‘MY FOREBEARS EMIGRATED TO NEW ZEALAND’
Early European settlers in New Zealand’s Albertland needed to be hardy souls. The long sea journey was arduous in itself, but some ships suffered mutinies or smallpox outbreaks. On arrival at the North Island, the vessels also had to navigate dangerous sea bars, one so notorious that it was dubbed ‘the Graveyard’.
Among those brave pioneers was Marjorie Prictor’s paternal great grandfather William Vickery, who was
