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• Yelven Oliver Sutton

  Yelven's great grandparents' parents, George and Hannah Sutton arrived in Nelson aboard the Bolton (1842). In 1853 George bought sections 68 and 90 and part of 66 in...

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• Dr Thomas Renwick

  A busy settler in early Marlborough and Nelson Dr Thomas Renwick was born in Dumfries, Scotland in 1818, trained as a doctor in Edinburgh and undertook a voyage...

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• The Renwick family

  A slice of early colonial life The Marlborough Museum Archives collection has digitised hundreds of letters donated by Annie Ball, which relate to the life of Dr Thomas Renwick’s[sitetree_link,id=763] family. Renwick...

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• Women Decision-Makers Nelson and Tasman 1944-2018

  Foreword to the book women decision makers Women decision makers Nelson and Tasman 1944-2018 cover image It came as a surprise in this Suffrage 125 year to find that there...

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• George Cannon McMurtry

  *George **(Randall) **Cannon McMurtry and Templemore Homestead* George was  born in 1918 in Templemore Homestead, which still stands today on 126 Salisbury Road, Richmond.  His grandfather, of Irish descent, came to Nelson in...

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