Arrived in NZ as a 17 year old on the SS C S Forbes in 1825 and had an adventurous life on Kapiti Island as a whaler and became fluent in Maori. He married Sarah Lovelock and bought a farm at Newbury, PN.
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7/19/2023
Arrived in NZ as a 17 year old on the SS C S Forbes in 1825 and had an adventurous life on Kapiti Island as a whaler and became fluent in Maori. He married Sarah Lovelock and bought a farm at Newbury, PN.
7/19/2023
Hawkes Bay Times 4 February 1869
Man Missing at Wairoa.—We learn by the Muriwai that a man named John Gemmell, better known as " Scotch Jock," has been missing for some time, and it is feared he has b...
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6/23/2023
Hawkes Bay Times 4 February 1869
Man Missing at Wairoa.—We learn by the Muriwai that a man named John Gemmell, better known as " Scotch Jock," has been missing for some time, and it is feared he has b...
6/23/2023
William Hoard (known to his Maori family as Pire Hoa), a deserter from an American whaling ship, and Te Oki, a high-ranking woman of Te Rarawa in the Hokianga region
Reference: MyHeritage Family Tr...
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10/18/2022
William Hoard (known to his Maori family as Pire Hoa), a deserter from an American whaling ship, and Te Oki, a high-ranking woman of Te Rarawa in the Hokianga region
Reference: MyHeritage Family Tr...
10/18/2022
He captained the whaling bark ORIOLE accompanied by his wife Helen: "Reminisces of a Voyage on the Whaling Bark ORIOLE." by Helen (Mrs. Jared) Jernegan. Publ by Dukes Co. Historical Society, Edgartown,...
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10/16/2022
He captained the whaling bark ORIOLE accompanied by his wife Helen: "Reminisces of a Voyage on the Whaling Bark ORIOLE." by Helen (Mrs. Jared) Jernegan. Publ by Dukes Co. Historical Society, Edgartown,...
10/16/2022
AV00064 A. R. Tucker : 1903-1906 New Bedford, MA 1903 (out) 1906 (back) AM3935 Potter, Sylvanus B. (source: )
Captain Sylvanus T. Potter (sic)
Accession Number: G-492
Creator: Gifford, Pardon B....
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10/16/2022
AV00064 A. R. Tucker : 1903-1906 New Bedford, MA 1903 (out) 1906 (back) AM3935 Potter, Sylvanus B. (source: )
Captain Sylvanus T. Potter (sic)
Accession Number: G-492
Creator: Gifford, Pardon B....
10/16/2022
Octavius Harwood was born at Stepney Green in London in 1816. He was the eighth of Robert Harwood and Mary Soutter’s 10 children, a family position reflected by his name (Latin for eighth). His father ...
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6/18/2022
Octavius Harwood was born at Stepney Green in London in 1816. He was the eighth of Robert Harwood and Mary Soutter’s 10 children, a family position reflected by his name (Latin for eighth). His father ...
6/18/2022
Article which appeared in the Auckland Weekly News p. 28, Mar 15 1933
Early Whaling Days of the late James Morris
The number of survivors of the whaling days on the East Coast has diminished stead...
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5/19/2021
Article which appeared in the Auckland Weekly News p. 28, Mar 15 1933
Early Whaling Days of the late James Morris
The number of survivors of the whaling days on the East Coast has diminished stead...
5/19/2021
William left home at a young age to avoid the press gangs, became a whaler and settled in
New Zealand. He never returned to Ireland.
- from Overview: Jemima Morris
Came to New Zealand from Sydney, ...
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4/11/2021
William left home at a young age to avoid the press gangs, became a whaler and settled in
New Zealand. He never returned to Ireland.
- from Overview: Jemima Morris
Came to New Zealand from Sydney, ...
4/11/2021
William Bartlett, who came from the Bay of Islands with Captain Ellis, had for headsmen two of his sons, and one story of the whaling days must suffice. Mr. Tom Bartlett, of Tawatapu, East Coast, and o...
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2/2/2021
William Bartlett, who came from the Bay of Islands with Captain Ellis, had for headsmen two of his sons, and one story of the whaling days must suffice. Mr. Tom Bartlett, of Tawatapu, East Coast, and o...
2/2/2021
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1/8/2020
Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy : Feb 15 2018, 2:51:55 UTC
Edward Weller and his brothers were born in England but emigrated to Sydney with their parents in 1829. The Wellers were n...
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1/8/2020
Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy : Feb 15 2018, 2:51:55 UTC
Edward Weller and his brothers were born in England but emigrated to Sydney with their parents in 1829. The Wellers were n...
1/8/2020
GeORGe PRINTZ
Hall-Jones (1946) adds George Printz to the list of names of Sealers Bay settlers,
although neither Daniel nor Ashwell include him. George Printz arrived at Preservation
Inlet whaling sta...
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1/8/2020
GeORGe PRINTZ
Hall-Jones (1946) adds George Printz to the list of names of Sealers Bay settlers,
although neither Daniel nor Ashwell include him. George Printz arrived at Preservation
Inlet whaling sta...
1/8/2020
John "Johnny" Jones (March 1809 – 16 March 1869) was a pioneer settler in New Zealand.
Johnny lost his wife Sarah in 1864, a loss he never fully recovered from. Before he too passed in 1869, he buried ...
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1/8/2020
John "Johnny" Jones (March 1809 – 16 March 1869) was a pioneer settler in New Zealand.
Johnny lost his wife Sarah in 1864, a loss he never fully recovered from. Before he too passed in 1869, he buried ...
1/8/2020
"Albert Pearson Brown was born 1836 in New Jersey. He shows up in Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania in the 1850 census.
With him was his mother Amy Brown (mis-transcribed in census data as 33 y...
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11/12/2019
"Albert Pearson Brown was born 1836 in New Jersey. He shows up in Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania in the 1850 census.
With him was his mother Amy Brown (mis-transcribed in census data as 33 y...
11/12/2019
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6/19/2019
He was a whaler. Matters concerning land ownership are in an online article here: . " Soon after arriving in Te Tau Ihu in 1829–30, the whaler Joseph Toms married (by Maori custom) Te Ua Torikiriki, da...
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6/10/2019
He was a whaler. Matters concerning land ownership are in an online article here: . " Soon after arriving in Te Tau Ihu in 1829–30, the whaler Joseph Toms married (by Maori custom) Te Ua Torikiriki, da...
6/10/2019
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4/30/2019
John Howell was baptised at Eastbourne, Sussex, England, probably on 8 July 1810, the son of William Howell and his wife, Mary Collings. At the age of about 12 he stowed away on a smuggling vessel; app...
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4/30/2019
John Howell was baptised at Eastbourne, Sussex, England, probably on 8 July 1810, the son of William Howell and his wife, Mary Collings. At the age of about 12 he stowed away on a smuggling vessel; app...
4/30/2019
William Palmer arrived Port Bunn (Preservation Inlet), NZ February 1832 on “Caroline”.
He was said to be the first European to sail up the Clutha, which he did in a shale-boat with a Maori crew, reac...
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11/22/2010
4/30/2019
William Palmer arrived Port Bunn (Preservation Inlet), NZ February 1832 on “Caroline”.
He was said to be the first European to sail up the Clutha, which he did in a shale-boat with a Maori crew, reac...
4/30/2019
