We are assuming it is an article from a NZ newspaper, perhaps it isn't
Very good point.
Alan, is there anything identifiable on the newspaper clipping, even on the reverse? Anything which gives a clue as to where it is published?
No I am pretty sure that they were resident in the UK, I think that the Beale link is a dead end and am thinking that the Hudson link is what should be followed. I have been in touch with the only "Beale" family living locally, she is the widow and does not think any of the photos come from her husbands side. Local history doesn't throw up any Beales though. Plenty of Hudsons, as mentioned in my last post there are 7 separate Hudson families still in the district and they seem to have come here in the mid 1850s.
It would also appear that the later coloured pictures that went up on the second post are a separate lot from the ones posted first. We have located the owners of those locally, they were lost when they moved house and they apparently donated some furniture to the local Op Shop so it is possible that there are more 'families' involved than we were first advised.
I will check the back of the cutting tomorrow as it is with the pictures at the Museum
Thanks for the work that you have all been doing,
Alan