GROUP
Series 3 Papers relating to Charles Marcus Wakefield
- Date
- 1856-1902
- By
- Wakefield, Charles Marcus, 1838-1902
- Reference
- Series-4773
- Description
Contains diaries, which he kept from 1856 until 1902. Also two large scrapbooks, correspondence and papers relating to his son, Edward, and to his mother, Angela Attwood. The diaries cover his work as a surveyor around Christchurch, his return to England and life there while the correspondence with Edward offers insight into parent-child relations of the period. The later volumes, along with the scrapbooks, contain a large amount of photographs, illustrations and clippings. His interest in the Attwood family is reflected throughout the collection
Quantity: 43 volume(s).
- Part of
- Wakefield family : Papers
- Format
- 43 volume(s)
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Scrapbook
Date: 1832-1898
From: Wakefield family : Papers
Reference: MSZ-1554
Description: Includes newspaper cuttings, photographs, sketches, paintings, stamps, pamphlets and handwritten notes. Much of the material is concerned with the Attwood family and Thomas Attwood, and with the Freeman family, whom his sister, Alice Mary, married into, but there is also material on the Wakefield family, and on his own career in New Zealand. Includes sketches of his home in Fendalton and in Hoon Hay. Also contains papers on entomology especially that of New Zealand Quantity: 1 volume(s). Copiously illustrated with photographs and sketches
Loose miscellaneous papers
Date: n d
From: Wakefield family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-9671
Description: Includes wrapped feather from Francis Atwood, Birmingham, sent to Mrs Wakefield; postcard featuring San Fernando Colonial Hospital, Trinidad; Parish chalice from Isel Park, where C W Wakefeild was vicar until his death in 1937 Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Letters to his mother
Date: 1864-1869
From: Wakefield family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-9512-15
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Scrapbook
Date: 1832-1892
From: Wakefield family : Papers
Reference: MSZ-1555
Description: Includes newspaper cuttings, pamphlets, photographs, sketches and notes on the Attwood family and Thomas Attwood. Also includes material on the historian Edward A Freeman and the Freeman family and entomology. The newspaper cuttings contain many from New Zealand concerning the Wairau affray of 1843 Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Journal - Volume 7
Date: 15 Sep 1864-28 Jul 1866
From: Wakefield family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-9512-12
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Journal - Volume 11
Date: 7 Aug 1871-7 Oct 1874
From: Wakefield family : Papers
Reference: MSX-8494
Description: Journal of tour of England, and return to New Zealand; contains photographs and cuttings Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Journal - Volume 6
Date: 24 May 1863-14 Sep 1864
From: Wakefield family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-9512-11
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Journal - Volume 3
Date: 29 Aug 1859-24 Oct 1861
From: Wakefield family : Papers
Reference: MSX-8489
Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Mortality - Wills and tombs
Date: 1864, 1874
From: Wakefield family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-9512-19
Description: Last wills and testaments of Angela Wakefield and Charles Marcus Wakefield; lease of land from Octavius Hadfield, on behalf of Church of England for grave plots and a tomb for the Wakefield family Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Journal - Volume 18
Date: 1 Sep 1896-3 Jun 1898
From: Wakefield family : Papers
Reference: MSX-8501
Description: Covers stay in England with excursion to France; contains photographs and cuttings Quantity: 1 volume(s).