Lets celebrate together

A hundred thousand welcomes to the website of

The Big Omaha Maritme Historical Trust 

- initiated to fund research into the history of the family of James Stange and Catherine Meiklejohn since their arrival in New Zealand in 1858 and also that of other contributors to the shipbuilding and pioneering heritage of the Big Omaha area and surrounding district of Rodney of New Zealand.

 

 

Contact information - see News 

 

See Newsletter section for January 2012 release

including the upcoming family picnic at Mahurangi on 25 March 2012 

 

 Updates since January 2011

August 2011 - 1965 Article - "In their heyday they could lick the steamers"

December 2011 - eleven images from the Auckland City Heritage Libraries. Also "Memories of Life on the coastal scows"

April 2012 - The history of the Owen shipyard on P.E.I. - see JSM learns his trade. Also some data on Cordelia's sister and her shipbuilding husband - see Cordelia's family

  

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