A dinner was held in the Produce Hall at the Showgrounds, Palmerston North to celebrate the return of Slesvig to Denmark, followed by entertainment and games for the children, and a concert in the evening. Over 400 Danish settlers and their descen...

Creator:      Anderson's Studio
Place:          The Showgrounds. Palmerston North
Date:          April 14, 1920

Neils and Bertha Pedersen are the parents of the other Pedersens in this photograph. They were among the first Scandinavian settlers in Palmerston North. Back Row, from left: Edie (Mrs Byles), Albert (farmer, Te Matai), Josephine (Mrs Hansen), Mar...

Creator:      Billens and Bunting
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1890 to circa 1899

Anders Hansen Ihle was born in Norway 26/01/1833 and died in Palmerston North, NZ 20/05/1918. His surname was originally Hansen with the Ihle being a corruption of Iler. Hans married Martha Maria Pedersdotter on 4/03/1865 in the Hovia annex of the...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1900

Johannes, the second son and fourth child of the celebrated Bishop D. G. Monrad, was born in Denmark August 1849 when his father was a Minister in the Danish Cabinet, shortly before he was made Bishop in the Luthran Church. Johannes became a Naval...

Creator:      T Hammerom, Copenhagen
Place:          Denmark
Date:          1865

The first minister of the Danish Lutheran Church at Mauriceville West was George Sass who arrived in 1878. George Sass was instrumental in having the church built in a similar style to ones in Denmark by local Scandinavians. Opening on 24 August 1...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Mauriceville West, Wairarapa
Date:          circa 1900

The first minister of the Danish Lutheran Church at Mauriceville West was George Sass who arrived in 1878. George Sass was instrumental in having the church built in a similar style to ones in Denmark by local Scandinavians. Opening on 24 August 1...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Mauriceville West, Wararapa
Date:          circa 1900

Names of the makers of the Scandinavian Wall Hanging in the Palmerston North Central Library as embroidered on the back of the hanging.

Creator:      
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          October 2000

This family is thought to be the Scandinavian family of Daniel Johansen, listed in the Post Office Directories for 1885-6 and 1901-2. Far right, with a horse is Bernt Johansen.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1900

The Scandinavian Club held a stall in March 1915 in order to raise funds for the Belgian Relief Fund (see 2007n_scand2_gro_1135). It is unclear if this is a different occasion - however, the setting and costumes are different in the two photograph...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1914 to circa 1917

This is the committee of Danes who organised the dinner at Palmerston North to celebrate the return of Northern Schleswig to Denmark. The Palmerston North event attracted around 400 Danish settlers and descendants of Danes from around New Zealand....

Creator:      Anderson Family
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1920

The first Mauriceville West School was a tiny slab building constructed by the Scandinavian settlers in 1875, on the Education reserve at the centre of the town. It was replaced in 1877 by a small pit-sawn timber school house and in 1886 by the tw...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Wairarapa Region
Date:          1890

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

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

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1880

Cilus [or Celius] Pedersen [or Peterson] was a Scandinavian settler farming in Mauriceville c 1883 – 1891. In 1890 he appears to have been in partnership with Hans M Petersen or Peterson, possibly a relative. This photograph shows the family in f...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Wairarapa Region
Date:          1890

Christensen was born in Egvard, Denmark. He emigrated to New Zealand in 1886, where he was the pastor to the Danish Lutheran Congregation in Mauriceville until 1894, when he took over the Lutheran Church in Palmerston North. He ministered and pr...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Wairarapa Region
Date:          circa 1920

This early print shows the Gunderson family, made up of 9 children and two adults. The Gundersen women's dresses dates them to the late 'seventies or early eighties'.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Wairarapa Region
Date:          circa 1878

The Rev D.G.M. Bach, his wife and son Stanley, who were residents of Mauriceville in the Wairarapa from 1911-1916.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Wairarapa
Date:          circa 1910

Martha Marie Ihle nee Pedersdotter was born in Oslo 26/07/1845 and died in Palmerston North 2/09/1917. Martha married Anders Hans Ihle on 4/03/1865 in the Hovia annex of the Ullensager Church. The family arrived in NZ aboard the ship Celaeno to ta...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1900

The celebrates 130 years of Scandinavian settlement in the region. A detailed description is available on the Manawatu Heritage site. The wall hanging was completed in 2001.

Creator:      Peter McDermott Photography
Date:          2013

There is a Scandinavian wall hanging on the second floor of the Palmerston North Central Library celebrating Scandinavian settlement in the area. It is described in detail below.

Creator:      Stuart Birks, Anne Odogwu
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          October 2000