Monrad Family Photo Album
- Description
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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:
- Thekla Hansen
- Frank
- Peter
- Olga
- Harold
- a stepmother with maiden name Garde
- Viggo
- Ditlev
- Johannes
- Oscar
- Kamma
- Birgitte
- Emily / Emmy / Emilie
- Maria
- Louise
- Ada
- Mrs Frederickson
- Oberst Glahn
- Karen Jones
- Dr Otto Petersen
- ? ? Petersen
- Marise Frederickson
- Charlie Mathews
- Miss Bluhme
- Christian
- Anna Nielsen
- Karl Johan
- Margretha
- Anna Maria
- Mela Constantin Hansen
- ? Thorkilson?
- Kathleen Akers
- Aunt Cassie or Carrie
- Bishop Roedam ?
- Myrtle Barber
- ? Jensen
- David Prouse
- Mrs Ronberg
- Charlotte
- Maud
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Identification
- Archive
- Monrad Papers
- Relation
- A25/258
- Date
- 1860 to 1900s
- Digitisation id
- 2020P_Monrad-S5V1_032984_001
- Format
- B&W print
- Held in
- Community Archives
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Object rights
- License
- By Attribution Alone
Taxonomy
- Community Tags