The Fitzroy Spinners Group is affiliated to the Taranaki Woolcraft Guild and aims to encourage and promote spinning skills. This is a record of fortnightly meetings; listing members' names and giving
Josiah and Anne Flight arrived in New Zealand on the 'Timandra' in 1842 and settled in Taranaki.
Josiah Flight arrived in New Plymouth in 1842. He was appointed Resident Magistrate in 1852, and also served as Coroner and Sheriff for the district. He founded with Rev.
Flight came to New Zealand on the 'Timandra' in 1842 and settled in Taranaki.
The ship Maraval sailed from England in October 1879 bound for New Zealand, arriving in Wellington 23 January 1880. The Maraval Jackdaw is a hand written shipboard newspaper reporting various inciden
The Frankleigh Park Public Hall Association became an incorporated body in 1949. It administered a hall that had been built in 1923 and then rebuilt after its collapse in 1936.
Fuller arrived in New Zealand on the 'Cresswell' in 1851, and eventually settled in Bell Block, near New Plymouth. Entries in the diary describe daily events and it is interspersed with letter copies
A journal entitled 'Report of an Exploring Expedition from New Plymouth through the New Zealand Company's Settlement over part of the Range commonly called Batu Ua [Patua] to Mount Egmont, by Robt.
Born in Yorkshire, Gledhill came to New Zealand in the 'Bella Marina' in 1844 and settled in Taranaki. He became a merchant and auctioneer and represented Omata in Parliament, 1865-66.
Gordon came to New Zealand in the 'Jane Lockhart' from Australia in 1867 and joined the Telegraph Department in 1873 and afterwards served in Wellington, Wanganui, Oamaru and New Plymouth for ten year
Henry Govett came to New Zealand in the 'Union' in 1843 and began farming at Tamaki. He was ordained a priest in 1847 and appointed to St. Mary's, New Plymouth in 1848.
Grace was born in Lancashire. In 1850, with his wife and family he emigrated to New Zealand.
Whilst living in Australia Grayling was a geologist, but he was later present at the Bay of Island during its Northern War, 1845-46.
The collection comprises the military paybook of Patrick Grace who was stationed at Napier and in Australia, in the 2nd Battalion, 14th Regiment of Foot, and the military paybook, certificates of disc
The records comprise: Brigade and Garrison Order Book, March - October 1860; a Garrison Order Book, July 1865 - December 1866 and a Garrison Order Book, Camp Waitara, 1860 with nine letters between Ca
Blanche Halcombe was born in New Plymouth in 1881, the daughter of Annette and Wesley Turton. Her grandfather on her maternal side was William Swainson the naturalist and artist, and her paternal gra
An account of the ascent of Mt Egmont with Sir William Fox, the party consisting of Arthur Standish (Mayor of New Plymouth), Mrs E.S.
Reminiscences of life in Taranaki c. 1873 when the Mountain Road and the Normanby area were being developed.
Halse came to Taranaki on the 'Amelia Thompson', 1841 and was appointed Justice of the Peace. He succeeded F.D.
Emily Harris, artist and teacher, arrived in New Plymouth in 1841 in the 'William Bryan' with her parents, Edwin and Sarah (nee Hill), and brother and sister.
