Tartan Day in New Zealand will be celebrated on Monday 1 July. The Scottish Clans Association in Auckland is holding a Tartan Day commemoration service to mark this event. The service will be at St Andrew’s First Presbyterian Church (where else?) in Lower Symonds Street, Auckland, on Sunday 30 June at 10 am. All are […]
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Check out maps of where Mathesons lived in Great Britain in the late 19th century and at the very end of the 20th, in this new article on the clan website.
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The earlier post on Matheson place names in New Zealand has been published as a page on this website.
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The epic migration of Scottish Highlanders to Waipu in Northland is an important part of the family history of a number of Mathesons in New Zealand. This story is being kept alive by the community in the area settled by the Highlanders, and the 2013 Waipu Grand Pageant was an important contribution to that effort. The
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The Clan Matheson Society’s first international gathering outside Scotland took place here in New Zealand as well as in Australia. Chief’s lieutenant Doug Matheson remembers the event back in 2008, in an article on the clan website’s past events page.
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Some clan members are connecting through the Facebook group www.facebook.com/groups/ClanMathesonNewZealand. The group is for people with Matheson/Mathieson connections in New Zealand to contact kinsfolk and share their common Highland heritage. This group is not officially part of the New Zealand branch of the Clan Matheson Society, but supports it and encourages Mathesons and Mathiesons in New
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