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Picton Bloaters
Sardines, pilchards, herring – the famous ‘Picton Bloaters’ were variously called all of these names. From earliest settlement there were huge seasonal shoals of them in Queen Charlotte Sound,...
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Thomas Nelson Neal
Thomas Nelson Neal was born in Nelson, New Zealand on the 29th of November, 1842 to William and Amelia Neal (nee Matthews). William had came out on the...
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Nelson Street Names
When the first settlers arrived in Nelson in 1841 under the Wakefield Company settlement plan, the first committee they set up was the street naming committee. Unfortunately it proved...
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New Zealand Company
The New Zealand Company, a commercial enterprise formed in Britain, dispatched an expedition to establish its second New Zealand settlement, to be named Nelson, in 1841. New Zealand Company...
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Richard Ching and Elizabeth nee Pearce
*Seaview Cemetery Block 24, Plot 480* Richards’s first wife Jane was buried at Fairfield Cemetery[sitetree_link,id=259] in 1855. Richard Ching1 Headstone of Richard Ching. Seaview Cemetery Richard Ching1 was born on ...
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