Pleiades (Ship : 1869-1899)

Date: 1829, 1859-1907

By: Northern Ireland. Public Record Office

Reference: MS-Papers-1553

Description: Letters to relatives in Ireland from emigrant families in Australia and Wairoa, Tauranga, Taranaki, Canterbury and Otago. They include family matters, social conditions, miners' industrial troubles in Australia, Maori unrest in Taranaki. Index to Quinn family letters included. Also includes letters written by John Gilmore describing his voyage to Auckland on the `Bebington' in 1876 and Bessie Macready describing her voyage to Lyttelton on the `Pleiades' in 1877-1878. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts (photocopies)

Date: 1955-1971

By: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002

Reference: PA-Group-00375

Description: Wellington, openings of Parliament, politicians, Governors General, show personalities, Antarctic teams, police, army, visiting diplomats and heads of state, ship visits, memorials, RNZAF, fighter planes and fighter plane training, rugby and rugby players and selectors, film censorship, conferences, agricultural air shows, artists, royalty, manufacturing industries, models and fashion parades, New Zealand Players, etc Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 35mm-18037 to 18703, 120-0881 to 0959, 1/4-071736 to 072044, 1/2-177020 to 177461. Quantity: 1483 b&w original negative(s) 78 120 strips comprising 158 images, 666 35mm strips comprising 1,976 images, 308 1/4 plate negs, 441 1/2 plate negs. Total images 2,883. Finding Aids: Library generated negative registers provide a good access point to this collection. The negatives are listed within subject groupings.. Processing information: Originally arranged and described in 1995. Reference number changed from PAColl-4814 to PA-Group-00375 in 2009.

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-023

Description: The story of Edwin Bold, born at Batley Carr, Yorkshire, who immigrated to New Zealand on the `Pleiades' in 1885 for health reasons. He was skilled in the woollen mill trade and worked as a wool classer on sheep stations near Timaru. Later he moved to Wellington, joined the Public Works Department and was appointed Land Purchase Officer some years later. He held that position for 23 years, the longest period it had been held by one person. He was musical, playing church organs and the piano, a keen horticulturist and photographer. Edwin married married Minnie Avison of Batley, Yorkshire just prior to immigrating. The essay includes information on their 6 children Includes extracts from Edwin's shipboard diary (held by Canterbury Museum Archives in the Edwin Bold papers) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available. Includes photograph of `Pleiades', Bold family, Edwin Bold, house at Berhamphore

Date: 1869 - 1899

From: Ferrier, William: Negatives

Reference: 1/1-003664-G

Description: The sailing ship "Pleiades" alongside a wharf. Taken by William Ferrier. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - The "Pleiades". W. Ferrier Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).