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    Vincent Aspey

    When nine-year-old Vincent Aspey persuaded his mother to buy a violin he had spotted in a second-hand shop she was dubious that he would practice, let alone come to be described as ‘synonymous with orchestral development in New Zealand’.

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NZ Company ship Tory arrives

1839 NZ Company ship Tory arrives

The New Zealand Company party, which included William Wakefield and his nephew Jerningham, was sent to make preparations for organised settlement. more...

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British and Irish immigration 1840-1914

External links

  • Ships, Famous Tory (1966 Encyclopaedia)
  • The Voyage of the 'Tory' (NZETC)
  • Wakefield, Lieutenant-Colonel William Hayward (1966 Encyclopaedia)
  • E.G.Wakefield biography (DNZB)
  • Immigration and the NZ Company (Te Ara)
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