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Offline minniehaha

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Re: Young love, a Remittance man, Tragedy.
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 04 June 16 05:42 BST (UK) »
The conclusion of this story-

As the headstone on the grave of Harold George Brocklehurst was not photographed until 2014 and the magazine article about him appeared the previous year, I suspected that his descendants may not be aware of the memorial in New Zealand. On contacting the editor of 'Inside History' in Australia, this indeed proved to be the case.

Part of her reply includes a comment for me from the Australian descendant.......

 "Many thanks for your email and the two links – I was not aware of the headstone and I guess either Minnie or my grandfather or Harold’s family were responsible for that. It was a very traumatic event for my grandmother and must have haunted her all her life.... it is nice to know there are kind people out there who feel sad at what my Granny went through."

A satisfactory result I think......

Minniehaha.


HAMMOND, Cainham/Caynham, Shropshire, U.K. Otago-NZ.
GALBRAITH, Ireland, Dunedin, Otago-NZ., Kensington-London, U.K.
GRANT, Sct., Dunedin, Otago-NZ., Vancouver, Canada.
GLASS, Aberdeenshire, Otago-NZ.
CAIRNEY/CARNEY/KEARNEY/Ireland, Airdrie, Scotland, Otago-NZ.
O'BRIEN Mary Ann, Limerick, Otago-NZ.
NICOL(L) James, Scotland, Otago-NZ.
SCOTT Thomas, Shetland, Otago-NZ.
MCHARDY/MCHARDIE Euphemia, Scotland, Otago-NZ.

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Re: Young love, a Remittance man, Tragedy.
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 05 July 16 10:13 BST (UK) »
Wow, what a story!

Thanks for sharing it.

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Re: Young love, a Remittance man, Tragedy.
« Reply #11 on: Friday 09 March 18 05:49 GMT (UK) »
Hi minniehaha

My name is Helen and I'm the researcher and author of the remittance men info you found :)

I'm  currently prepping for a dissertation on remittance men in New Zealand to pre-empt my Masters, and I'd love to get in touch with you, and anyone else who believes they have a remittance man in their family (New Zealand only for diss. and then I'll widen net for Masters thesis)

Thanks!
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Re: Young love, a Remittance man, Tragedy.
« Reply #12 on: Friday 09 March 18 06:02 GMT (UK) »
Hello Helen,

Welcome to Rootschat.... :)  :)

I have sent you a personal message. In fact I think I ended up sending two!  ???


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HAMMOND, Cainham/Caynham, Shropshire, U.K. Otago-NZ.
GALBRAITH, Ireland, Dunedin, Otago-NZ., Kensington-London, U.K.
GRANT, Sct., Dunedin, Otago-NZ., Vancouver, Canada.
GLASS, Aberdeenshire, Otago-NZ.
CAIRNEY/CARNEY/KEARNEY/Ireland, Airdrie, Scotland, Otago-NZ.
O'BRIEN Mary Ann, Limerick, Otago-NZ.
NICOL(L) James, Scotland, Otago-NZ.
SCOTT Thomas, Shetland, Otago-NZ.
MCHARDY/MCHARDIE Euphemia, Scotland, Otago-NZ.
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