LANI LEIATAUA
Lani Leiataua was born in Dargaville, New Zealand in 1981, the daughter of Timothy and Rosemary Antonio (Antonievich). Her great grandfather came to New Zealand from the island of [...]
MICHAEL JURLINA
MICHAEL JURLINA was born in Kaitaia in 1962, son of Ivan (1933 – 2022) and Mary Vinac (1941). His grandfather Loni (1898 – 1979) was a gum digger on [...]
DRAGO YELAVICH
DRAGO YELAVICH was born in Kaitaia in 1931, son of Stipan and Perina nee Juretich. Stipan was from Ravča (1894 – 1985) and worked on the gumfields at Ahipara, [...]
GREGORY YURETICH
GREGORY YURETICH is the President of Kaitaia Dalmatian Cultural Club and Indoor Bowls Club. He was born in Kaitaia in 1962, son of Ivan (1933 -2019) and grandson of [...]
BRIAN MISA
BRIAN MISA, was born in Auckland in 1945, son of Toma Misic (1896 – 1966) and Antica Radonich (1908 – 2000) from Podgora. Antica’s father Jure came out to [...]
FRANK VINAC
FRANK VINAC was bron in Kaitaia in 1939 the son of Ante Tony (1895 1976) and Ane Despot (1911 – 2007) from Zaostrog. Tony worked in the copper mines [...]
KAYE DRAGICEVICH
KAYE DRAGICEVICH, genealogist, was born in Auckland in 1954. She married Paul Dragicevich from Kaitaia. Paul’s father George Dragicevich (1924 – 1981 ) was the second student of Croatian origin [...]
Berta Borich between Makarska and Auckland
FRANKA UMBERTA BORIĆ was born in Split on January 29, 1946, but lived in Makarska until moving to New Zealand in 1965. She trained as a hairdresser in Makarska, so [...]
Story of Mara Vitasovic
MARA VITASOVIĆ was born on February 2, 1953 in Te Kopuru, in the Northland, New Zealand, in the family of Andrija Skokandić from Žrnovo and Neda, née Šestanović from Lumbarda, [...]
