People and places, Norfolk Islands

Groups include: W H Edgell and T A Williams with named indigenous church members; Archdeacon R B Comins with Mrs Comins and girls at their house, St Barnabas; girls in Archdeacon Comins' house, with pet cats; group of missionary personnel including Archdeacon and Mrs Comins, Mrs Wilson, Rev G K Moir...

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Archive & Special Collections MM/07/5/46 Open

Order number: Melanesian Mission 7/46, Box 40
Date(s) of creation: c.1870 - c.1910
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id MM.07.5.46
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with Melanesian Mission 7/46, Box 40
callnumber MM/07/5/46
callnumber_txt MM/07/5/46
callnumber-sort MM/07/5/46
prefix_number 46
scb_previous_numbers J W Beattie refs: 1, 3, 43, 233, 225, and 525x Previously file 30
title People and places, Norfolk Islands
scb_date_creation c.1870 - c.1910
scb_level File
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent 29 prints including silver gelatin, printing-out paper, cartes-de-visite and albumen.
format Archive
description Groups include: W H Edgell and T A Williams with named indigenous church members; Archdeacon R B Comins with Mrs Comins and girls at their house, St Barnabas; girls in Archdeacon Comins' house, with pet cats; group of missionary personnel including Archdeacon and Mrs Comins, Mrs Wilson, Rev G K Moir, Mrs Calder, Miss Ardill, Rev F H Petrie; Mr ?Hurse; Bishop John Selwyn and Mrs Annie Catherine Selwyn, Dr R H Codrington and indigenous male church members, indignous men in mission compound cemetery; men in village; Dr Codrington with Indigenous men outside house; missionary party watching cricket, St Barnabas, including Dr and Mrs Welchman; Archdeacon and W J and A J Palmer, Miss Firmstone, Mrs Robin, Jack, Frank and Mrs Browning, Mrs Comins, ?V Tilly, E Simpson, Mrs Colenso; group outside Rev C Bice's house; Bishop Wood with church procession, including outsde the print shop. People include: Melanesian scholar at Norfolk Island (Carte-de visite given to Rev F H Spencer by Mrs Selwyn, wife of Bishop John Selwyn following garden party in 1877). Activities include: group of ladies cleaning arrowroot including Misses Wilson, Wench Ardill and Hurse; group of men preparing and cleaning arrowroot; men washing arrowroot; H Rossiter and John Curchill Palmer making arrowroot. Places or building include: The Vanua, St Barnabas; Patteson memorial chapel, St Barnabas church; Alalane Paen, married people's quarters; old chapel, St Barnabas; interior of R B Comins study. Prints taken by/received from: D P; Rev F H Spencer; R B Comins; Mrs O'Farrall; H Rossiter; E B S Mercer, Auckland; J W Beattie, including postcards published on behalf of Melanesian Mission.
scb_access_status Open
scb_file_number 46
hierarchy_top_id_raw MM
hierarchy_sequence MM.0007.005.0046

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