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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Ideas needed to help find John Easton, miner
« on: Sunday 03 May 15 06:45 BST (UK) »
Grave photos taken and forwarded.
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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Ideas needed to help find John Easton, miner
« on: Thursday 30 April 15 04:53 BST (UK) »
Sometime in the next two days I intend to go to the Woolston Cemetery to photograph one of my own family's graves. I'll call into Bromley and see if I can get the same for Barbara.
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Alan
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Alan
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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Ideas needed to help find John Easton, miner
« on: Tuesday 28 April 15 10:01 BST (UK) »
Might not be of much help but I noted that on the passenger list the clerk wrote "wife" for women travelling with their man but "mother" for those women who were without a partner but who had children. In addition she worked as a laundress, a common occupation for women supporting a family. Hints that he might have died in the UK.
Her headstone at Bromley reads "Our mother, Barbara Ingles EASTON, 1857-1942". The City Council Cemetery database names her Barbara Inglis EASTON, a widow aged 85.
Alan
Her headstone at Bromley reads "Our mother, Barbara Ingles EASTON, 1857-1942". The City Council Cemetery database names her Barbara Inglis EASTON, a widow aged 85.
Alan
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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Finding a birth look up
« on: Monday 27 April 15 00:36 BST (UK) »
Having read Joseph's obituary on PP it would seem that JR might have been born in Lauriston, between Ashburton and Methven.
Alan
Alan
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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: William Trevor McKeown, 48 St. Helliers St. Linwood N.Z.
« on: Wednesday 04 March 15 02:44 GMT (UK) »
David, might I suggest that you send what you have to "The Press" newspaper here in Christchurch. They often publish these sort of requests particularly when they involve local men during WW2.
Alan
Alan
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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: FTM V3 on Macbook Air
« on: Wednesday 17 December 14 07:32 GMT (UK) »
Sorry, I'm a technology muppet but perhaps time for a cheap PC at the Boxing Day sales?
Alan
Alan
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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Child born out of Wedlock 1876
« on: Wednesday 23 July 14 02:40 BST (UK) »
Hi Alex
Any baptism records available?
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Alan
Any baptism records available?
Cheers
Alan
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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: NZ Railway Employment Records
« on: Monday 21 July 14 10:18 BST (UK) »
Contacting the Railsoc people might be a help, however I am still persuaded that Henry probably never worked for NZRail. The first sod for the Waiuku Branch Line was turned by Prime Minister Massey on 19 Feb 1914. However the line was not completed until 1922. I guess the war took away the manpower. In this regard the local paper, The Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, on 13 October 1915 published details of a send off function for local lads off to the conflict. A man named Harry Hawker was amongst them. He'll be you man.
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=PWT19151013.2.13.8&srpos=37&e=01-10-1915-31-10-1915--10--31-byDA-on--0Patumahoe--
Alan
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=PWT19151013.2.13.8&srpos=37&e=01-10-1915-31-10-1915--10--31-byDA-on--0Patumahoe--
Alan
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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Help with an ancester surname Giddy
« on: Sunday 20 July 14 04:14 BST (UK) »
The 1969 Electoral Roll has Georgina(widow) living in Sydenham with Noel Stanley J Miles (storeman) and Joan Chapman Miles (housewife). 1938 Roll includes a Ronald Charles Miles at same address.
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Alan
Cheers
Alan