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Viggo Monrad and siblings

Description: Johannes Monrad (1849), Louise Bache (1845), Otto Bache (1845), Viggo Monrad (1842), Karen Fredericksen (1858) and Ada Fredericksen (1841).

Bishop Ditlev Gothard Monrad, his wife, sons Viggo and Johannes and families came to the Palmerston North area from Denmark in the 1860s and settled at Karere, 3 miles from Longburn near Palmerston North.

The Bishop was the former Premier of Denmark who left after finding himself the scapegoat for Denmark’s defeat in the war with Germany. Bishop Monrad returned to Denmark in 1869 and Viggo and his wife Olga continued on the farm.

Olga died 1884 and Viggo returned to Denmark in 1889, leaving his sons, Oscar and Ditlev, farming.

When Bishop Monrad emigrated to New Zealand he left behind his two eldest daughters - Ada (Mrs Neils Fredriksen) and Louise, who went to join her family later, arriving in Karere mid-January 1867. Louise returned home with her father to Denmark in 1869 and in 1870 married Otto Bache, a barrister of Copenhagen.

This image was digitised from a copy made by John Cleland Studios in 1980.