History and Diary of Aoba, 1857-1922, by Father A.S. Webb
- AU PMB MS 43-01j
- Stuk
- 1857-1922
Part of Records of the Melanesian Mission, New Hebrides, 1857-1968
History and Diary of Aoba, New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) 1857-1922, by Father A.S. Webb.
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History and Diary of Aoba, 1857-1922, by Father A.S. Webb
Part of Records of the Melanesian Mission, New Hebrides, 1857-1968
History and Diary of Aoba, New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) 1857-1922, by Father A.S. Webb.
Records of the Melanesian Mission, New Hebrides, 1857-1968
Records of the Melanesian Mission, New Hebrides (Vanuatu) from the period 1857-1968. Including the following:
Melanesian Mission
Sister Margaret, daughter of the headmaster of Clifton College, an Anglican college in Bristol, was born in 1887. She was educated at St Andrews in Scotland; at a school run by Mrs Leonard Huxley at Priors Field, Godalming; and at Cambridge University. After a period of uncertainty, Sister Margaret became an Anglican nun. She taught at a school in South Africa for seven years and was later a novice mistress in India. In 1929 she went to the Solomon Islands as a teaching sister for the Melanesian Mission. In 1942 she transferred to the Melanesian Mission school at Torgil, Aoba Island, New Hebrides (Amber, Vanuatu). After furlough in England in 1948, Sister Margaret became a member of the Roman Catholic Church and served a further term in the Solomon Islands. In 1966 she went to live in New Zealand/Aotearoa.
Sister Margaret of the Cross
Record of births at Nduindui hospital, Aoba, New Hebrides
The hospital at Nduindui on Ambae, Vanuatu, is run by the Churches of Christ Mission.
The record gives the name, sex, date of birth and parents' names of each child, with clinical details of the mother's labour.
Churches of Christ Mission, New Hebrides
Letters of Father Ch. Faure, S.M. from Aoba (Ambae) and Mele (Efate), 1901-1903.
Part of Letters
Correspondence and legal documents concerning the ownership by Europeans of an area of land at Nduindui, Ambae, Vanuatu. The first owner was Eugene Wilbur, a Canadian, who settled on Ambae in 1870. Later owners were Frederick John Purdy & Co., F.B. Spooner Brothers (F.B. and George Spooner).
Spooner, George
Vocabulary, primer and hymn book
The Duindui language is spoken in the south-west of Aoba (Ambae) Island, Vanuatu. Alternative spellings include Nduindui and Ndui Ndui.
Duindui Language - New Hebrides
Letters associated with the Roman Catholic Mission, New Hebrides (Vanuatu):
Roman Catholic Mission, New Hebrides
Part of Records of the Melanesian Mission, New Hebrides, 1857-1968
Baptismal Register of St Paul's Church, Lolowai, and from ketch Patteson, 1928-1968, with Register of Burials, St Paul's Church, Lolowai, 1929-1964, and Marriages, 1929-1965.
Vocabularies of and stories in various languages of the New Hebrides
Part of Records of the Melanesian Mission, New Hebrides, 1857-1968
Vocabularies of and stories in various languages of the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu). Includes vocabularies of North, Central and South Raga; story in Mota; vocabularies of Mota, Tegua and Toga; Loh-English Dictionary; notes on Loh Grammar; Maewo vocabularies; and stories in the Aoba Language.