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Riddiford family : Papers
- Date
- [ca 1863-1984]
- By
- Riddiford family
- Reference
- MS-Group-0441
- Description
The collection comprises papers relating to Edward Joshua Riddiford, particularly re farming matters, and correspondence with Oliver Bunny; correspondence, property and legal matters, and community and personal business matters, material relating to war, diaries, writings and printed matter of Daniel H S Riddiford; correspondence and papers relating to community activities and interests and financial records and papers of Jessie Meta Riddiford; legal and estate papers of Eric Leslie Riddiford relating to alimony, ownership and various agreements such as with the Wainuiomata Shingle Company and for legal access across Maori land; diaries and papers of E A and D J Riddiford; Johnston family papers; farm diaries for various Riddiford family stations; maps and plans and financial records. There is also a World War I field book and papers of Daniel Henry Strother Riddiford relating to his World War II experiences
Source of title - Supplied
Relationship complexity - Previous Riddiford donations are MS-Papers-1392 and MS-Papers-1392A and MS-1819
Quantity: 250 folder(s). 114 volume(s). 5 Linear Metres.
Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter
Transfers: To Cartographic Collection - Map of Wairarapa area, Defence Dept (1916).
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Format
- 250 folder(s), 114 volume(s), 5 Linear Metres, Personal correspondence, Diaries, Maps, Contracts, Telegrams, Field notes, Manuscripts, Mss, typescripts and printed matter
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Miscellaneous papers
Date: 1850-1901
From: Riddiford family : Papers
Reference: fMS-Papers-5714-4
Description: Comprises draft deed between Alexander MacDonald, late of Wellington and presently in South Australia, John Dorset of Wellington and Harriot Riddiford, wife of Daniel Riddiford, and Alfred de Bathe Brandon re farm land and stock (1850); muster roll of Captn Fraser's company of the Military settlers, Napier Militia, at Lambert Redoubt (August 1865); and kirimana katikati hipi, a shearing contract in Maori with 20 signatories (Oct 1901) Also includes agreement between Sir A H M Sinclair of Ulbster, Thurso, and Capt Riddiford, re Thurso Castle (1927) Relationship complexity - See also MS-Papers-5714-046 Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Roehampton Association papers
Date: 1906-1950, nd
From: Riddiford family : Papers
Reference: MSX-4511
Description: Comprises letter (printed) from Margaret Bennett to Meta re trip to Rome for Beatification of Mother Barat (nd); Roehampton Association reports (1906-1908, 1927, 1934-1950) and prospectus for Convent of the Sacred Heart of Roehampton (nd) Quantity: 1 volume(s) (several small booklets).
Maps
Date: 1914-1918
From: Riddiford family : Papers
Reference: MSO-Papers-5714-2
Description: Comprises nine maps of parts of France and Belgium, some described as trench maps; for war purposes Quantity: 1 folder(s).
School note book and fatigue record
Date: [1902]
From: Riddiford family : Papers
Reference: MSX-4507
Description: Comprises record of fatigue duties, misdemeanours and publishments; list of books (?read) Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Miscellaneous papers re alimony
Date: [1925-1937]
From: Riddiford family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-5502-30
Description: Comprises miscellaneous documents relating to deed of settlement (Bell, Gully, Mackenzie & Evans) and including report by Mackenzie, `Eric Riddiford re Income-tax on Mrs Phyllis Riddiford's alimony' (1934); copy of deed of settlement (1937); memo for Mackenzie re Eric and Phyllis Riddiford (1935); letter Mackenzie to Barnett; memo from Sir Francis Bell for Mackenzie and reply (1935-1936); notes for Mackenzie by M O Barnett (nd); revised draft deeds of settlement, E L Riddiford to Alfred Herbert Wall and William Stanley Wheeler (1936), and earlier deed; personal letter, E L Riddiford to Mackenzie re settlement and London during Coronation preparations (1937); memos re shares; covenant to pay alimony and assignment of securities (1925); letter to D H S Riddiford re Power of Attorney (1937) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Papers relating to Hutt properties (II)
Date: [1904-1924]
From: Riddiford family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-5502-22
Description: Comprises claim re Wages Protection and Contractors Liens Act 1908' (1912); survey of `Middlemarch' re boundary (1904); agreement between Lamartine Dwan and others, the `Knight Synbdicate' (1906); CT for Bellevue (1904); draft conveyance, E C Riddiford and the Crown (1924); request to Treasury for moneys due for Hutt properties (1924); deed of lease, `Middlemarch' between E C and E J Riddiford (1911); and agreement, sale and purchase, E V Riddiford and others with Phyllis Riddiford for Middlemarch, Hautana Square and Pilchers Paddock (1918) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Letters to Sophie Johnston from her friends
Date: [1877-1917], nd
From: Riddiford family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-5714-120
Description: Includes letter from Rev F W Martin re prayer and Hawke's Bay matters and from Major Gerald B Carter with MEF writing from the Dardanelles; and letters from Jessie; WBP of London; part of letter written from `Thorthowald', Napier; and part of one from South Makaretu re fires causing major problems for bush settlers. An undated letter written from Crail has attached a dance programme card for Meta Johnston, Okawa (6 Oct 1905). Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Various papers
Date: [1913-1945]
From: Riddiford family : Papers
Reference: MSO-Papers-5714-4
Description: Comprises reconveyance deed between Daniel Riddiford and William Hort Levin for land in the Hutt (1870); roading and drainage plans, Waipawa (1913); AA London route map; maps, Saint Jean and St Julien (France) and El Daba (Egypt) (1940s); page from the `Times' with military honours including Daniel Riddiford for the Military Cross (29 Apr 1918); and plan relating to ownership of Awaroa Station and flooding, on Ruamahanga River Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Daniel Johnston Riddiford - Letters to his parents
Date: [1941-1945]
From: Riddiford family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-5714-010
Description: Comprises letters from Daniel J Riddiford to his parents Meta and D H S Riddiford while on active service in WWII, written while in the Middle East Forces and later from Australia where he was with the NZ Liaison Office Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Field diary and note book
Date: [1916-1918]
From: Riddiford family : Papers
Reference: MSX-4506
Description: Comprises brief diary entries, probably for 1916, and notes, observations, addresses and other jottings. Includes condom wrapped in paper. Quantity: 1 volume(s).