Today is Waitangi Day in New Zealand. It commemorates the date the Treaty of Waitangi was formally agreed between the Māori tribes of Aotearoa/New Zealand and the Queen of England way back in 1840. For all the Treaty’s faults, it helped pave the way for my ancestors to emigrate and settle in New Zealand. So,…
Category: Immigration
Bartholomew O’Rourke’s obituary contains lots of valuable information about his life – so now it’s a matter of verifying it. According to the “correspondent”, Bartholomew was 23 went he left Ireland, and arrived in Lyttleton in 1866 aboard the Blue Jacket. The Blue Jacket sailed from London on 15 July 1866 under the command of Captain…