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Treasure Chest Thursday: The Treasury, Thames

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Recently, Marie and I travelled down to Thames for the biennial Thames Family History Expo.

 When we travel away like this, we usually try to make best use of time and visit other libraries, museums or archives to see what they have.

The Treasury, The Coromandel Heritage Trust

 What a great opportunity for us then, to go and visit The Treasury?

 The Coromandel Heritage Trust was founded in 2003 to establish the Treasury. In 2004 The Treasury was opened in the old Carnegie Free Library.

 In March 2014, a new extension was built adjacent - and the new archive was opened. 

 We were very fortunate to be given a guided tour of the both interconnected buildings, and their resources.



The Treasury Archives

 The archive building is fitted out with shelving, gas fire suppression system and temperature controlled rooms. There are loads of manuscripts and photographs and other treasures stored and awaiting for the Trust to catalogue and put away in their new archive facilities.


Time capsule in the Archive Room
There is also a "time capsule" waiting to be opened in 100 years time.

In the Reading Room, there were many shelves filled with resources and research related to people from Thames and surrounding districts.
Some of the resources on the
Reading Room shelves at the Treasury

If you have links to the Thames or Coromandel region, or even New Zealand mining links, I would definitely recommend a visit down there to make use of their research facilities.

Happy hunting

Seonaid

 

Location: 44 Lorne Street, Auckland, 1010, New Zealand

Those Places Thursday: On the road to Thames!

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The family history team at Auckland Libraries is hitting the road this week to attend the Thames Family History Research Expo 2014!

Country travelling on the Thames-Coromandel Road, 1907.
Sir George Grey Special Collections, AWNS-19070725-13-2. 

The Thames Branch of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists is hosting this biennial event and everyone is invited.



So if you are looking for something to do this Saturday, get a hold of some of your fellow genealogists and make a day of it.

Have fun.

Karen

Location: 44 Lorne Street, Auckland, 1010, New Zealand

Amanuensis Monday:- the family history of the Waghorns of Canterbury

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We have a lot of delicious family histories that have been donated to us, or purchased by us, in our collection. They come in every shape, size and format.
When we receive a new family history we pop the details of it into our family history database. In this database we input the family names of generations of a family. It’s a wonderful tool for searching for a surname that may be found in someone else’s family history - that also happens to be yours!

At the moment I am indexing a “door stopper” of a family history called From River Thames, England to Peninsula waters, Canterbury, New Zealand : the story and history of Arthur and Louisa Waghorn, 1850-2000 onwards by Virgina Mayo.

In her forward, the author Virgina Mayo writes, “I make no apology for mistakes and the lack of much background history – our elder generations did not keep diaries and so the recording of their lives and the early happenings are lost – we can only piece together with a lot of guess work their early days and times in New Zealand.”

At 690 pages there has been a lot more than guess work in this family history. Full of clear illustrations, maps, genealogical trees, portraits, memorabilia (including autograph books and a photo of Louisa Waghorn’s best black satin hat) the book is much more than the history of a family.

Kind regards

Bridget

Tombstone Tuesday - the Ehrenfried family

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Mike Coleman was recently in the Auckland City Harbour News. His ancestors headstones were one of the 20 recently vandalised in the Jewish section of Symonds Street Cemetery.

In the article, Mr. Coleman mentioned that the Ehrenfried’s were early Auckland settlers and related to him in a direct line on his father’s side.

I thought it would be an interesting little to task to see what we have immediately accessible through our website on this family.

Searching our Symonds Street Cemetery database I found references to Elizabeth Davis Ehrenfried, Louis Ehrenfried, and Bernhard Ehrenfried. We have a photograph of their headstone at the library.
  
Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries


Our Auckland Area Passenger Arrivals database has a C. Ehrenfried and a J. Ehrenfried from the Addresses to Sir George Grey, stating they arrived in Auckland in 1862.

Louis Ehrenfried/ Ehrehfried is on the 1881 Electoral Roll with properties in the Waikato, Newton, and Thames (note the different surname spellings, I find it pays to search with browse if it’s an option).

There are mentions in Papers Past to the family, notably a business, Compbelle Ehrenfriede Co. Ltd., but also the attempted rape of Louis’s wife.

A search in our indexes, Index Auckland and the New Zealand Card Index, revealed a wealth of information on the family. These are abstracts to resources we have here in the Central Auckland Research Centre and can be accessed for free by coming in or requested online.

And this is just the very beginning...

Bridget

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