Camden (Ship)

Date: 1832-1838, 1984

By: Armstrong, Max G, active 1975-1996

Reference: MS-Papers-3943

Description: Letters and journal of Anne Catherine Wilson, edited by M G Armstrong, with appendices, list of mss and printed sources consulted, genealogical notes re Wilson and Hawker families, photographs (photocopies) of family members and residences. Photocopies of holograph letters of Anne to her husband, 1835-1838; and photocopy of Anne's shipboard diary for 1832. Anne Wilson was the wife of the missionary, John Alexander Wilson who was attached to the Church Missionary Society. The couple left England on board the `Camden', a convict vessel bound for NSW in 1932, and arrived in the Bay of Islands in 1833. Anne spent most of the next five years at the mission station at Puriri, near Thames, with other missionary wives involved in raising her children, school teaching and household chores. She was constantly separated from her husband who spent long periods travelling through troubled areas of Tauranga, Matamata and Roturua. The harsh life took its toll on Anne, and after a long illness she died at Tauranga in Nov 1838. Source of title - Supplied title Other Titles - My hand will write what my heart dictates... Quantity: 4 folder(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopies) and typescripts

Date: 1838

By: Rodius, Charles, 1802-1860; Hughes, Sidney Gwynne, active 1838; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-053-007

Description: Shows in the foreground a fenced garden. Beyond the fence stand two European men on the left, with a group of Aborigines to the rightl. Ships lie in the harbour in the background From an earlier plate, lacking three additional ships, including the Australian. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint, 220 x 397 mm (image), 261 x 428 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 339 x 490 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull

Date: 1819-1851

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

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-05-3191

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1837

By: Baxter, George, 1804-1867

Reference: B-088-001

Description: Rev. John Williams, later killed in Vanuatu, shown in a seated portrait. Behind him is a window through which can be seen a ship, probably the missionary ship Camden Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Baxter oil print 132 x 106 mm

Date: 1840 - 1849

By: Huggins, William John, 1781-1845; Duncan, Edward, 1803-1882; Elliot, Robert James, 1790-1849

Reference: C-008-003

Description: Shows the village of Fare, the missionary station, harbour and the sailing ship John Williams, with the London Missionary Society former ship Camden, lying at anchor in the background. A Tahitian canoe is in the water close to the ship and homes and other buildings are visible at the water's edge. Dimensions of ship given. cf. oil by R. Spencer 1845, in Rex Nan Kivell collection, National Library of Australia, (Item 22), an identical view probably based on this print Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 318 x 458 mm

Date: 1832-1836

By: Wilson, Anne Catherine, 1802-1838

Reference: MSDL-2267

Description: Electronic scans of the original journal which starts aboard the ship 'Camden' in 1832 to their settlement in New Zealand as missionaries at Bay of Islands, Puriri and Tauranga Church Missionary Society mission stations. Journal concludes in 1836. Source of title - Supplied by library Relationship complexity - See MS-Papers-3943-4 for photocopy of diary Anne Wilson was the wife of the missionary, John Alexander Wilson who was attached to the Church Missionary Society. The couple left England on board the 'Camden', a convict vessel bound for NSW in 1832, and arrived in the Bay of Islands in 1833. Quantity: 2 electronic scan(s).