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New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
- Date
- [ca 1986-1990]
- By
- New Zealand Society of Genealogists
- Reference
- MS-Papers-4280
- Description
Essays and associated records of the Family Biography Competition
Source of title - From published guide
Quantity: 111 folder(s). 1.50 Linear Metres.
Finding Aids: Published inventory available giving full details of each essay (located in the Manuscripts Section library).
Processing information: This record was updated on 8 May 2020 with the current postal address of the NZSG.
- Use/Reproduction
- No essay may be published in full or in part without the permission of the author, or, on the death of the author, the New Zealand Society of Genealogists Inc, P.O. Box 13 – 036 Panmure, Auckland 1471. Photographs from private collections may not be reproduced without the permission of the owner and/or the author of the essay. Copies of photographs held in public institutions must be obtained from that institution. Email address: nzsg-contact@genealogy.org.nz. When contacting the Society cite essayist's name and membership number (published in inventory)
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Format
- 111 folder(s), 1.50 Linear Metres, Essays, Biographies, Autobiographies, Family histories, Manuscripts
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Margaret Aroha Skelton - The Clarkson family
Date: 1990
From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
Reference: MS-Papers-4280-082
Description: Title continues:`...pioneers of Port Nicholson and Port Cooper'. The essay covers verified facts about Clarkson's great-great-grandparents, their emigration to NZ, and the seafaring career of their son, Thomas. Some of the family arrived on the `Bolton' at Port Nicholson in 1840 and another group on the `Sir Edward Paget' at Port Cooper in 1856. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Includes photographs of Capt Thomas Nicolson Clarkson, 1890; Caroline Clarkson, 1898 Processing information: Name heading for Clarkson family removed following information from staff member, August 2023.
Linnette Horne - From Monacute to Monacute
Date: 1990
From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
Reference: MS-Papers-4280-054
Description: Title continues:`...the Wiltons of Wellington'. Story of the Wilton family who emigrated to Wellington from Somerset on the `Oriental' in 1841. They were at the forefront of the development of early Wellington. From here some of the family moved to Masterton at its formation. A suburb in Wellington is named after the family Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available.
Isobel Coulston - From Bow Bells to Forty Mile Bush
Date: 1990
From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
Reference: MS-Papers-4280-076
Description: An account of the life and times of the Hopkins family, in particular George and Adelaide who emigrated with five children in 1874 on the Golden Sea. Seven more children were born in Masterton. The writer follows the life of the seventh child Charles, on the land and during World War I, and married life Publication - Essay published in `Our lesser stars' Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available. Family photographs including one of pupils at Kohinui School 1932
Alison Masters - A New Zealand family in the Hokianga 1867
Date: 1990
From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
Reference: MS-Papers-4280-007
Description: The essay focuses primarily on Ralph Fletcher Watkins, a remittance man from Bolton, Lancashire, his marriage to Ani Hardiman and their life in the Hokianga where Ralph was a school teacher. Information has been gathered from the journal Watkins kept 1867-1881. Information is also given about their children, in particular Maggie, the writer's grandmother, who as a young mother died of tuberculosis. Anecdotes about Maggie's children growing up in Ellerslie post World War I are related Quantity: 1 folder(s) 44 pages.
Vicki Joy Fissenden - Success or defeat? An immigrant's account
Date: 1990
From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
Reference: MS-Papers-4280-052
Description: The essay traces the Fissenden family of Birling, Kent, to New Zealand and documents their lifestyles subsequent to their arrival. Beginning in 1875 the Fissendens and their descendants built a new life in New Zealand buying land, opening businesses and raising their families. From Marlborough the descendants of the first nine Fissendens spread to a large part of the upper South Island, later moving to Hawke's Bay and Auckland. Quantity: 1 folder(s) 45 pages. Finding Aids: Published inventory available.
Margaret Joy Kempton - Minnie and Frank Kempton
Date: 1990
From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
Reference: MS-Papers-4280-006
Description: Title continues:`...a house at Sunrise, 1910-1930'. Elizabeth and Thomas Kempton junior's youngest son Frank Valentine took over the `Elm Grove' property of approximately 600 acres. He and Minnie had two children, Victor and Maisie. The number of cows milked increased to 90, a large herd for those times. The story concludes by recording Frank's death in 1952 and the progression of `Elm Grove' from 1865-1987. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Gail Gibson - An unfortunate woman
Date: 1990
From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
Reference: MS-Papers-4280-068
Description: The essay is based on the inquest of Catherine Campbell Horton who drowned in the Reefton Electric Power Company water-race on 3 Jul 1891. It traces her life from her childhood in Scotland, her marriage to John Joshua Horton and its breakup, the effect on her and the couple's children and the circumstances at the time of her death. It also details her husband's background prior to coming to New Zealand. He was the electrical engineer at the electric power station in Reefton at the beginning of the first power supply immediately after the introduction in 1888 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published inventory available. Includes photographs
Coral Dickinson - Clytie
Date: 1990
From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
Reference: MS-Papers-4280-019
Description: The story of Clytie Curfew Howie, born Christchurch, the daughter of Robert Howie and Frances Eva nee Taylor. Her parents divorced after ten years of marriage and along with her mother she went to live with her grandfather James Taylor. She married George Dickinson in 1929, and the couple had three children before George's death by suicide. She remarried Jonathan Mann Includes a five generation family tree of Howie, Taylor and Grose families Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available.
Dorothea Kenney - Of British descent
Date: 1990
From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
Reference: MS-Papers-4280-020
Description: The story of the Brooke family from Pyrford, Surrey and their immigration to New Zealand in 1910. The two sons, Jack and Cecil, began their farming life in the Kaikoura district as farm cadets. For seven years they farmed at Kaikoura from where the boys went to war and served with the New Zealand Mounted Rifles and later in the 1st New Zealand Machine Gun Squadron. After Cecil Brooke's leave he bought a small dairy farm at Ruakura in 1920 and 5 years later married Dorothy Hutchinson. They farmed at Ruakura for 34 years, and purchased a further 200 acres of peat swamp to break in. Includes family tree showing Cecil Brooke's line of descent back 4 generations and copies of photographs, mainly of life of the farm Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available.
Sonia Edwards - Early settlers of Whitianga
Date: 1990
From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
Reference: MS-Papers-4280-070
Description: William and Sarah Lee arrived at Mercury Bay with their family in 1868 and settled at Purangi. The essay describes the family's forty years in various occuaptions - In the bush, on the rivers, on the gumfileds, at the goldfields and on the land. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published inventory available. Includes photographs