Welcome / Haere Mai

Ceud Mìle Fàilte -

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 

 

 

 

ANNUAL MEIKLEJOHN DESCENDANTS GATHERING

 

 

Preliminary notice

 

 

 

 

Date: 25 March 2012

 

 

 

 

Base for the day: Scott Homestead and grounds at Scotts Landing – an Auckland City heritage reserve

 

 

 

 

Scott Homestead: opens 10.00 a.m.

 

 

 

 

Travel directions – take Ridge Road which is 1km past Snells Beach

 

 

 

 

The history of the Scott homestead

 

 

The house is a two storied Georgian style house built for Thomas Scott (jnr) in 1877. It operated as a private hotel and boarding house at a time when Mahurangi was a hub of shipbuilding and timber milling activity.

 

 

The homestead is at the mouth of the Mahurangi.

 

 

We have rented the lower floor for the day so this will take the weather cancellation factor out of play.

 

 

 

 

Other activity: Late morning high tide so water and beach activity.

 

 

 

 

Please let family who are not on our email database know of the above. A newsletter will come out in the next two weeks.

 

 

 

Recent updates - September 2010 -

in the Poetry and Other Exchanges section is The Meiklejohn Saga -  D M Darroch's 1934 publication - 'Shipbuilders in Rodney County' has also been added.

- November 2010 - Update of JSM's ancestors - Back Beyond 1805

- January 2011 Newsletter

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

December 2011 - eleven images from the Auckland City - Heritage Libraries plus a recollection - Memories of Life on the coastal scows

  

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