Rockstrow family

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Title

Rockstrow family

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Collection

Manawatū Heritage

Description

The Rockstrows were an early Manawatū family of German extraction. Johann Friedrich Rockstroh (1834-1913) was a Prussian born in Erfurt, Germany. As a young man he migrated to New Zealand, where he practiced medicine in the goldfields of Otago and the West Coast. He subsequently anglicised his name to John Frederick Rockstrow. Mrs Rockstrow (c.1839-1914) was born Anna Eunice Gapper, in Germany. The Gapper family emigrated to a German settlement in Nelson province in 1842 and Anna’s father was...

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Image

Date created

1892~/1896~

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https://manawatuheritage.pncc.govt.nz/item/8ba1d59d-ec71-4bbc-a335-3f4deb1b8857

Locations

Palmerston North

Related subjects

early settler / fashion / medical / painted backdrop / people / photographs / studio portrait

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