Taken from Rodney’s Life story Rodney was born in Masterton, his father, Ronald, farmed on one half of the 450 acre “Matapihi” block on Blackrock Road. The family them moved to Rangitumau in 1939 to a 320 acre block owned by Rodney’s Grandfather, Walter. Rodney started school in 1940 attending only half a day for […]
Rodney was born 4th February 1935 to Ronald Stewart Cameron and Kathleen Janet Thomson in Masterton. Rodney was the oldest of 4 siblings; Janet, born 1938 Sally Aileen, born 1940 Margaret Anne, born 1944 Rodney married Beatrix Alison Binns on the 26th July 1958 at the St. Mary’s Anglican Church, Levin. Alison and Rodney had […]
Following the Wairau Affray production last night, there was a discussion by led by Dr Lloyd Carpenter and Dr Peter Meihana. This was a 2 hour lecture style presentation on the people, events and attitude around the time of the incident. A well timed event. It appears that there is all this stuff at the […]
On Friday 25th June 2021, held the second night of The Wairau Affray production held at the Marlborough ASB Theatre. It has been a while since I have been to the theatre, the last time being Chess the musical when I was a teenager. As I had previously done some research on the incident when […]
On Saturday 19th June 2021, around 12:30pm, Janet Squires nee Cameron passed away surround by her immediate family at Waipukurau Hospital. Janet had recently gone into gone into hospital over the last few months and was supposed to go into a care home, however on Thursday 17th, she suffered a stroke in which she did […]
Trip to Waipukurau This post is a bit late, that is because I have been processing some of the information from this trip into my website. I will get to that later in this post. On the morning of September 19th I woke up at 4:30am to start my travels to Waipukurau for my Aunt […]
The Wairau Massacre Today, while on my holiday, I visited the sight of the Wairau Massacre. This event has impacted the Maori side of my family as well as the European side. After the research done, it appears that the massacre is a complex event and it is well worth further research. At this stage […]
The Binns Family This is a quick post outlining my Binns family relatives at the time my Great Grandmother Beatrix Helen Binns funeral on the 13th of December 2006. This photo consist Beatrix’s next generation, children, nieces and nephews and consists of the following people Back row – Robert Deighton, Neil Deighton, Tim Deighton, Tony Millson, […]
Deighton Family Research After doing some work on my website last weekend, I had found that Horace Arnold Deighton, Brother to Morrel Stanley Deighton, had family and was buried in Auckland. At that stage I started to plan a trip to Takapuna to visit the grave of Horace and his wife Margaret nee Furniss. I […]
After trying to do some research on the Camerons, I found it hard to work out exactly where they were, by the working ages of the first and second New Zealand born generations, there were already several farms established amongst the various members of the family. I have created this post to concentrate on just […]
