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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | New Zealand Company. Original Correspondence. General, Folio 501-1000 |
| Date | Jan-May 1841 |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Reference | CO 208/12 |
| Library / Archive | The National Archives |
| Collection Name | New Zealand Company Original Correspondence, etc. |
| Description | Letters to the New Zealand Company offices discussing passage to New Zealand as new colonists, the employment of surgeon superintendents and land surveyors, financial matters, testimonials of character, the printing and distribution of promotional literature and application forms, requests for information and responses to advertisements in the local press for members of the second colony in New Zealand. Includes a list of persons who are stated to have been embarked as steerage passengers, by authority from Plymouth Company of New Zealand, on board the ship Willian Bryan, Alexander McClean, Commander, Henry Weekes, Surgeon-Superintendent; with remarks respecting the same [folios 736-737]. |
| Series Description | This series contains original correspondence and entry books of the New Zealand Company which were handed over to the Colonial Office after the surrender of the company's charters in 1850. Also included are minutes, accounts, registers of emigrants and land transfer records. |
| Biographical Note / History | The New Zealand Company was a chartered company formed in 1839 and incorporated in 1841 with power to buy, sell, settle and cultivate land in New Zealand. It did not prove a satisfactory agency for colonising New Zealand and was induced to surrender its charters in 1850. It was finally dissolved in 1858. |
| Theme(s) | Colonisation Companies and Emigration Societies |
| Country (from) | Great Britain; United States of America; Germany |
| Country (to) | New Zealand |
| Places | Manchester, Birmingham, Gloucester, Oxford, Tunbridge Wells, Cambridge, Northumberland, Bradford, Leamington, Nottingham, Daventry, Cheltenham, Coventry, Richmond, Deal, Durham, Monmouth, Bolton, Rye, Ramsbury, Eastbourne, Croydon, Wootton Bassett, England; Aberdeen, Paisley, Edinburgh, Montrose, Berwick, Scotland; Clonmel, Ireland; Carmarthen, Pontypool, Wales |
| Ports | Port Nelson, Wellington, New Zealand; Boston, Massachusetts, United States; Dover, London, Plymouth, Liverpool, Southampton, Portsmouth, Chatham, Deptford, Bristol, England; Glasgow, Scotland; Cork, Ireland |
| Nationality | English; German; Scottish; Irish; Welsh; European |
| Ships | Clydeside; Prince Rupert; London; William Bryan |
| People | Ward, John; Jones, Joseph; Hughlings, Harry; Phipson, Joseph; Alston, H J; White, Edmund; Bell, Sir Francis Dillon; Wakefield, Edward Gibbon |
| Keywords | New Zealand Company, finance, shipping, surgeon, family, female emigration, employment, emigration, surveying, Plymouth Company of New Zealand, colonisation, expedition, medical staff, education, assisted emigration, children, workhouse, newspaper, advertisement, press, steerage |
| Language | English; German |
| Copyright | Crown Copyright documents © are reproduced by permission of The National Archives London, UK |
