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• John Sharp 1828 - 1919

  Born in Kent, England, John Sharp (1829-1919) emigrated to New Zealand in 1843 in the ship Ursula and was initially clerk to the New Zealand Company[new-zealand-company/] agent, Frances Dillon Bell[francis-dillon-bell/]. By the 1850s,...

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• The Execution of the Maungatapu Murderers

  Nelson's First Hanging At 8.30am, on Friday 5 October, 1866, the twang of three hangmen's ropes brought an end to the grisliest episode in Nelson's early European history. The...

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• Thomas Nelson Neal

  Thomas Nelson Neal was born in Nelson, New Zealand on the 29th of November, 1842 to William and Amelia Neal (nee Matthews). William had came out on the...

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• Maungatapu Murders

  The trial of the notorious Burgess gang caused a sensation in the small town of Nelson in 1866. Murder was a rare crime and this one involved not...

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