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 [...]

2023-03-19T14:35:30+01:0019/03/2023|

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, [...]

2023-03-19T14:29:26+01:0019/03/2023|

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 [...]

2023-03-21T14:29:56+01:0019/03/2023|

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 [...]

2023-03-19T15:29:32+01:0019/03/2023|

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 [...]

2023-03-19T14:21:31+01:0019/03/2023|

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 [...]

2023-03-19T15:31:36+01:0019/03/2023|

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, [...]

2023-03-14T11:50:27+01:0014/03/2023|
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