The building was situated in Main Street East on the corner of Ruahine Street. It was constructed in 1873 to provide temporary accommodation for immigrants arriving in the district and was first used by the Feilding settlers brought to New Zealand...
Creator: Svendsen Photography, Feilding
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1874
A resource created by Palmerston North Branch NZ Society of Genealogists ++What is the Palmerston North Settlers Collection?
++ It consists of files of documents, photographs and stories contributed by families about their relatives who lived...
Creator: Palmerston North Branch of New Zealand Genealogy Society
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1875 to 1900
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Creator: Louisa Snelson
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1870 to circa 1899
An unpublished paper by Dr Jim Coull (Geography Department of the University of Aberdeen0 who was a sabbatical visitor to Massey University in the early 1980s.
The paper explores the settlement of the Manchester Block, an area around the Feildin...
Creator: Dr Jim Coull
Place: Manchester Block, Manawatū
Date: 1980s
The decline and fall of a pioneer cottage: the story of an early settlers' cottage at Kauwhata near Palmerston North. A history of a cottage on Rangitikei Line (State Highway 3) that dates back to 1891 including information and photographs of the ...
Creator: Philip Collins
Place: Kauwhata
Date: 2006
Neils Pedersen was born in Skarnes, Hedmark, in Norway, and married Bertha Olsdatter before migrating to New Zealand. They were among the first Scandinavian settlers to arrive in the Manawatu District, being allotted 40 acres of land at Awapuni i...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1890 to circa 1899
Kerei Te Panau was the namesake of the chimes in the clock of the Post Office. Seated, from left: Mrs and Mr Tricklebank; Kerei Te Panau; George Snelson (first Mayor of Palmerston North); Mrs Louisa Snelson; Unknown. Image available on request - p...
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1901
A group of unidentified early settlers in Palmerston North.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1896
The Terrace End area was settled in the early days of Palmerston North. The book was published by the Palmerston North Historical Society.
Creator: Garry O'Neill
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 2009
Hokowhitu is a suburb of Palmerston North, situated towards the Manawatu River. The book was published by the Palmerston North Historical Society.
Creator: Garry O'Neill
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 2012
An historical record of the pioneers of the Milson and Linklater familes, who settled in the Palmerston North area.
Creator: Maurice Thompson
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 2010
This walking tour guides visitors through Terrace End Cemetery providing details of the cemetery and those whose remains are buried there, including many notable early residents of Palmerston North.
This walk was first researched and compiled by...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: Napier Road, Palmerston North
Date: 1995
These notes were put together by Ian Matheson, City Archivist for the 1986 Napier Road Cemetery Walk. They contain a general history of the cemetery and area, noteworthy grave sites and stories of people buried there.
Creator: Ian Matheson
Date: 1986
The Totaranui Herb Garden was opened in early 1981 to give visitors an idea about what pioneer gardens might have looked like. This booklet includes a list of some of the native and introduced fauna found in the area that could be foraged for medi...
Creator: Manawatu Museum
Date: 1981
A reunion held for the Palmerston North Old Settlers at Rosco Tearooms, Palmerston North. Photograph presented in 1936 by the C.M. Ross Company Limited. Back row: H. Sorenson, Mrs E, Ewart, O. Monrad, J.P. Innes, C.E. Hosking, P. Nielsen, A.A. Mc...
Creator: Lewis Studio Ltd
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: April 29, 1936
Celebrations of the 60th anniversary of Palmerston North being given the status of Borough were held 20-27 November 1937. On 26 November the ‘Old Identities’ were part of a procession from the Opera House to the Showgrounds where a service was hel...
Creator: R F Thomson, Wellington
Place: The Showgrounds. Palmerston North
Date: November 26, 1937
David Rowland (d.1914) emigrated to New Zealand from England. He bought land at Tiakitahuna (also known as Jackey Town), in the newly opened up Manawatu area, in 1867. There he married Marara Koroneira, a daughter of the chief of the Tukorehei tri...
Creator: Rowland family members
Place: Tiakitahuna, Manawatū
Date: 1964
Information booklet that accompanied Heather Smith's Ashhurst Historical Cemetery Ramble. The booklet includes information on early settlers in Ashhurst along with their burial locations.
Creator: Heather Smith
Place: Ashhurst
Date: November 7, 2015
James was the son of Charles (1795-1875) and Amelia (nee McEleshead) Collins. He was born in 1837 and died in the District in 1896. He married Annie Cook of Foxton who appears in the Snelson scrapbook as one of the earliest white woman in the Mana...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: circa 1875
This building was one of the first European houses in inland Manawatu, erected 1867 by European carpenters employed by Ditlev Gothard Monrad, the Lutheran Bishop and ex-Premier of Denmark who settled at Karere in 1866. The house was occupied by th...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1882 to circa 1883
A short history of the pioneer cottage, "Totaranui," now located at Te Manawa.
Creator: Mina McKenzie for Manawatu Museum
Date: 1975
Mrs Edith Stanway Halcombe (nee Swainson) was the wife of Mr Arthur William Follett Halcombe, an early settler of Feilding.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1870 to circa 1879
Reminiscences of living in Terrace End of Palmerston North as a child, by Leslie Aldridge Hanson (1904 - 1981). Leslie was the son of Annie (nee Aldridge) and Samuel Hanson.
Creator: Leslie Aldridge Hanson
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1980
George and Louisa Snelson are buried at Terrace End Cemetery in Palmerston North. George died 31 October 1901 and Louisa on 14 December 1919.
George and Louisa were early settlers to the township of Palmerston North, and established a store in Th...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: November 2019
Photograph album held by Carl Andreas (1848-1907) and his wife Anne (1846 - 1936) and their descendants. Carl and Anne emigrated from Norway to New Zealand on the 'Celaeno' in 1871. They were allocated 40 acres of land at Awapuni before soon movin...
Creator: Various
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1875 to 1900
A brief history of both Totaranui and Awahou South School, both of which now reside on the grounds of Te Manawa Museum.
Creator: Manawatu Museum
Looking south along Manchester Street from Manchester Square. The General Store is in the left foreground.
Creator: Unknown
Date: circa 1878
Sir Fredrick Weld (1823-1891) was a pioneer Pastoralist of New Zealand. He was elected to the first New Zealand Parliment in 1854 and was Premier from 1864-1865. Subsequently, he became a Colonial Governor of Western Australia, Tasmania and Strait...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: 1859
The Woodville and District Jubilee was celebrated February 4 1925.
Creator: Marshall, Woodville
Place: Woodville
Date: February 4, 1925
Eliot Warburton (1848-1922), was the first Palmerston North Borough solicitor. The Warburton family were early settlers in Palmerston North.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1870