Scotty and Mary-Jane Campbell, Rewanui PHOTO ALBUM

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DescriptionScotty and Mary-Jane Campbell parents of Hannah, Hilda, Flora, and Marion. Scotty arrived at Rewanui over a year before Mary-Jane and their girls left England by sailing ship ...Mary-Jane cried everyday for three years at leaving England and at the hardship of living in the wet rain forest and mountains of Rewanui (Siberia by the Sea).Map^[1]ContributorJimmy Jingles

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Location (city or town)RewanuiPersonScott CampbellMary-Jane Campbell Hannah CampbellHilda CampbellFlora CampbellMarion CampbellEventImmigrants

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Date Created26th September 2019CommentsJune David Campbell Sounds right Jimmy. Who is the above photo. Have never seen that one,what a handsome couple

Sharel Tiller Kokshoorn I think this may be my great great grandparents..

Mark Boon Similar stories of living at Denniston. Arrived at Westport and then shipped up the incline where I think the minimum employment period was two years I think? Too bad if you didn't like it...Silk amidst the coal is a great book to read regarding early life on the coal fields on the coast.

Norma Anthony
My Granma and Granndad

Graeme Campbell
Norma Anthony mine too

Teri Joseph
They should of all went to Siberia n stayed there

Lois Strickland
How sad for her

Karen Oleary
Flora was my nana

Angela Brown
Life must have been pretty tough for those early women pioneers!

Anna Panther
Trying to work out how many GREATS was Scotty to me lol lol - am I right in thinking a GREAT GREAT June??

June David Campbell
Anna Panther he was your grandmothers brother. Great great uncle I think

Anna Panther
June I thought that - I’m guessing Marion (McTigue) was named after Granny Oakley!

June David Campbell
Anna Panther possibly, don’t really know anything about Grandmas side, should get onto it

Anna Panther
June well where does Colin (your Dad fit in)? I thought him & Mrs McTigue were brother & sister but obviously not, if there was all girls unless he was born here in NZ - curious now

June David Campbell
Anna Panther there were two boys born here. Colin (dad) and Jack who died at 14 yrs

Anna Panther
June, what year did they come out do you know? Curious to see if Granny or Aunty Susan had an influence on him coming out or if he was here before the Oak’s (they were 1921)

Anna Panther
Funny to read the comment about Mary-Jane crying for 3 months, as I know my Granny did too! Her sister Susan owned a boarding house in Rewanui & she would write to Granny & tell her how wonderful it was, “you can walk down the street & pick oranges off the trees” so Granny talked Grandad into leaving the “old Country” to come to NZ! Granny & Granddad lived in Siberia until moving into Runanga! Nana & Uncle Jimmy Oakley come down every day to go to School at St Joseph’s then they changed to Runanga School! Not sure completely why that happened!

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