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Curtains
Object type United Kingdom/migration; missionary wives/missions
Classification: NM3.1774
Description
English: Pair of green chintz curtains (1820s) Brought to N.Z. (circa 1831) by Mary Ann Williams (Mrs. James Preece) printed chintz; floral pattern; green ground
Date George IV (1820 - 1830)/House of Brunswick, Hanover Line/English reign; 29 Oct 1965; Circa 1823; Circa 1830-1840
Medium Printed
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height: 2560mm
width: 1210mm

notes: 2560 mm x 1210 mm (h x w)
institution QS:P195,Q758657
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1965.78.697
Place of creation Bay of Islands; England
Credit line gift of Auckland City Council, 1965, collection of Auckland Museum, Tamaki Paenga Hira, 1965.78.697, col.0780, ocm2095
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Pair of green chintz curtains which were brought to N.Z. circa 1823, by Mary Ann Williams (Mrs. James Preece, Church Missionary Society) and which had belonged to her mother" (ocm) Drapes brought from England to NSW in 1828 and to New Zealand in 1831. They were originally owned by Mrs Jane White (Mary Ann Preece's mother) and were drapes for a 4-poster bed. See notes by Marnie Spicer Mary Ann Williams left Bristol with mother and step-sister in 1828; arrived Parramatta 1829; worked as Matron School of Industry for circa 3 years; then recruited by CMS (Marsden or Yates) to work at as assistant at CMS girls school Paihia – later transferred to Kerikeri and following marriage to James Preece in January 1833, transferred to Waimate.

Mary Ann Williams brought these curtains, which had belonged to her mother, to New Zealand when she emigrated. Mary Ann Williams had married James Preece, a fellow missionary at Kerikeri on 25 January 1833. Mary Ann and James opened mission stations at Puriri and Parawai near Thames, at Ahikereru in the Urewera mountains and at Whakatane.
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