The Ian Matheson City Archives, in Palmerston North, holds the diaries of Ann Jacques, covering the years 1928 – 1963, albeit with some gaps. It is these diaries that inspired this article, and seeks to reveal a little of who Ann was, through some...

Creator:      Lesley Courtney
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          2017

Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. Historian Marilyn Wightman talks about late Feilding florist Pat Mason's diaries, held at the Feilding Coach House community archive. They describe wedding fashion from...

Creator:      Tina White
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          November 9, 2019

Handwritten diary of Ann ('Nan') Kathleen Jacques, nee Jobson (31 December 1894 - 27 August 1994). Includes newspaper clippings, letters and other writings.

Ann Jacques immigrated to New Zealand from England in 1928 with her husband William Jacqu...

Creator:      Ann Jacques
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          February 7, 1952 to October 23, 1963

Handwritten diary of Ann ('Nan') Kathleen Jacques, nee Jobson (31 December 1894 - 27 August 1994). Includes newspaper clippings, letters and other writings.

Ann Jacques immigrated to New Zealand from England in 1928 with her husband William Jacqu...

Creator:      Ann Jacques
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          May 13, 1946 to April 29, 1951

Handwritten diary of Ann ('Nan') Kathleen Jacques, nee Jobson (31 December 1894 - 27 August 1994). Includes newspaper clippings, letters and other writings.

This diary contains a lot of personal comments on WWII and Ann's involvement in the Home ...

Creator:      Ann Jacques
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 5, 1941 to March 20, 1942

Handwritten diary of Ann ('Nan') Kathleen Jacques, nee Jobson (31 December 1894 - 27 August 1994). Includes newspaper clippings, letters and other writings.

This diary contains a lot of personal comments on WWII and Ann's involvement in the Home ...

Creator:      Ann Jacques
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          March 20, 1942 to May 8, 1946

Handwritten diary of Ann ('Nan') Kathleen Jacques, nee Jobson (31 December 1894 - 27 August 1994). Includes newspaper clippings, letters and other writings.

This diary contains a lot of personal comments on WWII and Ann's involvement in the Home ...

Creator:      Ann Jacques
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          October 14, 1940 to July 4, 1941

Handwritten diary of Ann ('Nan') Kathleen Jacques, nee Jobson (31 December 1894 - 27 August 1994). Includes newspaper clippings, letters and other writings.

This diary contains a lot of personal comments on WWII and Ann's involvement in the Home ...

Creator:      Ann Jacques
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          August 31, 1939 to October 13, 1940

Handwritten diary of Ann ('Nan') Kathleen Jacques, nee Jobson (31 December 1894 - 27 August 1994). She immigrated to New Zealand from England in 1928 with her husband William Jacques, who had been appointed to the staff of the new Massey Agricultu...

Creator:      Ann Jacques
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          November 12, 1928 to 1936

This "McDougall Farmers' Notebook 1935-36" was used as a diary by an unknown farm worker who went on 'Tour of N.I.', beginning 15 October 1935 (first entry). He travelled from Blenheim, and records his holiday, mainly in the Hawkes Bay and Giborne...

Creator:      Anonymous, possibly J Lane

Date:          1935 to 1936

The shipboard diary of Emily J. Hewitt [Shannon] written while a passenger on "Nourmahal" from London to Sydney.

Creator:      Emily Hewitt
Place:          Shannon
Date:          1864 to 1865

Diary written by third class steerage passenger on the 'Ionic', sailing from Gravesend and Plymouth in England to Wellington and Port Chalmers in New Zealand. The writer departed from Plymouth on 6 December 1884, with his wife and children (Esther...

Creator:      Mr Cole [?]

Date:          1884 to 1885

Transcription of Shipboard diary written by third class steerage passenger on the 'Ionic', sailing from Gravesend and Plymouth in England to Wellington and Port Chalmers in New Zealand. The writer departed from Plymouth on 6 December 1884, with hi...

Creator:      Mr Cole?

Date:          1884 to 1885

The Grammer family were early Ashhurst residents and the Grammer Family archive contains family information from 1868. Ron Grammer was the son of Tom Grammer and the family lived in Bainesse, close to Palmerston North. Private Ron Grammer served i...

Creator:      Ron Grammer
Place:          Tuturana Prisoner of War Camp, Southern Italy
Date:          1942