dear vicky, i was about to write suggesting you had the wrong Crawford. i don't know of any of my line that has been near New Zealand. However,I would like the visit it some day. I am an old retired professor of psychology from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I hope you can track your line, but I don't think I can help. My Crawfords came to Canada in 1822 from Ireland. They had come to Ireland from Scotland a couple of hundred years before that. I just made the post to entertain those of you on Crawford list who are more serious about family trees than I am. There is a Crawford association in the USA that is tying to re establish the official Crawford Clan and elect a new Crawford Clan Chief. Charles Sent this from his iPad On 2011-10-25, at 5:15 PM, "Tony & Vicki" <voyager2@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > Am searching for siblings and parents of James Francis Crawford born in > Liverpool in August 1833. The family were previously from Barrow Furness in > Cumbria. In the early part of James's life the family moved to Wexford. > James travelled to New Zealand on the ship Alma and took up railway > surveying for the Provincial Government before setting in Christchurch and > raising a family of 3 sons and a daughter, He was a engineer( and town clerk > in his later years) and gave service to the early days of settlement in the > then young city of Christchurch. I am hoping for some connection with other > family members who may have left England and settled across the Atlantic > Sincerely Vicki Cox > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CRAWFORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Dear Charles, WOW, At last a Canadian is coming on line. I have family that arrived about 1830 from Ireland and settled in Port Hope and later went to Owen Sound. In the late 1850 they moved to Owen Sound and the younger moved to Winnipeg in 1899. I have got pretty well all the family in my TREE. I would like to have some of your histories that might be fitting to my family and hopefully get more data on all these people. I am a retired engineer in my upper 80's who has got a DNA in the hope that i will match someone. (Number Below). Cheers, A lot of Frost today. Robert T. Crawford Researching Crawford, Pugh, Creasor, Gyles, Rathbone, Mott, 84478 On 2011-10-25, at 8:22 PM, Charles Crawford wrote: > dear vicky, > i was about to write suggesting you had the wrong Crawford. i don't know of any of my line that has been near New Zealand. However,I would like the visit it some day. I am an old retired professor of psychology from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I hope you can track your line, but I don't think I can help. My Crawfords came to Canada in 1822 from Ireland. They had come to Ireland from Scotland a couple of hundred years before that. > > I just made the post to entertain those of you on Crawford list who are more serious about family trees than I am. There is a Crawford association in the USA that is tying to re establish the official Crawford Clan and elect a new Crawford Clan Chief. > > Charles Sent this from his iPad > > On 2011-10-25, at 5:15 PM, "Tony & Vicki" <voyager2@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: