Getting the family back together ... all 1000 of them

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Getting the family back together ... all 1000 of them

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Title Getting the family back together ... all 1000 of them
Author Alice Angeloni
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Year 2018
Publication Stuff, first published in The Marlborough Express
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Publisher Stuff NZ
Language English
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Geographic reference Picton, Dunedin
Time reference present time
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Topic Italian fishermen, Perano family, early Italian immigrants, descendants of Italians in New Zealand, liguri in Nuova Zelanda, Ligurian immigrants


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Article about the planning the Perano family reunion to celebrate 150 years since Agostino Perano arrived in New Zealand from Italy. Perano was born in Quezzi, Genoa, in 1850 and at age 14 he left with one of his brothers to go to New York where he worked for a building contractor. The after a few years he decided to stow away on a ship that he thought was bound for Australia but instead it berthed at Port Chalmers, Dunedin. He lived there and got married, and in 1885 the family moved to Picton in search of better fish stock. His son Joseph August Perano was founder of New Zealand's last whaling station and last whaling enterprise and the article explains that the Peranos set up three whaling stations and were the first to build high-speed, motorised whale chasers. The day after the Perano whaling station closed in 1964, New Zealand banned all whaling. The station has since been converted into a hut from which to count Cook Strait whales. The Perano hut, and former whaler Ronald Perano, feature in the short 2010 video Whale Watching (BushTellyTV).

More about the Perano family:
Memories of the Perano Family
Perano, Joseph August- Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
The Perano whalers of Cook Strait, 1911-1964