Hursthouse, John
Production date
1841-1843
1840-1849
Description
Transcription of a personal diary kept by John Hursthouse recording his last months in England, his voyage on the passenger ship Thomas Sparkes and his first months in New Zealand.
John Hursthouse was born in 1811, the child of Charles and Mary Hursthouse of Lincoln. He married Helen Wilson, formerly his sisters' governess, in 1837 and they immigrated to New Zealand in 1842, settling in Taranaki. John died in 1860.
Transcribed from the original by Peggy Griffiths and Jinny Atkinson, great grand daughters of the diarist.
Object detail
1840-1849
Part 1
Transcript.
Digital file
Digital copy of transcript
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