Dictionary of Australasian Biography 1892
Comprising notices of eminent colonists from the inauguration of responsible government, down to the present time. (1855 - 1892).
Over 500pp of biographies and 18pp of advertisements.
Set in Alphabetical order this dictionary contains hundreds of biographies of Australian and New Zealand colonists connected with Government, Military, Church, Commercial Enterprises, Maori Chiefs, ect
The Dictionary of Australasian Biography is fully searchable.
NZ$25
My Simple Life in New Zealand
by Adela Stewart
Adela Blanche Anderson was born on 1 January 1846 at Clifton, Bristol, England. she married Hugh Stewart, a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery and member of an upper-class northern Ireland family. The couple lived in England, the Mediterranean, the West Indies and Bermuda before emigrating to New Zealand in 1878.
With their seven-year-old son, Mervyn James, the Stewarts arrived at Auckland in August 1878 aboard the Lady Jocelyn. They were among about 40 families from northern Ireland who founded the settlement of Katikati in the Bay of Plenty.
Adela Stewart's diary later became the basis of her book, My simple life in New Zealand , which gives a detailed record of her difficulties and triumphs. she became in time an expert cook, baker and gardener. For a while the Stewarts took the sons of friends as cadets on their farm and Adela taught them how to make butter, bread and beer. Gardening and poultry-keeping were two of her favourite activities, and her management contributed to the success of the farm. She earned money for herself by selling butter, fruit, tomato sauce, honey and flowers. Her prize-winning chrysanthemums went to buyers all over the country.
As the Stewarts grew older, the difficulties of finding help for farm and household work, and for continuing their social life, increased. They sold Athenree in 1906 and returned to England. My simple life in New Zealand was published in London in 1908. It gives a lively and informative account of the process of establishing a new settlement. Its overall tone is one of cheerful stoicism in the face of adversity, and a strong desire to maintain the social lifestyle Adela Stewart had been used to before coming to New Zealand. It shows her to be an enterprising woman, whose devotion to her husband and son was fully repaid. Following the death of Hugh in April 1909 Adela returned to New Zealand on a visit. She died on the night of her arrival at Katikati on 12 February 1910.
This book gives a good insight into the trials and tribulations of the early pioneer women of New Zealand.
Who's Who in New Zealand and the Western Pacific, 1908
Who's Who in New Zealand and the Western Pacific 1925
This edition contains and Army list, a biography of the Rt. Hon. W.F. Massey, Consuls, County Chairmen, Exhibition Scholars, Governor General, Governors Past, House of Representatives, King's Council, Legislative Council, Mayors ect. plus hundreds of Biographies.
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Captain William Jackson Barry was as colourful an individual as his life was. He has written several books, Past and Present is his Autobiography, and starts from the time of his birth in England, through his voyage out to Australia in the service of Sir John Alcock. His adventures around Australia and New Zealand, whaling ships, bushrangers, ect... eventually settling in Cromwell, New Zealand, and becoming the towns first Mayor. There are also the biographies of some of the men he had come across during his travels.
In his later years he also gave public entertaining renditions of his adventures.
NZ$15
Past & Present and Men of the Times
NZ$20
Who's Who in New Zealand 1938