Settlers - New Zealand - Taranaki Region

Date: 2007

From: New Zealand Century Farm and Station Program :New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award applications

Reference: MS-Papers-9137-03

Description: The papers consist of: Application form submitted by Leonard Willaim Jury, great-great-grandson of the original owner; history of the Jury family. This history was compiled by Len Jury, ca 1985 and includes a history of the farm as well as information about the William Bryan, the Battle of Waireka, reminiscences related to the family and local history. Copy of article by NZ Historic Places Trust entitled `Archaeological investigations: Jury and Autridge farmsteads, Omata' (2007) The original owner was Elizabeth (nee Hoskin) wife of Jesse (Justinian) Jury. She purchased 46 acres of the Omata Block from the Plymouth Company in 1847. The Jury family arrived in New Plymouth on the `William Bryan' in 1841. In 2007 Leonard William Jury and his wife Heather owned the property at Omata and were awarded the New Zealand Century Farm and Station award to mark over 100 years of continuous ownership by one family. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter, photographs (photocopies) Transfers: A digital version of some or all of these papers is available at MSDL-0414.

Date: 1931, (1931)

From: Howitt, William King, 1869-1956 : Correspondence

Reference: MS-Papers-0018-12

Description: Letter to Miss Roberts enclosing a holograph copy of Howitt's `Patea in the early days as I knew it' (12 leaves). Covers many aspects of social history of Patea with emphasis on 1870s and 1880s. Includes some biographical details of pioneers and later personalities Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs K R Rowe, Wellington in 1982 (82-150)

Date: 1876

By: Cooke, John George, 1819?-1880

Reference: qMS-0542

Description: Family and personal history in England until the settlement in New Plymouth, 1841, with references to Jane Austen and her family (pp. 20,21,34,35). Account of voyage to New Zealand on Amelia Thompson, 1841. General account of the colonisation of the North Island, especially Taranaki, and history of relations with Maori there; also of Wellington, Auckland, Rotorua, Taupo, Otaki, Manawatu, Wanganui, Waikato, Lakes Tarawera and Rotoaira, 1841-1850 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (90 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) (¼ blue morocco, blue buckram; 30 cm)

Date: [ca 1920?]

By: Rarahu (Pseudonym), active 1880

Reference: MS-Papers-6387

Description: Incomplete fictional story by Rarahu, with note that the proper name has been posted under separate cover, written in a reminiscence style, describing his father's captaincy of the schooner, `Arrow', which sailed from Sydney to Hokianga but broke up on the Taranaki coast. Rarahu describes their experiences with local Maori which included Waikato and Ngati Awa tribes, his friendship with Nahe and his relationship and marriage to Aroha. The narrative purports to describe events, including the killing of his mother and father, from 1835 to 1860, and Rarahu looks back on the early days with nostalgia, probably from about 1880. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Unknown Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Quilter's Bookshop, Wellington, Oct 1998

Date: [1983-1992]

By: Hayton, Alan Colin, 1919-2012

Reference: MS-Papers-7158

Description: Correspondence between Hayton and Eric McCormick, particularly focusing on Charles Armitage Brown about whom McCormick had written a book, `The Friend of Keats' (1989, and the Hodgkins family; also includes clippings and notes on a variety of topics Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescript and printed matter

Date: 1903-1951

By: Howitt, William King, 1868-1956

Reference: MS-Papers-0018

Description: Correspondence, chiefly relating to Howitt's published works Other Titles - A Pioneer looks back again Quantity: 12 folder(s). 0.15 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: June 1947 - April 1948

From: Clark, Russell Stuart Cedric, 1905-1966: Sketchbook, original drawings, and watercolour by Russell Clark; photograph relating to 'The Ear' sculpture

By: Clark, Russell Stuart Cedric, 1905-1966

Reference: B-198-021-1/2

Description: Top image depicts people on board a ship bound for the coast. Rising in the distance is Mount Taranaki. The lower image shows four men rowing to shore in a dinghy. Four other men standing ashore wave to them as they try to navigate the rocks. Two small houses can be seen an the cliff above the coast. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - RC [in Chinese white]; Recto - bottom left - RC [in Chinese white]; Verso - top centre - Pt. IV April 1948 [in ballpoint pen]; Verso - top centre - Pt. IV June 1947 [in ballpoint pen] Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Indian ink and Chinese white on paper mounted on card, 135 x 182 mm and 178 x 210 mm respectively; set in double-window mat 510 x 350 mm

Date: 1820-1896

By: Hirst family

Reference: MS-Papers-0282

Description: Letters exchanged between members of the Bracken family in England and the Hirst family in New Zealand, including Grace's correspondence to her husband Thomas Hirst, and to her mother and sisters. In letters home to her family Grace discusses business affairs, frequently requesting goods to be sent out for sale in their shop; the breaking in of land at Bell Block, and construction of their home `Brackenhirst'. She records the details of domestic and farm life, and the progress of the war in the 1860s. The family retreated from Bell Block to the safety of New Plymouth from where Grace continued her letters. By May 1860 Grace was writing from Wellington, waiting for a passage to England. On the return voyage to New Zealand the following year, Grace and Thomas' ship the `William Brown' was destroyed by fire in the Bay of Biscay. Grace described the fire and their subsequent rescue. Thomas and Grace returned to England. Thomas made the return voyage to New Zealand on the `Ravenscraig' but Grace remained for a year before setting out for New Zealand on the `Silver Eagle', recording the voyage in a letter-journal up to her arrival in Auckland in January 1863. Grace continued her correspondence to English relations to 1896, her letters being supplemented by those of her daughters Annis, Harriet and Mary, all of whom married and settled in New Plymouth The collection also includes newspaper cuttings, 1886-1896, 1950s; and a family tree of the Appleyard family which provides information about the Hirst family Grace and Thomas Hirst immigrated from West Riding Yorkshire, arriving at Auckland in 1852 with five of their eight children. Their eldest son, James, had come out in 1851 to prepare a place for them at New Plymouth. Two of their children stayed with Grace's sisters in England. They settled at New Plymouth, trading as general merchants and at the same time broke in a farm at Bell Block, where the family home `Brackenhirst' was built. During the Taranaki war they retreated to new Plymouth. Thomas died in 1883 and Grace lived on in New Plymouth until her death. Quantity: 40 folder(s). 0.40 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [ca 1930-1956]

From: Combs, Frank Livingstone, 1882-1960 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-9489-3

Description: Contents: Reminiscences of Toko women sent to Combs by by Miss Clara Milne (ca 1938); story entitled `Eldest sons', revised 25 Aug 1939; correspondence from - C S Brockett (1953), Jim Henderson (1955); Jack Brailsford (1918 & 1939); F E S Rockel (1953); E Maslen (1953); J C Beaglehole (1939); Geo W Forbes (1930); J M Rawlinson (ca 1938). Letter from Combs to Mr Waghorn (1956) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1978

By: Wynyard, Nancy Gilbertson, 1911-1997

Reference: MS-Papers-11018

Description: Family history of the Nairn family, descendants of John and Eliza Nairn who arrived at New Plymouth from Devon in 1840 aboard the `William Bryan' with their children, except for Charles, who was already in NZ. After travelling in the South Island Charles took up land at Pourerere, Hawkes Bay. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (22 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms B Elizabeth Stead (sister), Waipawa, 1987

Date: 1990

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

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-038

Description: The essay details the lives of Thomas Good and his wife Emily Gates. Describes their early days, marriage at Omata, farming there and at Tataraimaka, and building of Omata Stockade. They were forced off the farm into New Plymouth. Describes Thomas' service with the Native Contingent and Bushrangers, service and farming at Urenui and building of Redoubt, the move to Oeo and involvement with local Maori, and finally retirement to Hawera. Also details the lives of their sons and daughters including the artistic ability of their deaf daughter Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available.

Date: 1984-1992

From: Hayton, Alan Colin, 1919-2012: Correspondence with Eric McCormick

Reference: MS-Papers-7158-1

Description: Correspondence between Hayton and Eric McCormick, particularly focusing on Charles Armitage Brown and the Hodgkins family Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1989-1992]

From: Hayton, Alan Colin, 1919-2012: Correspondence with Eric McCormick

Reference: MS-Papers-7158-2

Description: Copies of outward letters from Hayton to Eric McCormick Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2007

From: New Zealand Century Farm and Station Program :New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award applications

Reference: MSDL-0414

Description: The papers consist of: Application form submitted by Leonard Willaim Jury, great-great-grandson of the original owner; history of the Jury family. This history was compiled by Len Jury, ca 1985 and includes a history of the farm as well as information about the William Bryan, the Battle of Waireka, reminiscences related to the family and local history. Copy of article by NZ Historic Places Trust entitled `Archaeological investigations: Jury and Autridge farmsteads, Omata' (2007) The original owner was Elizabeth (nee Hoskin) wife of Jesse (Justinian) Jury. She purchased 46 acres of the Omata Block from the Plymouth Company in 1847. The Jury family arrived in New Plymouth on the `William Bryan' in 1841. In 2007 Leonard William Jury and his wife Heather owned the property at Omata and were awarded the New Zealand Century Farm and Station award to mark over 100 years of continuous ownership by one family. Quantity: 79 Electronic document(s).

Date: 1884-1902, 1953-1954

By: Monkhouse family

Reference: MS-Group-0791

Description: The collection comprises letters from May Bell and William Monkhouse to each other and members of their families, written from England and New Zealand. The correspondence includes an account by May of her wedding day, of their pride in their garden produce, the price of grass seed as a crop, their friendly relations with local Maori, the drama of fighting a bush fire, the horrors of tackling a household wash and of exterminating vermin. May writes of her homesickness and writes of the death of their second son. The letters have an introduction by Mary Sorabji who also transcribed them. Also included is a pamphlet written by Francina Irwin for an exhibition of Herbert Bell's photographs at the Aberdeen Art Gallery (1993). Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 4 folder(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts and printed matter (photocopies) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs P Monkhouse, Cumbria, England, 1990 (90-358) and Mrs F Irwin, Old Aberdeen, Jan 1999 (A99-036)

Date: [ca 1700-1984]

By: Beach family

Reference: MS-Group-1366

Description: Papers of C H (Rex) Beach and his wife A M (Jill) nee Hirst. Comprises mainly papers relating to the Beach and Woodward families and also includes several other related families including Hirst, Millward, Vennell, Lucena, Barnes, Allen, McLean, George, Day, Maxwell, Herdman, Sandbrook, White, Salisbury, Hallen, Solomon, Walburton, MacDonald, Macklin, Stratton, Bracken, Gilbert, Teague, Vaughan, Kito, Maunder, Brann, Horner, Livermore. Also includes Wadestown history; visits to Nigeria and Kaduna by C H Beach; correspondence relating to time spent in Fiji (1939-1940s); Jill Beach's involvement with YWCA; New Zealand Society of Genealogists (Wellington Group); copies of family wills (1870-1979) Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 6 box(es). 2 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, audiocassettes, and printed matter (some photocopies) Transfers: To Photographic Archive - 1 box of assorted photographs, album and negatives (PAColl-8747). Includes photographs