Gutenberg Reunion of Immigrant Descendants - Sept. Update

It's only Six months until we Celebrate the Gutenberg's Arrival

A newsletter update was published last week with new information about this sesqui-centenniual event on Sunday 22 March 2026. Click on the button below for new information.

Newsletter (2) update

Summary of Information

• Immigrant families we have information about. This number is growing as the search for descendants continues.
• News about a Sesqui Publication that will include information known about the families and their descendants to 1926: 50 years after the Gutenberg's arrival in Wellington.
• The revised Celebration Sunday (22 March 2026) programme.
• An appeal for information and where to send it.

Carlo Turchi

Carlo Turchi 2 Aug 1830 – 21 Apr 1921

Carlo and his wife Santina, who travelled from Italy, were the largest family (7 children) who travelled aboard the immigrant ship Gutenberg which berthed in Wellington in March 1876. They initially settled at Jacksons Bay in South Westland before the community (up to 400 people) proved too inhospitable for the settlers to remain. In the late 1870s they moved to farm in Taranaki. Along the way they increased their family to eleven children. One of their sons was killed in the Somme during the first world war.

This is part of the story we have about the Turchis. We continue to gather such stories which will be published after the Reunion event.

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