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1892 – 1903 South Taranaki

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On 28 May 1889 a son, John Wilson Kenyon was born.
In his brief memoirs, recorded in 1981 when he was then 92 years old, John Wilson
Kenyon recalled that some time between 1890 and 1892 the family shifted from
Tataraimaka to Rowan Rd near Kaponga, that he started school at Rowan in 1894 and
that in “about 1895” the family moved to Kaponga.

Newspaper reports suggest the move from Tataraimaka was in 1892, and the move
from Rowan to nearby Kaponga must have been in 1894.

Taranaki Herald 5 May 1892
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Sale of farm at Tataraimaka

Move to leasehold farm at Rowan

Hawera and Normanby Star
28 August 1894
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Move from farm at Rowan,
to Kaponga

Image taken from Farming Progress in New Zealand by Irene Waswo

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