My house had been built one big room at a time beginning in 1851 as its settler family grew.
The village was opened to the first 25 settler families the following year.
Several settler families who grew tobacco also lived with Gissler on the island.
Land-use questions are closely scrutinized, making it difficult for a settler family to put up a new home even with their own money.
The name is that of an early settler family.
Ex-convicts and their children rarely married into free settler families, for example.
An early settler family were the Goodalls, who established a farm at the base of the hills in 1850.
Then in April 1847 a Maori was executed for the murder of a settler family.
Found a settler family massacred off to the southeast this morning.
A vast majority of the 1,600 settler families in Gaza still oppose the pullout.