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Topic: My Father- Victor David Ivor Whitney (Read 1319 times)
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diana2646
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Hi Las Camelias, that is fantastic to know Ralph had another son! He wasn't on the 1911 census info that I got, thank you.
Hi Lu, I was fascinated to read about the scheme organised by N.Z. Farmers! Perhaps my Dad was part of it. It will be interesting to know what you find out, thanks, Di
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Whitney:South Wales/West Knoyle,Wiltshire/Melbury Abbas,Dorset.
Feltham: West Knoyle,Wiltshire/Melbury Abbas,Dorset.
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Lucy2
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Hi Althea
Hmm ... I'd been thinking of the Flock House farm training scheme in Manawatu which brought young lads from England in the 1920's. However the particpants in this scheme were the sons (and later, also daughters) of deceased or disabled seamen from the Royal Navy and Mercantile Marine (WW1). I've since checked a list of those who came from England (it also mentioned the ships they travelled by) ... alas, no WHITNEY (or LYMBERG) names, nor any who travelled on the "Tamaroa".
Lu
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Lucy2
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Hi Diana
As you can see in my previous post, the farm training scheme I'd thought may have been a possibility, had some "qualifications for participants", attached to it.
* Are you able perhaps, to find your Father on a passenger list, returning to the UK ? There's a chance that such a list, may just show his last address in New Zealand.
Lu
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diana2646
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Hi Lu, I have got the return journey passenger list for my Dad. It was also on the 'Tamaroa' but unfortunately, it gives the address he was going to in London, which was his Mother's house at 70 Warwick Ave, Maida Vale, London. All it says in the column- Country of last permanent residence-New Zealand. He arrived at Southampton 20th Dec. 1929. He had to come home as he had a cable from his sister, to say his Mother was seriously ill, but by the time he got home she had recovered! I forgot to mention, don't know if it is any help, the address he had when he left London to go to N.Z. was 125 Fifth Ave, Queens Park, London W.10. His Dad had died the previous year in March, 1926.
Di
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Whitney:South Wales/West Knoyle,Wiltshire/Melbury Abbas,Dorset.
Feltham: West Knoyle,Wiltshire/Melbury Abbas,Dorset.
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althea
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Some wiki entries on the Salvation Army farm in england are interesting read, in some cases they seemed to train farmers to go and work in other lands..maybe away of spreading the word and skills
Bye
Althea
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Pascoe, Williams, Rowe, Matthews, Eddy: St Just-in-Penwith, St Keverne, Cornwall. Varcoe, Collicoat, Chapman: Roche area,Cornwall Cornes & Graham: Ireland/Shropshire, Barker, Palin: Shropshire McDougall, Morren: Ireland, Earl, Redgen, Steward: Suffolk Info: Thames, New Zealand Genealogy Resources: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~althea/index.htmlNZSG Mem#18951 CFHS Mem#13723 Info: Breage, Germoe & Godolphin Cornwall : http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~althea/index.html |
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diana2646
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Hi Lucy and althea, wondered if you had managed to find anything out about my Dad, Victor Whitney. I know you don't have much to go on, so it's a bit of a long shot. I found out about a magazine in N.Z. called Woman's Weekly. they have a notice-board page, where they put enquiries like mine on, and see if there is any response. I have sent the picture to them with a message, although it says on their web-site, that there is a 12 month waiting list! But anyway, thought I would give it a go!
Best wishes,
Di
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Whitney:South Wales/West Knoyle,Wiltshire/Melbury Abbas,Dorset.
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althea
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No I haven't found anymore. If you do reach a deadend i still have that feeling that finding the NZ Whitneys with same name person may have some hope..but thats probably a red herring.
Had the NZ branch of Salvation army archives been contacted?
Bye
Althea
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Pascoe, Williams, Rowe, Matthews, Eddy: St Just-in-Penwith, St Keverne, Cornwall. Varcoe, Collicoat, Chapman: Roche area,Cornwall Cornes & Graham: Ireland/Shropshire, Barker, Palin: Shropshire McDougall, Morren: Ireland, Earl, Redgen, Steward: Suffolk Info: Thames, New Zealand Genealogy Resources: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~althea/index.htmlNZSG Mem#18951 CFHS Mem#13723 Info: Breage, Germoe & Godolphin Cornwall : http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~althea/index.html |
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diana2646
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Hi Althea, I hadn't contacted the N.Z. Salvation Army, as I didn't think my Dad had anything to do with them, not being orphaned and living with his family at home in the U.K., but I will give it a go! I still think it's strange that there was another Whitney on the same voyage, but I can't find any connection.
Hi Kiskeam, thanks for the web-site, I will have a look,
Bye, Di
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Whitney:South Wales/West Knoyle,Wiltshire/Melbury Abbas,Dorset.
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Lucy2
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Hi Diana
No, I haven't made any further searches. Unfortunately, this really is, "needle in the haystack" sort of stuff ... we just don't have anything to "go on". 
And you're correct ... the "Salvation Army connection" applied to "Ernest WHITNEY (and Harold LYMBERG) ... and not to your Dad.
Lu
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