A young immigrant, having served his country during World War II, travelled to New Zealand for a new life. Here, he found love, but he als...

Mt Eden Gaol as it was a few years after the incident, in the 1870s. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 4-155   I don’t know about you,...

 Image from NZ Police Gazette , 2 October 1912 "Keith Russell Jones, a well-dressed young fellow of 23, who had come only recently from...

  Image from NZ Police Gazette , 1 October 1913 Martha Tainui. Her place in New Zealand criminal history is that she had a record stretching...

Image: NZ Police Gazette , 4 November 1914. Thomas Francis Hill (DOB noted in the military file as 1890, but could be wrong) seems to have j...

  "The Eight Hour Day Committee", 1890, image by Winifred Gladys Rainbow. Really, the six signatories to the illuminated address p...

Researching a life, the further back you go, means there will always be gaps. Gaps in which something happened that changed that life, often...

  Fourteen days hard labour in Mt Eden Gaol in Auckland for the theft of some roses. Such was the sentence in 1888 for Sir Charles Burdett, ...

  I came upon the story of the first burials on Motuihe Island by accident, while looking up something completely different in Papers Past l...