by wildcard_admin | Oct 5, 2020 | History
Michael William Munro A member of the 58th Regiment which came to Australia to escort convicts and was sent on to New Zealand in 1845 to deal with unrest in the Bay of Islands.He was a very early settler on the Mahurangi River & bought land near Duck Creek in the...
by wildcard_admin | Oct 5, 2020 | History
A Breif history of our Local Islands The island group of Motuketekete, Moturekareka, Motutara, and Kohatutara or the Rocky Islets island areas are a group of connected islands south of Kawau Island, which you see when looking out from Martins Bay.There are the remains...
by wildcard_admin | Jul 21, 2020 | History
There is an old wreck, or at least part of it, lying in the north western bay, on Moturekareka, near Kawau Island The wreck is the Alice A. Leigh and renamed the Rewa whose history is directly linked to the end of the days of sail. She was a 3,000 ton four masted...
by algies_admin | Jun 25, 2020 | FamilyStories, History-PersonHighlight
A Story by Evan Algie It was a long trek to Pukekohe East from down town Auckland in the year of 1855. To the nine year old Jemima Deerness, the journey by bullock wagon seemed to take forever, she probably asked her mother and father a hundred times “Are we there...
by algies_admin | Jun 25, 2020 | FamilyStories, History-PersonHighlight
Alexander & Jemima Alexander & Jemima had 6 children, Jemima or Mina and always known as Ma to all the boarders. William James Algie, born 1868 April. He married Annie Jane …. Born 1879 (?) They had 2 children. Doris who married Harold Edwards. 2 children....
by algies_admin | Jun 25, 2020 | FamilyStories, History-PersonHighlight
This is an account of our family history as best as I know it. It is not in chronological order necessarily, but it will give future generations a pretty fair idea. Alexander Algie (known as Alec) was born in Renview, Scotland, on 28th March 1838 (100 years to the...