Albertlanders ( NZ) background (General)

by jhopkins , Saturday, January 30, 2010, 08:41 (5491 days ago) @ jhopkins

Ano:

The Kawakawa Museum does not have a webpage apparently. Here are the contact details.
http://www.nzmuseums.co.nz/index.php?option=com_nstp&task=showAccountDetail&acc...

I note that the Museum is in Wynyard Street. Wynyard was one of those early colonists who came out here, took an informal Māori wife, and had children. He became Lieutenant-Governor of NZ, and Superintendent of the Auckland Province. He eventually shot the gap back to England as so many of them did, leaving his wife and children behind (as did others like him - Princess Te Puia Herangi was descended from another one, called Searancke - hence Herangi).

There is a well known Ngati Hine whānau that has Wynyard's name. I note that they did not figure in his biography in the Te Ara Encyclopaedia - surprise surprise. http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/1966/wynyard-robert-henry/1

I used to work with a couple of his descendants. His great house in Auckland is now the University Club on the grounds of the University of Auckland. My daughter got married there... I didn't tell my friends about this, you understand...