Guide to the Papers of the Hill Family (as filmed by the AJCP)

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Created: 2018

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Rev. Fred Chatterton. Diary of a journey from Nelson, New Zealand, to England, 1894 (2 vols), 27 March 1894 - 4 July 1894 (File 1)

Chatterton was accompanied by his wife Annie and three friends. The diary is detailed and describes conversations as well as his travels, activities and general impressions. It refers to the voyage from Wellington to Sydney on Hauroto, brief stay at Sydney, an organ recital, voyage from Sydney to Brisbane on Warrego, visit to Mount Clutha and Brisbane Botanical Gardens, discussions about Kanaka question and religious instruction in State schools, voyage from Brisbane to Batavia on S.S. India, religious services on ship, brief visits to Rockhampton and Thursday Island, meetings with Queensland Premier H.M. Nelson and Attorney-General T.J. Byrnes, separation movement in northern Queensland, voyage through Torres Strait and past Timor, Flores and other islands, arrival at Java (30 April), impressions of Batavia, voyage to Samarang and journey by train, carriage and pony to Sourabaya and Ayer Dingen, landscape, activities during five weeks at Ayer Dingen, return journey to Batavia, Church service at Soerabaia, visit to ruins at Borobodoer, voyage from Batavia to Singapore on S.S. Carpentier, impressions of Singapore, Botanical Gardens, missionary activities at Singapore, departure for Hong Kong and Japan...

Cora von Bultzingslowen. Memoirs, written for her grandchildren (typescript copy), 1934 - 1935 (File 2)

The memoirs describe her earliest recollections, visit to England in 1858-1861, family history and recollections of parents Charles and Cornelia Hill, life and friends in Batavia, bankruptcy of father in 1863, voyage to Sydney on Mauritius and to Nelson on Lord Ashley in 1864, housing and conditions at Nelson, friends including Greenwood, Atkinson and Richmond families, visits to Tauranga and Auckland, meeting with Dr James Hector, return to Java in 1871, social life at Sourabaya, marriage to Wulf von Bultzingslowen in 1873, visit to Australia and New Zealand in 1877, New Zealand relatives, emigration to Germany in 1877, sugar estates in Java, visit to Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii in 1900-1901, travels in Fiordland with Mary Richmond, visit to Java in 1902-1903...


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