Terence Valentine Alve

Valentine's Day 1874

A Ruhr Valley Romance

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Produktbeschreibung

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, Aotearoa New Zealand. This study celebrates their marriage and asks two primary questions. Why did they leave Germany when they did? And, what happened to them in their new homeland subsequently until 1910? In the process we will discover how their romance worked out!

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Terry Alve
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 216mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9798224200856
• Artikelnr.: 69977659

Autorenporträt

I had an 'aha' moment as a teenager when my great uncle Charlie's brother-in-law, Alec Wallace, told me stories about my great grandparents Theresia and Carl Alve in a way that made their lives come alive. I never knew my tupuna, but the influence of that conversation has driven me to make exploring my family's genealogy and history a life-long quest. In 1994 I wrote, Alve Road: How do you spell that? which chronicled what I knew of the history of the Alve family in Germany and, the better-known history of the family in New Zealand. As part of this work, I wrote over 120 brief biographies of the first four generations of the family, beginning with my forbears Carl Wilhelm and Maria Theresia Alve who emigrated from Germany to New Zealand in 1875-76. My writing and presentation skills have been enhanced through my work as a website designer and developer. I am also a self-taught genealogist and family history researcher. I use a variety of internet resources to further this work, including the MyHeritage online genealogy platform and the www.alve.nz website. I married Margaret Milne, from Upper Riccarton and together we have four adult children and nine mokopuna (grandchildren). Margaret and I reside in Tawa, Wellington where we have lived since 1994. I pound the streets and bush tracks of Tawa and Wellington with our miniature Schnauzer dog Pippin who always looks forward with enthusiasm to the next day's walk. Occasionally, I go bush and lodge in a hut in the southern North Island mountains and hills.