"Cheryl Wright" <cheryl-wright@clear.net.nz> wrote in message news:mailman.300.1258592400.2037.genanz@rootsweb.com... Hi Cheryl >John Hinchey he was born in 1862 Victoria Australia he died on 26 >Oct 1935 Waihi Cant find any ref to this ????????? either in the VIC Pioneers CD or the AVR set. Closest was a John HINCHY ( no E ) b in Sydney to Daniel and Agnes in 1863 >He married in NZ Helen O'Neill 1917 He was getting a bit long in the tooth by then ?? I am looking his parents and any siblings plus when he came to NZ did any of his siblings also come to NZ and when his parents or >grandparents went Australia and which part of the UK did they come from HINCHY / HINCHEY sounds more of an Irish name but >easily to have originated in Ireland but migrated from England There is a HINCHY passenger ref in http://proarchives.imagineering.com.au/index_search_results.asp HINCHY ---- 31 WAIRARAPA DEC 1893 NZ PORTS VIA HOBART DEC 1893 005 This person would have been born around 1862 ish, being 31 in 1893 Looks like your are going to have look under a few more rocks.......... ! in the leave no stone unturned dept Hope this helps Bye MargM Beautiful NSW Central Coast NSW