Folder 1

1) Letter to My Dear Father from his son H Waring Saxton, Bulgaria, dated October 26th 1873. Describes travel to and arrival in Bulgaria. (1 page)

2) Letter to My Dear Father from his son Waring, New Plymouth, dated March 31st 1884. Mentions a friend being swamped while crossing the Mokau River and various other issues, some relating to government policy (1 page)

3) Letter to My Dear Father from his son, dated October 1884. Reminisces and write of government policy (1 page)

4) Letter to My Dear Father from his son Waring, New Plymouth March 28th 1886. Writes of British government and of New Zealand becoming a destination for tourists. (1 page)

5) Letter to My Dear Father from Waring, New Plymouth, May 23 1886. (appears to be in a different hand) Writes of exporting butter and of family matters. (1 page)

6) Letter to My Dear Father from Waring, New Plymouth July 15 1887. Describes electoral procedures and family matters.(1 page)

7) Letter to My dear Father. Incomplete however most probably from Waring. New Plymouth, December 31 1887. In very poor condition, contents of letter not deciphered. (1 page)

8) Letter to My Dear Percy from Cousin H Waring Saxton. Survey Office, New Plymouth June 15 1910 regarding power of attorney (1 page)

9) Letter to My Dear from cousin H Waring Saxton Survey Office, New Plymouth May 1 1912 regarding family matters.

NOTE: all the above letters appear to be early handwritten copies and not originals.

10) Letter card to My Dear Uncle from Sidney Waring Saxton, HMS Exmouth 6 December 1906 advising his uncle that he had joined the Navy. (1 item)

11) Letter to Mum, Dad & Everybody from John, Victoria Road, New Plymouth January 15 1933. Describes a bike ride from ? to ? which took him and a friend through various towns.He mentions a road accident near Ngaere. He writes of going to the pictures and seeing a film clipping of Kingsford Smith's flight across the Pacific and other films. Mentions going to the airport to see KS. Also a visit to a telephone exchange. (6 pages)

12) Marriage Certificate: Henry Bloxam to Keitha Saxton January 27 1915.(1 page)

13) Genealogical notes relating to the Saxton family? (1 page)

14) Letter to Keitha from Sydney Waring Saxton, dated 23rd November 1947. This is a substantial history of the Saxton family dating back to 1160.This document mentions Churchill, Victoria, also Teddy Roosevelt & the fact that he suffered from infantile paralysis (4 pages envelope)

14a Page containing 3 photo's 1 of old painting, 2 landscapes places unknown (1 page)

14b Portuguese passport issued to H.W.Saxton dated April 1872

(1 page)

15) Genealogy. Dated from 1550 genealogy of Bloxam family (1 page)

16) Genealogy. Dated from 1870 genealogy of Bloxam family (1 page)

17) Dated from 1801 memorandum of Andrew Bloxam (1 page)

18) Genealogy. Dated from 1801 genealogy of Andrew Bloxam (1 page)

  Folder 2

19) Genealogy. Dated from 1550 pedigree of Bloxam family full of family history as well as of the churches and the way of life. (5 pages)

20) Letter, edged in black announcing the death of one monsieur Alexis Martin-Saxton dated 14th Sept 1948

21) Genealogy. Dated 1731 a genealogy of Parish family links to Richard Bloxam.

22) Letter, incomplete, dated Sept 13 1914 containing family memorial information written by Ann Bloxam. (2 pages)

23) Obituary. Richard Bloxam, Dated 5th of March 1896. Obituary written by the horticultural journal expressing the passing of Richard Bloxam. His love of roses and an insight into the house and gardens of Eltham Court. (2 pages)

24) Obituary, Richard Bloxam, 1896, that gives a lot of information about the Chancery and Solicitors court of the day. (4 pages)

25) Will: Ellen Anne Bloxam dated 21 July 1923,Christchurch (4 pages)

26) Probate: Ellen Anne Bloxam 1931. Christchurch (3 pages envelope)

27) Catalogue announcing the sale of chattels of the property The Rectory, Harboro, Magna,also an additional catalogue with annotations of prices paid and buyers of said items. (2 booklets)

28) Letter from Dr B.A.J.Arthure to Henry Bloxam off New Plymouth dated 27/11/1962 confirming family links. (1 page envelope)

29) Letter. Black edged, not sure as to family connection. Dated 26th Nov 1881 (1 page)

30) Greek-script newspaper Thrakē, dated 16 (28) Marpriou 1847 = 16 Mach 1874 (1 page)

31) A picture and editorial on a school house in Godaming Surrey relevance unknown. (1 page)

32) Satirical magazine, Diyojen or Diyogen, in Ottoman Turkish script dated 24 August 1871. (1 page)

  Folder 3

33) Photo of Richard Bloxam's gravestone also his two wives Susannah and Mary.

34) Photo of Mrs Bloxam and Marjorie.

35) Photo of a cameo of Mary Scottoche possibly second wife of Richard.

36) Photo of Edward and Harriet Saxton.

37) Photo of A.R. Bloxam 1898.

38) Photo of house Cantlop

39) Photo address at family residence of great great grandfather then master of Rugby School

40) Photo of old house possibly Eltham Court.

41) Photo of family members on tennis court possibly at Eltham Court.

42) Photo of Christopher Llewellyn Saxton.

43) Photo of young female member of the family unidentified.

44) Photo of a child unidentified.

45) Glass photograph of a member of Bloxam Family (broken)' also a large format negative.

46) Photo of John Bloxam.

47) Kingsford-Smith flying over Masterton.

48) Photo of John Saxton m Lucy Waring.

49) Photo of Anna Everiss, whose daughter Annie Matilda Schrempf was H. Waring Saxton's wife

50) Photo of H.Waring Saxton GP 1878.

51) Photo of two children unidentified.

52) Photo of St Matthew's School group.

53) Photo of child unidentified.

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54) Copy of a letter written by Henry Waring Saxton to his father in England, May 25th 1886. Describes purchasing land in New Zealand, the economic situation here, the harbour and railway in New Plymouth, Māori protest marches in Taranaki, the exploration of the King Country for gold; the 1886 wreck of the Taiaroa at Kaikōura, the colonial government and Vogel, the state of Europe, particularly Greece; England; native fish and introduced trout.