Hello Listers, this is a first posting to this List,other surnames included are HOWELL, MEAR, DONY, COLWELL, ALGER, LYONS, Regards, Peter , in Timaru,South Island, New Zealand. My Grandfather John SMITH AKA John Menheniot SMITH was bapt 30 Oct1853 at Quethiock, Cornwall, England.son of Mary Ann MENHENITT b 1819 St Stephens by Saltash, Cornwall and Thomas SMITH chr 9 Mar 1823 Quethiock.Cornwall, married 24 April 1845, in Stoke Damerel, Plymouth, Devonshire. Number 87 in Parish Register, Witnesses,Grace ALGER,Henry MENHENITT Other children were Ann Doney MENHENITT b 1843 St Stephens, by Saltash. Henry SMITH 7 Sep1845.Quethiock. Louisa Jane SMITH 14 Nov 1847,Quethiock, m 13 Sep 1871,at Quethiock to Albert James HOWELL b 1844 Bristol, Gloucestershire,England,married by Banns Quethiock,number 156 in Register, page 78, Sarah SMITH 9 Mar 1851,Quethiock John SMITH (as above) Ellen SMITH 1858 Quethiock Frederick SMITH 1862 Quethiock ,died Pagan, Burma 1891.Possibly with Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry , The 1871 Census lists an Allen SMITH as Grandson b 1867 Liskeard Cornwall. John SMITH bapt1853 came to Lyttelton New Zealand arriving Dec 1871 ,on the ship " Harvest Home " with his sister Louisa Jane and her husband Albert James HOWELL,(son of William HOWELL and Mary Ann MEAR) he married Mary Ann Dinah LYONS at Christchurch,New Zealand in 1906, John died Christchurch,New Zealand 1913. ( Mary LYONS b 25 Feb 1874 Christchurch,N. Z. daughter of Joseph LYONS b Lambeth,London, 13 Jul 1842) Thomas SMITH was son of Samuel SMITH bapt 27 Jul1794 Quethiock and Elizabeth COLWELL b 1792 Stratton, Cornwall he had 2 brothers and 4 sisters,all bapt at Quethiock, Elizabeth SMITH bapt 15 Oct 1818, John SMITH bapt 24 Jun 1821, Henry SMITH bapt 30 Oct 1825 William SMITH bapt 27 Apr 1825, Jenny Phillipa SMITH bapt 5 Dec 1830,buried Quethiock 3 Aug 1832 age 19 months, Jane SMITH bapt 16 Jun 1833, Sarah Phillipa SMITH bapt 23 Jul 1837, Samuel SMITH bapt 27 Jul 1794 was son of Samuel SMITH b Menheniot ?abt 1763 married 1 Apr 1785 at Quethiock Grace DONY bapt 24 Nov 1765 North Hill, Children of Samuel and Grace all bapt at Quethiock Sarah SMITH bapt 29 Nov 1789, Mary SMITH bapt 27 May 1792, Samuel bapt 27 Jul 1794, Grace SMITH bapt 21May 1797, Betty SMITH bapt 16 Mar 1800.buried Quethiock 16 Mar 1814 age 14 Witnesses at marriage of Samuel and Grace, William ROBERTS and Samuel ROGERS Children of Albert and Louisa HOWELL all born in New Zealand, Adolphus Charles HOWELL b 22 Jun 1872 Elizabeth "Winifred" HOWELL b 18 Feb 1874 Sydney "Sidney" Thomas HOWELL b 2 Apr 1876 Lydia HOWELL b 5 or 7 Dec 1877 Nellie HOWELL b 27 Jul 1879 Frederick William HOWELL b 19 Jul 1982 Ethel May HOWELL b 7 May 1884 Owen Francis b HOWELL 7 May 1884 Albert Edwin "Jack" HOWELL b 28 Jan 1887 Norman Percival HOWELL b14 Feb 1889 Ester Dianna HOWELL b 14 Feb 1889