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The first significant post-1840 activity in the Tawa area was the construction of the Old Porirua Road.   Cleared and built during the 1840's and supported by the Middleton, Leigh and Elliott stockades, it linked Wellington and the small settlements of Porirua and Paremata on the Porirua Harbour.  The road eventually evolved into the old Centennial Highway (State Highway 1).
 


The Old Porirua Road can be traced through Tawa along some streets: Middleton Road, Willowbank Road, Boscobel Lane, Main Road, Oxford Street, Grasslees Reserve, Main Road again, Duncan Park, across Linden Avenue to Linden West Park and back to the Main Road.
 

These are some of the families that settled at Tawa Flat and on Old Porirua Road.  Some had travelled on the same ships and obviously formed a close bond. Though only the Mudgways and Wilmshursts are our direct ancestors, they or their children married into other families in the district.

Askew   Banks   Bannister   Barrow   Bartlett   Benson   Best   Bidmead   Boddington
 Bould   Bowler   Bowles   Boyce   Braid   Branks   Broderick   Bromley   Brown   Bryant
Catt   Champion   Clapham   Cook   Crowe   Davis   Drake   Duncan   Earp
Edwards   Fairbrass   Fellingham   Fifield   Fisher   Floyd   Gills   Gordon   Greer
 Hall   Halswell   Hammond   Harrison   Honour   Hook   Hyde   Janes
Jenkins   Jillett   Jones   Jordan   Knox   Kubler   Lavin   Lee   London
Lunn   McLaren   Massey   Mexted   Mitchell   Moore   Morgan   Morris 
 Mudgway   Mungavin   Nairn   Newman   Nott   Pask   Peckham   Petherick
Pilcher   Prior   Richmond    Robertson   Rolston   Roots   Ryan   Sapsford
Simmons   Spicer   Stebbings   Taylor   Thompson   Tremewan   Valler   Wall
 Whitehouse   Wilmshurst   Windley   Woodman


The Mudgways married into the Wilmshurst, Fairbrass, Richmond, Lee, Greer & Morris families.
The Wilmshursts married into the Mudgway, Mexted, Morris & Fairbrass families.
Four Mexted siblings married four Thompson siblings.
The Morris's married into the Catt, Mudgway & Wilmshurst families.
The Barrows married into the Mexted family.


The above names are from the book Tawa Flat and the Old Porirua Road by Arthur Carman.
If you are interested in any of the non-highlighted names, contact me and I'll give what help I can.