The Teirney family was another pioneer family who came to Swanson in the mid 1880s under the homestead settlement scheme. The family left Ireland as O’ Tierney, arriving in Auckland on the Waitangi in 1874. Laurence Teirney went to work as a groom on the Dilworth Estate, living in Wakefield Street in the city. When he and wife Bridget moved Read more...
On 25 October 1907 John Guy bought a property of 26 acres 3 perches on the east corner of Great North Road and Cemetery Road, Swanson (now Swanson Road and O’Neill’s Road). The previous owner, James Smith, had been a gardener at Mansion House, Kawau Island. When John Guy took over the property, established shelter belts of pinus maritina and Read more...
On 30 April 1895 a petition by 54 Swanson residents (see appendix in Rugged Determination p.165) was presented to the Commissioner of Crown Lands for five acres to be set aside for a cemetery. The land, gazetted in 1896, was situated a short way up what is now known as O’Neills Road. Trustees were appointed in 1897: John Moul, Edwin Read more...