Robert (Robie) was born in 1855 in Genoa, Italy, the son of Thomas Holliday and Ann Jeal. Thomas moved the family from England due to his work as an Engineer. […]
G.H.P So mysterious to have only the initials on a plot. By accessing the digitised burial register we realised this is the plot of George Housely Presswood. Knowing how pricey […]
The USS Co’s SS Penguin was a very familiar sight in Wellington harbour as she plied back and forward to Nelson and Picton providing a ferry service much like today. […]
Francis Henry Dillon Bell was born in 1851 the eldest son of the former New Zealand Company agent Francis Dillon Bell. He was educated at Auckland Grammar, Otago Boys, and […]
Albert Martin (1882-1940) Last November Margaret, who is one of our Members, put us in touch with Alan and Yvonne Townsend who she found looking a bit lost in the […]
(information supplied in part by one of his descendants) David was born in 1863 in Dundee, Scotland to William Nairn and his wife Elizabeth Mathewson. William was a merchant linen […]
Reginald George James Berry (known as James)designer of the first New Zealand decimal coins Berry was born in London in 1906. He went to Russell Hill boarding school and won […]
“There has probably never been a greater superintendent of the Wellington Hospital than Dr Ewart” (Evening Post, 5 August 1939). This story was inspired by a Genealogy Investigations story on […]
This grave is the burial plot of Mary Anne Swainson. She was born in 1833 near Hull in the English Midlands and arrived in New Zealand in 1856. In 1859 […]
Lambro was born in 1878 to Andrew and Mary (nee Jackson) Parris. According to Lambro’s obituary, he commenced work on wharves in 1885. He was a foundation member of the […]