This headstone for 8 year old Hildegard Kroner is the only evidence of three generations of the Kroner family in New Zealand. Her grandfather Heinrich Wilhelm Kroner [sometimes Kroener] came…
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Harry Clifton Gibbons
Harry Clifton Gibbons – seed merchant Harry was born in Lincoln, England and came to New Zealand in 1884, aged 23. For many years was in the seed business on…
Thomas Woodford
Sudden Death of Mr T C Woodford Thomas Curtis Woodford was born in 1848 in Paddington, London to a watchmaking father. The family emigrated to Canterbury when he was ‘quite…
Margaret Steel Hill
‘a kind and benevolent disposition’ Margaret and Andrew Hill were likely one of many married couples who used emigration rather than an expensive divorce to change course in their lives….
Edwin Joseph Ellis
“Missing Link” – have you any goods to sell? I never refuse them We recently shared a story with a photo that had the “Missing Link” second-hand shop in the…