Father Felix Donnelly - Catholic priest, academic, writer, broadcaster, supporter of the LGBT community and founder of Youthline. Born in Ch...

  Nicola Astrella Nicola Astrella was born 19th January 1871 in Viggiano, Basilicato Italy.  A musical man, with a fondness for the harp (wh...

Josip Kumarich had come to join his brothers in New Zealand, from the village of Scrucraj, on the Adriatic island of Hvar, in the Dalmatian ...

Ernest, the youngest son of the late Renke and Elizabeth Luks, had trained as a Draughtsman and was also a talented musician. It was this ta...

  Constable John Joseph O’Gorman died at the Vermont Street Temporary Hospital on 13 th November 1918 aged 32. Being a fit young policema...

Join us for our walk on Sunday 28th March 2021 at 1.30pm to hear tales of murder and mayhem. Meeting at the corner of Freesia and Kowhai Roa...

Although she is buried here as Johanna McCarthy she was in fact Mrs Johanna Binning when she took her own life on April the 16th 1886. Her h...

Charlotte Le Gallais grew up on a farm in the Kaipara, her mother died and her father told her to get off the farm and out into the world. ...

When Karl Wolfskehl arrived in New Zealand in 1938, aged 69, he had just one suitcase and a mistress half his age. But he carried a thousand...

Glasgow born Annie married Irishman Matthew Cummings and the couple solved the problem of their different religious allegiances by bringing ...

William Thompson of Oratia, which in 1892 was a small country town, died under suspicious circumstances. It was known to many in the neig...

Source Auckland Star, 7/11/1907  GRAFTON BRIDGE. PROGRESS OF THE WORK. The face of the Cemetery Gully has changed considerably since th...

The body of a man was found washed up on the framework of the Ponsonby wharf 14 September 1916 and later identified as Frederick James Parke...

One hundred years ago, on the 11th day of the 11th month at 11a.m. 1918, the Great War ended but behind the celebrations tragedy loomed. T...

A man called into the Water Police station Sunday 10 October 1887 to report a fatal boat accident which had taken place near the Hobsonville...

In 1867 Charlotte joined her sister Mary Jane Milne in buying a business that was to change their lives.  It was a millinery and drapery sho...