Pictured - The Featherston wedding of Mary Alve and George Busch in December 1898 - 12 Alves

17-18 February 2024 Alve Descendant Reunion

This gnarled old macrocarpa tree marks the likely spot where the Alves lived on a farm near Eketahuna 1880-1896.
Dave Farrant and Gregory Pedersen (Canadian whānau) ponder this fact!

61 Alve descendants and partners, attended this Masters Hall, Pahiatua Reunion. They represented 2nd to 5th generation descendants of Theresia & Carl Alve.  Nelson Rangi of the Busch line and a great grandson was the eldest at 95, closely followed by Jean Alve, wife of Hilton who was a grandson. The youngest was baby Luke Nelson Wright a 3xgreat grandson in Theresia Simmon's (nee Alve) line.

Jean and Nelson cut the Reunion Cake as Christine Lockett looks on.

Third cousins Sarah Alve and Naomi Pedersen chat over dinner.

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​BOOKS FOR SALE
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Valentine's Day 1874 was launched on Valentine’s Day 2024.
Second Edition: ​64,000 words, 208 pages.
​Available 1 August 2024.

​ABSTRACT:
Valentine’s Day 1874 occurred during the sixty-one years this history records (1849-1910) about a Deutschland-Aotearoa New Zealand family. Theresia Möllers and Carl Alve married in the Ruhr Valley on this day, and just over two years later they disembarked from an emigrant ship at Port Nicholson, Wellington. This study celebrates their marriage and asks two primary questions. Why did they leave Germany when they did? And, what happened to them in Aotearoa New Zealand subsequently until 1910? In the process we will discover how their romance worked out! Out of stock. Reprint available end May 2024.

​This revised edition includes details of the Alve Descendant Reunions 1995, 2015 and 2024 and Rosa Alve’s grave restoration at Featherston, including the addition of a memorial to her baby sister Emma. Other formatting, textual and pictorial additions and corrections have been made. 208 pages (1st ed. 200 pages; 60,000 words)

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Unexpectedly, we have received some original, unused copies of 'Alve Road: How do you spell that?'

​We thought they were out of print! These are original book copies.

15 copies remain. 

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BOOK ORDERS HERE

Easter 2015 Reunion in Palmerston North

Over 50 people young and old came from across the original families

Eddie's Clan

Theresia's Clan

Clara's Clan