Hello Listers, I would appreciate any info anyone may have of Thomas Rufus Earls bn Arklow,Wicklow c 1848.He emigrated to New Zealand from Gravesend aboard the "Peeress" and disembarked at Lyttelton in 1874. He worked as a railway linesman. He married Cassandra Basher in Christchurch in 1876. He died in Chch in 1934. Anona Robinson anarob@paradise.net.nz