HI Donna, I have Aitken in my family. Just reading your mail on Auckland list and happened to see your surname. My grandmother was Mary Josephine O'Connor born1886 in Napier, her sister Elizabeth born Poverty Bay married Ernest Paterson Aitken Know children Irene Margaret b 1904 ,Eileen Mary b 1910 died 1910,Norma Frances b1910 ,Maurice Robert b1912, Winifred b 1915 ,Edward Ernest b 1916 and Martin Desmond b 1918, Would any of these be related to you. My name is Trish Jensen my mother was Mary Josephines daughter. trish in Sydney Hi Jan Have you tried doing a search in the New Zealand Archives portal http://archway.archives.govt.nz/ Also this is a great webpage for information: http://www.pycroft.co.nz/services/NZ_Government_On-Line_Data.html Good Luck Donna ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan & Stuart Moon" <stu_jan52@activ8.net.au> To: <NZ-AUCKLAND@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 12:00 AM Subject: [NZ-AUCKLAND] GOODSON/ BOURNE/ PERSTON from 1880 onwards > GOODSON, Charles William and wife Betsy (nee Cartwright) arrived Auckland > 01 March 1880, Stracathro, with their children (all born UK) William b > 1863, Elizabeth b 1864, Edith 1866-1960, Charles 1867-1949, Nellie Burkett > 1869-1948, Harry b 1872, Frederick Octavius (my grandfather) 1875-1956, > Bessie Maud 1876-1967, Ernest Edward 1877-1903. Looking for any info at > all about these people - who are very elusive. I understand there was a > great deal of family disharmony, and religion may have been the cause. > Edith and Nellie went to Australia, where they married, etc. Charles may > have lived in Hawera, he died there. Ernest Edward died in an accident at > the Hawera Bacon Factory, but may have lived in Auckland. Bessie married > Ernest Arthur Pacey, lived and later died in Hawera. William, Harry, > Elizabeth - nothing known at all. > > also > GOODSONS LONDON ARCADE, Auckland - established after 1880 - when? > Prop. Charles William Goodson declared bankrupt in 1883, was it this > business or something else? Where does one find records of these old > businesses? > > > also > GOODSON, Charles William and Betsy (nee Cartwright) - Betsy died in > Auckland 1881. In 1883 Charles married Eliza BOURNE, who had come to NZ > with family as children's governess - she died, but no info found yet. In > 1901 Charles marries Isabella PERSTON - have never found any info about > her. He predeceased her in 1919 (?), and at the time of his death they > were living at Elim (House name maybe?) Hopetoun Street, Auckland. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NZ-AUCKLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NZ-AUCKLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.14.13/1074 - Release Date: 16/10/2007 2:14 PM

Hello Donna Yes I've tried these many times. I found one gt uncle through Papers Past recently - but I have only ever found people I already know about through Archives. These people drive me Nuts!! Why are they hiding from me?? Regards Jan