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Pre-Europeans -- Maori place names within the Green hithe area -- Tauhinu site survey -- The transfer of Maori lands -- Auckland Waste Land Act of 1858 -- and land settlement -- Gumdiggers of early Greenhithe and Albany areas -- Sale of Crown grants -- Transfer details -- Greenhithe -- Crown grant 34, Parish of paremoremo -- Rev. Thomas and Mary Hamer -- Thomas and Mary Forgham -- Visit to "Fern Bank" -- Henry James Blyth -- The origin of the name Greenhithe -- Charles and Margaret Cotton -- James and Susannah Peachey, land owners Lots 5,8,9 and Part Lot 10 -- Frank and Lillian Stilwell, land owners Lot 4 -- Frederick and Anna Collins, land owners Lot 11 and 12 -- George and Annie Coulam, land owners Lot 1 (NE), Lot 2 (NE), Lot 3, Lot 1 of Lot 10 -- John and Minnie Blakeway, land owners of Lot 2 of Lot 10, Lot 13, Lots 27 and 28 of Crown Grant 79 -- Professor John Bartum and Constance Bartrum, land owners Lot 4 -- Crown Grant 24, Parish of Paremoremo -- Ernest Valentine Miller -- Alfred and Sarah hewson -- Thomas and Ann Hunter -- Crown Grant 17, Parish of Paremoremo, comprising of 84 acres -- Samuel and Ann Widdison -- Crown Grant 18, Parish of Paremoremo, comprising 88 acres. On subdivision found to contain 81 acres -- Samuel Cochran, purchaser of Crown Grant 79 in 1864 -- Percival Ford Hills, land owner Lots 9 and 10 -- Walter Thomas Smith and Frederick & Isabel Rose, land owners Lot 23 -- Matthew Henderson (architect), land owner Lots 23 and 31 -- David & Elizabeth Clark, land owners Lot 1 and Crown Grant 21 -- Johnstone Brydes Sayers and George Brydes Sayers, land owners of Lot 5 and 6 -- George William Hanson, land owner of Lots 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 & 20 -- Captain John and Annie Gibbons (Master Mariner), land owners of Lots 5 and 6 -- William John Messenger, land owner of Lots 36, 37 and 38 -- William Aitken (Estate Agent), land owner of Lots 2 and 30 -- Alfred Buckland (Auctioneer), land owner of Lots 32 and 33 -- Adward Vaile (Estate Agent), land owner of Lots 32 and 33 -- Charles (William) Pitcher, land owner of part Lots 15, 16 and 17 -- Charles Frederick and Catherine Eliza Cooper, land owner of Lots 14, 36, 37 and 38 -- Judge Wilfred Fosberry Stilwell, land owner Lot 14 -- Eric Craig, land owner of Lots 24, 25 and 26 (15 acres) in 1894; Lots 36, 37, and part 38 (25 acres) in 1905; Lots 34 and 35 (13 acres) in 1906 and Lot 2 (27 acres) in 1909 -- Stanley and Madeleine Irwin.
Crown Grant 19 Parish of Paremoremo, comprising 88 acres -- Crown Grant 21 Parish of Paremoremo, comprising 91 acres (3 acres taken for a road) balance 88 acres -- Crown Grant 83 Parish of Paremoremo, comprising 84 acres -- Crown Grant 84 Parish of Paremoremo, comprising 82 acres -- Crown Grant 85 Parish of Paremoremo, comprising 78 acres -- Crown Grant 86 Parish of Paremoremo, comprising 100 acres -- Crown Grant 82 Parish of Paremoremo, comprising 53 acres -- Crown Grant 153 Parish of Paremoremo, comprising 56 acres -- Crown Grants 166, 167, & 168 Parish of Takapuna -- Crown Grant 166, comprising of 72 acres -- auctioned by Mary Tutty in 1876 -- Geroge and Alice Redfern -- Captain David Forrest, OBE (Master Mariner) -- Crown Grant 167 Parish of Takapuna, comprising of 62 acres -- Crown Grant 169 Parish of Takapuna, comprising 88 acres -- Martin Monstedt, owner of Crown Grant 169 in 1880 -- Crown Grant 87 Parish of Paremoremo, comprising of 95 acres -- Alexander Hugh Bruce -- Rt. Hon. Air Charles Dalrymple -- Duncan Henry Caithness Reay Davidson -- Sir James Ferguson -- Clara Alice Thorncroft & George Pannill, land owners of Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5 of Crown Grant 87 (78 acres), South East portion Crown Grant 86 (40 acres) -- Crown Grant 177, Paris of Takapuna, comprising 320 acres -- Shipping on the Upper Waitemata Harbour -- A trip by launch from Auckland to albany in those early days -- Roads and the passenger transport service -- The Greenhithe School -- History of the Tasmanian maid [paddle steamer] (Old school bell) -- How the ships bell came to the Greenhithe School -- The old school building -- Religion: Presbyterian; Methodist; Church of Christ; Anglican Church; Roman Catholics -- The Post Office services -- The Greenhithe Community Hall -- The Progressive Association: Development of the Greenhithe Reserve -- Greenhithe Residents and Ratepayers Association: Queen Carnival -- Country Women's Institute: How it all began -- Formation of the Drama Club -- Women's Fellowship -- Greenhithe Plunket -- Play Centre -- Tauhinu Sea Scout groups -- Tauhinu Brownies & Guides -- Tennis Club -- Indoor Bowling Club -- Volunteer Fire Brigade -- Early medical services -- Commercial activities: Local garage -- The factory in the village -- Boatbuilding -- Ferro-cement boats -- Military -- The population growth of the Greenhithe area -- Political history -- The history of Grey Oaks -- Cyril and Marjorie Jonkers.