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This gold locket, which 19th-century Dutch settler Adriana Pieters brought to New Zealand, holds tiny photographs of family members she left behind in Rotterdam.
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Garvey family
by Nancy Swarbrick
This gold locket, which 19th-century Dutch settler Adriana Pieters brought to New Zealand, holds tiny photographs of family members she left behind in Rotterdam.
Garvey family
by Nancy Swarbrick
Redmer Yska, Dutch – First arrivals, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/1950/reminders-of-home (accessed 14 June 2026).
Story by Redmer Yska, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 August 2024.