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1858/3762 | Harding | Edwin Isaac Shenton | Eliza | Isaac | - | Order Product |
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1862/4613 | Mary | Polglase | Isaac | Harding | Order Product |
1885/3571 | Fanny | Mullis | Isaac William | Harding | Order Product |
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1944/26434 | Harding | Isaac William | 1862 | 82Y | Order Product |
Gisborne Photo News (1954-1975, 1993–1996)
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Nelson Photo News (1960-1972)
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Tributes Online (obituaries)
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Whanganui Council Property Rolls
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HARDING ISAAC - | 1866-1867 |
Te Papa Collections - People
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Otago Nominal Index
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HARDING | Isaac | Otago | 5 May 1864 | |
HARDING | Isaac Rev | Elm Row | Dunedin | 1863 |
HARDING | Isaac Rev | Dowling st Wesleyan Church | Dunedin | 1864 |
HARDING | Isaac Rev | Dowling st Wesleyan Chapel | Dunedin | 1864 |
HARDING | Isaac, Rev | Otago | 1840 - 1898 | |
HARDING | Isaac, Rev | Otago | 22 Sep 1863 | |
HARDING | Isaac, Rev | Dowling street; Wesleyan Chapel, Dowling street | Otago | 1864 |
HARDING | Isaac, Rev | Otago | 1864 | |
HARDING | Isaac, Rev | Otago | 23 Mar 1898 | |
HARDING | Isaac, The Reverend | Wesleyan Methodist Society | Otago | 19 Jan 1864 |
NZ Presbyterian Marriages
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Shadows of Time
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Our Stuff - Denise & Peter's NZ history site
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Alfred R. " Gittos William " Harding Isaac " Harper George S. " Hobbs John " Kirk William " Lawry henry H. " Lee William " Morley William " Quilty George " Reid Alexander "
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Alfred R. " Gittos William " Harding Isaac " Harper George S. " Hobbs John " Kirk William " Lawry henry H. " Lee William " Morley William " Quilty George " Reid Alexander "
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Sooty NZ (NZ history and genealogical information)
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NZ Genealogy Research Made Easy
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May, by theRev Isaac Harding, John William, second son of the late Richard Matthews, of Auckland, surgeon, to Christina Isabella, third daughter of the late James Stoddart,
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otago1864
One LEMON John Two HARDING Isaac One LESLIE John One HARRIS George One LEWIS J.G. Three HARRIS J.H. Two LIVINGSTON A.R. One HARROLD James One LIVINGSTON Alexander One HARROLD
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Transcriptions NZ
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Harry, 1891 - 1953 HARDING - Isaac William 1862 - 1944 & - photo 114a HARDING - Fanny 1867 - 1947 HARPER - John Leonard, 1870 - 1941 & - photo 115 HARPER - Emma Louisa, 1873 -
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Alexander Turnbull Library
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DigitalNZ
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31 (1,2) Isaac Harding - Wesley Historical Society Proceedings | John Kinder Theological Library / John Kinder Theological Library | |||
Preface - The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 1 | There is a fashionable cry in those times against any argument of religion. We may discuss in science, politics, and literature, but a theological controversy has an odium about it which is often injurious or fatal to a good cause. Yet, why? Is it because the deepest interests of men are in their religion, and they do not like it touched? But t... | Isaac Harding | New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington | |
Wanganui, Wesleyan Parsonage, 5th September, 1867 - The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 1 | Rev. Sir,— Your note of the 2nd is to hand, and I beg to acknowledge the free expression of your views as more than I expected from one of a school usually remarkable for holding back from the clear and manly avowal of the church views which you have set out so promptly and so well. Allow me yet a little further to incroach upon your attention, ... | Isaac Harding | New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington | |
Correspondence and Strictures - The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 1 | Sir,— I have been informed by members of my congregation that you have, upon more than one occasion, attempted to lead them away from their "first love," and the church of their fathers, by offering your ministration to them unasked. Allow me to request that you will, in future, refrain from thus interfering with the members of the Church, who h... | Isaac Harding | New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington | |
Wanganui Parsonage, September 2nd, 1867 - The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 1 | Sir,— As you seem to expect a reply to your note of last Saturday, I will do my best to give you one. You seem annoyed, if I may judge from the tone of your note, that I should presume to exercise that liberty of conscience and opinion which I know Dissenters claim for themselves, and which I believed they allowed to others. You claim to be addr... | Isaac Harding | New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington | |
To the Revd. Chas. H. S. Nicholls, Incumbent of Christchurch, Wanganui - The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 1 | Rev. Sir,— Your note of the 30th August, 1867, dated from "Wanganui Parsonage," is now before me, and l beg to say that after thirty years' experience in the Christian ministry and some acquaintance with ministers of various branches of the Church of Christ in England, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, and now and then a little kindly attritio... | Isaac Harding | New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington | |
The Parsonage, Whanganui, September 13, 1867 - The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 1 | My dear Sir,— Although I said in my last letter that I should not pursue this correspondence any further, I feel myself obliged to acknowledge your note of the 5th inst., and to thank you for the courteous manner in which you give me credit for straightforwardness, which I think it is best to exhibit on all occasions. Although my time is much ta... | Isaac Harding | New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington | |
Saturday Evening, 31st August, 1867 - The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 1 | Rev. Sir,— I am in receipt of a note from you, addressing me In a manner quite unusual, and, before I reply to the subject of your note, allow me to ask if it was from design that you addressed me as Mr. Harding, being a member of another branch of the great Protestant Church. It may be that you do not respect my ordination to the office and wor... | Isaac Harding | New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington | |
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Otago Boys high School, High Street, Rattray Street, Dunedin, 1862 | Looking north west? showing Otago Boys High School with pillars (top right) and other buildings in High Street and Rattray Street, Dunedin, the Reverend Isaac Hardings Wesleyan Church under construction (left) | Richardson, James D | Auckland Libraries Heritage Images Collection / Auckland Libraries |

Legacy.com NZ Obituaries
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Auckland Museum Online Cenotaph
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Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
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Meeting at Pūtiki, May 1864 | In May 1864 downriver Māori fought at Moutoa Island, just north of Rānana, against upriver Māori who threatened to march on Whanganui town. Later that month Dr Isaac Featherston (centre), the superintendent of Wellington province (of which Whanganui was a part) met with Whanganui Māori at Pū... | William James Harding New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga |
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Find A Grave (NZ cemeteries)
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Name | Born | Died | Cemetery | Cemetery location | Region |
Isaac William Harding | 1862 🔍 | 1944 🔍 | All Saint's Churchyard | Prebbleton, Selwyn District | Canterbury |
Kura Heritage Collections (Auckland)
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Harding, Isaac | 1881-10 | 1881 Electoral Rolls |
Harding, Rev. Isaac | Index Cards |
Upper Hutt City Libraries Heritage Collections
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NZ Electronic Text Centre
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Archives NZ
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British Resident > Inwards letters
- Enclosed: Description of George Harding Darby (p42-49)
- Enclosed: Description of William Philp (p42-49)
- Enclosed: Description of John Deacon, John Wheeler, William Dowson (p42-49)
- Enclosed: Description of John Nicola, Lauchlan Macintosh (p42-49)
- Enclosed: Description of John Fenton, Isaac Haines (p42-49)
Christchurch High Court > Christchurch Probate files
Name | Scan | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
HARDING Isaac William - Templeton - Labourer | 1956 | Christchurch | Open |
Blenheim District Court > Blenheim arbitration files
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Court of Arbitration - McIsaac versus Harding | 1909 | Wellington | Open |
Department of Lands and Survey, Christchurch District Office > Inwards Correspondence to the Provincial Secretary [ICPS]
Wellington Province Government > General Inwards Correspondence, Inward Letters from Commissioner of Crown Lands & the General Government
Tinui History
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Masterton Anglican History
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Tasman Heritage
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West Coast NZ History
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Archives Central (Manawatū-Whanganui)
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Canterbury Museum Collections - People
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Lower Hutt MyRecollect
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Dictionary of NZ Biography (Scholefield, 1940)
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Source: A Dictionary of NZ Biography, by Scholefield (1940), from NZ History / CC BY-NC 3.0 NZ
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Isaac Harding | HARDING, ISAAC (1815-97) was born at Wanstrow, Somerset, England, three months after the death of his father. At two years he was adopted by a childless uncle and aunt, and eventually he was confirmed in the Anglican church. Shortly afterwards he joined the Wesleyan Methodist church and soon became a local preacher. At the age of 21 he entered the ministry and was ordained at Newcastle-on-Tyne (1840). During the dissensions in British Methodism (1849-53) he rendered yeoman service by his loyalty and eloquence and his writings. In response to a call for volunteers for Australia, Harding offered and sailed for Victoria in 1852. Landing at the height of the gold rush he engaged in strenuous labour, enduring hardships, establishing schools and erecting churches. He was one of the originators and the first editor of the Victorian Wesleyan Chronicle. In 1858 he was transferred to New Zealand, his first sphere being Auckland. The discovery of gold in Otago led to Harding's transfer to Dunedin, where the Rev James Buller had arranged for the erection of a church for him on Bell Hill. Harding held his first services in the Athenaeum and then occupied a canvas tent at the corner of Stafford and Melville streets. He speedily took the whole of Otago for his circuit and during two years churches were erected at Tuapeka, Clutha, Tokomairiro, Waikouaiti, Oamaru and elsewhere. In the course of one journey he went to Gabriel's Gully, thence proceeding through Teviot to Dunstan, up the Kawarau to Arrow and Queenstown, thence to Invercargill and Dunedin. In this journey he used four horses and made some very long daily journeys. He opened preaching services in 23 centres and had canvas and frame churches erected on the goldfields at Hogburn, Shotover, Alexandra, Clyde, Hyde and other places. A robust constitution, volcanic energies and an indomitable will gave him a rich endowment for pioneering work. Harding was a man of unusual mental ability, a profound thinker and book lover. He was a contributor to leading magazines and reviews in England. His letters written from Auckland and Dunedin and published in the London Times over the signature 'Uncle John' did remarkable service to New Zealand and its intending colonists. In 1859 he published a lecture entitled Young Men for the Colonies, and a controversial pamphlet addressed to Governor Gore Browne on correspondence between him and Bishop Pompallier. In 1860 he published a pamphlet addressed 'To the intelligent Roman Catholic laymen of the province of Auckland,' regarding the inspection of schools receiving government grants. After leaving Otago Harding served at Wellington (1864-66) and Wanganui (1867). In 1868 he was transferred to Queensland, where in 1872 he founded the Methodist book depot in Brisbane. He died on 17 Jul 1897. M.A.R.P. | Volume 1, page 194 |
HARDING, ISAAC (1815-97) was born at Wanstrow, Somerset, England, three months after the death of his father. At two years he was adopted by a childless uncle and aunt, and eventually he was confirmed in the Anglican church. Shortly afterwards he joined the Wesleyan Methodist church and soon became a local preacher. At the age of 21 he entered the ministry and was ordained at Newcastle-on-Tyne (1840). During the dissensions in British Methodism (1849-53) he rendered yeoman service by his loyalty and eloquence and his writings.
In response to a call for volunteers for Australia, Harding offered and sailed for Victoria in 1852. Landing at the height of the gold rush he engaged in strenuous labour, enduring hardships, establishing schools and erecting churches. He was one of the originators and the first editor of the Victorian Wesleyan Chronicle. In 1858 he was transferred to New Zealand, his first sphere being Auckland. The discovery of gold in Otago led to Harding's transfer to Dunedin, where the Rev James Buller had arranged for the erection of a church for him on Bell Hill. Harding held his first services in the Athenaeum and then occupied a canvas tent at the corner of Stafford and Melville streets. He speedily took the whole of Otago for his circuit and during two years churches were erected at Tuapeka, Clutha, Tokomairiro, Waikouaiti, Oamaru and elsewhere. In the course of one journey he went to Gabriel's Gully, thence proceeding through Teviot to Dunstan, up the Kawarau to Arrow and Queenstown, thence to Invercargill and Dunedin. In this journey he used four horses and made some very long daily journeys. He opened preaching services in 23 centres and had canvas and frame churches erected on the goldfields at Hogburn, Shotover, Alexandra, Clyde, Hyde and other places. A robust constitution, volcanic energies and an indomitable will gave him a rich endowment for pioneering work.
Harding was a man of unusual mental ability, a profound thinker and book lover. He was a contributor to leading magazines and reviews in England. His letters written from Auckland and Dunedin and published in the London Times over the signature 'Uncle John' did remarkable service to New Zealand and its intending colonists. In 1859 he published a lecture entitled Young Men for the Colonies, and a controversial pamphlet addressed to Governor Gore Browne on correspondence between him and Bishop Pompallier. In 1860 he published a pamphlet addressed 'To the intelligent Roman Catholic laymen of the province of Auckland,' regarding the inspection of schools receiving government grants. After leaving Otago Harding served at Wellington (1864-66) and Wanganui (1867). In 1868 he was transferred to Queensland, where in 1872 he founded the Methodist book depot in Brisbane. He died on 17 Jul 1897.
M.A.R.P.
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Wellington City Council Archives
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Masterton Library Wairarapa Archive
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BillionGraves (NZ cemeteries)
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NZSG Kiwi Collection (non-member records)
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Puke Ariki Collections - People
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Hocken Digital Collections
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Isaac Harding 🔍 ASHSource: Intention to Marry Indexes, by Archives NZ / CC BY
Bride | Groom | Marriage District | Year | Volume | Page | Entry |
🌳 Fanny Mullis | 🌳 Isaac William Harding | Christchurch | 1885 | 30 | 531 | 390 |