PaKala.com
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The Pakala Page
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Excerpted from the website:
- This site is dedicated to a small but determined family of Scottish pioneers who in 1840 journeyed by sea from Scotland to New Zealand and then in 1863 to the Kingdom of Hawaii. This is a brief recounting of that story.
It begins in the mid 1800s with Captain Francis Sinclair, his wife Elizabeth McHutcheson Sinclair, and their six children: George, Jean, Helen, James, Francis and Anne were all born in Scotland. Captain Sinclair was from Edinburgh. Their last residence in Scotland was at Bothwell Hall near the walls of Stirling Castle. "Even though life seems to have been happy and prosperous there in Stirling, Captain and Mrs. Sinclair were seriously considering a tremendous change of scene. Wonderful reports of the opportunities in New Zealand were being brought back to the old country, so in October of 1839, with a number of other Scottish and English families, they decided to go to the new country."1) When the British Government declared New Zealand an English colony in 1840, Capt. Sinclair acquired a royal grant of land to be chosen once they arrived there. In 1843 after a four-month voyage round the Cape of Good Hope, and some time spent in Wellington awaiting the land arrangements, the family sailed to the South Island and ultimately settled at Pigeon Bay on the Banks Peninsula. There they built the home they called Craigforth.
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