Discovered: a sketch of St John’s College Purewa This sketch is of the St John’s College settlement at Purewa 1844-1845 at the time when Bishop GA Selwyn moved the College from Te Waimate to Auckland. Most College members ‘camped’ on the bank of the Purewa Creek (at the point at… Read More »St John’s College Purewa, c.1845 – an intriguing sketch
Te Aute Map and Land Deeds The John Kinder Theological Library Te Puna Atuatanga is not only a research library; it is also a repository for archives relating to the Anglican Church at a national level. Archives are the records created, used or collected by an organisation. These records are… Read More »Te Aute Map and Land Deeds
These Anglican Priests remain a mystery From the unplumbed depths of the John Kinder Theological Library Archives come these three un-named photographs of Anglican clergy. The first two gentlemen were photographed in or around the 1870’s by the Wellington photographer W.H. Davis. We do not know much about the third… Read More »Mystery Anglican Priests
Rota Waitoa was the first Māori ordained Minister in New Zealand The John Kinder Library is fortunate to hold letters written by Rota Waitoa the first Māori ordained minister spanning the whole of his Christian life from 1845 – 1866. Waitoa received his initial Christian education from Octavius Hadfield at… Read More »Letters By and About Rota Waitoa, the first Māori ordained minister
From a later period of the Melanesian Mission comes three photograph albums from descendants of John Palmer, missionary to Melanesia 1863 to 1902. He was born in Oxfordshire, England, attended St John’s Theological College Auckland, and was ordained in Melanesia. Together the albums have over 100 photographs taken at the… Read More »Photographs of the 19th Century Melanesian Mission
When the Melanesian Mission Museum at Mission Bay was closed, a number of items were deposited with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust and stored at some of their properties. Some Melanesian items were recently returned to the John Kinder Theological Library which holds the Melanesian Mission Trust Board Archives.… Read More »Captain Jacob’s Bible – the story behind a Bible inscription
