Big Omaha

Date: 1960

By: Meiklejohn, Leslie Douglass, 1880-1960

Reference: Micro-MS-0407

Description: Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 60 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

Date: 1948

By: Moore, Sylvia May, active 1948

Reference: Micro-MS-0151

Description: History of the descendants of James Strange Mucklejohn and his wife Catherine Mustard of Scotland who married at Halifax, and later settled on Prince Edward Island, Canada. James worked as a shipbuilder at Charlottetown. Included are transcripts of the following ship's logs kept by Mucklejohn from his `Journal of voyages': Highland Lad, 1828; Rachel, 1829; Industry, 1831. In 1856 J S Mucklejohn built the `Union' and after travelling to various parts of the world with his family they eventually arrived in NZ and settled at Big Omaha where he set up as a shipbuilder together with his sons. The name appears to have changed on Meiklejohn on arrival in NZ. Includes an account of the life of Anna Maria Meiklejohn Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (69 pages).

Date: January 1953

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-32400-F

Description: Aerial view of Big Omaha, taken January 1953 by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation file Blue 335, Omaha & Whangateau.