Rhodes family

Date: 1996-2007

By: Rhodes, Valerie June, 1932-

Reference: MS-Group-1719

Description: Family histories of the Spencer and Rhodes families, compiled by Valerie Rhodes. The Spencer family history are in red binders and include digital copies of many of the World War I letters of Gordon Spencer, while the material relating to the Rhodes family are in blue binders and include reminiscences by Alan Geoffrey Rhodes, husband of Valerie Rhodes. The collection is profusely illustrated with digital copies of photographs. Quantity: 9 volume(s). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript, photographs (scanned)

Date: Aug 2001

From: Rhodes, Valerie June, 1932- : Spencer and Rhodes family histories

Reference: MSX-8196

Description: Reminiscence of this early years growing up in Mount Victoria, Wellington, and teenage years spent in Lyall Bay, Wellington. Describes the family homes at Derby Street and Kent Terrace, Mount Victoria; holidays at Hihitahi; childhood entertainment; war years and visit of the Pamir; hobbies (reading, model-making); years at Clyde Quay School (includes photo of Std 1 taken in 1939) and time spent at Otaki Health Camp. Move to Queens Drive, Lyall Bay and years at Wellington College. Discusses first years of his working life and ends with his move to Upper Hutt as an optometrist with Cocks & Newall, and meeting his wife Valerie Spencer in 1954. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Finding Aids: Surname index at back.

Date: [ca 1895-1984]

By: Ryle-Hodges, Eddie, 1939-2001; Sartoni, Giulia, active 1881

Reference: PAColl-0594

Description: Photographs and transparencies of The Levels, the Rhodes family home in Epworth, Lincolnshire; two photographs of a portrait of Mary Ann Rhodes by Giulia Sartoni; copy of a photograph of Mary Ann with her sons Teddy and Will; copy of a photograph of William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse in his Austro Daimler in which he completed the Monte Carlo rally; and a copy of a photograph of Edward Moorhouse and his son and grandson. Photographed by Eddie Ryle-Hodges. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 colour original photographic print(s). 2 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [ca 1825-1881], 1932

By: Ferguson, William Dubois, 1891-1959

Reference: MS-Papers-0296

Description: Notes on members of the Moorhouse family, especially W S Moorhouse, Rhodes, Studholme, Barton, Wigley, Howell and Crawford families. Pages 72-135 of a larger work. This appears to be an adapted and re-typed version of his father's (William Ferguson) work; see MS-Papers-4169. Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s) (65 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: May 1998

From: Rhodes, Valerie June, 1932- : Spencer and Rhodes family histories

Reference: MSX-8197

Description: Family history of the Vizer and Morrell families. Section A - The Vizers (Another start in a new land & London churches associated with the families); Section B - The Vizer family register; Section C - The Morrells (Sarah Morrell, her parents and siblings). Surnames of the main families have been entered in the Name Field. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Finding Aids: Surname index at back.

Date: 1903-1904

By: Lush, John Arthur, 1881-1964

Reference: MS-Papers-9714

Description: Transcript of diary of Lush, recording his travel to New Zealand on NZSCo vessel Papanui, life in Christchurch, and his return to England. Entries vary from brief to full and lively descriptions of the voyage and of life with the Rhodes family Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Bound typescript

Date: 1917-1929

By: Rhodes, Elizabeth, active 1917-1929

Reference: MS-1816

Description: Contains verses, signatures, sketches and photographs Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss (11cm, green leather, blue case) Sketches and photographs included

Date: 1860-1890

Reference: Eph-B-HERALDRY-1860/1890-01

Description: Album in which around 250 crests, probably cut from envelopes and note paper, have been stuck. Pencil captions identify many, including some names with New Zealand associations: Rhodes, Vogel, Stafford, Riddiford, Government House, Jessie Moorehouse[?] Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Hardbound volume with decorated cover; of around 40 leaves, many unfilled, dimensions 290 x 250 mm.

Date: Aug 2001

From: Rhodes, Valerie June, 1932- : Spencer and Rhodes family histories

Reference: MSY-6675

Description: Family history of the Rhodes and Beeby families. Section A - Yorkshire to New Zealand. The ancestors, descendants and relatives of Alan Geoffrey Rhodes documented by his wife Valerie. Dr Clarence Edward Beeby was Alan's first cousin once removed; Dorothy Neal White was also a cousin. Surnames of the main families have been entered in the Name Field. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Finding Aids: Surname index at back.

Date: [1960-1991]

From: Bryant, George A, active 1964-2004 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6845-1

Description: Comprises draft of article, `Maori-Pakeha romance in pioneering New Zealand; first Air VC grandson of Maori chieftainess', published newspaper articles and notes relating to the Rhodes-Moorhouse family, particularly Lieutenant William Rhodes-Moorhouse, VC, and typescript article, `Will's flying 1910', about flying, and including transcripts of Rhodes-Moorhouse material Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photographs relating to Rhodes-Moorhouse, Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand Day and the Maori Bible.

Date: 1966-1967

From: Bryant, George A, active 1964-2004 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6944-2

Description: Copy of letter from Bryant to St Paul's Cathedral requesting marriage entry details for Edward Moorhouse and Mary Ann Rhodes, with reply, and copy of letter from Bryant to W C Carkeek, requesting information on the Rhodes family Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1851-1975

From: White, Dorothy Mary Neal, 1915-1995 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7995-184

Description: Marriage certificate of Thomas and Elizabeth Rhodes (ancestors of Dorothy Neal White on her mother's side), will of Dorothy Neal White (1974) and Deed of Trust concerning the Dromkeen Collection in Victoria (1975). Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1860s]

Reference: 1/2-077955-F

Description: (Rhodes?) family, alongside a house made of ponga logs and thatch, Heathfield settlement, circa 1860s. Photographer unidentified. Note on back of file print reads "Heathfield sttlement. Rhodes (family?)" "Known as a "bungi house". Fern tree trunks were cut to length, split down the middle and the rounded 'hairy' edge was put on the weather side. The cracks on the smooth side were later caulked with pugged clay and moss. The walls were firmly laced together and window and door frames neatly fixed in position. Long straight saplings served for rafters, lighter saplings, spaced six to eight inches apart served for purloins and formed a secure base for the red tussock thatch roof. The floor was levelled and the earth became quite hard so that it could be swept with a manuka broom. A hole was dug for the chimney foundations and this also was built of any stones that they could find locally. The Rhodes family arrived in the district in the early to mid 1890s." (Information taken from caption used in "Darling, I'm home!" display). Exhibited in 'Darling, I'm Home!' exhibition at the National Library of New Zealand, 1 June - 5 July 1999. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1849

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-187-053

Description: A cluster of rough huts, with a fence in a bare plain close to the harbour. A road runs to the right and a group of four people stands in the distance William Barnard Rhodes was involved with the purchase of lands in Waikanae, Porirua and Wellington from the Te Ati Awa and Ngati Toa tribes. Many of these purchases were later disputed by the tribes concerned. Rhodes had also invested heavily in trading and whaling operations in the Kapiti and Wellington districts as well as Northland. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on toned paper, 95 x 140 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-026/027

Description: A panoramic view from the hills above Purau, looking towards Lyttelton Heads on the left, and the buildings of George Rhodes' station on the right. A detail of a horse's head is drawn in against the right-hand margin Inscriptions: Recto - above image - (pg. 26) 13 Sept; Recto - beneath image - (pg. 26) Looking NW; Recto - above image - (pg. 27) Sept 14; Recto - beneath image - (pg. 27) From side of Rhodes 14 Sep Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (double page). Physical Description: Pencil, 127 x 400 mm (page size)

Date: [ca 1933]

From: Whitehead, Henry Norford, 1870-1965 :Negatives of Napier, Hastings and district

Reference: 1/1-019224-G

Description: Photograph taken by Henry Norford Whitehead. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin glass negative, 1/1 plate