The son of John Coulson and Emma Isabella Fowler. Born 4 May 1881, Palmerston North.

Creator:      J E and H Cobb of Napier and Hastings
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          1887

Joesph was the first Manager of the Manawatu Cheese and Butter Factory Co. in Karere, near Longburn, which opened on 3 November 1884. This factory was equipped with three Nakstou centrifugal cream separators. Later it was forced into liquidation d...

Creator:      Brown, Barnes and Bell, London
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1884

Mr J. B. Stewart was the Manager of Union Bank of Australia on the corner of Coleman Mall and the Square in 1937.

Creator:      Lewis Studio Ltd
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1937

Mrs Isabella Eleanor Carolina Luxford (nee Gonzales) was the wife of William Lewis Luxford who was a farmer, timber merchant, sawmiller and on the Borough Council from 1887 to 1896. She was originally from Italy, born in 1853 and died in 1931.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1904

Jens was the youngest son of Arthur Petersen, son of a Norwegian Prime Minister. Jens helped to found the Mauriceville Dairy Company in 1889. Sometime between 1910 – 1920 the family moved to Palmerston North, where Jen’s son George Conrad became...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1889

John Coombe (J.P.) at one time was a land agent in Palmerston North. He was also part time owner of the "Manawatu Evening Standard" and later Director of the "Dominion".

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1940 to circa 1950

Mrs Sarah Ann Linton, nee Kibblewhite (1852-1916) was the wife of James Linton, second Mayor of Palmerston North. They married in 1869 and had eleven children. In 1871, they moved to Palmerston North, where they were said to have built the first b...

Creator:      Johnson, Wellington
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1905

A lovely 1940's studio portrait of a young unidentified woman.

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1940s

Dr John McIntyre was one of Palmerston Norths pioneer medical men. John was educated at Jersey College. He graduated L.S.A. in 1876 and was admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS) the following year. John was employed as a house surgeon a...

Creator:      Billens and Bunting
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1895

This portrait shows Vilhelm Klausen Lembert. While not a founding member of the Co-Operative Mauriceville Dairy Co Ltd, he is described as a "guide of (its) destinies" in the company's early, struggling days.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Wairarapa Region
Date:          circa 1900

Eskild Pedersen was a farmer of Mauriceville West from about the turn of the century to the 1920s. He was probably a second-generation Scandinavian New Zealander.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Wairarapa Region
Date:          circa 1910

Phoebe was the only daughter of J. P. Leary, a pioneer printer of Palmerston North. Her mother was Joseph's first wife, Miss Austin of Foxton. Phoebe died undergoing an operation.

Creator:      R Herrman, Wellington.
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1885

The Rev. J.J. Legarth was a minister at Mauriceville West.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1880

Sass was the first Danish Lutheran pastor in New Zealand. Originally in charge of the Scandinavian churches in Queensland, he came over to New Zealand to minister to the 7000 or so Lutherans in the Taranaki, Manawatu, Wairarapa and Hawke’s Bay in ...

Creator:      Thomas Bucchare, Denmark
Place:          Wairarapa Region
Date:          circa 1880