The people of the Top of the South

Stories about the people who have played a significant, or interesting, role in the history and life of the top of the South Island of New Zealand.

See related stories on this site:

• Suffragettes - Kate Edger and Mary Ann Muller
• Thomas and James Marsden of Isel Park
• Abel Tasman
• Maori Rescues (Huria Matenga)
• Chaffeys and asbestos
• Isel Park (Thomas Marsden)
• Ship Cove and Captain Cook
• Notable Women (from Nelson City Council website)
• Albert Charles Jennings and Anzac Old Boys (Boer War, WWI, WWII)
• Eileen Duggan
• Jens Hansen
• Dumont D'Urville's Tasman Bay Odyssey
• Joy Cowley
• Ernest Rutherford's early life
• Newman Brothers
• Tamati Pirimona Marino
• Wiremu Kingi Te Koihua
• Te Puoho ki Te Rangi
• George Batt - Drover and Bullocky
• Tyree Brothers

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Stories

1. Esther Mary White
   Esther Mary White, later wife of Theodore Rigg, was well known for her work with Russian orphans during the first world war. read more
2. Theodore Rigg and World War One
   Theodore Rigg (KBE, 1888-1972) was highly regarded as Director of the Cawthron Institute in Nelson from 1934-1956. During World War One, as a Quaker... read more
3. Perrine Moncrieff
   Pérrine Moncrieff, 1893-1968, was an important figure in New Zealand’s early conservation movement: a small, dynamic woman who achieved much in her li... read more
4. Trooper Ralph Vincent James and his Monument
   Collingwood lad, Trooper Ralph Vincent James, died of enteric fever on 20 November 1900 while serving in the Boer War for the Fifth Contingent of New ... read more
5. Percy Adams and his gates
   Touch Not The Cat Bot A Glove reads the inscription on the Percy Bolland Adams Memorial Gates at Wakapuaka Cemetery read more
6. George Lawrence
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7. Cyril Spear's Words of War
   The diaries of a Nelson Evening Mail journalist provide some of the most compelling accounts of World War I to be written by a Nelson soldier. read more
8. The Saxton legacy
   Oaklands Farm and Saxton sports field form part of the legacy of the Saxton family, early Nelson settlers read more
9. Rutherford and Pickering at Havelock School
   In the last quarter of the 19thCentury and the first quarter of the 20thCentury, Havelock School was involved in the early education of two stellar mi... read more
10. The Redwood Family
    The Redwood family is remembered through place names in Nelson, Marlborough, and throughout New Zealand. read more