Scandinavian Club of Manawatu Inc.

Index to Skandia I - 'Early Manawatu Scandinavians' 

(Published 1990, reprinted with index in 1999)

A

Aldridge, Annie 46

Aminoff, Sten 1

Amundsen, Roald (explorer) 20

Andersen, Anna Oline 62

Andersen/Anderson, Carl Andreas, Anne, Johan Albert, Karen Oliver, Thorval, Otto Casper, Alfred, Emil, Karen, Oscar, Ethel Marian, Hector, Anderson Sons & Co. (Dannevirke) 18-9 74

Andersen, Johannes C. 54 69 74

Andersson, Julius, Christina, Alexander, Charles, Percy William, Annie, family, Mostyn 35-6 74

Anderson & Sons (Dannevirke) 19

Andreasen, Johan 27

Angelini family (Pahiatua) 60

Anglicans/Anglican Churches: All Saints, P.N. 9 46

ANZAC Park 46

Aokautere 74, Hill Road 34, School (then Fitzherbert East School) 46

Ashhurst 13, Bridge (see Lower Gorge Bridge), Domain 47

Athenaeum Store, Foxton 4

Aubert, Sister 59

Auckland 6, Museum 5

Australia: 15 21, Emerald Hill Catholic Church, Melbourne 15, cable- laying ship 15

Austria 6 53

Awapuni: 9 34 41 51-2 62 65, Maori village 7, military camp 9. (see also Karere Scandinavian Block)

B

Badger, Shirlene 15

Bannister, Maria Ann 9

Bartholomew, Peter 47

Batten-Smith, Mr 4

Bengsten, Christina 35

Bergersen, C.A. 74

Bergman, Janne (John), Christina 14

birds 27

Bismarck, Otto von (German Chancellor) 6 74

Boesen/Bosen, Martin 18 74

Boman, Carl John (Karl Johan), Caroline Louise, Alma, Ashley, Olga, Beryl, John, Vera 55 74

Bon Marche (P.N. shop) 9

Bonnevie, Johan, introduction, 13

Brick & Pipes Ltd. 25 74

Brocklebank, Beryl 47

Bufe family 29

Buick, David, daughter  of, 9

Bulls 15, Courthouse 15, Bridge 13-5

Bunnythorpe 27-8 35 48, School 35

Burgess, Michael, Dorothea, Louisa Frederica, John Otto, Birgitte, William, John, Christine, Peter Theodor, Michael Christian 15

Burr, Sidney Paul, Lydia Nicoline, Vera Lydia (McLennan-Boman), Leo Sidney, Val 3 5 19 22 25-6 28 32

C

Cafe-de-Paris Hotel 41

Cairns, Stella 63

Callesen, Hans, Mrs Hans, Johannes, Nancy 6-8

Campbell, Robert (M.P.) 38

Campbell Street School (see Palmerston North Central School)

Campbelltown (now Rongotea) 38-9 (see also Dairy Industry)

Carnarvon 50

Cater, Pauline 62

cattle 36 38 44 46 53 56 63

Christensen, Anders Christian, Marie, Annie Martha, Richard, Niobar, Calvert, Emmanuel, Lydia, Hilda 20-2, 24-5, 55 74

Christensen, Pastor Mads, Ansgar 25 42 57

Christensen, Victor A. 65-6

Christensen Quartette 69

Christiansen, Dagma 34

Christiansen, Paul, Anna Oline, Christina, Emilie, Olga, Pauline, Hilda, Lilly, Peter 62

Clausen, Anders Niels, Abilde, Andreas (Andrew), Johan Frederick, Christian, Arthur, Marie, Anne Helene Margarethe, Kari, Hanne, Dagma, Wilhelmina, Stuart ii-iv 33-4 44

Cleland, Joan 34

Coburn, Joan 37

Cole, Mr (P.N.) 4

Coleman Mall/Place 47

Court Manawatu No. 5655 9

Curtis, Jack 17

Cutfield, Wendy 64

D

Dahl, Chas, Leslie ii-iv 38

Dahlstrom, Ola Persson, Perine Martine, Lydia, Dahlstrom Place 23-6 55 74

dairy industry: 36 38-9 58, Awahuri Co-op Dairy Co. 54, Campbelltown Co-op Dairy Co. 39, Co-operative Dairy Producers Freezing Co. Ltd. 54, Glaxo 28, Karere Dairy Co. (KDC) 7, Longburn Dairy Factory 60, Mason Struthers, Dairy Merchants 58, Whakarongo Dairy Factory 62

Danish Vice-Consulate, Palmerston North ii

Dannevirke 14-5 18 60

Denmark: i-iv 5 9 14-5 23 43 49 63-4, Braband Church, Arhus 23, Agricultural & Forestry College, Copenhagen 9, Egeskov Castle 53, Danish Boys Choir 45, Danish Vice Consuls 64, Juelsborg (manor house) 53, King Christian X iv, King Frederick IX 43 54, Royal Danish Guards 53, awards 43 54 64, food in 49 64, immigrants from 9 14 23 29 31 38 41 44 50 53 56 58 63 65 67, Queen Margrethe II iv, Royal Archive, Copenhagen iv, support from N.Z. 64, tobacco growing in 44, Vestas (company) 75 (also see Schleswig-Holstein)

Devantier, Alfred, Alf (uncle & nephew) 34 58 65-6

dogs 31 47

Douglas, John 38

Douglas Special Settlement 38

ducks 7

du Fresne, Abraham H. Anne Helene Margrethe, Harold, Albert, Chris, Mr., Yvonne iii 34 44-5 69

Duncalf, Mary Ellen 53

Durham, Barbara 70

E

Easton, Richard, Christina 2

education 7 9 21-2 24 28 30

Eketahuna 41 67

employment (paid/unpaid): architects 9-10, astronomers 21, aeroplane builders 19, baker/miller 20 33, barrister & solicitor 63, bee-keepers 37 39, blacksmiths (engineers) & farriers 18 56-7 60 62, bricklayers 23-4, bridge-building 11 13-4, bush felling 7 11 23 35 65, cabinetmakers 3, carpenters 34 44, child employment 1 3 11 14 24-5 60 62, coal miner/merchant 14 62, dairy farmers 32-3 35-6 38 44 46 53 58 67, domestic work 27 62, drain-diggers 38, earthworks labourers 35 38, (stationary) engine driver 60 67, farmers (undefined) 11 48, farm labourers 6 46, fencing 66, firewood-cutters 65-6, gardeners/market gardeners/orchardists 37 39 42 48 53 57-8, gold miners 6, harbour pilot 1-2 4, historian 63, horse breakers 57, insurance agent 9, laying-out of dead 21, marine engineer 67, mid-wives 20-1, milkmen 58-9, musicians 20 30-1 46, pastors & missionaries 41-3, racehorse trainers 58-9, railway builders 11-2 33, railway builders 11-2 33, road-making 11 33-4, sawmillers/workers 18-9 30 34 67, seamen 1 3 14 38 55 67, sheep farming 7 sheep stealing 21, shipwright 3 29, shoemakers 37, shop owner/worker 3-4 34, storekeepers 30, surveying 6 10 35, tobacco growers 63, undertakers 3-4, waitressing iv (see Family Life for other aspects of women’s work)

employment: problems 20 25, trade certificates 23, workers’ camps 27

England: British Navy 1, East India Dock (London) 16, English people absorb other ethnic groups 10, Great Western Railway 60, Queen Victoria 6 28, immigrants from 10

F

Fabrin, Hans Peter, Maren Julia, Marie, Peter, Mathias, Martha, Ruth, Lydia, Johannas, Inga Marie 48-9 74

family life: 11 24-5 35-6 42 57, children 7-8 11-2 16 18 24-8 46-7 62 67, childbirth 1 4 17 20, childlessness 24, clothing 16 42 48-9 64, discipline 25, finances 1 4 6-7 12-3 18, food 6 12 16-7 21 28-9 31 33 35 38-9 42 48-9 57 62 64-5 69, household appliances 19, leisure/sport i-iv 10 16 19 30-2 46-9 62 68-70, marriage 9 25 60, married life 25, pets 7 26, orphans, fostering & adoption 2 5 20-2 24-6, pregnancy 25, registration of births 19 21 36, sole parent families 5 9 20-2 24, women’s work/activities 21 24 27 30 36 56 67 (see also Employment, Health)

farming described 6-7 12 24-5 33 35-6 38-9 44 48 53

Feilding 35 37, Hotel 37, Immigration Barracks 29

Finnerty, Angela 52

fire 7 18 27 35 37 47 56 60 65

Fire & General Insurance (company) 9

Fiche, Johanna 38

Fitzherbert (Aokautere) 18, Bridge 13-4

Fitzroy Park (see Memorial Park)

flax industry 4

flooding 4 18 20-2 35 38

Foote, Coyla 63

Forester’s Society 9, Hall 9

Foxton: 1 4 7 20 29, Family Hotel 4, Town Board 4, Beach (Manawatu Heads) 4, Pilot 1-2, Mayor/Mayoress 62

Fraser, Mrs 69

Freemasons, Order of 9

G

 ‘Gale, 1936’ 24

Gaustad, Pastor Christoffer 30 41

Germany: iv 5 23, immigrants from 16 30-1, attitudes toward immigrants during wartime 31 (see also Prussia, Schleswig-Holstein)

goldfields, Australia 15, New Zealand 6

Goold, Dr. 17

Gosnell, June 17 52

Government Buildings (Palmerston North) 56

Govier, Elizabeth Ann 5

Graff, Hjalmar: title page

Greenwood, Alice 9

Gundersen, Torkil Kari 18

H

Halcombe (town) 24 41

Halcombe, Arthur Follett 4

Hampson, Mrs 11

Hamua 67

Hansen, Christian Vilhelm, Emma Cathrine (nee Hanson), David 58-9

Hansen, Inger Marie 48

Hansen, John, Karen Margrethe 50-2

Hansen, Kari 33

Hansen, Les 69

Hansen, Peter, Mary Ellen, Norman, John 53-4

Hanson, Samuel Peter, Peter, Eliza, Annie, Anita, Victor, Harold, Norman, Redvers (Reg), Leslie, Jack 46-7

Hansen, Viggo 59

Harper, Caroline Louise 55

Harrington, Captain 52

Harrison, Margaret 47

Hawkins, Mr 9

Heaphy, Charles 35

health matters: accidents 3-4 47-8, appendicitis 28, asthma 25, died young 5 9 20 36 39, drownings 4 44, epidemics 23 46, faith healing 21, fatal accidents 18-9 46, homeopathic treatment 41, illness 3 9 11 25 33 45, lost in bush 21 35, Maori healing 59, medical care 4,  miscarriage 25, paupers’ graves 21, quarantine 23, suicide 21-2, wooden legs 48 (see also Family Life)

Henricksen, Annie 33

Henry, Matthew 9

Hoffman Kiln (Palmerston North) 25

Hokowhitu Golf Course 10, Polo Grounds, picnic at 10

Hollows, Mary Elizabeth 2

Holmes, Mr (pilot) 52

Hood family, Charlie (formerly Jonson) 5

horses 4 27 36 58-9

hospitals/old men’s homes/sanitariums: Ohiro Home (Wellington) 21, proposed sanitarium Foxton Beach 4, Wanganui Hospital Board 9

horses/properties (named): ‘Ballarat’ (farm) 8, ‘Bassehave’ (Denmark) 59, ‘Caccia Birch House’ ii 9, ‘Dania’ (house) 1999 title page, ‘Gillespie’s Homestead’ (Gillespies Line) 58, ‘Halcione’ (farm) 8,  ‘Kaingahau’ 44-5, ‘Valhalla’ 8, ‘Valkyrie’ 8

housing ii 6 8 12 20 23-4 28 35 38 44 58 65

Høvding (magazine) 70

Howan, Samuel 4

Huguenots 44

Hungary 53

I

Ihle, Anders Hansen, family 11-3 74

Ireland 15, emigrants from 1 15-7

J

Jackeytown School 7-8

Jenssen, Frits ii 34

Jensen, Knud, Karen Sophia, Jens (Peter), Henriette, Christian, infant daughter, Kezia/Karen, Alice Elizabeth, Kenneth Christian, Roy Ernest, Norman, Oscar Howard (Jim), Graeme, Peter 29-32 74

Jepsen, Mr & Mrs 30

Johannesen, John, Marie, Matilda 27-8

Johansen, Emil Henning, Carolina, Leo 67

Jonson/Jonsson, Andrew/Anders Severin, Harriett, Ada, Lynda, Arthur Sylvester, Eliza, Andrew George, Charlie, Elizabeth Ann 3-5 74

Jorgensen, Carl Emil 74

Jorgensen, Captain H.D. 23

Jorgensen, Maren Julia 48

K

Kahuterawa, bridge at 13-4, Stream 60

Kairanga 55 58

Karere: 6-7 63, Dairy Company (KDC) 7 74, Scandinavian Block (Awapuni) 18 20 27 34 (see also Longburn), School 7

Kelvin Grove: 22-3 27, School 24 28 31, Suburb 23 26, Hall 31, Roll of Honour 31

Kindberg, Gustav. Matilda, Emma, Willy, Mary, Elsie 23 27-8 74

Kiritaki 33

Kjolstad, Arne Arnesen 74

Komako 65

Kopane 38

L

land sales/purchases: Maori land sold to Crown 1

Larsen, Karen Margrethe 50-2

Larsen, Malcolm (Mac) 70

Larsen family (Mauriceville) 22 24

Lauridsen, Hans Jorgen, Martha Charlotte (née Pedersen), Johannes (John) Katrina, Anne, Peder, Eleonora, Kristian (Chris), Alma, Walter, ‘H.J. Lauridsen Blacksmith & Farrier’ 56-7 74

Lazarus, Gladys 11

Legarth, Pastor 48

Legion of Frontiersmen 47

Levin 46

Linton, James 10

Linton 56 58, flour mill 33

lizards 66

Longburn: 7 10, School (formerly Karere School) 7, Freezing Works 7, Railway Bridge 18, Blacksmith’s shop 60

Lower Gorge Bridge 14

Lucerne Dairy (Palmerston North) 58

Ludvigsen, Hans Johan, Carolina 67

Lutherans/Lutheran Churches: 30-1 40-4, 48 56 59, Bethania Lutheran Church, Makaretu 48, Lutheran Herald (magazine) 48, St. Luke’s Church, Palmerston North 41

Lyttelton 9

M

McKenzies (shop, Palmerston North) 34

Maigaard (Maegaard) family 69

Makahu 28

Makaretu 48

Makowhai Siding 38

Manawatu: early years: introduction, Clay Shooters’ Gun Club 31, commercial development of 7 33, Flour Mill 47, Gorge 36, Heads 1-2 4, Kilwinning Lodge 9, Knitting Mill 46, River 1 4 9 18-20 36, ship/boat mishaps on river 4 12 29

Manderson family (Gillespies Line) 58

Mangaone Stream 44

Mangatainoka, bridge at 13

Maori 1 4 6-7 9 11 33 59, cemetery 7

Marriner, Dr Hugh 21

Massey University 63

Masterton District High School 63

Matheson, Mr A. 28

Mattson, Edward M. (Ted) 58 70

Mau, Mr iii

Mauriceville 22 24 41-2 48 58 63, West Primary School 63

Melody’s New World Supermarket 47

Memorial Park 34 46

migration 6 33, migration agents 16?

Mikkelsen, Christina 14

militia (New Zealand) 9

Milson School 55

Monrad, Bishop D.G., Olga, Ditlev, Oscar ii 6-7 9 33 41 44 54-5 63 69

Morgan, Mr 27

Mortensen, Wilhelmina 34

Moschini, Ellen 60

mosquitoes 38

Mosquitoes & Sawdust (Skandia II) ii

Mount Cook Immigration Barracks, Te Aro 20

Mount Tarawera Eruption 36

Mountfort, Mr 35

Murray, Rev. Hugh 37

N

Nannestad, Jacob ii 9

National Art Gallery 33

Native Land Court 35

Newbury School 55

New Plymouth 6

New Zealand: Anglo-Danish Assn. 54 64 69, Historical Society 25,   New Zealand-Norway Society 70

New Zealand Government 31, Members of Parliament 9

Ngapaeruru 19

Nielsen, Anna Katrine 63

Nielsen, N.P. 54

Nielsen, Rodney, Valda 10 49

Norsewood 28 37 42 48 56

Norway: ii 11-2 18 20 27, immigrants from 11-2 17 20 37 41 46 60, Odalen (see introduction), railways 12, reker (animal) 17, Trondenis Church, Harstad 60, Trondheim 41, Ullern Church 18, Verdens Gang (newspaper) 12 (see also Migration)

O

O’Connor, Shelley 59

Odeon Theatre (Palmerston North) 56

Olsen, Hanne 34

Olsen, Nils Kristian Robert, Ellen, Freida Ellen, Robert Nils, Joakim, Gunnar 60-1

Opera House (Palmerston North) 68

O’Reilly, Father 52

Oroua Bridge (Rangiotu) 4

Osborne, Jane Maud 37

P

Pahiatua 46

Paiaka 1

Palmerston Hotel 4

Palmerston North: ii-iv 4 9 12 14, Borough/City Councillors/employees iii 9 14 34 63, Boys High School 7 31, Central School 46, descriptions of 12, ‘firsts’ 58, Gasworks 18, Girls High School 34 67, Hospital 49, Mayors ii 9, Public Library 10 36 49, Showgrounds ii, The Square 14

patents 57?

Patumahoe 18

Pedersen, Nils, Bertha 18

People’s Palace (Wellington) 60

Perry, Bill, ii-iii

Petersen, Bodil 10 43 45

Petersen, George Conrad, Jens Peter, Anna Katrine, Stella, Coyla, Wendy Phyllis ii 43 54 63-4

Petersen, Hans Christian, Halfan, Marie 16-7

Phoenix Hotel 9

pigs 7 53

Piripiri (near Dannevirke) 19

Plew, Mr 7

Pohangina Valley 65-6

Potter, Phyllis 64

Prussia 6 15 (see also Germany, Schleswig-Holstein)

public works 6 12-3 18

R

Rangiotu 4 20 27, Maori village 7

Rangitikei, bridge at 13-4

railways 4 7 12-3 18 34 52, bridges 13, locomotives 13

railway routes: Foxton-Palmerston North  7 12 29 33, proposed Foxton- Foxton Beach 4, Wellington-Manawatu 7 18 33 52, Sanson Tramway 38

Rasmussen, Dorthea/Dorothea, Rasmus 15

Raumai 65-6

Raumati 19

Ratana, Bill 59

Ready Money Store (Palmerston North) 36

‘Register of Aliens’ 5 74

religious matters (see also separate denominations) 21 44

Renaut, Captain 17

Richter, Johan ii

Richter, Nannestad & Co. (see Timber Industry)

Roberts, Fred, son 65

Rongotea 38-40, bridge at 14, ‘Jubilee Booklet’ 39

Ross, Sarah 34

Ross & Sanford’s premises 9

Ruahine Ranges 21

Russell family (Gillespies Line) 58

S

Salter, Eliza 5

Sass, Pastor Georg 30 41-2

Saunders Estate (Palmerston North)  53

Scandinavian/s: Clubs in Palmerston North 54 64 68-70, Monument at Mauriceville West 70

Scandinavian people: agents (in New Zealand) 4, arrive in Manawatu (see Introduction) ii 4 10, arrival in Wairarapa 63, assimilation 10 31-2 67, attitudes toward them during WWI and WWII iv 31-2, Christmas customs in New Zealand 57, stories of voyages to New Zealand and elsewhere 3 11-2 15-6 29 47 50-2 56, difficulties faced on arrival 10, fears of immigrants about New Zealand 54 63-4, financial situations 7 12 21 30 35 42 44 59, gatherings of early settlers ii-iv 10, innovations by 19 21, language issues 1 3 10-1 16 26 30-2 36-7 41-2 54 56 67, letters New ZealandóScandinavia iv 36 54 61, patriotism toward birthplaces iv 54 63-4, population distribution, Palmerston North 43, relationships between ii 30-1 41-2 49 64 67, re-emigration out of New Zealand 19 56, visits to homelands 28 37 61 (see also Employment, Family Life, Health)

Schleswig-Holstein: iv 6 15, immigrants from 6 15 29? 33 48 63 (see also Denmark, Germany)

Schmidt. Professor John, Mrs iii

Schnell family, James Line 32

Schou, Evelyn 65

Scotland, immigrants from 10 17, assimilation 10

Seabury/Sjoberg, Captain Andrew/Anders Gustav, Mary Elizabeth, Christine, Seabury Ave. (Foxton) 1-2 74

Seventh Day Adventists 21

Shailer, G.W. 24

Shannon 21

Shaw Savill Co. 16

sheep 4 7 21 63

Shere, J.C. 56

ships: Ballarat 6, Celaeno ii 4 17-8 20 27 74, City of Agra 3, Dana iii 53, Electra 3 46, England ii 23 27 52 74, Fritz Reuter 38, Galatea 53-4, Glenmark 55 74, Go-Ahead 52, Halcione 6, Høvding 27 37, Humboldt 29-30 74, Hydrabad 5, Ionic 55 60, Ivy 4, Lammershagen 74, Light of the Age 15, Luna 4 17 20, Manawatu 29, Motoaka 9, North Star 11 18, Ophir 53, Orotawa 50-2, Pleiades 16, Rip 15, Shakespear 23, Terpsichore 33, cable-laying ship in Australia (1868-72) 15

shipwrecks 3 5 15

Shute, Barbara 70

Signal, W.E. 2

Simonsen, Julius, Johanna, Gordon, Leonard 38-40

Sinclair, John, Duncan 46

Skandia (1875 newspaper) (see 1990 title page)

Skilton, Val 14

Smith, Alice Elizabeth 30

Snelson, George, Louisa, ‘Snelson Scrapbook’ 4 10 49 74

Somes Island 23

Spence, Lilly 62

Stanley, Mr (P.N.) 4

Stewart, Harriett 3

Stewart, John Tiffin 12

Stoney Creek: Scandinavian Block 18 20 23 27 29 74-5, School 21 30 (see also Whakarongo)

Strathmore 28

streets and roads: discussed 34, condition of 35 38 57-8, construction of 35, name changes 33, sources of names 2 23

Suez Canal 51

Svenson, Mrs John 21

Svendsen, Svend, Ester, Jane Maud, Ernest, Raymond 37

Swain, Jenny iii

Sweden: 1 3 14 20 23 27-8, immigrants from 1 3 14 17 20 23 27 35 55 67, Varmland 20 (see also Migration)

T

Tiakitahuna (formerly Jackeytown) School 7

Takaro School 59

Taranaki, surveying in 6

Tararua Wind Farm (Tararua Ranges): inner front cover, 75

Te Arakura 53-4

Terrace End: Cemetery 18 21, Greyhound racing track 47, Metal Pit 34 46, Railway Station 34 47, School 24 46, Volunteer Fire Brigade 47

Theatre Royal 9

Thompson, W.J. iv

Tikokowaru’s Hau Hau campaign 7 9

timber industry: 30 65-7, Anderson Sons & Co. 18-9, Cook & Son’s Sawmill (P.N.) 45, A. Jonson’s Sash & Door business, Foxton 4, J. Prouse’s sawmill, Levin 46, Richter, Nannestad & Co. ii 9, Rowe’s Sawmill 38, J. & D. Sinclair’s sawmill, Wainuiomata 46, Sollitt’s Sawmill 47, Tiritea Sawmill 34

Tipapakuku 19

Tiritea (now Turitea), bridge at 12 14

Tokomaru, bridge at 12

Townsend, Hilda 62

tramway (see railways)

transportation 3-4 28-9 48 50-2 57 62 65

Tufuga, Marion (Hansen), Anita, Daniel 59

U

Umutaoroa 19

United States of America 19 22 24 30 67, Navy 1, tobacco growing in 44, Dana College, Nebraska 42

V

Viard, Bishop 52

Vogel Immigration and Public Words Scheme 1 4 63

W

Wairarapa 14 67 70

Waitarere Beach 5

Waldegrave, C.E. 9

Wall, Reg 55

Wanganui: 1 6, Education Board 35, Hospital Board 9, Pilot 1

wars: New Zealand 6-7, Indian Mutiny 1, Danish-Prussian 6 15 33, Boer (South African) 28, First World War 9 29 31 44 48 60 68, Second World War 55 64 69

Watchorn’s shop (Palmerston North) 34

Wellington: 1 3 6 14 52, Acclimatisation Society 4, Port 7 52, Lambton reclamation 35, Royal Danish Consulate in 64

wells 25

West, Ludolph Georg, Maria Ann, Alice, Ernst, Mrs Ernst, Wynn, Henry ii 9-10, 48 68

Whakarongo: 18 74, Dairy Company 62, School 21 62 74 (see also Stoney Creek)

Whirokino Swamp 4

Whitelock, George 69

Woodfield’s Stables 56

Woodmass, Len, Freida, Nils, Ann, John 60-1

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Errata

(Introduction Page, para 1) Snelson’s Store was not built until after the arrival of the England passengers in April 1871. See Skandia II pp. 21 26-7

(pg 5, para 1) Andrew Jonson died a month before the ‘Alien Register’ was begun. The entry referred to here was for another man with the same name. See Skandia II pp. 142-6. Also the third item of the bibliography should read Andrew Jonson not Andrew Seabury.

(pg 6, para 2) Bismark should be Bismarck.

(pg 7, para 2) KDC is Karere Dairy Company.

(pg 11 and 12) Some quotes attributed here to Anders Ihle prove to have been someone else’s, probably C.A. Bergersen who had a son the right age. See Skandia II pp. 11-8 42-3 52-5

(pg 13, para 1) Ballast pit, not “pin”.

(pg 18, para 2) Annie Anderson’s account proved to have been Arne Arnesen Kjolstad’s. (para 3) Bosen should be Boesen. (para 4) “Avenue” should be “now Aokautere”.

(pg 19, para 6) Carl died 14 December 1907. His headstone is incorrect. See Skandia II, pp. 39-40.

(pg. 20, para 4) Last sentence omitted. It should read: “However, this is incorrect....” See Skandia II, pp. 47-8.

(pg 21, para 5) The property was sold the same year, not the following year. (para 6) Calvert is in Block 49, Plot 6, not the Public Reserve.

(pg 24, para 4) “gloves” should be “socks”.

(pg 25, para 1) The Hoffman Kiln was built around 1904. It was purchased by Brick & Pipes Ltd. in 1918. See Palmerston North City Heritage Trail (PNCC, 1993). pp. 2 57-61

(pg 27) Kindberg’s background omitted. See Skandia II, p. 77

(pg 29, para 3) “Humbolt” should be “Humboldt”. The baby’s name remains unknown. Possibly  “sangl” indicates the German word “saugling” meaning suckling, as the ship was German and sailed from Hamburg. The couple had a baby, Christina, who died aged 11 months on 10 March 1876. This indicates that Karen was about six months pregnant when the Humboldt reached New Zealand. Karen’s maiden name is recorded on the child’s death certificate as Mortensen. See Skandia II, index

(pg 30, para 2) Humbolt should be Humboldt. (para 5) Probably the forests Christian  felled were not Kauri, unless he was at the north of the country.

(pg 35, para 1) Julius arrived on the Lammershagen and Christina on the Humboldt.

(pg 48) The Hawkes Bay Herald 2/11/1893 2(7) describes a ball held to help pay H.P. Fabrin’s bill following a 26 week hospital stay after his amputation.

(pg 55) Probably Boman arrived at Wellington on the Glenmark on 1/1/1901. (re: Shipping Records No SS ¼ 75, National Archives)

(pg 56, para 1) “Mor” Lauridsen was formerly Martha Charlotte Pedersen.

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Footnote: Also published by the Scandinavian Club of the Manawatu: Mosquitoes & Sawdust: a history of Scandinavians in early Palmerston North & surrounding districts (Skandia II), written by Val Burr and first published in 1995.  At 167 pages and with numerous photos and maps, Mosquitoes & Sawdust contains an overview of migration both out of Scandinavia and into New Zealand. It also includes a detailed study of the immigrants - collectively and as individual families - who arrived on the Celaeno and England in 1871. These people became the key part of the only planned immigration scheme to send settlers to the new bush ‘town’ of Palmerston North. It also looks at other families and topics, including sawmilling, religion and the First World War home front experience of Scandinavians. While focusing on  the Scandinavian contribution to the establishment of Manawatu, the book also deals with settlement around the lower North Island. Mosquitoes and Sawdust is available from the Scandinavian Club of the Manawatu, P.O. Box 84, Palmerston North, and selected retail outlets. 

Also by the same author is A Time of Transition: Whakarongo School & District twelve decades on (published by the Whakarongo School & District 120th Jubilee Committee, 1999). This 124-page book looks at the progress of the Stoney Creek Scandinavian & Roadmen’s Block since its establishment. A thematic history, it focuses on the early years, the railways, the dairy industry and social history surrounding the  school’s buildings and features. It especially concentrates on the sometimes controversial history of the ‘old school building’ that Danish-born Carl Emil Jorgensen built in 1877. For further information contact the author c/- the above address or c/- Whakarongo School, Stoney Creek Rd., R.D. 10, Palmerston North.

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