The shipboard diary of Emily J. Hewitt [Shannon] written while a passenger on "Nourmahal" from London to Sydney.

Creator:      Emily Hewitt
Place:          Shannon
Date:          1864 to 1865

Diary written by third class steerage passenger on the 'Ionic', sailing from Gravesend and Plymouth in England to Wellington and Port Chalmers in New Zealand. The writer departed from Plymouth on 6 December 1884, with his wife and children (Esther...

Creator:      Mr Cole [?]

Date:          1884 to 1885

This portrait shows Mary Ann Oakley, an earlier settler to New Zealand. Born Mary Ann Lee in Cheshire, England, 1819, she married her first husband Edmund Perrin in 1838 and had five children. They came to New Zealand on the "Martha Ridgeway" in 1...

Creator:      George W Shailer
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1890

The 'Philosopher', operated by Houlder Bros and Co., travelled between London and Australia - New Zealand. The advertisment gives details of prices, food and regulations of travel. From the archive of the 'Shannon Family'.

Creator:      Houlder Brothers and Co.

Date:          circa 1860 to circa 1869

The first Mauriceville West School was a tiny slab building constructed by the Scandinavian settlers in 1875, on the Education reserve at the centre of the town. It was replaced in 1877 by a small pit-sawn timber school house and in 1886 by the tw...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Wairarapa Region
Date:          1890

Houlder Bros and Co. operated the sailing ship 'Philosopher', on the route to Australia and New Zealand. George Shannon travelled first class on the 'Philosopher' to New Zealand in 1865. From the archive of the 'Shannon Family'.

Creator:      Houlder Brothers and Co.

Date:          May 27, 1865

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

The Te Awahou Nieuwe Stroom is the Foxton museum dedicated to the history of local history and the national museum for Dutch immigration.

Creator:      Jo Buckland

Date:          November 18, 2017