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Christchurch Lists

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Descriptive

Description Our catalogue covers both our physical (offline only) and our digital collections; collection lists can be browsed in full or keyword searched via Kei Muri Māpara, and are organised into the following four categories:

Auckland Lists

These lists describe the collections once housed in the Auckland Office of the Methodist Archives which closed in 2018; these collections are now held by the Christchurch Office.

Lists include parish holdings for Northland, Auckland, and Waikato regions; where duplicate listings of material are evident across separate lists, this is indicative of material that was rearranged when it arrived in Christchurch.

There are also lists covering the Audio Visual and Photographic holdings, and the Governance holdings of the Auckland offices of Methodist departments, divisions, funds, committees, and boards, transferred from Auckland to Christchurch.

Christchurch Lists

These lists describe the collections held by the Head Office of the Methodist Archives, in Christchurch.

Lists include parish holdings for Canterbury, Hawkes Bay, Nelson, Marlborough, and the West Coast, Otago and Southland (N.B. See Hocken Archives for further records), Taranaki, and Wellington. Parish baptism and marriage registers have been separated and housed together; these records appear on separate lists – including many (but not all) of the registers once lodged in the Auckland Office and transferred to Christchurch.

Some lists of Governance records from the national offices of Methodist departments, divisions, funds, committees, and boards, including records of Conference and Ecumenical holdings, are also available (where no sensitive or confidential information is included). Methodist Women’s Fellowship National Executive records are also listed here.

You will also find lists of our Architectural Plans, Photographs, Publications, and Manuscripts collections.

New Accessions

From 2023, with the introduction of a new archives team, new descriptive standards were introduced, alongside a refreshed listing template for our metadata. Lists of all holdings received and described from 2023 onwards will appear in this part of the catalogue.

Restricted Lists

Some of our collection lists are not available online as they contain sensitive personal information restricted under The Privacy Act 2020, or information still confidential to The Methodist Church of New Zealand. These lists are only available to Methodist Archives staff.

Research Enquiries

If you would like to make an appointment to visit us, or to make use of our remote research and copying service, or if you have any difficulty finding what you are looking for, please ask using our enquiry form.

Other repositories holding MCNZ Archives

Te Taha Māori holds many historical records of significance in their own archival storage in Auckland.

Most Otago and Southland Methodist parish and church archives are held in the Hocken Archives, University of Otago.

Some Methodist Church of New Zealand archives are also held in the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library, John Kinder Library, Auckland City Library's Sir George Grey Collection, and Puke Ariki.

Some Methodist synods, regional missions, parishes, and churches still retain their archives (or a portion of their archives) on site. You can find their individual contact details here.

Where parishes and churches have become co-operative or interdenominational, archives may be held by us, or by one of the other denominational archival bodies throughout Aotearoa.

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New Accession Lists

CH29 - (DLC32) - NZMWF Minutes

CH28 - Gilling, Mick and Mem - Personal Papers (PPHR)

CH27 - Cochrane, Graham - Personal Papers (PPHR)

CH25 - Durham Street Methodist Church Parish Council (PAC 8000s)

CH24 - Freeman, Allen Tourell - Personal Papers (PPHR)

CH23 - New Brighton Union Parish Photographs and Ephemera (PAC 8000s)

CH22 - Miscellaneous Ephemera (PPHR)

CH19 - Journey's End Campsite (PAC 8000s)

CH18 - Methodist Publishing Board - Touchstone (Conference)

CH15 - St. John's Methodist Church Levin (PAC 6000s)

CH12 - Greendale Methodist Church - Parish Material (PAC 8000s)

CH11 - Brookes, Rev. Norman E. - Orakei Parish & Evangelical Synod Material (PPHR)

CH10 - Groves, R. C. (Bob) - Mount Eden Methodist Church Material (PAC 2000s)

CH9 - Turner, Nathaniel (and family) - Personal Papers (PPHR)

CH8 - Levin Methodist Parish (Saint John's Church) Registers (PAC 6000s)

CH7 - Central South Island Synod Property Secretary's Files (PAC 8000s)

CH6 - Methodist Alliance (DDFB)

CH5 - MCNZ Conference (transferred by Rev. David Bush) (Conference)

CH3 - Wallace, Rev. William (Bill) Livingstone - Personal Papers (PPHR)

CH1 - Ford, Emma - Personal Papers (PPHR)

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