The Farrell family
According to family lore the Farrell family was feared lost at sea when their ship the Rob Roy, which had left Gibraltar for New Zealand in 1860, took six months to make the trip. In…
According to family lore the Farrell family was feared lost at sea when their ship the Rob Roy, which had left Gibraltar for New Zealand in 1860, took six months to make the trip. In…
On May 9, 1865, George Gibson, a private in the 65th Regiment appeared to have deserted from the Ōhaupō military post. He had been working for some German settlers, but he did not turn up…
“So far this has been a very trying winter,” noted the Ōhaupō correspondent for the Waikato Times in July 1894. “It gives one the cold shivers to see comparatively young people stepping into the grave,…
Alexander Ligertwood would not go into the Old Men’s Refuge at Hamilton, and Dr Pairman, who attended him, also opposed the idea. Alexander, 68, was from Scotland where he had attended Glasgow University and earned…
On May 9, 1865, George Gibson, a private of the 65th Regiment, appeared to have deserted the Ōhaupō military post. He had been working for some German settlers but he did not turn up when…
Alice Harris was in good spirits, and quite sure she wanted to proceed with eye surgery. She had travelled from Kihikihi in September 1894 to stay with her sister-in-law Ellen Lampra at Wakefield Street, Auckland….
It was while performing the hard work of his huge and scattered parish that Father William Croke sowed the seeds of his demise. The 28-year-old priest was stationed at Kihikihi, his duties requiring long journeys…
“I regret very much”, wrote the Te Rore newspaper correspondent in August 1903, “having to report that Mr Fell, our schoolteacher, is suffering from an attack of pleurisy and inflammation. In consequence the school has been closed…
Sam Paul, chamberman, responsible for the movement of miners and material in mine cages, had gone down with the men of Waihī’s Martha mine day shift on November 12, 1901. Sam managed the No 2…
‘The Laird of Greenhill’, as William Taylor was warmly known, left his house to inspect one of his paddocks just after midday in late September 1923. Greenhill was a landmark in the Te Awamutu district,…
