South To The
Left Of Venus
Jillsjottings
Mataatua Canoe
Whakatohea Tribe
Kennedy Bay - Whakatane - Gisbourne -
Ōpōtiki
Part 1 - In Process,
Temporary File,
Part
2
South Book Part 2
in PDF
Updated June 7th 2024
- Ngahiraka Kennedy
- 1838 - 1890
- By the American Photo Company circa 1889.
- Courtesy Tairawhiti Museum Gisborne.
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- Kia Ora.
- Your name is Chris Metcalfe.
- Of
Ōpōtiki descent
from the hapu of Whanau-a-Muriwai.
- Ko Muriwai te Tipuna (ancestor)
- Ko Opape te Marae (meeting house)
- Ko
Ngai Tamahaua te Hapu (family group)
- Ko Te Whakatohea Te iwi (tribe)
- Ko Mataatua te waka (canoe)
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- Somehow, an irreplaceable photograph of your Great, Great,
Grandmother,
- Nga-hiraka, 'a beautiful Maori Princess with a moko,' was lost.
- It seemed sad that the family would never know who she was, or
what she looked like.
- I made inquiries amongst your more elderly aunts and an epic
journey began!
- This is your heritage and one the whole family (and historians)
can share.
- My job was simply to join the threads of oral history and other
material together, as accurately as possible.
- The loss of Ngahiraka's photo was a blessing after all!
Enquiries to Jill
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H.
M. S. BUFFALO
"Ships
Log"
Journal Part 1
Journal
Part
2
- Shipwrecked
on Buffalo Beach,
- Mercury
Bay
- New Zealand
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Pearlspad
- Wonderful site which was
created by my Auntie Pearl,
- I considered it worthwhile
to reinstate it.
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Hi Welcome
to Bob & Jill's Web Site
- We live in the sunny
Bay
of Plenty, Whakatane,
- New Zealand.
- Mount Maunganui Beach
-
- AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND
- 1853 - 1863
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St James Presbyterian Church,
Pollen St. Thames. New Zealand.
- To raise revenue for the needs of the young
Church, a "Pew Rent" was charged.
- This is a complete
transcription of a hand written account book we transcribed while on holiday in
Thames -
- a mammoth task but one which has made available information otherwise
not accessible to most people.
- It can give clues as to the financial status of a
person,
- sometimes the number of persons and the Pew number rented are included,
- and the years that the person was residing in the area. Possibly even a clue to
a person's time of death.
List
of Names from Rent Book
Pew seat Rent Book.
- Original Minutes from the Auckland Education Board.
- New Zealand
- 1857 - 1863
Early Auckland Board of Education Names
from the 1860 Minutes book.
Copy of the
Minutes, Auckland Board of Education for the year ended September - 1863
Copy
of the Minutes, Auckland Board of Education for the year ended December 1857 -
September 9th 1858
List
of names mentioned in December 1857 - September 9th 1858
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- KATHERINE
STEWART FORBES
- (Catherine /
Catharine)
"Early
New Zealand Immigrant
Ship
Diaries"
Two Diaries of the voyage from London to New Zealand on the
Barque
- "Katherine Stewart Forbes"
(Catherine)
-
1851
-1852
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Paintings by : John Speedy a well known New Zealand Artist.
Left : Rounding North Head, Auckland Harbour, New
Zealand. Early evening, 9th March 1852.
Right : One of the few calm days on deck,
with my forebears & other passengers as depicted in
the Diary. (Circa December 1851.)
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