MANUSCRIPT
Dorothea Kenney - Of British descent
- Date
- 1990
- By
- Kenney, Dorothea, active 1990
- Reference
- MS-Papers-4280-020
- Description
The story of the Brooke family from Pyrford, Surrey and their immigration to New Zealand in 1910. The two sons, Jack and Cecil, began their farming life in the Kaikoura district as farm cadets. For seven years they farmed at Kaikoura from where the boys went to war and served with the New Zealand Mounted Rifles and later in the 1st New Zealand Machine Gun Squadron. After Cecil Brooke's leave he bought a small dairy farm at Ruakura in 1920 and 5 years later married Dorothy Hutchinson. They farmed at Ruakura for 34 years, and purchased a further 200 acres of peat swamp to break in.
Includes family tree showing Cecil Brooke's line of descent back 4 generations and copies of photographs, mainly of life of the farm
Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Finding Aids: Published guide available.
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
- Format
- 1 folder(s), Manuscripts
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