and all but one of the rest from the New Hebrides, mainly Nguna The Rev Peter Milne was born in Scotland and went to the New Hebrides as a Presbyterian Missionary in 1869. After a brief stay on Erromanga, he established himself at Nguna on Efate, where he remained except for short breaks, for the rest of his life Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also "Complete annotated catalogue" (Canberra: PMB, 1991) which has an index. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Supplied by Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Canberra

Date: 1870-1975

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1387

Description: Comprises Margaret Paton's journal 1870-1872 and 1874-1875; Also correspondence from Minnie Paton to William Frederick Paton on the history of the Paton family; includes excerpts from Margaret Paton's journal. Source of title - Transcribed from item Margaret Paton served with her husband John Gibson Paton at the Presbyterian mission station in the New Hebrides 1864-1899. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: See http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2012

Date: 1858-1891

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1386

Description: Comprise his journal, notes, mainly of the missions, some correspondence, an incomplete narrative of life in the New Hebrides and a brief manuscript in pencil titled, in another hand 'About Naswai & Katua on Aniwa' Source of title - Transcribed from item Paton served as a Reformed Presbyterian missionary in the then New Hebrides with his wives Mary Ann Robson (d 1859) and Margaret Whitecross (m. 1864, d. 1905) from 1858 to 1899. Travelled to Australia to raise funds for the Mission among other activities. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: See http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2012

Date: 1841

By: Baxter, George, 1804-1867

Reference: B-088-015

Description: A palm-fringed island with a mountain in the rear. The Rev. John Williams is stepping from a rowboat, surrounded by other Europeans, about to go ashore. On shore is a crowd of Vanuatuans Possibly pirated or otherwise variant version of original oil print of Jan, 1841 (see B-088-003); hand col. engraving with sepia as base colour, and other colours different; oil print has blue base colour and is narrower, but may have been trimmed Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving 220 x 320 mm

Date: 1838 - 1840

By: Anelay, Henry, active 1840s; Lynch, James Henry, -1868

Reference: C-020-004

Description: A standing full length portrait of Williams (later killed in Vanuatu) on board ship with a Pacific island background and Vanuatuan artifacts alongside him This lithograph is likely to have been published around the time of Williams' death in 1839 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 407 x 319 mm

Date: 1843 - 1839

By: Baxter, George, 1804-1867

Reference: B-088-005

Description: Seated portrait of Williams, killed in Vanuatu (the New Hebrides) in 1839. He is in a red armchair Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Baxter print, 268 x 219 mm

Date: 1841

By: Baxter, George, 1804-1867

Reference: B-088-003

Description: A palm-fringed shore with a mountain in the background. Rev. John Williams is stepping ashore from a rowboat with other Europeans, towards a crowd of Vanuatuans Compare another version at B-088-015 Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil print, coloured 213 x 317 mm Provenance: Purchased from Francis Edwards, January 6, 1966