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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Hungarians in NZ
« on: Saturday 12 May 18 23:18 BST (UK)  »
Thank you!!

 I see there are some names from the same location my maternal grandmother was from, so that may be the family I am looking for.

So I just need to get my mother tested and hope that someone from these families has also submitted a DNA test.

I will go through Papers Past to see what I can find.

Thanks again.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Hungarians in NZ
« on: Saturday 12 May 18 22:13 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: minniehaha on Saturday 12 May 18 21:43 BST (UK)
Hello again,

Rather than the name of "Kokely" that you have mentioned, perhaps the name should be Kokay as shown in the article? If so, Kokay can also be found on the above Archives website.....

Minniehaha.

You're absolutely right - My bad. That should be Kokay. Thank you.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Hungarians in NZ
« on: Saturday 12 May 18 19:53 BST (UK)  »
Hello. Haven't been here for a long time.

I have finally done a DNA test and the ethnicity came back as 3/4 British and 1/4 Eastern European.

I did some checking to see what Eastern Europeans might have been in Invercargill in the 1930's and I came across this wikipedia page which named a few families who settled in Southland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_New_Zealanders

My mother was born out of wedlock in Invercargill in 1937, and she was later adopted out when she was 2 or 3 years old. (I call it being thrown away - and if that is how she sees it, no wonder she doesn't want to know anything about her biological family.)

MY DNA test says I am 1/4 East European - I have yet to upload my raw data to My Heritage, but I will do that soon - and this wikipedia page mentions Hungarians in Invercargill Southland around the right time.

I am hoping my mother will be able to do a DNA test by the end of this month, but I am still working on that.

In the meantime, I was wondering if any Kiwis here have any connections to the following Hungarian names - Szivak, Racz, Kokely and Kollat, (as mentioned in the wikipedia page above) and any other Hungarian names that might have settled in Southland before 1936.

Thank you.

Edited to add - I guess I should add my GEDmatch number - T076658


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Yorkshire (West Riding) Lookup Requests / Re: Looking for George and Martha Wordsworth Marriage, Worsborough or Sheffield
« on: Sunday 02 July 17 22:13 BST (UK)  »
Thank you again :)

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Yorkshire (West Riding) Lookup Requests / Re: Looking for George and Martha Wordsworth Marriage, Worsborough or Sheffield
« on: Sunday 02 July 17 21:32 BST (UK)  »
There is another thread on this forum about Wordsworth and Wadsworth and they claim that those who are C of E use Wordsworth, while the dissenters (I assume that means Non-conformists) use Wadsworth.

Not sure if I believe that. I don't see any need or reason for it either.

This is just an FYI - not related to my main question.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) Lookup Requests / Re: Looking for George and Martha Wordsworth Marriage, Worsborough or Sheffield
« on: Sunday 02 July 17 21:29 BST (UK)  »
Excellent Keyboard, Thank you so much. :)  You just confirmed that I have the right family!!

One of William's son had Sheldon as a middle name. Now I know where it came from.


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Yorkshire (West Riding) Lookup Requests / Re: Looking for George and Martha Wordsworth Marriage, Worsborough or Sheffield
« on: Sunday 02 July 17 21:09 BST (UK)  »
Yes I was just about to mention that George and Martha probably got married before 1837 because the oldest son John was aged 5 in the 1841 census..

 What does mmn Shelden mean? Is that Martha's maiden name?

Thanks.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) Lookup Requests / Looking for George and Martha Wordsworth Marriage, Worsborough or Sheffield
« on: Sunday 02 July 17 20:38 BST (UK)  »
I am now working on my ex-brother-in-laws family. He is a Wordsworth and his family want to know if they are related in anyway to the poet William Wordsworth. Obviously not as a descendant but maybe as a cousin however many times removed.

So I have traced the family in NZ back to a fellow named William Wordsworth who was born in the Sheffield area in 1851, and his father was George Wordsworth. According to William's obituary (From Papers Past) he worked as a steel roller in Sheffield before getting married to Mary Alice Clarke in 1872, and emigrating with the wife and 2 small boys to NZ in 1876. I think the wife died on the trip to NZ, because while she got on the boat, she does not seem to get off - or at least there is no record of her in NZ at all. William got married a second time to Hannah West of Te Kopuru near Dargaville in (What is now) Northland, NZ in 1878.

Getting back to George, I want to find William's parents. His fathers name was George and he named one of his daughters Martha after his mother.

There seem to be two couples named George and Martha in the West Riding in the 1800s.

One is George and Martha of Thurgoland. I think she used to be Martha Pollard. and their children include names such as Rachel, and Benjamin. They also dont seem to have a son named William. This is NOT my Williams family.

The other George and Martha are living in the Worsborough (aka Worsbro) area near Sheffield. Their children are - John, Ann, Joseph, Mary, William and Martha.  In the 1871 census there is also a grandson named David. I think this George's father was also called David Wordsworth and that this George was born in Worsborough in 1805.

But I have no idea what Martha's maiden name was. I cannot find any record of their marriage. I only know that she is NOT Martha Pollard.

So if SKS could find the marriage for me, and perhaps anything more on George's parents (David and an unknown mother) that would be great, thanks.

Thank you for any help you can provide.

Burrow Digger

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Northumberland / Re: A census puzzle starring the families - HOWE and RIDLEY
« on: Monday 01 May 17 00:26 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: glenclare on Monday 01 May 17 00:19 BST (UK)
Lydia Walworth married Thomas Howe in Q3 1859 in Gateshead

Oh Ok - thanks.

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