This is a (corrected) copy of a mailing to our superb expert webmaster Richard of Nottingham .... The William Tetley who first settled his family in Paeroa was my G Grandfather. I believe we have knowledge of the two nephews who came to recover their health (since NZ was and is said to be a much healthier climate than England). But it can't be that good, since they died. The idea that their father (the other Willliam Tetley, husband of Sarah) came to NZ seems to conflicts with other facts. The information in the Tetleys of Paeroa New Zealand published five years ago says that Samuel Herbert died in Auckland and was buried at Rotorua NZ after four months in NZ, and Charles Henry died at Paeroa NZ sixteen days after his arrival to stay with his Uncle William. The Book also reports their father (also William as Richard rightly says) died in 1895 at Heaton. In fact he seems to have taken over the Chellow Grange farm when OUR William departed for NZ. It is certain that TB was dreaded by the NZ Tetley family. My Grandfather (the firstborn of the William who first settled in Paeroa), Alfred, died at 49 reportedly of complications with TB when my father was only 7. That put the family into poverty throughout their growing years. My father grew up with a dread of TB. I remember him vehemently insisting that I "get the jab" to protect me when I was young. In later years, during our missionary service in the Philippines, our eldest son Bruce contracted primary complex TB. My father (Langley William) was devastated, unable to comprehend how God would allow us who were doing God's work to suffer such a blow. In fact, after two years daily medication, Bruce was cleared, and to date has suffered no ill effects. But it illustrates the hatred of TB that continued in the family from those early times. And one wonders whether my Grandfather - whom of course I never met, but who I think I knew quite well from the remnants of his writings and a few years of his diary jottings up to his death - for he too was a servant of God), might have contracted TB from the visits of his English cousins. ??? Barry Tetley Auckland, NZ -- Rev Barry Tetley Glendowie Presbyterian Church Auckland, New Zealand (09) 575 7227 http://www.glendowiepres.org.nz