Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-

Date: 30 Sep 1874-20 Jan 1875, 2001

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Hilliker, George, active 1874

Reference: MS-Papers-7084

Description: Account of voyage from Gravesend to Port Chalmers on the vessel `Margaret Galbraith'. Hilliker was travelling in the single men's compartment and his brief daily entries record the ship's progress, vessels sighted, weather and events on board. He arrived at Port Chalmers on 9 Jan and took the steamer to Oamaru, his final destination, arriving on 20 Jan 1875. The account is written in the form of a letter which was probably posted back to relatives in England Quantity: 1 folder(s) (12 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by M Donaldson, 2001

Date: [ca 1930-1940] - [ca 1990-2007]

By: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-

Reference: ATL-Group-00791

Description: The collection chiefly contains material related to Marsha Donaldson’s indexing and transcription work on shipboard diaries and first-hand accounts of voyages from 1839 to 1900. Also includes photographs and ephemera collected by Donaldson. Title supplied by Library. Donaldson worked at the Library in the 2000s and also did transcriptions of shipboard diaries as a volunteer. She published in the `New Zealand genealogist'. Quantity: 66 folder(s). 21 Electronic document(s). 12 b&w copy negative(s). 9 photocopy/ies. 4 volume(s). 0.50 Linear Metres.

Date: Sep 1877-Dec 1879

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Barraud, Laura Cottam, 1859-1935

Reference: MS-Papers-7767

Description: Barraud records part of the return voyage to Wellington with her family on the `Zealandia', 12 Sep-26 Oct 1877, ending with two weeks quarantine on Somes Island after a smallpox outbreak. From Apr-Dec 1879 Laura resumed her diary describing family and social life in Wellington. Daughter of the artist Charles Barraud. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (22 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 6 Aug 1849-16 Jan 1850

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Slatter, George, 1806-1859

Reference: MS-Papers-7078

Description: Shipboard diary kept during a voyage from London to New Zealand aboard the Pekin, 6 Aug 1849-16 Jan 1850. Before arriving at Nelson he also described time spent at Port Chalmers and Wellington. The voyage entries mainly describe the ship's progress George Slatter, his wife Sarah and their five children, emigrated as steerage passangers aboard the New Zealand Company vessel Pekin Quantity: 1 folder(s) (18 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcript

Date: 4 Apr-8 Jul 1864, 2001

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Caygill, James, active 1864

Reference: MS-Papers-7211

Description: Diary attributed to James Caygill from Yorkshire, a married steerage passenger aboard the `Amoor' during a voyage from England to Lyttelton. He describes the ship's progress, weather, shipboard life (interspersed with lines of verse), and his first impressions of Christchurch. Also a poem written by `Speightspeare' (Caygill?) in which he expresses his reason for immigrating Quantity: 1 folder(s) (16 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Marsha Donaldson of Upper Hutt, 2001

Date: 4 Jun-1 Nov 1877

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Grant, George, 1859-1901

Reference: MS-Papers-7148

Description: Describes religious work among passengers and sailors; also describes Rio de Janeiro where ship remained several weeks for repairs after collision on 7 July resulting in the loss of the barque `Ellen Lamb'; and brief description of Somes Island Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (22 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Marsha Donaldson of Upper Hutt

Date: 6 Sep-8 Dec 1879

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Stokes, Thomas Oliver, -1950

Reference: MS-Papers-7161

Description: Stokes comments on conditions on board, family members and other passengers, the `Wanganui's' progress, weather, birds and fish sighted, and shipboard life in general Source of title - Supplied Accompanying material - NZ Shipping Company passenger list for Wanganui (Microfilm printout), and copy of original diary Thomas Oliver Stokes Junior immigrated to Dunedin with his parents and 4 brothers and 4 sisters. He was the eldest child in the family and celebrated his 21st birthday during the voyage Quantity: 1 folder(s) (20 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms Marsha Donaldson, Upper Hutt, Jul 2001

Date: 6 Nov 1841 (transcribed 2006)

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Barrett, Richard, 1807-1847

Reference: MS-Papers-8681

Description: Letter to his brother, written from Port Nicholson, 6 Nov 1841, giving details of his life since he arrived in New Zealand, ca 1830. Transcribed by Marsha Donaldson, with footnotes relating to Richard Barrett's three daughters Accompanying material - Photocopy of original letter (MS-Papers-1183) and pages from DNZB Vol 1 (Richard Barrett) Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcript, mss, printed matter (some photocopies)

Date: 13 Dec 1841-13 May 1842

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Hughes, Thomas, 1807-

Reference: MS-Papers-7154

Description: The logbook describes the passengers' health and details of treatment and includes observations on the weather and the voyage. The medical comforts, list of stores and a chart detailing daily rates of sailing which are at the back of the original log have not been transcribed. Dr Thomas Hughes was the Surgeon Superintendent on board the New Zealand Company vessel `Clifford' during her voyage to Wellington and Nelson. The ship left Gravesend on 18 December 1841 and arrived at Nelson, its final destination, on 11 May 1842. Accompanying material - Explanatory notes about the transcript; Passenger list and pages relating to the voyage from `Pioneer passengers' by June E Neale [1982] Quantity: 1 folder(s) (29 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1 May-16 Aug, 1 Sep 1862

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Smith, William, active 1862

Reference: MS-Papers-6934

Description: Smith, a single man, gives a steerage passenger's candid view of the voyage, especially weather experienced, food, Neptune's visit, fellow passengers; and describes their first few days in Dunedin. Includes an index to people and ships mentioned Source of title - Supplied Travelling in company of his brother Rev James Smith and wife who gave birth to a daughter Cecilia Sutherland Meiklejohn Smith a few days out from Port Chalmers. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (19, 1 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcript Finding Aids: Index to people and ships mentioned in diary. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Marsha Donaldson, Upper Hutt (Nov 2000)

Date: 7 Jul 1868-22 Jan 1869

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Bent, Robert, active 1868-1879

Reference: MS-Papers-4733

Description: Comprises transcription by Marsha Donaldson of shipboard diary kept by Bent on board the `Siam' (1868-1869) to Auckland, during his time in Coromandel and return voyage of the Siam. Includes index Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (28 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: [ca 1908]

By: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-; Cain, Frederick William, 1881-1954

Reference: PAColl-1641

Description: Includes railways, bridges and churches Quantity: 16 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1841-1847 (transcribed, 1993)

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Greenwood, Joseph Hugh, 1819-1849

Reference: MS-Papers-4882

Description: Typed transcript of diary of a voyage to New Zealand on the `Lady Nugent'; farming at Lowry Bay, 1841-1843, at Purau, Banks Peninsula, 1843-1845 and at Motunau from 1845. Contains details of farming, trading and community activities and describes other Banks Peninsula and Wellington families. Also contains an account of journey from Lowry Bay via Wanganui to New Plymouth, Feb 1843 for trading reasons and up the Wairarapa coast in search of pastoral land. Diary refers constantly to Greenwood's older brother James Dent Greenwood who farmed with him. Source of title - supplied title Relationship complexity - Original at MS-0878. Microfilm at MS-Copy-Micro-0345, photocopy of original at qMS-0885. Quantity: 1 folder(s) 163 pages.. 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Marsha Donaldson, Wellington, 1994

Date: 1883 [transcribed 2012]

By: Covert, William Leopold Fruend, -1940

Reference: MS-Papers-11366

Description: Shipboard diary kept by W L Covert. The SS `John Elder' sailed from Gravesend to Melbourne and on to Sydney. He then trans-shipped to the `Ringarooma' for the onward voyage to Auckland, arriving October 1883. The diary appears to cover events, August 1883 to sometime in 1891. As well as the journey to New Zealand the diary also describes his travels in the North Island once he arrived. Source of title - Supplied by Library Other - Transcript of diary of William Leopold Covert located at MS-Papers-8690 Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Marsha Donaldson, 2012

Date: 1851-1858, 1910 (2000)

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Mieville, Frederick Louis, 1830-1922

Reference: MS-Papers-6938

Description: Reminiscences written in 1910 of Mieville's life in New Zealand, mainly on Glenham Station in the Mataura Valley, Southland, and in Dunedin; transcribed and indexed by Marsha Donaldson. Includes shipboard accounts of the voyage to Port Chalmers on the 'Dominion' in 1851 with the Richardson family, a voyage home to England via Melbourne on the 'Thomas and Henry', and 'Royal Charter' in 1857, and the return voyage to Port Chalmers in 1858 on 'Agra'. He includes some of his wife's diary entries in his reminiscences. His first year in New Zealand was spent at Otepopo on the sheep station owned by Charles Suisted. He married Fanny Richardson in Dunedin in 1854. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (106, 7 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Accompanied by index to people and ships mentioned, and some places. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Marsha Donaldson, Upper Hutt (Nov 2000)

Date: 1856-1857, 2008

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Igglesden, Charles Moore, 1832-1920

Reference: MS-Papers-9136

Description: Letter/diary sent by Charles Igglesden to his friend William Watkins. Dated entries describe the voyage of the Mermaid; the ship left Liverpool on 21 Nov 1855 and arrived at Melbourne on 10 Feb 1856. The first page of the original diary is missing; the entries cover events 3 January 1856 to arrival in Australia on 10 February 1856, and impressions of Melbourne. Also a letter to Watkins, dated 11 May 1857, Wellington in which Igglesden discusses the social, economic conditions and opportunities for employment as a draughtsman. Accompanying material - Photocopy of original Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy), typed transcript

Date: 22 Sep 1841-7 Mar 1842

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Thompson, Thomas John, 1814-1900

Reference: MS-Papers-7245

Description: Letter/diary written to his brother-in-law, Rev John N Garland, dated 26 Jan 1842 which covers events 20 Sep 1841-7 Mar 1842; shipboard diary with entries 22 Sep 1841-5 Feb 1842; list of passengers and ship's company with additional notes Thomas John Thompson was a cabin passenger. He married fellow passenger Sarah Hargreaves (1827-1913) at Nelson in 1846 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (5, 15, 3 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Marsha Donaldson of Upper Hutt, 2001

Date: 8 Dec 1861-8 Apr 1862 (2006)

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Wilson, John James, 1840-1918

Reference: MS-Papers-8693

Description: Brief daily entries record shipboard activities, weather conditions, care of the birds, shipboard events, ships sighted, ship's arrival at Auckland Wilson travelled to Auckland on the Cashmere in charge of 125 singing and game birds being imported into New Zealand Quantity: 1 folder(s) 12 leaves. 0.01 Linear Metres.

Date: 1858-1859, 2001

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Crump, John (Rev), 1828-1912

Reference: MS-Papers-7337

Description: Title continues:`...and his life in Auckland, and letter to his mother, Onehunga'. Crump describes his voyage to New Zealand on the `Kingston' with fellow missionaries Robert Vickers, William Rowse and James Moorhouse. He mentions shipboard events including the collision with an American whaler on 24 Dec 1858, fellow passengers, and his life in Auckland where he lived with the Buddle family at Onehunga. References to Rev Harding, Rev Thomas Buddle and family, Mr Turton, Mr Vercoe, and Three Kings Native Institution. Also includes a letter from Crump to his mother written from Onehunga, 24 Jun 1859. The Kingston arrived at Auckland on 28 Dec 1858 Quantity: 1 folder(s) 43 leaves. 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Marsha Donaldson of Upper Hutt, 2002

Date: 1885, 1989

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Olding, Jane Sophia, -1902

Reference: MS-Papers-4178

Description: The diary describes the latter part of Jane Olding's voyage to New Zealand on the `Aorangi' and gives her first impressions of life in the Kuripapango district. At the back of the diary are several pages of newspaper clippings. Also included is a transcript of the diary by Eliza Fielder in 1886? and Marsha Donaldson in 1989. Source of title - Supplied Accompanying material - Accompanied by explanatory letter from donor Jane Olding sailed from London to Auckland on the `Aorangi', disembarking at Napier Nov 1885. She joined her brother, Robert Batley on his farm 56 kilometres past Kuripapango on the Napier-Taihape road, at "Moawhanga" [Moawhango]. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (55 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typed transcripts (photocopies) Provenance: Donor's great-great-grandmother, Eliza Fielder, was a good friend of Jane Olding; this diary was found at the back of Eliza Fielder's journal (MS-Papers-4180)