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Research in Other Countries => New Zealand => New Zealand Completed Requests => Topic started by: chinakay on Wednesday 02 August 06 03:01 BST (UK)
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After much searching, I finally located a web page with a list of passengers who arrived abord the Shalimar, 21-12-1859. The KERR family for which I'd been searching was included, and looked like this:
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Name KERR, Janet
Vessel SHALIMAR: Dec 23 1859
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Name KERR, John V
Vessel SHALIMAR: Dec 23 1859
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Name KERR, Mary
Vessel SHALIMAR: Dec 23 1859
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Name KERR, Mary
Vessel SHALIMAR: Dec 23 1859
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Name KERR, William
Vessel SHALIMAR: Dec 23 1859
Notes Joined Auckland Mechanics Institute 23 December 1859.
Source NZMS 525, 40.
I found it some time last week. Now, I've just been looking for it again and try as I might, I can't find the page. i've done every search I can think of on the two best search engines available, and the thing is just GONE, vanished. Does anyone have any idea what page it might have been? ???
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Hi Chinakay
I think it may have been here on the Auckland Library site:-
http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll
Regards
Lyn
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Hi chinakay
I think this is the page you are looking for http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll (http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll) Hope this works as I have not tried posting a link before
Best wishes,
Joan
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Apparently you cannot access the webpage on this link (I tried it), so I will tell you how I got to it. Go tohttp://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nzbound/lists.htm. Under Auckland heading click on " Auckland area inward passengers" This will take you to search page for name of ship and immigrant. Hope this works okay
Joan
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Hi Joan,
You're onto it!! I never tried the link....never thought for a minute that it wouldn't work, but your new link is the way I got in there originally.
Regards
Lyn
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YES!!! They're there...I thought they were lost forever :-*
So, next question: is there any way of viewing the original documents? I'm pretty sure it's the right family, but if so, the "John V." family member is a typo. I think he's John Bell Kerr, so named after his uncle who died a year later. It would be very nice to have a look at the real thing.
BTW, anybody know this family? William was the father, Mary his wife, Mary the eldest daughter (I assume), Janet or Jennet the next daughter (named after William's mother) and then young John B. All born in Halifax, Yorkshire during the 1850s. In 1860 Walter was born in Remuera.
Many thanks to everyone who helped out with this!
China in
Minneapolis
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Hi,
I am one of the decendents of William Kerr who came out on the Shalimar in 1859. Is there further parts of the puzzle you need to solve?
Regards,
Graeme Kerr
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Graeme!! Good heavens, this post is 12 years old and I never thought I would find anybody from that family!
Welcome to Rootschat :)
I actually did send a letter to John Kerr who would be the grandson of Walter Kerr, William's son, and Lily Hannah Jubb. I found that much information on the internet, as well as his business address, but he didn't reply.
So you and I would be distant cousins. Very nice to hear from you, and if you are interested in genealogy I can tell you a bit about William's family.
His son Walter and Lily Hannah were cousins, did you know that?
If you make two more posts you can message me. Just say anything at all :)
I'd very much like to hear about your family, and if you have any old photos I'd love to see them. William was a very brave soul, setting out to the other side of the world. What a pioneering adventure!
Cheers for now,
China
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Hi China,
Thanks for your reply. Walter had 2 sons, Norman and Horace. Norman died quite young, and Horace is my Grandfather. He had 2 sons, Alan and John. Alan is my father. I have 2 brothers and sisters and John had 4 daughters and pretty much all live in NZ. I have a copy of the original ticket that William Kerr and family came out to NZ on the ship ‘Shalimar’ in 1859.
Are you on the Jubb side? Are you in the UK?
Regards,
Graeme
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Hi Graeme!
Ah then it would be your Uncle John I had written to.
I am in the US actually, by way of Canada. I am both Jubb and Kerr. There were three Kerr brothers who arrived in Halifax from Scotland: John Bell Kerr, Robert, and William.
Tom Jubb married John Bell's daughter Janet, and they had Lily Hannah. Then Janet died.
Then Tom married Robert's daughter Annie, and they had my grandfather. So I am descended from Robert Kerr.
William set off for NZ in 1858 and his wife Ann Morley's family joined them on the next sailing. I think the ship was the Blue Jacket?
I would dearly love to see a scan of the ticket, what an heirloom that would be! I guess the family was right in the middle of the Maori wars.
If you make one more post, you can message me. Click on the little green thing under my cat :)
Cheers,
China
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That is awesome China, 8) think it is the longest reply in years to a thread, that I have seen on here. Just goes to show that never give up no matter how long it takes. :D
Welcome to Rootschat Graeme and finding a connection on your first time joining. ;D :D
Cheers
KHP
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Hi China,
Thanks for your reply. Very fascinating the whole thing. Yes the family arrived in NZ and settled in Ramarama just south of Auckland. In 1863? their house got wrecked and looted during skirmishes during the Maori wars. In fact an army post was set up at Kerr's farm in Ramarama. ( I have found a publication about this period and it mentions the Kerr's farm)
I will get you a scan of the ticket. My father Alan and his brother John (that you messaged) built a 50' Motor Launch named "Shalimar II" in 1983 after the Shalimar that William and family came out on.
Regards,
Graeme
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Hiya KHP, yes I just about fell off my chair ;D
Graeme I have sent you a message.
Cheers,
China
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Hi China,
Have you sent it to my email address?
Graeme
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No, to your Rootschat messages. On the brown bar toward the top of every page :)
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Hi China,
For some reason I dont seem to have received your message you refer to.
Regards,
Graeme
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Hi Graeme,
Up the top of this page, there is a brown strip, with the words Home, Forum,etc, then you will see the words My Messages, click on that, and then on Read your messages. You should also have received a notification in your email box that China has sent you a Private/Personal Message.
Cheers
KHP
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Thanks KHP :)