My grandmather, Olava (later known as Olivia) Olsen (Born in Norway), daughter of Christian and Berta Olsen was married to William Anderson (from Sweden) in Wellington in 1884.
I have not been able to track down when and how she came to NZ and despite some proming leads on her parents these have been off on the wrong track, so it's back to the start in a search for any information on Olava and her parents.
One of the witnesses at the wedding was a Lina (or Lena) Olsen and we have not been able to locate any information about her - although there is an entry in the passenger lists at the Petone Settler's Museum when a person of this name arrived in 1884 a few months prior to Olava's wedding. Olava has identified her parents as Christian and Berta (nee Chritiansen) Olsen on her marriage certificate. Her death certificate put her age at 69 in 1929 when she died so was born in Oslo (formerly Christiana, Norway) in 1860.
There is an age discrepancy as she stated her age as 21 at the time of her marriage. Did she come to New Zealand alone, with one parent or both?