CALLING ALL DESCENDANTS AND ASSOCIATES TO GATHER
165 Vogel immigrants arrived in Wellington Harbour (Whanganui-a-Tara) on 23rd March 1876 after 96 days at sea.
Scandanavians, Poles, Germans, Italians, Swiss and others made their way to Bremerhaven in the north of Germany to land in Whanganui-a-tara, Aotearoa. They sailed on the small sailing ship Gutenberg down the Atlantic Ocean and through the roaring forties at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. They navigated past the bottom of Tasmania, around Stewart Island and north up the east coast of Te Wai Pounamu (South Island), before reaching Wellington, New Zealand.
A Sesqui gathering 0n Sunday 22 March 2026 will bring together descendants and associates of these intrepid sea voyagers to discuss aspects of their ancestors' experience before, during and after this voyage.
We will sail on the Harbour, visit the Wellington maritime display/s and gather to korero about this journey and discuss some of what we know about these Immigrants and their first NZ families.
In preparation for this sesqui gathering I plan to write and publish information about this migration, the emigrants and their descendants and how their lives developed beyond immigration until 1926.
Bremerhaven to Wellington
A VOYAGE OF THE GUTENBERG 1875-76
The Auswandererdenkmal (German for Emigrant Memorial) is a statue in the port of Bremerhaven, Germany.
A STORY OF THE BACKGROUND, VOYAGE, PASSENGERS, DESCENDANTS
AND THEIR FIRST FIFTY YEARS IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND
Terence V. Alve
AND THEIR FIRST FIFTY YEARS IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND
Terence V. Alve
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