Welcome to our
Comte de Paris Descendants
We represent 33 families that arrived into Akaroa onboard the Comte de Paris in 1840
Welcome to our Comte de Paris Descendants group
Are you part of our family….. Do you have any of these names in your history
Benoit – Bernard – Bouriaud – Breitmeyer – Cebert – Chardin – David – Dulac – Dupas – Eteveneaux – Fleuret – Francois – Gendrot – Guindon – Gurtner – Hahn – Haulme – Hettich – Jotereau – Jouy – Le Duc – LeLievre – Libeau – De Malmanche – Masse – Michel – Pigoulet – Rousselot – Veron – Vidal – Waeckerle – Walter – Wooll
Current Projects
We have recently been beautifying the cemeteries at Akaroa with plantings of spring bulbs.
Descendants Weekend: 29-28 October 2024 (Labour Weekend). We have two open home visits of original homes as well as other events organised. Contact us for further details.
Headstone project – we are lobbying the City Council to assist with restoring our settler headstones, and are working with the ‘Friends of the Akaroa Museum’ to record all the historic Akaroa headstones and make the information available.
Why you need to join us…
We are an Incorporated Society run by volunteers. Your membership helps preserve and protect our history.
Membership gives you…
- Access to resources
- Connect with other family members
- 4 newsletters per year
- Group membership of the NZ Society of Genealogists
- Involvement in Family History events
- Be involved in projects to protect our history
Visit our FaceBook page, this is a chat page only.
Acceptance onto the Facebook page doesn’t constitute full paid membership to the Comte de Paris Descendants Group. It is open to the public and a good way of keeping in touch.
Protecting our knowledge and archives of years gone by for our future generations...
Comte de Paris Descendants 