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The Belk family of 16 persons and three generations was among the first group to settle in Feilding. Emma and James were living in Taonui Street, Palmerston North by the mid-1880s, and after her husband died in 1889, Emma appears as a 'grocer' in street Wises Street Directory, as she was helping out in a small grocery run by her son Matthew. Emma died in 1901.

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Object type
Image
Digitisation ID
COMM1537660301
Title
Emma and James Duncan Belk, early settlers in Feilding
Format
Sepia print
Held In
Other
Date
188x

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