- Castles of Gold: A History of New Zealand's West Coast Irish
- (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : From the 1860s, the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island was the scene of two major goldfields, attracting hopefuls from all over the world. Suddenly, where there had been native bush and wide rivers, towns with 400 pubs and accommodation houses had appeared. Amongst the hopefuls were Irish miners, many of whom stayed on after the goldrushes as part of a community with its own distinctive character. This is the first academic study on the history of those Irish - where they came from, who they were, how many women came and what they did, how people sustained their family connections, what they believed in the context of the history of the larger Irish diaspora. The author draws on private letters and oral histories as well as more conventional sources, and includes many individual migration and settlement stories.
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- Holiday Seasons: New Year, Easter and Christmas in 19th Century New Zealand
- (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : Taking readers back in time and across the seas, this peek inside the lives of New Zealand settlers offers delightful descriptions of traditional British festivals and documents their development after being transplanted into the young colony. Though the seasons were reversed, the vegetation unfamiliar, and the land isolated, the early colonial New Zealanders were devoted to their traditions and kept them up in the face of not only their physical environment but also the wide variety of religious cultures represented by both the colonists and the native islanders. The celebrations became unique to the islands that nurtured them, mixing traditions of Presbyterians and Catholics with Baptists, Anglicans, and the Maori.
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- Kaiwarra Pupils School Roll, Wellington, New Zealand
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(Database Online - MyTrees.com) : From those records (registers, examination results, log books) that the school has been able to find, the following attended the Kaiwarra School in Wellington. The date is the admission date or the first record found.
This list is from the Centenary Booklet published for the school centenary in Easter 1973, and has been copied by members of the Genealogical Computing Group of the NZ Society of Genealogists. May 1989.
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- Makers of Fortune: A Colonial Business Community and Its Fall
- (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : So many businesses rose and fell in 19th-century Auckland that the city was called a "graveyard of enterprise". Through contemporary newspapers and business and legal records Dr Stone has traced a story of the fates of individual industries, firms and entrepreneurs, which also illuminates the impulses of colonial business in general. -
- Rhodes Scholarships : New Zealand Scholars 1904-1982
- (Database Online - MyTrees.com) : To be eligible for a Rhodes Scholarship candidates must be British Subjects and must have at least five years residency in New Zealand, and be between the ages of 19 and 25 years. Women became eligible for these scholarships in 1977.
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- Strangerland: A Family at War
- (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : In 1834, 24-year-old Isabella Campbell left England for India, and within two weeks of joining her brother in Bengal had married his best friend, Charles Gascoyne, a dashing cavalry officer in the East India Company. Twenty years later, Charles decreed that the family was to embark on a new life in a nascent British colony on the other side of the world : New Zealand. Isabella, who had been unwell, was sent back to England, while Charles went ahead with their nine children and their governess. When Isabella joined them a year later, she found the governess had taken over both the household and Charles heart. Now, 150 years on, Helena Drysdale has woven together the facts and fabric of the Gascoynes life to create an engrossing, intimate map of one familys journey. Strangerland is, indeed, a story of love and betrayal.
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- Taranaki: An IIlustrated History (New Zealand)
- (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : First published in 1983, this book was written in response to a long-felt need for a general work inter-relating the development and events of the province. This second edition has updated text and new photographs throughout. Many photographs, such as that of a women's archery group during the mid-1860's have never been published before. -
- The Ideal Society and Its Enemies: Foundations of Modern New Zealand Society, 1850-1900
- (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : A challenging and provocative study of the nature of settler society in nineteenth-century New Zealand. Fairburn focuses attention for the first time on the lives of the common people and presents a rigorous and original description which profoundly criticizes the view of previous historians. A book about perceptions as well as realities, it describes the settlers' own beliefs that they lived in an ideal society brimming with natural resources and with only minimal social organization. Read more...
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