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Good evening from Christchurch, New Zealand.

I would love to hear what you and you and your family have found out about the Newman family of Poulshot.

Early last year I was working at the Christchurch Central Police Station and met a young woman who worked at the Ravern Hotel at Poulshot and her parents, as a form of gratitude for what I did for their daughter, sent me a limited edition history of Poulshot and I was able to see a number of relatives of my extended family - people whose names I had never heard of.

On one of the pages I spotted a young girl, who was a Newman and who loooked just like my younger sister when she was a child - the only thing was that the Newman in the book was born some 70 years earlier.

Any information would be appreciated.

Regards,


Kirk Newman
Born Aldershot, UK 1951

Looking at the bottom photograph with the cars in the background, I would hazard to say that one of the cars was a Morris Minor - which makes it about 1955 ish- you can't see enough of the car to establish exactly which model it is...

Greetings from New Zealand.

If you go to the Public Records Office website, you will find a link to the 1914-1919 War Medal Search site and if you put in his name you will almost certainly get a hit and if you check that it, it will tell you his service numbers and which regiments he served in.

It would seem that the 22 year old son called George is my grandfather who died when I was only about 3 years of age and who is buried in Bath (Taunton Cemetry I think)

He was the second George in the family as the 1st one died shortly after birth.

My father was named George Reginald Alfred NEWMAN, so I can now see where the extra Christian names comes from.

My grandfather apparently worked for the Great Western Railways for 50 years as I have his 50 years Service Medal.

I believe he may have worked as an office worker for the Railways, although I remember my mother saying that their home must have been close to a river or lake as they were flooded out many years in a row - so much for living in a company house.

I am a serving member of the NZ Police and for 18 years I lived in a "company" house and you couldn't find anything warmer and dryer..........., when I was based at a small rural town some 75 miles north of Christchurch in New Zealand.

Once again it is very humbling to have so much assistance from all over the world - it just shows how small a world we live in.

I trust that all of those people who are responsible for that bombing madness come to the senses and re-discover their muslim faith and love for fellow man & peace.

I am trying to research a great great uncle who was apparently born in Poulshott Green, Wiltshire in about 1883.

His name is William NEWMAN and he was one of 12 children in his family.

He served in St Helena in the South Atlantic during the Boer War in the 3rd Wiltshire Regiment.

He later went onto serve in France from 1915 with the 2nd Wiltshire Regiment, was wounded and sent back to England, where later he returned to Frances in the Somerset Light Infantry Regiment and also was later transfered to the Manchester Regiment.

I am aware that an unknown relative has placed some listings on a similar site seeking information on NEWMANs from Poulshott.

I am resident in New Zealand and all my known UK relatives are dead, hence I have no avenue to make inquiries.

I look forward to hearing from any NEWMAN who had relatives in Poulshott (Green) in the early 1880's.