Hi!!
Welcome to my site.
If anything is incorrect please accept my sincere apologies and drop me a
line with the correct information. Do not accept this to be a true and
accurate site there will be errors but I am doing my best to record accurate
details.
I have many conections to the family names above and I have
only just started to put this family tree together(on line 14 Oct 2006). If
you have any connections, photos and more information about the names I have
in place - dates of birth/marriages/death - and just general info like what
they do/did for a living please drop me a line.
You will also see that some children are put down more than once - as they
were whangai(foster)they still have connections to all families that are
affected.
Extract about the
"Parkinson from Kaituna Valley"
Thomas Hodgson Parkinson arrived in Lyttleton, New Zealand in 1855 on board
the 'Gil Blas' which sailed from Melbourne, Australia and soon after his
arrival was engaged by the Rhodes Brothers to oversee their 25,000 acre
(10117ha)Kaituna run. So started the association of the Parkinson family with
Kaituna Valley which still exists today. T.H. Parkinson proceeded to purchase
land from the Rhodes and by 'spotting or 'grid-ironing' as well as holding
land under pasturage licence. T.H. Parkinson married Mary Ann Mac Kinnon in
1858. In about 1868 he started a butchery business on Norwich Quay, Lyttleton
which he continued to operate until 1875. Thomas Parkinson died in 1883. Their
son Walter Fox Parkinson bought the Homestead block in 1901 from the trustees
of the estate.
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