Porirua

In 1855, my ancestor Thomas Urquhart McKenzie packed up his wife and five children and headed “up the coast” from Porirua to Rangitīkei. This Matariki, I’m following in their footsteps. Fortunately for me, Thomas’s daughter Eliza—my second great-grandmother—left behind an extraordinary account of the journey, written nearly seventy years later. Her memories have become my […]