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Monrad Family Photo Album

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Multi page

Description: This photograph album depicts member of the Monrad family and their friends, in Denmark and New Zealand. It is undated but many originate from the 1860s onwards.

Ditlev Gothard Monrad (1811–1887) was a prominent figure in nineteenth-century Denmark: a bishop in the Lutheran church and a noted scholar and politician. He was prime minister of Denmark during the 1864 war against the German Confederation, but when the Danes were defeated and lost considerable territory Monrad’s premiership ended in disrepute.

In March 1866, Monrad arrived in New Zealand, with his family and five young Danish men who also wished to immigrate. He eventually purchased land at Karere in the Manawatu, where he built a house and developed a farm. Some family members settled in New Zealand permanently after Monrad and his wife Emilie (d. 1871) returned to Denmark in January 1869.

Names that appear on the pages in this album include:

Oscar

Hugh Akers

Ditlev

Peter

Frank

Mrs Winge

? Ronberg

Mr and Mrs Sondergaard

Karl

Olga

Kamma

Mrs Mathews

? Frederickson

Taslin?

Thora Petersen

Fanny Viche

Professor Fredericksen

Julius Toxward (Wellington Architect)

Peter Stewart

Mrs Stewart - Annie Dalrymple

Ada Fredericksen

Johannes

Paul Monrad

Bishop Monrad

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