Idly scrolling thru the Early Canterbury Photographs website, and came across the Children of Eliza Crawford and Robert Hanna: with a comprehensive tree in Auckland mid/late 1800s. Is there anyone on this list belonging to this family? They may have a connection to my Plunkett family back in Northern Ireland. My Thomas married a Crawford in the same place this family came from. cheers penne --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

Hello. Apparently in the 1920's/1930's my grandfather purchased a property somewhere in the King Country/Upper Wanganui area. Can anyone please tell me how I would be able to trace this and find out exact details, such as where it was, when he bought it and when he sold it? Thanks heaps . . . Beth

Wises or stones directories may be useful. Happy hunting Bill --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

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Hi I am helping my cousin track down some of his family. We are really stuck on the O'Donnell family and hoping someone on this list may have O'Donnell ancestors that may belong to our family as well. Basic Information we have and know: William O'Donnell born c 1837 Ireland and died 1884 at Opunake. Would have arrived in NZ sometime in the 1860's. He had a common law wife Martha McCarthy (could be spelt various ways) born c 1850 Ireland and died in Wellington 1890. William seemingly had a wife and family still back in Ireland. (details of this family are unknown) William and Martha were in the Waimea/ Hokitika area for quite some time. They had 6 children - we know the names of 4 of them. James (my cousin's GGrandfather), Charles, David and Mary Jane/ Mary. NONE of the children's births are registered on either the DIA site or on the microfiche, under either O'Donnell or McCarthy or any other name. There is also no Baptism's either. We believe that James and Mary Jane may have been twins born in Oct 1869. (record on Papers Past) Charles was born in 1875 and David in 1878 Information from Police/ court records/ industrial school records, record the following story. Around 1878/79 Martha and William separated. Martha left 2 of the boys (Charles and David) temporary with a Mrs Weston, Hokitika while she took James with her to Wellington in 1879. She soon had the other 2 boys with her. (What happened to Mary Jane and the other two children we do not know) In 1882 all 3 boys were removed from her care and sent to St Mary's Industrial School in Nelson. They remained there until they came of age to leave. 1. We have Martha and William's death certificates. 2. We have Charles's death certificate (he lived and died in Western Australia) 3. We have all the details about James, as this was my cousins GGrandfather. 4. We think we have the correct David O'Donnell - but cannot locate his son nor his Grandson at this stage to prove it correctly. 5. We cannot locate the correct Mary/ Mary Jane O'Donnell and what happened to her. 6. We do not know the names of the other 2 children ( suspect will be girls and perhaps boarded out to other families, so names could even have been changed) We would like to make contact with ANY descendent of an O'Donnell family from the Hokitika West Coast area to help see if there are any connections. Currently I am compiling a marriage database of any O'Donnell girls - married in NZ and checking them off one by one to see if any connections- but this is very time consuming and sometimes very difficult to do. So if you can help us with our family, please email me off list and please visit my cousin's blog pages that he has done. http://cerberuscoins.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/searching-for-odonnell-family- members/ Many thanks Ailsa Ailsa Corlett ailsa@st.net.au http://home.st.net.au/~ailsa alternative email if having trouble sending to my normal email is: ailsacorlett@gmail.com

Could someone tell me if there is an easy way of finding out who lived in 19 Rugby Street Wellington in 1922. I was trying to search for this on Ancestry but must have been searching wrong. I have a coroners report for an ancestor who I think is related but need to be sure. His death certificate states Parents, place of birth, spouse, children all unknown. The coroners report for John DAVIDSON who died in 1922(who was living in a mental hospital) states his wife (no name) was living in Sydney. And Mrs Bransgrove of 19 Rugby Street, Wellington has been notified of his death. I could not find any Bransgrove living at this address in the 1922 electrol rolls and was trying to find out who was living at this address in 1922. Thank you Lori

Hello all. I am trying to find out where the Waipiro Stream flows into the Wanganui River. . . from what I can see on-line, the Waipiro Stream heads towards Gisborne and not Wanganui and does not touch the Wanganui River, so it is on the wrong side of the North Island completely! Can anyone help me out please? Thanks. Beth

http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/suffragist/mrs-m-dorreen I found my great grandmother Mary DORREEN nee LEWER on the suffragette list above. She had 12 children: Jane Elizabeth DORREEN b 1880 and married William STAPLES Alice May DORREEN b 1882 died young Eva Ethel DORREEN b 1884 and married Arthur STAPLES Ernest Alfred DORREEN b 1885 and married Lena ANDREWS Angel Milles DORREEN b 1887 and married Alfred William DOEL William Herbert DORREEN b 1889 and married Elizabeth COLLINGS Muriel (Molly) Eleanor DORREEN b 1891 Edith May DORREEN b 1893 and died young Lionel Walter DORREEN b 1896 and served in WWI Ivy Myrtle DORREEN b 1898 and married (1) Frederick BANKS and (2) Andrew SOMERVILLE James Henry DOREEN-MANLEY b 1901 and married (1) Eileen Thompson and (2) Eileen Staveley Pearly DOREEN-MANLEY b 1903 and married Norman Milton COE I was wondering if there is anyone on this list who is also a descendant of any of this large family. If so, I would love to hear from you. Kae Lewis

Hi, There is a Family Tree up on Ancestry called "The More Family Tree" and I would like to get in touch with the person as I am pretty certain that the recent photo album of my late Uncle that I have just received has photos of these family members in it. I have emailed/ sent a message to the person concern via Ancestry but not reply as of yet, so was hoping that she might be on this list or others of this family can contact me. My Uncle was Murray Clark who lived at 7 Bradshaw St, Dunedin the album is dated Easter 1948 and has the names of everyone under the photo, but of course not the surnames. There is a small photo of a Mrs More and Mrs Nicholls - taken in the back garden. Other names mentioned in the Album are Cecil, Joyce, Audrey, Betty, Cathie and a photo of an middle aged couple that looks like was taken as perhaps Mother and Father of the Bride. I have found reference to a Cecil Mark Nicholls who was born in 1928 and has since passed on in 1989. He married Joyce in 1952. All events in Dunedin and would fit with my Uncles data in this photo album. As the photos (apart from the ones of my Uncle) do not relate to us as family, I am looking to contact this family so that they can therefore have the album. So if anyone on this list or perhaps the person who owns the More Family Tree on Ancestry is reading this could you please contact me off this list, so that I can scan some to send to you to confirm my research, then I can forward the album to you. regards Ailsa Ailsa Corlett ailsa@st.net.au http://home.st.net.au/~ailsa alternative email if having trouble sending to my normal email is: ailsacorlett@gmail.com

Hi, Another way to record this is to use a digital camera and film the screen, hand holding camera may give some jerlkiness but with sound on and a quiet room a reasonable copy can be made. RegardsBruce ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michele Cook via" <new-zealand@rootsweb.com> To: "NEW-ZEALAND" <NEW-ZEALAND@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2014 11:14 AM Subject: [nz] Wellington Archives probate lookup please > Is there sks who is visiting Wellington archives in the near future, if > they are willing I would appreciate a digital copy of the following > probate > file please. > > Michelle Cook > > Title > Years > > GLEESON Bert Henry *(R23083603)* > 1976 - 1976 > > > > > > Additional archives description > > Wellington - Rtd Builder > > > The List Guidelines > > http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NEW-ZEALAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

My understanding is that whilst this works for You tube, and some others not readily familiar to NZ, that such does not work with say BBC or NZTV etc. I do so hope I am WRONG and willing to hear from others, please… Gail On 3/10/2014, at 6:10 PM, Wendy Howard via wrote: > Hi Michelle, > > If you use the Firefox browser, you can install an extension called > "Download Helper", which will record videos for you. Might be useful > while you're watching that program online. :-) > > http://www.downloadhelper.net/ > > Wendy > > Michele Cook via said the following on 3/10/2014 16:05: >> I have just found out that on Wednesday Night this programme Intrepid NZ >> episode one played on air at 9pm. Is there anyone who may have recorded >> this as it has a distant relative Harry Ayers talked about. I can watch it >> on One demand but I would love a copy for my records. Hope somebody out >> there may be able to help. >> >> Michelle Cook > > > The List Guidelines > > http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NEW-ZEALAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Michelle, If you use the Firefox browser, you can install an extension called "Download Helper", which will record videos for you. Might be useful while you're watching that program online. :-) http://www.downloadhelper.net/ Wendy Michele Cook via said the following on 3/10/2014 16:05: > I have just found out that on Wednesday Night this programme Intrepid NZ > episode one played on air at 9pm. Is there anyone who may have recorded > this as it has a distant relative Harry Ayers talked about. I can watch it > on One demand but I would love a copy for my records. Hope somebody out > there may be able to help. > > Michelle Cook

I have just found out that on Wednesday Night this programme Intrepid NZ episode one played on air at 9pm. Is there anyone who may have recorded this as it has a distant relative Harry Ayers talked about. I can watch it on One demand but I would love a copy for my records. Hope somebody out there may be able to help. Michelle Cook

Hello All I have just added the names of over 600 photos of gravestones at St Paul's Anglican Church, Papanui, Christchurch email for a photograph, there has been earthquake damage and some are hard to read. some wonderful info on some of them. Beverley Evans Christchurch NZ http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ashleigh/Gravestone.Photos/Papanui.St.Pauls.gravestones.html -- Beverley Evans http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ashleigh/ transcriber of old newspapers --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

Daisy Lena HUBBARD bn Christchurch, 1881 married Frank HUBBARD 1901 and died 1902, possibly as a result of complications due to childbirth... Daisy is buried in Te Aroha Cemetery. Daisy is probably the dau. of Richard VANSTONE and Harriet Ellen WILLIAMS m 1878 in Little River, Canterbury. Richard VANSTONE is possibly the son of Sarah and Richard VANSTONE b 1833, christening registered in Devon, England. June 1833. There is a Richard James VANSTONE buried next to a Harriett Ellen VANSTONE St Andrew's Churchyard, Little River, Canterbury, both with ages that match Richard and Harriet's respective birth and death dates. Harriet Ellen WILLIAMS is possibly the dau. of Richard WILLIAMS and Barbara Ellen SLUCOCK m 1854, Kent, England. Is anyone researching this VANSTONE family? Hilton Doidge

Looking for anyone researching the following... Amy Hocking DOIDGE, arr. New Zealand with parents c1873. Amy married Richard Doidge RISDON c1894. One known child... Catherine Doidge RISDON b c1896 Prior to marrying Richard Doidge RISDON, Amy may have had a daughter in 1893? As this entry reveals... Registration Number: 1893/15470 Family Name: Doidge Given Name(s): Eva Aline Mother's Given Name(s): Amy Hocking Father's Given Name(s): NR A 1911 marriage suggests Eva Aline DOIDGE may have had a surname change to RISDON [her stepfather's surname] as this marriage reveals... Registration Number : 1911/4451 Bride's GivenName(s): Eva Aline Bride's FamilyName : RISDON Groom's GivenName(s): Frederick George Groom's FamilyName : MANHIRE Was Richard Doidge RISDON Eva Aline's stepfather or indeed her biological father?... Do YOU have this family in your tree? Hilton Doidge

Looking for anyone researching the following... John DOIDGE and Catherine DOIDGE nee HOCKING, arr. New Zealand c1873. Both buried in Canterbury. 2 known children born in England, possibly a further 4 born in New Zealand between 1874-1880. I have a number of 'John DOIDGE' and a few still without parents, all born in Devon, England... Does anyone have this particular John DOIDGE in their tree? Thank you Hilton Doidge

Sorry , my mistake browser should read Internet Explorer 11 Barbara

Is there sks who is visiting Wellington archives in the near future, if they are willing I would appreciate a digital copy of the following probate file please. Michelle Cook Title Years GLEESON Bert Henry *(R23083603)* 1976 - 1976 Additional archives description Wellington - Rtd Builder

It seems to work for me Barbara. What is your browser? Jeanette -----Original Message----- From: Barbara & Dusty Miller via Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 3:08 PM To: List N.Z Subject: [nz] problems with the free BDM site from England Hi everyone, I am wondering if anyone else is having the same problem. When the birth, Death or marriage comes up that we are looking for. We click onto the place of registration which also comes up ok. then we click onto the [here] down the bottom. So we can check if the place of birth is in the same place as the registation district. it come up but won't scroll down. This started happening about 3 weeks ago. I would like to know why it started to do this. Barbara The List Guidelines http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NEW-ZEALAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message