Bangalore (Ship)

Date: 29 Sep 1851-28 Sep 1892

By: Harris, William Harris, 1830-1902

Reference: MS-Papers-8471

Description: Copies and typed transcripts of correspondence mainly from Harris to his family in the United Kingdom after he immigrated on the `Bangalore' to Canterbury in New Zealand. Harris includes brief description of the voyage and few days spent in Wellington, before leaving for Canterbury; describes the landscape, social conditions and farming opportunities. Further transcripts of correspondence from Harris' children are included. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr Ramstedt, United States of America, December 2005

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-042

Description: The story of two related families, Barraud and Chapman, who came to New Zealand as pioneer settlers. It touches on their voyages out on the Bangalore in 1844 and the Pilgrim in 1849, raising their children and the difficulties they had to overcome settling in. Through the letters of 12 year old Jessie Sarah Barraud it describes their two year trip home to England in 1875, the places they saw and the relatives they visited. Later in New Zealand the story recounts the day to day happenings, people and events that took place, paricularly in and around Wellington, as well as Milton and Wanganui. Includes Barraud-Chapman family tree Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available. Photographs

Date: 18 Feb 1832-11 Jun 1845

By: FitzRoy, Robert (Capt), 1805-1865

Reference: MS-Papers-0805

Description: Four letters from Beaufort at the Hydrographic Office, 18 Feb 1832-5 Jun 1833, chiefly on official matters; one letter by FitzRoy to George Rice-Trevor; five letters from Mary FitzRoy to her sister-in-law Fanny, four of them written from Auckland describing New Zealand. Letters dated 16 Aug 1843, 1 Dec 1843, and 8 Jan 1844 describe the voyage to Auckland on the `Bangalore' which arrived on 23 Dec 1843 via Sydney Quantity: 1 folder(s) (36 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopies)

Date: 1818-1851

From: United Kingdom. Admiralty : Records relating to the Pacific

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-05-3189

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1843-1846

From: Chapman, Henry Samuel, 1803-1881 : Letters

Reference: qMS-0418

Description: Includes shipboard letters written on board the `Bangalore' and after arrival in Auckland, Jun 1843-26 Jan 1844 Henry and Catherine Chapman and their son Harry were travelling first saloon on board the Bangalore to Auckland in 1843 Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 17 Mar 1826-15 Oct 1845

By: King, Phillip Parker, 1791-1856

Reference: MS-Papers-0784

Description: 2 letters by Dumont d'Urville, 17 Mar 1826 & 17 Oct 1831. 3 Letters by R Fitzroy, 18 Nov 1831 aboard the Beagle awaiting Admiralty instructions, 5 Nov 1834 introducing Conrad Martens to King, 9 Dec 1843 aboard the Bangalore prior to his departure for NZ states that he anticipates no great trouble with the Maoris but much from the pakehas. 1 letter from Sit T L Mitchell, 15 Oct 1845 saying he felt sorry for Fitzroy who was too goood for NZ. 6 letters from J E Home, 13 Apr 1844-28 Jul 1845 about Fitzroy, NZ affairs, war at the Bay of Islands Quantity: 1 folder(s) (46 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: 1998

By: Druett, Ronald John, 1934-

Reference: A-426-051/061

Description: Includes illustrations of sailing ships including the 'Bangalore', the East Maui Female Seminary, Hannah Reed at the helm, ship deck plans. Quantity: 9 drawing(s). 2 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Ink and gouache monotone drawings, and some photocopies, sizes varying Provenance: Donated by the artist, Wellington, in 2008.

Date: 1840 - 1843

By: Chapman, Henry, 1770-1863; Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Chapman, Henry Samuel, 1803-1881

Reference: MapColl-100atc/[1843?]/Acc.53399

Description: Shows the coastlines of England, France and Spain, West and South Africa, Brazil, and southern Australia round to Sydney. Travel distances recorded. Dates and relative location along the voyage are given. Route of travel from England followed the coastlines of France, Spain, West Africa, Brazil, South Africa, Indian Ocean and Australia to Sydney. Longitudes 15 degree grid drawn in. Inscription inside backcover: "Originally a section plan of the town of Wellington. It has been used by Henry Chapman father of Justice H.S. Chapman for a totally different purpose, namely to build up a map sufficient to the globe to lay down the voyage of the Bangalore in which H.S. Chapman and his wife and son sailed from London to Auckland New Zealand in the ship Bangalore in 1843. It is practiclly impossible to preserve the original map while this purpose is kept in mind; but it is here. The charted voyage goes in fact only as far as Sydney NSW and for this record it is kept. The ship however continued to Auckland." Other Titles - Plan of the town of Wellington Port Nicholson: the first and principal settlement of the New Zealand Company, 14th August 1840. Quantity: 2 map(s) 1 chart of the ocean voyage mounted on the verso of:Plan of the town of Wellington Port Nicholson... Physical Description: Hand drawn in ink and coloured on one side of sheet mounted on verso of original plan, 49 x 37 cm. Poor condition. Map torn and no longer bound in cover. Provenance: Previous property of Henry Samuel Chapman.