Media - Boyd Remembrance 2009
|
Healing at WhangaroaSource: The Bay Chronicle - Dec 12, 2009 - By Richard EdmondsonONE of New Zealand's bloodiest and most misunderstood conflicts between Maori and Pakeha was remembered at Whangaroa on Saturday. Hundreds attended a ceremony to remember the 200 who died when... Read more |
|
|
Together to heal history's woundsTwo hundred years after one of the first - and bloodiest - conflicts between Maori and Pakeha, descendants of both sides have gathered for three days of commemorations aimed at healing old wounds. In December 1809 all but four of 70 passengers and crew aboard the boyd were... Read more |
|
|
Ceremony a step closer to Boyd incident healingSource: Nothern News - Dec 9, 2009He was a great man,, a great leader and a great peacemaker. Ann Johnson of New South Wales was one of about 50 mainly Australian descendants of Boyd survivor... Read more |
|
|
Descendants remember Boyd incidentSource: Northern News - November 25, 2009 - By Richard EdmondsonA descendant of one of only four Europeans to survive the sinking of the boyd in Whangaroa Harbour in 1809 will attend a 200-year remembrance event in Whangaroa next month. Northlander Rosie Drummond's great-great-grandmother Betsey Broughton was two years old when... Read more |
|
|
Time to heal old woundsSource: The Northlander Age - Dec 8, 2009Descendants of both cultures returned home to Whangaroa last week, 200 years after one of the first - and bloodiest - conflicts between Maori and Pakeha, to commemorate thos awful events and to heal old wounds. In December 1809, all but... Read more |
|
|
Looking back two centuriesSource: Northern Advocate - Dec 18, 2009Three days of commemorations of one of the first major clashes between Maori and Pakeha - the 'burning of the Boyd' and subsequent reprisals - brought a greater understanding of what happened 200 years ago, one of the organisers says. Rosie Drummond, of Whangarei, said she was 'hugely relieved' that... Read more |
|
|
The Boyd rememberedSource: The Anglican - Easter 2010The Whangaroa community and descendants of those affected or involved in some way with the incident with the merchant ship the Boyd in December 1809 and the reprisal killings the following year elsewhere in the Bay of Islands and the events leading up to these tragedies, got together last December to remember, to talk, to share stories handed down to them through the generations. Among those who wanted to remember was... Read more |
|