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Headstone - Peter Johan and Maja Cajsa Anderson

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Description: This image of a headstone was taken at Terrace End Cemetery. Peter and Maja Anderson left Sweden on the "England." At the time they had two children, Johan aged 3 and Gustav Emil, 18 months. Gustav died of diarrohea on the voyage to New Zealand. The couple were allocated a 33 acre section at Whakarongo on Roberts Line, and Peter took on work clearing bush for roads as well as breaking in his own bush covered property and building a house on it. He later took on ploughing contracts and is known to have ploughed Palmerston North's Square for the first time with his son Johan (Jack). In New Zealand the Anderson had five more children. One son Edward who died at the age of 14, is buried with them here.

The Anderson cottage was lived in by succeeding generations of the family until the 1950s, and by 1983 it was in a derelict state. The new owners of the land wanted to build a new house on the land and it seemed the cottage would be demolished. Instead, a couple purchased the cottage and moved it to a new site at 51 Clifton Terrace, Palmerston North where it was restored.