Keown Family history in New Zealand

02/05/2025

Keowns bridge road sign - thanks Garry Keown

30/04/2025

07/07/2023

Here's an Ardlussa school reunion photo with a few familiar names.

07/07/2023

Hi all, hope everyone is keeping warm and dry in this cooler weather.
We are just having a bit of a delay with sorting the copies of the family tree that Wallace had made.
Could people that are interested, please email me with their details, and I will get back to you when we know costs.
Email at [email protected]
Thanks
Meredith

31/05/2023

Dear whoever is interested
Some time ago I made it known I was intending to explore the possibility of re-publishing the original Keown Family Tree that I created back in the 1980’s.
Well, I have done that and copies are now available. These are on good quality paper, and should be more light-fast and durable than the originals.
These copies are scanned from the original that I hand drew, so are identical in every way. I make no great claims that they are error free, as most of my original manuscript was based on information direct from family members themselves.
Back in the day, I had to decide whether I should go on researching indefinitely and no-0ne would get to see the results, maybe forever! Or to settle for what I had at the time and get it out there so people could use it. They could correct and add to it as they liked and as new generations of information appeared with time.
Nowadays, it appears very limited, but I reprint it as a useful guide for people, particularly younger people, to become informed of the general family structure in a simple, easy to reference form.

The cost, there has to be one, is nine dollars a copy plus postage. The postage I cannot be sure of, as I haven’t as yet sussed out courier costs, or how to even wrap them. They would have to be rolled, and they are quite wide.

If you are interested, please let me know so I can get an idea what the demand is likely to be.

As a matter of interest, when I published the first edition back in the early eighties, I initially printed half a dozen copies thinking: one for me, one for Mum and Dad, one for my sister, and a couple of spares in case someone else was interested ... I stopped counting at two-hundred and fifty. From a project intended to satisfy my own curiousity, it certainly revealed a desire amoung the wider family for information, of which there was a very definite lack. I found I was packing and posting to destinations in many parts of the world.
So ... feedback, please ...
Regards to all you out there who have to continually spell, correct, and re-spell their name,

Wallace Keown

Wal Keown

25/05/2023

There is currently an exhibition on in Invercargill with some of Ted Bullmore's artwork. He was a great grandson of John and Susan Keown, through their daughter Eliza Jane. I am hoping to see it this weekend, and any other rellies are welcome. Is open till June 11th. The art gallery page has quite a few photos and information.

Ted Bullmore's art crosses more than a few blokish boundaries.

01/05/2023

Race Day Cattle Flat circa 1905

Robert Aaron KEOWN, lying in front. Joseph Moore KEOWN, 2nd man from Right.

Eliza Jane 2nd lady from Left with husband, Thomas Alexander DAWSON Standing behind

27/04/2023

Taken a few days ago. The original farm at Ardlussa, complete with Keown’s Bridge and Keown’s Bridge Road. The buildings in the centre are on the site of the original homestead, which is long gone.

25/04/2023

Susan, with her son's, Hugh and Robert