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• The Tetley Affair

  Joseph Tetley, a swindler and a gentleman Marlborough was shaken by a scandal in the 1860s, when a Member of Parliament ran off to South America with £40,000 of...

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• Frederick Trolove

  Trolove of the Clarence Frederick Trolove  (1831-1880) was an early European settler who established Woodbank Run, located south of the Clarence River. Most of what is known about Trolove,...

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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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