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• Early prominent Marlburians

  Two doctors and a shopkeeper were key figures in turning Blenheim from a settlement notorious for a spirit of lawlessness  into a bustling market town.1 Dr Stephen Lunn Muller (1814...

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• Life in Linkwater

  John Collins  did a bit of everything to make a living on his Cullensville hill country farm: milking cows, shearing sheep, mustering and mussel harvesting. Linkwater JC Cemetary 7376 John...

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• Flaxbourne

  *Life of a pastoral station * Prior to European settlement, there was an abundance of seafood, eels and ducks in the area which was to become the South Island's...

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• Dame Cath and Sir Greg of Mapua

  Dame Cath gets a right royal roasting for knighting ‘Sir Greg’ A mock knighthood of Mapua’s Greg Olsen at a historic gathering in Golden Bay to celebrate the...

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• Getting established in Marlborough

  Marlborough’s first decades after European colonisation were rather rocky. The Wairau Affray[sitetree_link,id=467]  in 1843 badly frightened potential colonists to the Wairau. Strong earthquakes[sitetree_link,id=749] in 1848 and 1855 and severe flooding[sitetree_link,id=249] showed...

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