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• Thomas and Sarah Roil

  Thomas and Sarah Roil and five of their children from Alton, Hampshire emigrated to New Zealand on the Bolton, with 350 passengers, arriving in Nelson 15 March 1842....

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• Early newspapers in Nelson

  Charles Elliott was quite unsuspecting when a friend of his approached him back in 1842, telling him of the "English Country Town"1 in a little place called New...

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• Richmond's Sparrow Plague

  Peril and Pennies from the Skies In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a growing threat to Richmond’s prosperity darkened the skies. A small number of house sparrows – as...

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• The scandalous Chieftain

  In the days when Nelson was more like a remote English village than a real New Zealand town, the settlers got pretty excited over the arrival of a...

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• Joseph Holland

  Joseph Henry Holland (1851-1925) was a brewer and winemaker, operating on Waimea Road in Bishopdale, Nelson. This  business was initially established by Mr. J. Chapman, and taken over by...

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