| Rose Ann Shepherd | Rose Ann Shepherd managed thirteen children in a dwelling that started life as the stump of a large kauri tree. |
| Johanna James McRae | Johanna was member of one of the Scots families who left Nova Scotia for the much milder climate of Waipu, just south of Whangarei, in New Zealand's north. |
| Mary McLeod | Mary's story begins back in Scotland when her new husband Rev. Norman McLeod found his aspirations blocked by conservatism and so took his family and followers to Nova Scotia in the Americas. Reports of the much gentler climate of Australasia eventually seduced the group to build ships for themselves and move south to settle in Waipu, on New Zealand's North Island. |
| Eleanor Kathleen Coates | Eleanor was a city girl who found herself living in a remote part of the Kaipara Harbour when she married Edward Coates. This is the story of how she coped and ruled her family with firm kindness. One of her sons went on to become a Prime Minister of New Zealand. |
| Thomas Ball, J.P. | Thomas Ball led a group of settlers from his native Lincolnshire to the scrubby wilds of the Far North of New Zealand, then went on to become a member of Parliament. |
| Hannah Chiffinch Hare | Hannah left her well-to-do circumstances in London to travel to far off New Zealand. There she married the Weslayan missionary Thomas Skinner and lived an entire life as a missionary's wife until her settlement was sacked and burned by a Maori war party. Later, when her husband died, leaving her with an enormous family and no means of support, she accepted an offer by Joseph Hare and took on his own eleven children before giving birth to 5 more! |
| The 'Boyd' Massacre | This is the story of what happened to the ship when it called into New Zealand's Whangaroa Harbour to obtain kauri spars. |
| 'El Plumier' | The story of the priest, the con-man, and the ship that couldn't sail. |
| Earthquake! | One man's heartbreaking description of how it happened, and how much it cost him... |
| The Matthews family to Townsville | Tracing one family from Corwall to North Queensland |
