Letter from Oscar Monrad to his aunt, Marie Monrad, wife of Johannes Monrad in America. The letter was written after Oscar's return from Denmark and describes daily life on the farm at Karere, near Palmerston North. Oscar Monrad was the ...

Creator:      Oscar Monrad

Date:          October 27, 1886

Christian Petersen was an early Mauriceville wood-carrier, and is shown here transporting timber for the new homes of the settlement.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Mauriceville, Wairarapa Region
Date:          circa 1889

Johannes, the second son and fourth child of the celebrated Bishop D. G. Monrad, was born in Denmark August 1849 when his father was a Minister in the Danish Cabinet, shortly before he was made Bishop in the Luthran Church. Johannes became a Naval...

Creator:      T Hammerom, Copenhagen
Place:          Denmark
Date:          1865

Monrad wears what are presumably his offical robes as a Bishop in the Danish Lutheran Church. See also Pi 558 and Pi 147 for more information.

Creator:      Johan Vilhelm Gertner, Frederiksborg
Place:          Unknown
Date:          1864

The Rev. J.J. Legarth was a minister at Mauriceville West.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1880

Christensen was born in Egvard, Denmark. He emigrated to New Zealand in 1886, where he was the pastor to the Danish Lutheran Congregation in Mauriceville until 1894, when he took over the Lutheran Church in Palmerston North. He ministered and pr...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Wairarapa Region
Date:          circa 1920

The Rev D.G.M. Bach, his wife and son Stanley, who were residents of Mauriceville in the Wairarapa from 1911-1916.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Wairarapa
Date:          circa 1910

When Bishop D. G. Monrad emigrated to New Zealand in 1864-1865, he left behind his two eldest daughters. This portrait shows Ada (Mrs Neils Fredriksen), with her son Ditler Gothard Monrad Fredriksen (the first grandson to take Bishop Monrad's name...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Denmark
Date:          1886

Christian Petersen was a carrier by trade and transported most of the timber for the early Scandinavian settlements about Mauriceville.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1889