Brooke family
Dorothea Kenney - Of British descent
Date: 1990
From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
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.
[Miss] Brooke
Date: [1870-1889]
From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district
Reference: 1/4-005404-G
Description: Photograph taken by the studio of William James Harding, Whanganui. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.25 x 3.25 inches