Ned fogelberg

John Edward Percival Fogelberg (ca 1856 - 1929)

Edward (or Ned) Fogelberg was a mariner born in Sweden who arrived in New Zealand about 1879. He married Ellen Mary Moller in 1889 and was naturalised a year later. In Wellington he worked as a labourer and later a clerk. At the end of 1906 Fogelberg applied to the Council for a building permit for a house at 119 Waipapa Rd. This house sold for over $1 million in 2006. The Dominion Post said then that Fogelberg had built the house himself and called it Valhalla. Three of Fogelberg's daughters were teachers, including one who became a teacher at Hataitai School, and his grandson Graeme Fogelberg was a vice-chancellor of Otago University.