Emigrating to New Zealand
As an incentive to emigrate from their home in the United Kingdom, the Government paid half the fare and the immigrant or a sponsor paid the rest.
The Children of Milson & Lucy
Establishing the family in a foreign land and making a living must have been very challenging in the early days of white settlement in New Zealand. Milson was known to have taken short term work in Fiji after moving to Auckland in the early 1880's. The 1880s and 1890s have come to be known as the long depression in New Zealand. In the winters there was visible hardship and distress. Those who had come out in the 1870s sent less positive messages home, and free passages were ended. Fewer new settlers arrived, and people began to leave. They went particularly to Australia, where ‘Marvellous Melbourne’ experienced a boom in the 1880s. Milson and his family appear to have departed Auckland for Melbourne around 1887.
Acquiring & Losing Property
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