Pilgrimage For The Truth
Our New Zealand Percy family arrived from Sherborne, Dorset, in 1842 seeking a new life in Petone, Wellington, as millers and builders, and they flourished and were respected by settlers and Maori alike. Their most treasured possessions were their unresolved provenances they brought with them to New Zealand and claimed upon arrival :
(a) To carry the old “claimed extinct” Louvain-Percy male bloodline.
(b) All it’s natural rights of descent.
I was born into this Percy family on May 15th 1935 (the year they saw their “N.Z. Native Plants Protection Act” in Parliament come into force), and I am the 6th (of 8 including my son and eldest grandson) consecutive N.Z. Percy eldest sons. In 1937, almost 100 years after their arrival, my family gave their lands, lake and the finest collection of Native fauna in The Dominion to the Nation and the “Petone Percy Scenic Reserve” remains today open daily to the public free of charge. The gifts they left us were not financial but something infinitely more valuable, the male bloodline we claim to carry and the rights to determine our own destiny.
