A Message from Margaret & Terry Alve
Greetings from Tawa, Wellington, NZ where Margaret and I have lived since mid 1994. As we arrived in Tawa brother Gordon and Terry were completing an Alve Family history, "Alve Road: How do you spell that?" This was published late 1994 and was the culmination of nearly 30 years of interest and research about the family.
Soon after the book's publication 150 Alve family and partners, and some invited guests, joined in a family reunion at Highden, Awahuri just west of Palmerston North during Easter weekend 1995. Much of the content of the family history book, a report and pictures from the reunion, and a subsequent smaller gathering (50 people) in Palmerston North during Easter 2015, is contained in the website, www.alve.nz In recent years we have begun extending our family research by gathering and examining material held about both our families that has not been previously examined or, that has come to hand latterly. With the development of genealogical computer software much new material is accessible and is being processed as time permits. We use the 'My Heritage' genealogical and family history software and occasionally refer to Ancestry and Family Search programs. During August-September 2019 Margaret and Terry took a trip to Scandinavia, Germany, England and Scotland. We visited family places and met some of the family as we travelled: ALVE (Gelsenkirchen & Hückeswagen, Germany), WAGNER (Wiesbaden, Germany), ELCOX (Worcestershire, England), WALKER (Glasgow, South Uist, Outer Hebrides, and Inverness Scotland), GORDON (North from Fort William to the Inverness region of Scotland, including Culloden) and MILNE (Aberdeen, Scotland). A highlight of this travel was a first time meeting with Linda Daniel (from USA) and her sister Sue Heine (living in Germany). They are Terry's third cousins whose great grandmother was Anna Maria Hulsen (nee Alve) sister of Carl Wilhelm Alve, Terry's great grandfather. We met them in Huckeswagen, were forbears were born and grew up, and travelled with them through Cologne and along the Rhine river to near Wiesbaden where others of Terry's forbears lived. A highlight of this time was enjoying with Linda and Sue the last of the season's Rheingau music festival performances at the Kloster (Abbey) Eberbach. One final thing. We both feel so blessed to have been children and grandchildren of such hard working, honest and caring forebears. Their examples, diligence, care and courage, among other things, are conspicuous as we learn more of their lives and their times. Without exception they have all experienced incredibly challenging times alongside the loves, joys, successes and achievements that have been theirs. Their stories are inspiration for us and we pray they will be too for our children and grandchildren, our mokopuna. We believe they have such a goodly heritage in their ancestors to both inform them and inspire them. Margaret & Terry Alve - 'Matariki' Eve - 20th June 2019; updated 18th June 2022. |
Blessings in Store for God’s People
Listen to me, you that pursue righteousness, you that seek the Lord. Look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the quarry from which you were dug. Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for he was but one when I called him, but I blessed him and made him many. For the Lord will comfort Zion; he will comfort all her waste places, and will make her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the voice of song. Isaiah 51:1-3 New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised |