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Taranaki Stories 
Immigrants and Settlers  
When Polish settlers arrived in Taranaki during the late 1800s, they faced prejudice, language barriers and being mistaken as German. Read a personal account of a Waitara man's search for his lost ancestors. Find out how a Chinese man managed to fit into Taranaki society during the pioneering days, but still hold on to his own culture. In the future, you can read about the hard life English immigrants faced during the early decades of the 1800s - including the long journey by boat. We will also feature a whaler who forges friendships with local Māori and falls in love. We plan to cover the Māori immigrations from Hawaiki and look at ancient landing sites. The strong Swiss presence in Taranaki will also come to light.

A Cairn That Tells a Tragic Tale – the sad story of William Marshall By Rhonda Bartle There's a cairn down at Ngamotu Beach that tells a tra... Read More
The Story of Richard (Dicky) Barrett By Rhonda Bartle Who was Dicky Barrett? Dicky Barrett was a man who ca... Read More
| Part 2: Battle at Otaka Pa | Part 1: The Ngamotu Years | Part 4: On The Trail of A Whaler's Descendent | Part 3: Quest For Land
Dear Father, Brother and Sisters By Rhonda Bartle A fledgling town: New Plymouth in 1843, as sketched ... Read More
| To the Editor of The Times of London | Dear Parents, Dear Friends
Harsh Life For Early Polish Settlers By Virginia Winder At the back of a fireplace pure pork sausages hang l... Read More
| Ray Heeds Call of Poland
The perfect settler - Sir Harry Atkinson By Sorrel Hoskin Sir Harry Atkinson was a good keen man. He carved a fa... Read More
To the land of milk and honey - William and Betsy Ann Bocock By Sorrel Hoskin "Not a farm labourer in England but should rush from t... Read More
The Harrods of London Connection By Rhonda Bartle Not a rumour It sounds like the stuff of legend, exce... Read More
| What the Locals Say
Chew Chong Makes Big Impact By Virginia Winder One of Taranaki's most visionary characters was a sm... Read More
| Lure of Chew Chong's Water Race | Grandson Remembers Chew Chong 
The Time Traveller's Guide to the 1880s By Rhonda Bartle When the Lonely Planet Travel Guide to New Zealand too... Read More
Yeps Have Much In Store For Opunake By Virginia Winder A "stranger in a strange land" and a tiny woman who ... Read More
| A Toast To Yep Family
Surveyor Extraodinaire: Stephenson Percy Smith By Rhonda Bartle A dignified pose: Percy Smith in later years. A... Read More
Frederic Carrington: Part 1 – From Plymouth to New Plymouth by Sorrel Hoskin Early morning on the 11 January 1841, Frederic Carring... Read More
| A family of surveyors | A little sign of history | The mystery of the sealed journal | Frederic Carrington: Part 2 - Arrival of the first immigrants
A Kiwi by Mistake By Rhonda Bartle A Danish dancer sets sail Ivy McWhirter has lived in ... Read More
Loui Kuthy - the old man of the sea By Lance Girling-Butcher The lure of the sea Loui Kuthy has always bee... Read More
| Part 2 - Life and death off the Taranaki coast
Like Going Through Somebody's Bones By Rhonda Bartle The email came down from the Collection Department ups... Read More
| An Unknown Benefactor Rises From The Dust | Leonora Flight Kelly - Nurse on Horseback
Indian Family's Fruitful Life By Virginia Winder   One of New Zealand's earliest Indian fruitsho... Read More
Piecing Together Richmond Story By Virginia Winder   A stone cottage sits like a doll's house u... Read More
Museum man - W.H Skinner by Sorrel Hoskin   Taranaki will be forever in debt to a man who p... Read More
The Mehta Family  By Polly Catlin-Maybury Travelling to a new country with all your wo... Read More
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