Meeting my ancestors for the first time - 150yrs after their arrival into Lyttelton
Meeting my ancestors for the first time - 150yrs after their arrival into Lyttelton
A person standing in a graveyard, paying respects to their ancestors.
Contributor's note: In seeking to understand how I came to be born in this land, and how to orient myself within the Treaty of Waitangi relationship, I found my ancestors. They arrived from Lanark, Scotland aboard the Dunedin on 3 July 1874. They now lie in an unmarked grave in Addington. I never heard anything about them while I was growing up, but I’ve since learnt they were tailors. Their great-granddaughter—my nana—was also a tailor, so I went to meet them wearing a coat she made. Meeting them has collapsed time and shown me how colonisation continues to impact us all.
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