Given the vagaries of hand writing - particularly some forms of copperplate, I would go for DROVIN, and Antoine - this last at least I recognise as a French forename. Does he show up in shipping records? (I have several ancestors ex England who must have swum to Australia!). Brian Fleming Melbourne On 26/02/2017 1:10 PM, Maxine Amos wrote: > I have recently found an ancestor Francis Jane Plummer who married in 1872 in Thames and in 1877 married > Robert Russell Trotter. > > NZ BDM have her first husband as Antone Drovin. > > Three children were born Fanny Edridge 1872, Frances Emily Edith, 1874 and Mary Matilda 1875. > These children are registered as Dronin, with father as Antime or Antine > > Fanny died in 1874 at 18 months and the registration was Drouin. > > Frances Emily Edith (originally known as Drouin) marries Thomas Cole Donkin in 1897 and is registered as Dronin > > Registered BDM death in 1876 of Antine Dronin aged 33. > > Council records of death have Auline Dronin > > NZ Cemetery record has Dronin Antine? bur 27 Aug 1876, 33yrs, p385 pur 30 Oct 1876 by Dronin - > Rev Lawlor [Donkin plot] > > Can anyone help with this confusion? > > > Maxine Amos > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.au > > > > > > > > The List Guidelines > > http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message