Due to weather events Elma Turner Library Pop-Up and Stoke Library are closing at 4:30pm Wednesday 17 August.

John Mitchell

Contacts

Opening hours

Please phone for an appointment

Service

Room to work. Advice on sources of Māori history and whakapapa (especially Tainui and Taranaki tribes)

Charges

Koha to Whakatu Marae

Resources

Births, Deaths and Marriages

Photocopies of early baptism records, especially Wesleyan Church

Whakapapa

Various Whakapapa books. Photocopies of family trees.

Land

Photocopies of land title records and local land legislation

See also the book: Te tau ihu o te Waka = A history of Maori of Nelson and Marlborough. Vol 3 : Nga tupuna – the ancestors / Hilary and John Mitchell. Huia Publishers in association with Wakatu Incorporation, 2009.