The Farthest Promised Land — English Villagers, New Zealand Immigrants of the 1870s
Primary Sources
Primary Sources
Unpublished Official Papers
BRITISH GOVERNMENT RECORDS, PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
Registrar-General's Office
R.G. 10 | Enumerators' Schedules, 1871 Census of England and Wales (Selected parishes in Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Cornwall, Devon, Kent, Lincolnshire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire). |
NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT RECORDS, NATIONAL ARCHIVES, WELLINGTON
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Immigration Department |
Im 3 | Papers relating to individual immigrants |
Im 4/1 | Special Settlements—Feilding |
Im 6/1 | Special Settlements—Karamea |
Im 10 | Nominated Immigrants—Lists of passage orders |
Im 15 | Passenger Lists |
Im N/4 | Immigration Department, Nelson. Papers relating to the despatch of immigrants. |
Im W/2/2 | Immigration Department, Wellington. Registers of immigration under the Immigrant Land Act, 1873. |
2. |
Hawke's Bay Province |
HB 4/11 | Superintendent. Local inward letters 1875–76. |
HB 6/10 | Superintendent. Outward letters 1876–77. |
HB 7/1 (u) | Superintendent. Office papers. Woodville Small Farm Association. |
3. |
Nelson Province |
NP 23/3 | Papers Relating to the Karamea Special Settlement 1874–77. |
NP 23/6 | Karamea Store Book 1874–76. |
NP 23/7&8 | Vouchers relative to Karamea, 1874–77. |
CANTERBURY PROVINCIAL COUNCIL RECORDS, CANTERBURY MUSEUM, CHRISTCHURCH
Papers laid on the Table of the Provincial Council, Sessions XLI, XLII. (For Reports from Andrew Duncan, Immigrant Agent.) |
Unpublished Unofficial Papers
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‘Caistor and Laceby Circuit Schedules’. MS, Lincolnshire County Record Office, Lincoln. page 386 |
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Christopher Holloway, ‘C. Holloway's book of jottings on New Zealand, with notes by the way, 1874–75, …’ Typescript, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington. |
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George Herbert White, ‘Autobiographical Sketches’, New Plymouth, 1952. Typescript in possession of Miss Judith White, Wellington. |
Published Official Papers
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GREAT BRITAIN
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NEW ZEALAND
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Published Unofficial Records
‘Minute Book of the Oxford District of the National Agricultural Labourers' Union 1872–9’, in Pamela Horn, ed., Agricultural Trade Unionism in Oxfordshire 1872–81, Oxfordshire Record Society, 48 (1974), pp.25–108. (Original MS in Nuffield College, Oxford, MSS of the late G. D. H. Cole.)
Newspapers and Periodicals
Bedfordshire Mercury, 1874
Canterbury Journal, 1878
Church Gazette (Auckland), 1874
Colonist (Nelson), 1874–5
Daily News (London), 1878–9
English Labourer (London), 1875–7
Evening Post (Wellington), 1873–4
Hawke's Bay Herald, 1873, 1876, 1879
Kent Herald (Canterbury), 1873
Kent & Sussex Times (Maidstone), 1875–80
page 387Kent Messenger and Maidstone Telegraph, 1872–4
Labour League Examiner (Boston, Lincs.), 1874
Labourer (Boston, Lincs.), 1875–9
Labourers' Herald (Maidstone), 1874–5
Labourers' Union Chronicle (Leamington), 1873–5
Lyttelton Times, 1873–4, 1879
Maidstone & Kentish Journal, 1874
Marlborough Press (Blenheim), 1872–3
Midland Free Press (Leicester), 1873
New Zealand Farmer (Auckland), 1888–90
New Zealand Industrial Gazette, 1883–4
New Zealand Mail (Wellington), 1875, 1880
New Zealand Methodist Times, 1929–36
New Zealand Wesleyan, 1874–83
North Otago Times (Oamaru), 1873
Stamford Mercury, 1874
Standard (London), 1878
Taranaki Herald (New Plymouth), 1874–7
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Times (London), 1872–9
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Articles
Belcher, C., ‘On the Reclaiming of Waste Lands as instanced in Wichwood Forest’, JRASE, 24 (1863), pp.271–85
Berry, Joseph, ‘New Zealand at the Beginning of the Century’. Review of Reviews for Australasia, 15 January 1901, pp. 73–96
Clarke, J. A., ‘On the Farming of Lincolnshire’, JRASE, 12 (1851), pp.259–414
Karkeek, W. F., ‘On the Farming of Cornwall’, JRASE, 6 (1845), pp.400–462
Mann, H. H., ‘Life in an Agricultural Village in England’, Sociological Papers, 1904, pp.163–93
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Pedder, D. C., ‘Service and Farm-Service’, Contemporary Review, 83 (1903)
Read, C. S., ‘On the Farming of Oxfordshire’, JRASE, 15 (1854), pp.189–276