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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Oxley
« on: Sunday 21 April 19 12:11 BST (UK) »
RA Hartwell is my grandmother (now deceased). She never ever spoke about her marriage to Adolphus Oxley nor about the one child they had--AAA Oxley. For reasons you will know since his (and his father's) tragic end was widely reported at the time. Adolphus took the son when they separated. A newspaper report of their divorce has some details of his whereabouts and a woman's name I don't see mentioned above. See attached screenshot. Perhaps James was born of that liaison.
Anyway, family lore always had it that Nana met and married an "Indian doctor" when she worked as a maid in a boarding house in New Plymouth, NZ, and that he had arrived there by ship not long before they married. Somehow that turned into the belief that he was a ship's cook, so maybe your search could be narrowed down to crews of vessels that arrived in New Plymouth in 1902/1903. And, obviously, he was West Indian, not Indian.
Anyway, family lore always had it that Nana met and married an "Indian doctor" when she worked as a maid in a boarding house in New Plymouth, NZ, and that he had arrived there by ship not long before they married. Somehow that turned into the belief that he was a ship's cook, so maybe your search could be narrowed down to crews of vessels that arrived in New Plymouth in 1902/1903. And, obviously, he was West Indian, not Indian.