Guide to the Records of St Joseph's Foreign Missionary Society (as filmed by the AJCP)
M1181-M1182
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2019
Collection Summary
- Creator
- St. Joseph's Foreign Missionary Society
- Title
- Records of St Joseph's Foreign Missionary Society (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1882 - 1972
- Collection Number
- M1181-M1182
- Extent
- 16 items
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Australian Joint Copying Project
- Sponsor
- The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.
Introduction
Scope and Contents
Correspondence 1882-1905 of Cardinal H. Vaughan, Father F. Henry and other Mill Hill priests with Bishop J. Luck, J.R. Madan, J. Becker, J.W. Smiers and other missionaries in New Zealand.
Reports 1896-1902 of Maori Mission.
Diary 1912-1913 of Father F. Henry on journey to United States, New Zealand, Australia and Uganda.
List of superiors and members of Maori Mission 1886-1972
The Story of Mill Hill in New Zealand 1886-1966 (1966) and other histories of the Maori Mission.
Conditions Governing Access
Available for Access.
Conditions Governing Use
Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.
Preferred Citation
Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.
Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.
Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)
Archival History
Filmed at St Joseph's College, London, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1981 (AJCP Reel: M1181-M1182). Original microfilm digitised as part of the NLA AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
St Joseph's College. Lawrence Street, Mill Hill, London, England.
For further information, see St Joseph's Missionary Society Archivist. [http://www.millhillmissionaries.co.uk/contact-us/contact-the-archivist]
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2253337] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Finding-Aid Notes
This finding aid is a revised online version of the original finding aid prepared by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP), published by the National Library of Australia in 2019. The original AJCP finding aids were unpublished typescripts or photocopies available from libraries that held copies of the original microfilm.
Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming rather than to the date range of the Series or Files.
Advisory Statement
Maori people are advised that this Finding Aid contains material and descriptive information which may be considered culturally sensitive and may cause distress. This Finding Aid contains terms that reflect authors' views or those of the historical period, but which may not be considered appropriate today. While the information may not reflect current understanding, it is provided in an historical context.
Subjects
Australia; Australia: visits to; Becker, J.; Great Britain; Henry, F., Father; Luck, J., Bishop; Madan, J.R.; Maori Mission, Auckland, New Zealand; Mill Hill, England; Missions and missionaries: New Zealand; New Zealand; New Zealand: visits to; Railways: New South Wales; Roman Catholic Church: New Zealand; Smiers, J.W.; St Joseph's Foreign Missionary Society; Uganda; United States of America; Vaughan, Herbert A., Cardinal
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 402, p.155. [http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-397322928]
Biographical / Historical
Herbert Vaughan (1832-1903), later Cardinal Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster, founded the missionary seminary St. Joseph's College at Mill Hill in 1866. In New Zealand the Marist Fathers had established Maori missions as early as 1838 but after 1850 there were few Marist Fathers left in the Auckland Diocese. The Bishop of Auckland, J.E. Luck, asked Bishop Vaughan to send some missionaries and the first two Mill Hill missionaries, J. Becker and J. Madan arrived in December 1886. The first mission stations were at Matata and Rotorua. Two more missionaries arrived in 1888 and by 1900 there were 17 Mill Hill Fathers working in New Zealand. Mill Hill missionaries have continued their work within the Diocese of Auckland up to the present day.
Early Superiors of the Maori Mission
1886-1893 J. Becker
1893-1913 A. Lightheart
1913-1931 G.W. van Dijk
Item Descriptions
Series. Records of the Maori Mission, 1882 - 1972
16 items
Correspondence of Father James F. Patterson, 1882 - 1884 (File AUC Box 1 a.)
Correspondence with Bishop W. Lanigan (Goulburn), Bishop J. Murray (Maitland), M. Quinn (Sydney), Bishop J. Luck (Auckland), and Bishop H. Vaughan and Father P. Benoit of St. Joseph's College, Mill Hill.
Includes papers concerning the estate of Patterson, who died in New Zealand in 1919.
Two letters from Bishop Vaughan to Bishop Luck, c.1887 (File AUC Box 1 b.)
Concerning the Maori Mission.
Correspondence of Bishop Vaughan and Father Benoit, 1890 - 1893 (File AUC Box 1 c.)
Correspondence with Bishop Luck (Auckland), J. Madan (Matata), J. Becker (Hokianga), J.A. Holierhoek (Rotorua), J.W. Smiers (Waihi Taupo).
Copies of letters from Cardinal Vaughan to Bishop Luck, Bishop G.M. Lenihan (Auckland), J. Becker and A. Lightheart, 1893 - 1902 (File d. AUC Box 1)
Also includes:Agreement between Bishop Lenihan and St. Joseph's Foreign Missionary Society, 28 March 1900.
Reports of Maori Mission, 1896 and 1898
Report of first Provincial Chapter of Mill Hill Fathers serving the Maori Mission held at Takapuna, Auckland, 30 January 1902.
Miscellaneous letters, financial papers, 1896-1902.
Letters to Father F. Henry, 1897-1900; [1886] (File AUC Box 2 d.)
Letters from Bishop G.M. Lanihan (Auckland), A. Lightheart, J.W. Smiers (Whangarei), C. Kreijmborg (Lake Taupo), G. Graham (Auckland), E. Schoonhorf (Whangarei), J.A. Holierhoek (Matata).
Includes agreement between Bishop J. Luck and Bishop H. Vaughan [1886].
Correspondence of Cardinal Vaughan and Father F. Henry (Mill Hill), 1893 - 1896 (File AUC Box 2 a.)
Correspondence with A. Lightheart (Matata), Bishop Luck (Auckland), J.R. Madan (Matata), J.W. Smiers (Waihi Taupo), J.A. Holierhoek (Rotorua), P. J. Oud (Waihi Taupo), C. Kreijmborg (Rotorua). Includes a photograph of St. Joseph's Church, Matata, 1895.
Letters to Father F. Henry and Cardinal Vaughan from A. Lightheart (Rotorua), C. Spiers (Auckland), J.W. Smiers (Whangarei), 1901 - 1903 (File AUC Box 2 b.)