Parker and Piggott’s

Catherine Ann Parker was just fourteen when she made the voyage on the Bombay with her family. Catherine will go on to marry James George Piggott younger brother of William Piggott who also travelled with his wife and two young children also on the Bombay. Catherine and James will marry in 1869 and have many children, one of those being being Lionel Parker Piggott.

James George Piggott

Lionel was born on the 18th of May, 1878 and married Harriet Murtagh on the 31st of December,1913.

Murtagh family outside their house, Upper Moumoukai Valley -1906. From left: Mrs Ann Murtagh, Mr Gerald Murtagh, Peter and Herbert (in sacks on packhorse), Mary and May (mounted on second horse), Ann and Harriet… Who will marry George Piggott. Photograph from Mrs A Allan, nee Ann Murtagh.

Lionel Piggott’s house before the valley was flooded for the Mangatawhiri Dam.

This photo is inside the old barn of Lionel Parker Piggott’s, around early 1960’s