Croad, Nancy, active 1963-2003

Date: 1915-1944

By: Varnham, Frederick Stuart, 1888-1963

Reference: MS-Group-0099

Description: Collection relating to (Frederick) Stuart Varnham's service in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF). Includes diaries kept by Varnham while on active service during World War One dated 1915-1919, and World War Two, dated 1940-1944. Also includes typed transcripts of diaries transcribed by Varnham's daughter, Nancy Croad. Also includes `Notes for travellers... in Palestine and Syria', 1933 (annotated); two silk maps of Italy and Cyraenaia; letter and postcard from George Bernard Knight (1916); and Active Service New Testament (1916). Also includes correspondence from Varnham to a family friend, written during World War Two; a programme for the National Peace Celebrations in London; and a 1936 volume of the 'Journal of the Taranaki Regiment'. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 12 volume(s). 6 folder(s) including one black and white original photographic print. 0.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, typescripts and printed matter. Provenance: Donor, Nancy Croad, is the daughter of Frederick Stuart Varnham.

Date: 1915-1916 (1987?)

From: Varnham, Frederick Stuart, 1889-1963 : War diaries, correspondence, and publications

Reference: MS-Papers-4303-1

Description: Diaries cover Jan 1915-1916 and describe Stuart Varnham's activities while he was on active service Accompanying material - Accompanied by three photographs of F S Varnham (Photocopies), 1915-1916 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typsecript Finding Aids: Index available at MS-Papers-4303-2. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs N Croad, daughter, 1988 (Acc88-166)

Date: 1917-1919 (1987?)

From: Varnham, Frederick Stuart, 1889-1963 : War diaries, correspondence, and publications

Reference: MS-Papers-4303-2

Description: Diaries cover period Jan 1915-Jun 1919 and describe Stuart Varnham's activities while he was on active service Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1947-1951

By: Croad, Ernest Norman, 1927-2002; Croad, Nancy, active 1963-2003

Reference: PAColl-7853

Description: Collection comprises: Photographs of construction of Pukaki and Tekapo hydro stations, ca 1948 Scenes in Mangakino and Tokoroa, 1947 Stockton and Rotowaro coal mines, ca 1947 Waiouru military camp, ca 1951 Otago Harbour, 1947 Ernest Norman Croad joined the Public Works Department in 1945 as a drafting cadet. He later trained as a surveyor and qualified as a civil engineer, working on roading projects for the Ministry of Works. He worked on civil engineering projects at Tokoroa, Tekapo, Pukaki, and the housing division at Waiouru. Quantity: 95 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by Mrs Nancy Croad, Auckland, 2003

Date: ca 1947-1963

By: Croad, Ernest Norman, 1927-2002; Croad, Nancy, active 1963-2003

Reference: PAColl-7726

Description: Views of Tokoroa and Warkworth, and the hydroelectric schemes at Pukaki amd Tekapo, taken and collected by Ernest Norman Croad (1927-2002) while working for the Public Works Department and the Ministry of Works in the late 1940s to the early 1960s. Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm-45635 to 45638 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). 71 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 b&w original negative(s) strips with 16 images.

Date: 1948

By: Croad, Nancy, active 1963-2003

Reference: A-355-019

Description: Original artwork for the cover of a menu features a drawing of a small boat on a lake (Lake Pukaki). A note on the back cover says: "Thanks are due to our Benevolent Department for donating the valuable manhours and materials without which the printing of this menu would have been impossible!" Ernest Norman Croad joined the Public Works Department in 1945 as a drafting cadet. He later trained as a surveyor and qualified as a civil engineer, working on roading projects for the Ministry of Works. He worked on civil engineering projects at Tokoroa, Tekapo, Pukaki, and the housing division at Waiouru. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on waxed wove paper, 180 x 255 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Nancy Croad, Auckland, February 2003. Transfers: From Photographic Archive - PH-2003-132.

Date: 1853-1860 (1992)

By: Varnham, John Rowe, 1818-1868; Croad, Nancy, active 1963-2003

Reference: MS-Group-2429

Description: Typed and electronic transcripts of the freight and passenger indexes for Varnham's Account book for the period 1853-1860 (held at qMS-2074). The indexes record dates, name of passenger or client, ship names, destination and deposit paid. Transcribed by Nancy Croad. Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - John Varnham account book held at qMS-2074 John Rowe Varnham was born ca 1818 the second son of Warner & Mary Varnham. He emigrated from the Isle of Wight in 1842 after service with the East India Company. In Wellington he became a successful shipping owner and merchant. In 1859 he entered into partnership with W N Luxford and C E Luxford and two others and purchased land in the Upper Tauweru but by 1863 the deal had gone sour and Varham went to Papawai where he leased land. He died 17 May 1868 leaving his wife Elizabeth Smith (Marshall) and his 5 daughters and 4 sons. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 2 Electronic document(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Provenance: Nancy Croad is granddaughter of Varnham.

Date: 1896

By: Croad, Nancy, active 1963-2003

Reference: PAColl-4908

Description: Arrangement: Prints housed at PAColl-D-549 and 550 Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1936

From: Andersen, Johannes Carl, 1873-1962 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0148-029D

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: For full description of the contents of this folder see Inventory.