New Zealands oldest fishing family of European heritage (1827) - The Guard family

This is a short video about the Guard family, New Zealand's oldest fishing family of European heritage dating back to 1827.

In England, on 17 March 1813, a twenty-one-year-old stonecutter, John Guard, was convicted for stealing a five-shilling quilt. In those days terrible sentences could be handed out for the most petty crimes. Guard’s punishment was to be sent across the sea to the convict settlement in Australia’s New South Wales. It was the beginning of a long chain of events which would eventually see him found one of New Zealand’s most legendary whaling families.

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