Rolleston family

Date: 1882

By: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903; Wilson, Rosamond Russell, 1910-1981

Reference: MapColl-834.4492gbbg/1882/Acc.39356

Description: Map of Hagley Park, Christchurch City, showing three proposed rides, around or near Hagley Park. Identifies Plough Inn, cricket grounds, Carlton Bridge, exotic nursery, some streets and area of ground called 'acclimatisation'. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Pencil, part coloured, and ink on tracing paper, scale indeterminable, 34.6 x 39 cm. Provenance: William Rolleston collection, donated by Rosamund Rolleston, Sept 1971 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MSS papers 446, (Rolleston Family papers), folder 40. Collection series William Rolleston - Inward correspondence from New Zealand - From a letter to William Rolleston from Alexander Lean, September 1882..

Date: 1868-1949

By: Rolleston family

Reference: 79-287

Description: Family and other personal correspondence. Includes some of William Rolleston, his wife Mary, but mainly their son Francis Joseph; also including other family members. There are some letters of political, social and community significance relating to the careers of William Rolleston, and his son F J Rolleston. Writers include Professor J B Condliffe, Sir Francis Bell, Sir James Parr. Added in 1980 to this accession were 11 letters 1891-1893 from J D Ormond, Harold Kemp, E J Watts etc; 15 letters of family to F Rolleston at school, 1881-1889; various records of F Rolleston's life at school; his `Parodies on Gilbert and Sullivan' etc. Later in same year further Rolleston letters, 1868-1949 were added, including letters relating to the political career of John Christopher Rolleston. Source of title - Supplied title Other - Rosamond Rolleston was the author of `William and Mary Rolleston; an informal biography' which was published in 1971 Relationship complexity - See also MS-Group-0377 (1971 accession) Arrangement: The bulk of the letters had been arranged chronologically before they were deposited. Quantity: 3 box(es). 1 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter and photographs Finding Aids: When the papers were still with Rosamond Wilson, Steven Eldrid-Grigg listed those letters that seemed to him of chief interest, and this list is in a back file. These letters have been merged into the chronological sequence. Loose photographs

Date: 1846-1970, 1980

By: Rolleston family

Reference: MS-Group-0377

Description: Family and other personal correspondence, mainly of William Rolleston, his wife Mary, and their son Francis Joseph; also including other family members. Some political correspondence of William Rolleston in the early 1870's, 1880-1882 (especially native affairs), and 1884. Newspaper cuttings, legal papers, etc. Some correspondence relating to material for the book, William and Mary Rolleston; an informal biography by Rosamond Rolleston (Wellington, 1971) Source of title - Supplied title Other Titles - William and Mary Rolleston: an informal biography Relationship complexity - See also 79-287 (includes 1980 accessions), and 82-355 Quantity: 147 folder(s). 2 volume(s). 2.60 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter and photographs Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Rosamond Rolleston (Mrs George Hamish Ormond Wilson), RD 9, Palmerston North and later of Kelburn, Wellington, Sep 1971 Transfers: To Newspaper Collection - Timaru Herald, 3 Jul 1869; The Star, 12 May 1869; West Coast Times, 3 Aug 1869; The Press (ChCh), 14 Sep 1870, 24 Oct 1871, 8 Aug 1873, 11 Nov 1882.

Date: [1945-1959]

From: Riddiford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5714-101

Description: Letters from Nancy Rolleston to Meta Riddiford from Bearsted Lodge, Maidstone, Kent until Sept 1945, from Hollingbourne, Kent between Sep and Nov 1945, from London, Dec 1945, Durban 1946 and Nethwood, Sussex 1959, describing daily activities, people visiting and visited, news of the Riddiford sons and other matters Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1857-1869

From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers

Reference: 77-248-01/1

Description: Identified correspondents entered under Name below; also includes copy of `The Press', 20 Nov 1865 with typescripts of some letters Quantity: 1 folder(s). Letter from William Rolleston includes pencil sketch of Mount Algidous station

Date: 1882

By: Rolleston family; Rolleston, William, 1831-1903; Wilson, Rosamond Russell, 1910-1981

Reference: MapColl-834.4492gmbd/[1882]/Acc.39357

Description: Part cadastral, part street map of Christchurch City, from St Albans, southwards to Addington, showing named streets without land sections in the central city, and numbered land sections on the outskirts. Sections from Straven Road, northwards of Riccarton Road and Worcester Street, and eastwards to Stanmore Road are highlighted green. Sections below these, to Brougham Street, are highlighted red. Shown on the map are: jail reserve, immigration barracks, orphan asylum, Agricultural and Pastoral Association showgrounds, gas works, Christ's College, Avon River and streams, railway, cemeteries, churches, schools, inns and the hospital. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - part of a stamp with 'Waterlow & S...' and 'improv..' in centre Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on tracing paper, scale [ca 1:7 920], 88 x 94.5 cm. Provenance: Donated by Rosamond Rolleston, September 1971. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-0446-031, letter from Compton to Rolleston.

Date: [1860-1876?]

From: Edwin family :Photographs

By: Hemus & Hanna (Firm); Morgan, W H M, active 1870s; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PA1-q-071

Description: Album of portraits, many unidentified, and a collection of ships' crests. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey cover, darker corners and spine, spine title `Scraps', 28.0 x 24.5 cm

Date: [1943-1944]

From: Riddiford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5714-100

Description: Letters from Nancy Rolleston to Meta Riddiford written from Bearsted Lodge, nr Maidstone, Kent, describing people visiting including the Riddiford sons. Also includes letter from R A ?Knap re Daniel and Tony being prisoners-of-war; and from J C Rolleston. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1858 (2001), 1900, 1946

By: Rolleston family; Rolleston, William, 1831-1903

Reference: MS-Papers-7276

Description: The collection comprises part of a diary kept by William Rolleston, with transcription by Louise Rolleston, on his arrival in New Zealand in Nov 1858, in which he describes the Dunedin and Christchurch areas. Also includes letter from Frank Rolleston to his mother, Mary Rolleston, after his brother, Hector, went to the South African War in 1900; and letter from Frank Rolleston to Mrs Gee with family news and condolences for her husband's illlness (1946). Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See also MS-Papers-0446-057 for further extracts from the 1858 diary Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss and typescript

Date: [1949-1963]

By: Wilson, Rosamond Russell, 1910-1981

Reference: MS-Papers-6551

Description: Letters from various members of the Rolleston, Wilson and Williams families and including group of letters written by Helen Rolleston to family members in New Zealand from England (1949-1960), letter to Mary from George (1957), letters from Rosamund to Rachel while travelling through Europe (1957), from Helen to Nancy from Kikuyu (1963) and from M Philips to Rachel from London (1957) Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See TAPUHI for further collections of Rolleston, Wilson and Williams family papers Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated from the estate of Rosamund Wilson, Wellington, Oct 1980

Date: 1861-1903

By: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903

Reference: 77-248

Description: Comprises Mt Algidus Station diary (1861-1865); letter books (1869-1884); correspondence (1858-1903); newspaper clippings (1898-ca 1902); AMP valuations; speech notes; newspapers; property valuations; and miscellaneous correspondence which includes family letters Source of title - Supplied Further Rolleston papers at MS-Group-0377, 79-287, and 82-355 Quantity: 7 volume(s). 17 box(es). 1 folder(s). 3.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available. Processing information: QO679-QO685 (6 vols) with boxes in 1977 sequence

Date: [Circa 1870s-1890s]

By: Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm); Elliott & Fry (Firm); Bassano, Alexander, 1829-1913; Bartlett, Robert Henry, 1842-1911; Wilson, Rosamond Russell, 1910-1981

Reference: PA1-q-197

Description: Cartes-de-visite, chiefly taken circa 1870s to 1890s. Names of subjects given where possible in the list above; some photographers identified. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Cartes-de-visite album with brown leather cover, heavily embossed with gold decoration, lacking part of metal clasp; 29.5 x 23 cm