Fowler family

Date: [ca 1842-1846]

By: Pratt, Sarah, 1828-

Reference: MSX-3895-3896

Description: Journals describe Sarah Pratt's (Fowler) life in Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England, her trip to Nelson on board the `Indus', 1842-1843 and first few years in Riwaka and Nelson, [ca 1843-1846]. Journals have in depth description of childhood in Ramsbury, the voyage to Nelson, setting up a farm in Riwaka and life in Nelson helping her brother run a coastal trading business with comments on the Wairau Affray, meetings and trading with local Maori, accidents, crops, fellow white settlers, the New Zealand Company and the developing communities in Riwaka and Nelson. Some of the entries are written as if the events described had happened very recently but the donor thought that the journals had actually been written some years after the period covered. Source of title - supplied title Quantity: 2 volume(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Two photographs of Sarah Pratt and several postcards of Ramsbury, England.

Date: 1841-1972

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2722

Description: Selected records from the manuscripts collections of Arundel Castle, the Barker family of East Lodge, Bakewell, Edward Carpenter, the Elmhurst Papers, the Fowler family of Wadsley Hall and Matthias Spencer & Sons; the Dr Albert Ballard, Sheffield Cooperative Party and Daniel Doncaster & Sons records, although listed, have not been copied Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1880-1901

Reference: PAColl-8960

Description: Photographs of Auckland and Coromandel, taken between 1880 and 1901 by an unknown photographer. Includes views of Parsons & Fowler families (1890), St Heliers Bay (1890), Imperial Troops in the Auckland Domain, an arch erected for the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York in 1901, Onehunga Hotel in Princess Street, the Auckland Domain, Views of Northcote, Birkenhead, and Birkenhead Wharf (1880), tradesmen's processions in Domain, and the Mercer Regatta. This group of negatives have crenelated notches along their sides. This indicates that they were manufactured for a Frena Camera. This camera was the first type of film-pack camera. (see "Deja View 37," August 2003, edited and published by Bill Main, Wellington, New Zealand). Information that came with these negatives is filed at PAColl-8960, and is in the Photograph Archive collections sequence. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 57 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1886

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/4-005014-G

Description: Photograph taken by the studio of William James Harding, Whanganui. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Date: 27 Oct 1885

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/4-005775-G

Description: Photograph taken by the studio of William James Harding, Whanganui. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Date: 1853-1958

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2502

Description: Includes papers of Fosbery family of Lowestoft and Fowler family of Gunton Hall, the Suggate framily papers, papers of Gordon Auchterlonie, those of Wangford Union and Brooke Marine Ltd records. With the exception of Gordon Auchterlonie, the papers mainly refer to Australia. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.