I can never look at a view of our beautiful Lyttelton Harbour without looking for the ‘Charlotte Jane’ to come sailing around the corner of the heads – just like she would have done on the 16th December 1850, carrying the first of our Anglican settlers. So would have loved to have seen that historic …
Ebenezer Hay 1814 – 1863 Died of a Broken Neck Place of Death: Bridle Path, Christchurch Behind the naming of Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula Buried at Addington Cemetery in Christchurch The story of the Hay Family: http://www.peelingbackhistory.co.nz/the-hay-family-annadale-pigeon-bay/ Photo taken by Annette Bulovic
Ebenezer Hay upset an entire family when he fell in love with Agnes Orr. Anges lived just two miles away from the Deans and McIlraith’s families at Annadale Farm in Ayrshire, Scotland. No one suffered more from this union of Ebe and Agnes than her father who was alarmed to learn that his favourite daughter …
What made William Boag walk from Lyttelton to Pigeon Bay to seek work straight off his ship in 1851, we may never know. Was it watching the hundreds of pilgrims pile over the Bridle Path, that made him take off in the opposite direction with no money, nothing going for him except the determination that …
