Mortensen Family

Description

Ole Mortensen was one of the original party of Danes who emigrated to New Zealand in 1872-5. He won a 49 acre property in a ballot for land. His name appears in the New Zealand Post Office directory until almost the turn of the century. A Mrs Karen M. Mortensen is probably his widow.

Identification

Object type

Image

Relation

CA: Petersen Papers; Public Photograph Collection Mv 12

Date

circa 1900

Digitisation id

2011P_PETERSENMv16_005976

Held in

Coolstore