On Christmas morning, 1953, my then 19-year-old father breezed into his Great Aunty Ida’s house in Palmerston North and wished her a cherry Merry Christmas. She told him not to…
Alfred George Unwin (LAC RNZAF 433383)
Alfred George Unwin was born on 24 September 1924 in Bow, East London, the first child of ship’s cook Alfred William Charles Unwin and showroom assistant Rosina Alice Smith. …
James Stewart Mackenzie
Imperial Service Order, Fellow Royal Geographic Society Our Great Grandfather James Stewart Mackenzie was born on March 10th 1849 in Edinburgh to David Stewart and Rebecca (nee Noble) Mackenzie. James…
Thomas Inch
Thomas Reid Inch was born in New Plymouth on 6 August 1868 to Thomas and Mary Inch. He was the fourth of eleven children and the family’s first son. Around…
Harry Rollinson
The Evening Post of Monday, February 10th 1936 reported that the body of a man had been located in Wellington Harbour at 6:30 am in the vicinity of Clyde Quay…
Robert James Aiken
Robert (Bertie) James Aiken was born on 11 May 1890 in Aberdeen. A slight figure with a fair complexion and blue eyes, he was the eighth of 12 children born…
Samuel & Susannah Morrell
Samuel Morrell (1850 – 23 May 1919) married Susannah Tankard (1849 – 26 April 1935) in Leeds, England in 1878. Their first child, Walter, was born on 6 June 1879,…
Mary Bridget Aiken
Mary Bridget Aiken (also known as Moya or Minnie) was born in Napier in 1893, the first of six children born to James Francis O’Donnell and Margaret Josephine (McNamara), who…
Christopher George Challis (1873-1934)
Christopher George Challis was born in London, England, on August 18, 1873, to William Challis (1833 -1885) and Jane Ann Jeffrey (1841-1924). He was the youngest of four boys. His…
George Athea
Accidentally Killed Deep in Public2 section is this fine headstone to 28 year old George Henry Athea who “met with a fatal accident whilst in the execution of his duty”….