Four members of settler John Gilfillan’s family were killed at their isolated farmhouse near Whanganui in April 1847 by a raiding party. Gilfillan is seen here with a woman who was probably his daughter, in Melbourne, Victoria, around 1855.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Tesla Studios Collection (PAColl-3046)
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Photograph by Batchelder & Co.
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