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You are here: Home / Library / Hans and Karen (Hansen) Petersen. Where my Danish Gt Gt Grandparents lie in Manawhatu and Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.

Hans and Karen (Hansen) Petersen. Where my Danish Gt Gt Grandparents lie in Manawhatu and Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.

By R M Findlay

Hans and Karen (Hansen) Petersen. Where my Danish Gt Gt Grandparents lie in Manawhatu and Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.
Hans and Karen (Hansen) Petersen.
  • Publisher: www.danishsociety.org.nz
  • Available in: Leaflet
  • ISBN: ISSN 2537-8473 (print) ISSN 2537-8481 (online)
  • Book ID: 566
  • Published: July 1, 2022

They arrived in Napier on board the Winchester in 1874, with two children, Peterlina and Kathinka.

They settled at Makaretu in central Hawke Bay at the foot of the Ruahine range.

In return for work clearing the seventy mile bush they were to be granted land.

Sadly Hans a ropemaker  died of “colonial fever” a short time after arriving.

Karen then moved to Waipawa where she met and married Ole Peter Sondergaard.

They settled in Halcombe.

Where are they buried?

Karen and her daughter Peterline Christine and their husbands are buried in the Lutheran section of the Upper Terrace cemetery. Plamerston North.

Kathinka and her husband are buried in the Dannevirke settlers cemetery

cemetery.

Images and transcription of their headstones are included.

 

 


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