Hello.
Greetings from the underside of the world. The udder half - Waikato country.
MARRIAGES - Gisborne NZ.
GARRETT – McKEE – On April 28th, 1892, at the residence of J McKee, Gisborne, by the Rev, R. M. Ryburn, M. A., George fourth son of Thomas Garrett, Auckland, to Sarah, third daughter of the late J. McKee, Garvagh, County Derry, Ireland
(A son George Victor GARRETT was born to this couple in 1893 [9712] and I did not spot any others up until about 1908.)
Re the above, is any one researching this family of McKee’s who came out to New Zealand.
I am researching this family, starting with their early 1880’s days at Gisborne on the Poverty Bay, North Island coast, of New Zealand, as part of an ADOPT AN ANZAC project that I work on each year. Three McKee siblings posted a 1959 death notice for our subject, who served in both WWI and WWII.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=717768.0Having spent several days reading through the old newspapers, I have info, [and 20 odd newspaper cuttings,] placed about their storekeeping businesses, etc, that I’m, happy to share. Plus following generations pre WWII. Plus search references for historic NZ records.
I also have contact with one descending McKee branch now living in Canada. He is of the opinion that his ancestor possibly came from County Cork, and if that were the case I believe that both lines were known to each other, and were closely associated at Gisborne. Upheavals through the course of time, has left my contact, with little knowledge of these generations of McKee’s.
Feel free to PM ‘private message’ me if your interest involves the living McKee’s. If just signed on to Rootschat you need to have made a number of open forum posts [3 ?] before you gain assess to the PM service.
- Alan.
OOP's must be getting old and forgetful. Did not check the Gisborne Cemetery records before posting. There, in what I was hoping might have been a son/brother, not in our historic BD&M's, I found in burial records. Mr & Mrs J McKee in one cemetery, but my principal subject on his own some distance away in another.
Tramscript : _ To the memory of EMMA ELSIE McKEE, born Dorking, England, 1873, died 1941; JAMES McKEE, born County Derry, Ireland, 1854, died 1943
- Alan.