ALVE DESCENDANT REUNION 17-18 FEBRUARY 2024 PHOTO
​BREAKDOWN OF ATTENDEES
1 X 2ND GENERATION; 30 X 3RD GENERATION; 20 X 4TH GENERATION AND 10 X 5TH GENERATION DESCENDANTS & PARTNERS
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ALVE DESCENDANTS REUNION

MASTERS HALL, PAHIATUA 17-18 FEBRUARY 2024

Words from our tīpuna​ Carl & Theresia Alve
Videos presented at the Reunion

Valentine's Day 1874 - Second Edition
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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.

The first edition of this Book was for sale at the February 2024 Alve Descendant Reunion, and sold out.

A second edition was released on 18 August 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)

Prices for this Second Edition are:

​Purchasers of the First Edition: $15.00 + courier

New buyers: $30.00 + courier.

Courier fee in Aotearoa N.Z. $10, Australia - $20, USA, GB & Europe - $40. Elsewhere - please enquire.

Flipbook and PDF versions will be available for $5​ - web links will be sent to you. Flipbook version is not suitable for small screen devices.

​NZ Payments to bank account  03-1534-0015068-025 with name & phone.
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Offshore payments - Contact Terry Alve with your request and he will invoice you.

A POSSIBLE DISCOVERY AT EKETAHUNA MUSEUM

A large image prominently displayed at the Eketahuna Museum. Colourised using My Heritage AI technology.

These men are felling a rimu tree in the Forty Mile Bush around 1880, using a two-man saw and axes. The work was demanding and the risk of injury high. Many men were pinned down by falling trees, and some were killed or lost limbs.
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1898

1908

'That's Carl Alve', asserted Trevor Alve!

​Trevor was referring to the guy on the right side of the bush felling pic. 

​These photos of Carl date from 1898 and 1908, nearly 18 and 28 years later. Note the similarities... are they the same person?
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Whether or not they are, 'the around 1880' picture, according to Te Ara Encyclopedia, stands as indicative of the work, the place and the date that Carl was/did/in the Eketahuna area.

Confusion arises because  a curator at Wairarapa Archives, where the picture is held, suggests the picture donor, who is deceased, asserted the picture dates from around 1900.

Ben Schrader, 'Wairarapa region - European settlement', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/12082/logging-the-forty-mile-bush (accessed 19 February 2024)
Story by Ben Schrader, updated 1 Mar 2017

ROSA GRAVE UPGRADE AND EMMA ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FEATHERSTON CEMETERY

CONGRATULATIONS ON REACHING THE APPEAL TARGET of $6,000.
The Appeal is now closed.

Thank you to all who have generously donated.

This new memorial for Rosa and Emma Alve was completed end of May 2024.
It was unveiled and re-dedicated on Sunday 25 August 2024 at 2pm.

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