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Monrad Family Photo Album

Description: This photograph album depicts wide range of images of the Monrad family and ‘Kaingahou’, and includes photos of the Kendall family who owned ‘Kaingahou’ at one time.

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:

Olga

Ditlev

Kamma

Mrs Laura Ronberg

Walter S. Holland

W. Goodall - Engineer on board the 'China'

Nelson L. Monrad

Stephen Monrad

Dean Monrad

Laura Thekla Holland

George and Elizabeth Kendall

Violet and Laura Kendall

Josephine Kendall

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